Camille Tihon (1890–1972) was a Belgian archivist and historian.

Life

Tihon was born in

Remicourt, Belgium Remicourt (; wa, Remicoû) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Remicourt had a total population of 5,012. The total area is 22.58 km2 which gives a population density Population ...

, on 25 June 1890. He studied at the

University of Liège The University of Liège (french: Université de Liège), or ULiège, is a major public university of the French Community of Belgium based in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. Its official language is French. As of 2020, ULiège is ranked in the 301 ...

under Eugène Hubert and

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, graduating with a doctorate for a thesis on the rule of

Robert of Berghes Robert of Berghes or de Glymes-Berghes (died 1564) was 87th Prince-bishop of Liège (1557–1563). He was forced to resign the see on 30 March 1563, due to insanity, and died in the course of the following year.Alphonse Le Roy, "Berghes (Robe ...

as Prince-Bishop of Liège.''La Principauté et le Diocèse de Liège sous Robert de Bergues, 1557-1564'' (Liège, 1923). From 1912 until his retirement in 1955 he worked at the Belgian State Archives, first at the State Archives in Mons and then on secondment to the State Archives in Liège, before transferring in 1919 to the Central State Archive in Brussels. Carlos Wyffels
Camille Tihon 1890-1972
'' Bulletin de la Commission royale d'Histoire'', 150 (1984), pp. 152-157. He served as head archivist of the State Archives (1939–1955), and led the efforts to recover archival material transported elsewhere in the

German occupation of Belgium during World War II The German occupation of Belgium (french: link=no, Occupation allemande, nl, Duitse bezetting) during World War II began on 28 May 1940, when the Belgian army surrendered to German forces, and lasted until Belgium's liberation by the Western ...

. After the war he also served as director of the

Belgian Historical Institute in Rome The Belgian Historical Institute in Rome ( nl, Belgisch Historisch Instituut te Rome, french: Institut historique belge de Rome, it, Istituto storico belga di Roma), founded 1902, is a scholarly research institute focused on the study of Roman, and ...

(1948–1955). From 1955 Tihon was an associate member of the

Commission royale d'Histoire The Commission royale d'Histoire (in French) or Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis (in Dutch) is the Belgian Royal Historical Commission. It was founded by royal decree on 22 July 1834. They initially published their proceedings under the title ...

, and from 1 March 1971 a full member. He died in

Schaerbeek (French language, French and History of Dutch orthography, archaic Dutch, ) or (contemporary Dutch language, Dutch, ) is one of the List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, 19 municipalities of the Brussels, Brussels-Capital Re ...

on 7 July 1972.

Publications

* "Le rôle des financiers italiens à la Monnaie des Comtes de Hainaut. Un acte de société de 1304", in ''Hommage à Dom Ursmer Berlière'' (Brussels, 1931), pp. 197-211. * "Les Archives de l'État en Belgique pendant la guerre", ''Archives, Bibliothèques et Musées de Belgique'', 17 (1946), pp. 1-11. * ''Lettres d'Urbain V, 1366-1370'' (Analecta Vaticano-Belgica; Brussels, 1932) * ''Lettres de Grégoire XI, 1371-1378'' (3 vols., Analecta Vaticano-Belgica; Brussels and Rome, 1958–1964) * "Aperçus sur l'établissement des lombards dans les Pays-Bas aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles", '' Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire'', 39 (1961), pp. 334-364.

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