Léon Nicolas Marie Joseph Halkin (1872–1955) was a Belgian historian and classicist who spent much of his life as a professor at the
University of Liège.
Life
Halkin was born in
Liège
Liège ( , , ; wa, Lîdje ; nl, Luik ; german: Lüttich ) is a major city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège.
The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from b ...
on 28 December 1872, the younger brother of
Joseph Halkin (1870-1937), who became professor of geography at the University of Liège. He studied Greek and Latin at the
Athénée royal de Liège, and graduated from the University of Liège on 24 July 1894 with a doctorate in classical philology.
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
Antoine Héron de Villefosse,
René Cagnat
René Cagnat (10 October 1852 – 27 March 1937) was a French historian, a specialist of Latin epigraphy and history of North Africa during Antiquity.
Biography
On the death of his father, Léon Renier, a friend of the family, supported his ed ...
and
Louis Havet.
[Marcel Renard]
Léon Halkin (1872-1955)
'' Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire'', 35:1 (1957), pp. 328-332.
Halkin briefly taught at the
Athénée royal de Mons (1896) and the
École des Cadets in
Namur
Namur (; ; nl, Namen ; wa, Nameur) is a city and municipality in Wallonia, Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia, hosting the Parliament of Wallonia, the Government of Wallonia and its administration.
Namu ...
(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 in 1908, and retired on 28 December 1942.
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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
The Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP or SVdP or SSVP) is an international voluntary organization in the Catholic Church, founded in 1833 for the sanctification of its members by personal service of the poor.
Innumerable Catholic parishes have ...
.[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.] He was married to Elvire Courtoy (1873–1947), with whom he had five children, including 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 c ...
, professor of history at the University of Liège, and the Bollandist François Halkin.[ He died at Esneux on 3 September 1955.][
]
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
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1872 births
1955 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Liège
Belgian philologists
20th-century Belgian historians