Hildegarde De Ridder-Symoens#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2675 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
Hildegarde De Ridder-Symoens passed away March 5, 2023.
Present and Previous Positions
- From 1 Oct. 2001 until 30 Sept. 2008 (retirement) full professor in Early Modern History at the Ghent University (Universiteit Gent), Belgium
- 1986 - 2001 Part time professor in Medieval History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 1964 - 1993 Research fellow National Fund for Scientific Research- Flanders – Belgium and Ghent University
- 1969 Ph.D. History Ghent University, Belgium
Fields of Scholarship
- Professionalisation of society and the role of schooling in this process
- History of schooling and education (legislation, literacy)
- Intellectual and cultural life during the Renaissance (15th-17th centuries) in its social context
- History of European universities and their social role (13th-18th c.)
Honours and Awards
- 1971 laureate of the travel grant contest of the Belgian Government
- 1992 laureate of the Sarton medal of the University of Ghent (History of Science)
- 1992 University medal of the University of Helsinki
- 2003 Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB)
