Paul Marie Isidore Harsin (1902–1983) was an economic and political historian who held doctorates in the humanities, social sciences, and law. He was a professor 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 ...

for over 40 years and briefly served as president of the

Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium The Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (french: Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, sometimes referred to as ') is the independent learned society of science and arts of the French Comm ...

Life

Harsin was born in Liège on 21 January 1902. In 1928 he succeeded his teacher,

Karl Hanquet Karl Hanquet (1871–1928) was a Belgian academic historian. Life Hanquet was born in Liège on 5 October 1871 to an established family of industrialists and arms manufacturers. He was educated at the Collège Saint-Servais and the University of L ...

, as professor of history, teaching until 1970. In 1950, he was awarded the

Francqui Prize The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgian scholarly and scientific prize named after Émile Francqui. Normally annually since 1933, the Francqui Foundation awards it in recognition of the achievements of a scholar or scientist, who at the start ...

in Human Sciences. He was elected a corresponding member of the Belgian Royal Academy on 7 May 1951, a full member on 5 December 1955, and served as president in 1967. He died in Liège on 11 July 1983.

Publications

* ''Les relations extérieures de la principauté de Liège sous Jean Louis d'Elderen et Joseph Clément de Bavière, 1688–1718'' (Liège and Paris, 1927) * ''Crédit public et Banque d'Etat en France du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle'' (Paris, 1933) * ''La Révolution liégeoise de 1789'' (Brussels, 1953)Reviewed by

Lucien Febvre Lucien Paul Victor Febvre (, ; 22 July 1878 – 11 September 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. He was the initial editor of the '' Encyclopédie française'' together wi ...

in '' Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations'', 10:4 (1955), pp. 588-589.

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External links

International Committee for Historical Demography
(ICHD) Academic staff of the University of Liège 20th-century Belgian historians Walloon people 1902 births 1983 deaths {{Belgium-historian-stub