biography
pronunciation:
[peeren]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1862–1935)
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| biography:
| Historian of Belgium and mediaeval Europe, born in Verviers, E Belgium. He studied mediaeval history at the universities of Liège, Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris, and became professor of mediaeval and Belgian history at Ghent (1886–1930). His Economic and Social History of Mediaeval Europe (1936) summarizes his life's work, and his seven-volume Histoire de Belgique (1900–32) is a classic exposition of his country's history. |
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