Hildegarde De Ridder-Symoens#
| Email: | hilde.symoens 'at' skynet.be |
| Membership Number: | 2675 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Username: | hderidder-symoens |
| Elected: | 2009 |
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
- History of European universities and their social role (13th-18th c.)
- History of schooling and education (legislation, literacy)
- Professionalisation of society and the role of schooling in this process
- Intellectual and cultural life during the Renaissance (15th-17th centuries) in its social context
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
- Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB) (2003)
- Member of Academia Europaea (2009)
