Léon-Ernest Halkin
Léon-Ernest Emmanuel Marie Joseph Halkin (1906–1998) was a Belgian historian, a supporter of the Walloon Movement, and a member of the Resistance during World War II. Life Léon-Ernest Halkin was born in Liège on 11 May 1906, the son of the classicist Léon Halkin and Elvire Courtoy. He was raised in an academic milieu, with both his father and his uncle Joseph Halkin professors at University of Liège, and was educated under the Jesuits at the Collège Saint-Servais. He matriculated at the university in 1923. In 1928 he won a travel bursary, using it to spend a year in Paris, where he followed the classes of Robert Génestal at the École pratique des hautes études, Henri Hauser at the École normale supérieure, and Lucien Febvre at the Collège de France.Vincent Genin, "Halkin, Léon-Ernest", ''Nouvelle Biographie Nationale'', vol. 14 (Brussels, 2018), pp. 138-141. His doctoral thesis on the 16th-century Prince-Bishop of Liège Érard de La Marck, supervised by Karl H ...
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