Robert Halleux
Robert Halleux (born August 18, 1946 in Villers-l'Évêque , Province of Liège ) is a Belgian historian of science, particularly of alchemy in antiquity, metallurgy, Belgian history of science and industry and the history of crafts.
Life
Halleux studied classical philology at the University of Liège from 1964, graduating in 1968 (Maitrise) and then in 1968/69 as a postgraduate course in oriental studies. He received his doctorate in 1972 with distinction with a thesis (Leproblemème des métaux dans la science antique) on metals in the science of classical antiquity. As a post-doctoral student , he was École pratique des hautes études (Section IV) in Paris, where he finished in 1975 with a thesis on Johannes Kepler and his treatise on hexagonal snow. In 1978 he completed his habilitation (Agrégation de l'Einseignement Supérieure) with a thesis on non-ferrous metals in Greco-Roman antiquity.
He has worked for the Belgian Fonds national de la recherche scientifique since 1969 (from 1982 as Maitre de Recherches), in 1982 founded the Center for the History of Science and Technology at the University of Liège (Center d'histoire des sciences et des techniques, CHST), the he directed and was from 1974 Maitre de Recherches and 1986 to 1997 Professor of the History of Science at the University of Liège and at the same time from 1986 Professor at the University of Mons-Hainaut.
From 1987 to 1992 he was President of the European Center for Medical History at the University of Strasbourg. He was visiting professor in Hamburg, at Harvard University , in Orleans, Namur and at the Catholic University of Leuven (1989–1991). In 1997 he organized the 10th International Congress on the History of Science in Liège.
He has been a member of the Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences since 1987, of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences since 2010 and an external member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres since 2003 . From 1985 he was the Belgian representative in the Union Internationale d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences and its general secretary from 1993 to 2001. From 1987 to 2002 he was President of the Comité National de Logique, Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences des Académies Royales de Belgique.
In 2003 he received the Prix du Wallon.
He is a member of the socialist Belgian Labor Party .
Fonts
- The problem of métaux dans la science antique , Les Belles Lettres, 1974.
- Les textes alchimiques , Brepols, 1979.
- Les alchimistes grecs. Volume 1: Papyrus de Leyde, Papyrus de Stockholm. Fragments and Recettes. Les Belles Lettres, 1981.
- The early medieval recipe literature. In: Gundolf Keil , Paul Schnitzer (Ed.): The Lorsch Pharmacopoeia and early medieval medicine. Negotiations of the medical symposium [...] in 1989 in Lorsch. Lorsch 1991 (= history sheets for the Bergstrasse district , special volume 12), pp. 115–122.
- with A.-C. Bernes and L. Étienne, "L'évolution des sciences et des techniques en Wallonie", in Freddy Joris: Wallonie. Atouts et références d'une Région , Namur, 1995.
- as edited by M. Blay: Dictionnaire critique de la Science Classique , Éditions Flammarion, 1998.
- as ed. with Carmélia Opsomer [-Halleux]: Histoire des sciences en Belgique, des origines à 1815 , Bruxelles, Crédit Communal, 1998.
- with J. Vandersmissen, A. Despy-Meyer and G. Vanpaemel: Histoire des sciences en Belgique, 1815-2000 , 2 vol., Bruxelles, Crédit Communal, 2002.
- Cockerill . Deux siècles de technologie , Éditions du Perron, 2002.
- with Geneviève Xhayet: Études sur les fonts baptismaux de Saint-Barthélemy à Liège , Éditions du Céfal, 2006.
- with Geneviève Xhayet: La liberté de chercher. Histoire du Fonds National belge de la Recherche Scientifique , Éditions de l'Université de Liège, 2007.
- Le savoir de la main. Savants et artisans dans l'Europe pre-industrial , Paris, Armand Colin, 2009.
- with Geneviève Xhayet and P. Demoitié: Pour la science et pour le pays, 50 ans de politique scientifique fédérale , Éditions de l'Université de Liège, 2009.
- Les textes alchimiques , Turnhout: Brepols, 1979
- Les publications de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris: (1666 - 1793) , 2 volumes, Turnhout: Brepols 2001
- Publisher: Les maîtres de l'eau: d'Archimède à la machine de Marly , exhibition catalog, Louveciennes 2006, Versailles: Éd. Artlys, 2006.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Halleux, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian science historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Villers-l'Évêque , Liege Province |