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Curriculum Vitae
Born at Gent,
on July 14, 1927
Diploma academics :
Doctor in Law, 1951 and Doctor of history, 1953.
Graduate of higher education, 1958, Rijksuniversiteit Gent.
Functions
:
Full Professor at the Faculty of philosophy and letters and the Faculty
of Law of the Rijksuniversiteit Gent : Medieval history and History of
the Law.
Curriculum vitae :
Candidate of the Nationaal Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek,
1951-1953.
Responsible for research of the Nationaal Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk
Onderzoek, 1953-1954.
Associated of the Nationaal Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek,
1958-1960.
Member and Representative of the Benelux at the Selden Society, London,
1959.
Full Professor at the Rijksuniversiteit Gent, 1964.
Member of the royal Commission for the publication of the old laws and
ordinances of Belgium, 1964.
Vice-president of the International committee for the History of the
Germanic Nation of the University of Orleans, 1966.
Member of the Royal Historical Society (London), 1969.
Member of the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat-Max Planck Institute für
Europäische Rechtsgeschichte ", Frankfurt, since 1969.
Representative for Belgium of the International the Commission for
History of Universities, 1970-1974.
Member corresponding of the Mediaeval Academy of America, 1971.
Member of the Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis (Brussels) 1971.
Dean of the Faculté des Lettres de la Rijksuniversiteit Gent, 1972-1974.
Member of the Board of directors of Rijksuniversiteit Gent, 1973-1977.
Member corresponding of Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen,
Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, 1974.
Scientific distinctions :
Laureate of the Contest of the grant of voyage of the Government, 1951.
Laureate of the university Contest, 1955.
Laureate of the annual Contest of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie,
1952-1955.
Francqui Prize, 1974
Doctor honoris causa of the University of Tübingen, 1977.
Member corresponding of Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen -
Amsterdam, 1977.
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Report of the Jury (April 20, 1974)
Considérant l'originalité, la
précision, le rigueur et l'esprit critique qu'il a développé dans ses
travaux, notamment dans le domaine de l'histoire des institutions
flamandes, de l'histoire médiévale en général, de l'histoire du droit
anglais et du droit savant au Moyen Age, de la connaissance comparative
du droit européen,
considérant le rayonnement de ses
recherches tant en Belgique qu'à l'étranger,
décide de conférer le Prix Francqui
1974 à Monsieur Raoul van Caenegem, Professeur à la Rijksuniversiteit
Gent.
Jury members :
Professor Hubert
Deschamps
Ancien Gouverneur de la France d'Outremer
Professeur honoraire de la Sorbonne - Paris
Chairman
and
Professor Igor
Ansoff
Professor at the Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Professor Robert Feenstra
Professor at the Leiden University
Professor Gilles
Granger
Professor at the Université de Provence
Aix-en-Provence - France
Professor Jürgen
Habermas
Director of the Max-Plack-Institut
Starnberg
Professor Tom
Lupton
Professor at the University of Manchester
Professor Roland
Olivier
Professor at the University of London
Professor Jacques
Paillard
Professor at the Université d'Aix
Marseille - France
Professor Ludwig
Schmitt
Professor at the Philipps-Universität
Marburg
Professor Antonius
Weijnen
Professorr at the Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen
Professor Jean Yver
Professor at the Faculté de droit de Caen
Professor Oliver
Zangwill
Professor at the Cambridge University
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