Herman van der Wee#

Present and Previous Positions

• 2010 Anthony Van Dyck Chair, University of California, Los Angeles (U.S.A.)
• 2010 Anthony Van Dyck Chair, University of California, Los Angeles (U.S.A.)
• 2007 - 2008 Distinguished John W. Kluge Chair, Library of Congress , Washington, D.C. (U.S.A.)
• 1999 Banking History Chair, University of Sant-Gallen (Switzerland)
• 1997 Erasmus Chair, Harvard University (U.S.A.)
• 1994 P.P. Rubens Chair, University of California, Berkeley (U.S.A.)
• 1989 Ellen MacArthur Chair, Cambridge (U. K.)
• 1985 Visiting Fellow All Souls College, Oxford (U.K.)
• 1980 - 1981 and 1990-1991: Visiting Fellow Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, (U.S.A.)
• 1975 - 1976 Fellow Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., (U.S.A.)
• 1955, 1966, 1969, 1993 Lecturer, Professor, Full Professor, Emeritus Professor Social and Economic History, Leuven University (Belgium)
• 1950: LL.D. (Law), 1963:PH.D.(History) at Leuven University (Belgium)

• Social and economic history of Europe and the Western World from the Late Middle Ages to the present
• Social and economic history of the Low Countries during the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times
• Decline of Bruges
• Rise and decline of Antwerp
• European trade
• Financial and banking innovations in Antwerp and Amsterdam
• Industrial and monetary development in the Low Countries and in Europe
• Development of the Belgian Economy during the 20th Century
• Western World Economy since the Second World War

• 1968 'de Stassart' Prize for National History (period 1961-1967) by the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium
• 1975 and 1981 Fulbright Award
• 1981 Quinquennial 'Solvay' Prize for the Humanities (period 1976-1980) by the National Fund for Scientific Research of Belgium
• 1992 Amsterdam Prize for the Historical Sciences, by the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of The Netherlands
• 1994 Knighted by King Albert II of Belgium (title of Baron)
• 1995 Honorary Medial for Special Merits, by yhe Flemish Parliament
• 1994 and 1995 doctor honoris causa, universities of Brussells and Leicester (UK)
• 1977, 1983, 1987, 1993 member, foreign member, corresponding member, honorary member of respectively The Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium, The Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of The Netherlands, The British Academy, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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