Léopold Genicot
Léopold Genicot (Forville March 18th 1914 - Ottignies May 11th 1995) is a Belgian Historien and a Walloon militant.
Holder of a license in political economy, archivist and paleographer working with the Files of the State with Namur (1935-1944), it presents his thesis of doctorate to UCL in 1937. He is part-time lecturer in 1944, then ordinary professor with the UCL (of 1947 to 1984). He taught there the Critique history, the Histoire of Belgium, that of the Moyen-âge and the Histoire of Wallonia which he initiated with the UCL.
He directed the first Histoire of Wallonia (Privat, Toulouse, 1973) of scientific level.
He was all his life a burning militant catholic and Walloon, member of Walloon Rénovation and Walloon Rassemblement, candidate with the European elections.
He was internationally known as medievist and its great synthesis the Ridge lines of the Middle Ages was republished more than one ten time.
It signed in 1983 the Manifeste for the Walloon culture.
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