Léon Halkin

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Léon Nicolas Marie Joseph Halkin (1872–1955) was a Belgian historian and classicist who spent much of his life as a professor[ambiguous] at the University of Liège.

Life[]

Halkin was born in Liège on 28 December 1872, the younger brother of (1870-1937), who became professor[ambiguous] of geography at the University of Liège. He studied Greek and Latin at the , and graduated from the University of Liège on 24 July 1894 with a doctorate in classical philology.[1] His doctoral thesis, "Les esclaves publics chez les Romains", was published in Brussels in 1897. In 1895, he won a travel bursary, with which he studied at the Collège de France and the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, following courses by , René Cagnat and Louis Havet.[2]

Halkin briefly taught at the (1896) and the in Namur (1897) and, on 20 February 1900, he was appointed to the University of Liège, where he remained for the next forty-three years. He became a full professor[ambiguous] in 1908, and retired on 28 December 1942.[1]

Halkin was a practising Catholic who was a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis and of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.[3] He was married to Elvire Courtoy (1873–1947), with whom he had five children, including Léon-Ernest Halkin, professor[ambiguous] of history at the University of Liège, and the Bollandist .[3] He died at Esneux on 3 September 1955.[1]

Writings[]

  • Les esclaves publics chez les Romains (Brussels, 1897)
  • Lettres inédites du Baron G. de Crassier à Bernard de Montfaucon (Leuven, 1897)
  • Correspondance de Dom E. Martène avec le Baron G. de Crassier (Brussels, 1898)
  • Correspondance de J.-F. Schannat avec G. de Crassier et Dom E. Marlene (Brussels, 1903)
  • Les origines du Collège des Jésuites et du Séminaire de Liège (Liège, 1927)
  • Les Frères de la Vie commune de la Maison Saint-Jérôme de Liège (Liège, 1945)
  • Lettres inédites du bollandiste Du Sollier à l'historien Schannat, 1721-1734 (Brussels, 1945)
  • Une description inédite de la ville de Liège en 1705 (Liège, 1948)
  • La supplication d'action de grâce chez les Romains (Paris, 1953)

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Jacques Poucet (2003). "Halkin, Léon" (PDF). Nouvelle Biographie Nationale (in French). 7. Brussels. pp. 181–182.
  2. ^ Marcel Renard, Léon Halkin (1872-1955), Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, 35:1 (1957), pp. 328-332.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Paul Gérin, "Léon-Ernest Halkin (1906–1998), de la critique à l'engagement", in Les intellectuels catholiques en Belgique francophone aux 19e et 20e siècles, edited by Guy Zelis (Louvain-La-Neuve, 2009), p. 133.
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