Hilde De Ridder-Symoens

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Hildegarde De Ridder-Symoens (born April 19, 1943 in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek ) is a Belgian historian .

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Hilde De Ridder-Symoens spent her youth in what was then the Belgian Congo and studied humanities at the “Athénée Royal” in Léopoldville . In 1960 she returned to Belgium and studied history at Ghent University . In 1964 she graduated with a master's degree and became a research assistant . In 1969 she was working Brabanders aan de Rechtsfaculteit van Orleans, from 1444 to 1555 at the University of Ghent in the art history doctorate . She then worked as a research assistant at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research until 2000 and had guest stays and professorships at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (1983), at the University of Berkeley (1993 and 1998) and at Merton College in Oxford ( 1994). From 1986 to 2001 she was part-time professor for the history of the Middle Ages at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam . In 2001 she was appointed full professor for early modern times at Ghent University.

Her research interests are history and higher education in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period , particularly European university history, student mobility and the social consequences of higher education. She is co-editor with Walter Rüegg of the first two volumes in the four-volume history of the University in Europe .

Since 1985 she has been President of the International Commission on University History. She is on the advisory board of the Yearbook for University History . Since 2003 she has been a member of the Human Sciences class of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts . Since 2009 she has been a full member of the Academia Europaea .

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literature

  • Koen Goudriaan, Jaap van Moolenbroek, Ad Tervoort (eds.): Education and learning in the Netherlands, 1400–1600. Essays in honor of Hilde de Ridder-Symoens. Brill, Leiden 2004, ISBN 9004136444 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author entry in A History of the University in Europe. Volume 1: Universities in the Middle Ages. P. Xiii
  2. ↑ Hilde De Ridder-Symoens ( memento of August 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts, accessed on August 18, 2017 (Dutch)
  3. ↑ Hildegarde De Ridder-Symoens on the Academia Europaea website, accessed on August 18, 2017 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Ridder-Symoens, Hilde De
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ridder-Symoens, Hildegarde De
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Sint-Jans-Molenbeek