Belgian economic historian Herman Van der Wee concludes the Marshall Plan was a " great success ":

Gibbon was echoed a century later by the Belgian historian Godefroid Kurth, who wrote that the Battle of Poitiers " must ever remain one of the great events in the history of the world, as upon its issue depended whether Christian Civilization should continue or Islam prevail throughout Europe.

At his request, his memoirs about Prince Charles ( which he wrote at Churchill's suggestion ) were only published after de Staercke's death in 2003, with the help of and a preface by Belgian historian Jean Stengers.

Belgian historian Francis Balace wrote that capitulation was inevitable because the Belgian Army was not able to fight any longer against the German army.

Nevertheless, in 1961, the historian Ramon Arango, wrote that the Belgian monarchy is not truly constitutional.

The Belgian historian Jean Stengers wrote that some foreigners believe the monarchy is indispensable to national unity.

In his catalogue raisonné of Van der Weyden's, the Belgian art historian Dirk de Vos agrees with Campbell about the authenticity of these three paintings.

Henri Pirenne ( 23 December 1862-25 October 1935 ) was a Belgian historian.

* November 30-Aubert Miraeus, Belgian ecclesiastical historian ( died 1640 )

: For the 20th-century Belgian Byzantinologist, see Henri Grégoire ( historian )

This conclusion was contested by later scholars, in particular the Belgian historian J. F. Verbruggen.

Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont ( Aalst, Belgium, 3 January 1868 – Brussels, 25 August 1947 ) was a Belgian archaeologist and historian, a philologist and student of epigraphy, who brought these often isolated specialties to bear on the syncretic mystery religions of Late Antiquity, notably Mithraism.

According to the Belgian maritime historian Basch, the earliest true lateen rig appears as early as the 1st century BC, in a Hellenistic wall painting found in a Hypogeum in Alexandria.

While city government of Beloeil refuses to take a position in the debate on the origin of the name, local historian Pierre Lambert has demonstrated that the various proposed links between the Belgian and Quebec cities are very tenuous at best, whereas the " Bel Œil " theory was first put forward by the Campbell family, who ( having purchased the seigneurie of Rouville in the nineteenth century ) had access to the archives of Jean-Baptiste Hertel.

According to Tertio, a Belgian Roman Catholic magazine, Verhofstadt's primary motivation to write this book on Pius XII was his support for the elimination of " one dominant religion's power " in Europe ; the journalist of the magazine also point to the fact, that Verhofstadt is not an academic historian, but a journalist and politician.

George Sarton ( 1884 – 1956 ) was a Belgian chemist and historian who is considered the founder of the discipline of history of science.

Ludo Martens ( 12 March 1946 – 5 June 2011 ) was a Belgian historian noted for his work on francophone Africa and the Soviet Union.

Godefroid Kurth ( 11 May 1847, Arlon – 4 January 1916 ) was a celebrated Belgian historian.

Their success, according to the Belgian historian Henri Pirenne, was due to a surplus of women occasioned by violence, war, military and semi-military operations, which took the lives of many men.

Paul Saintenoy ( 19 June 1862 – 18 July 1952 ) was a Belgian architect, teacher, architectural historian, and writer.

Among their Florentine circle could be counted the sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand, the writer Isolde Kurz, the English architect and antiquary Herbert Horne, the Dutch Germanist André Jolles and the Belgian art historian Jacques Mesnil.

Joseph-Marie-Bruno-Constantin, Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove ( 17 August 1817 — 3 April 1891 ) was a Belgian historian and politician.

Leftist filmmakers Joris Ivens and Henri Storck directed Borinage ( 1931 ) about the Belgian coal mining region.

* 1876 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian amateur sports executive ( d. 1942 )

He was succeeded as president, in 1925, by Belgian Henri de Baillet-Latour.

The Universal Decimal Classification ( UDC ) is a bibliographic and library classification developed by the Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine at the end of the 19th century.

* January 6 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president ( b. 1876 )

* June 6 – Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer ( b. 1820 )

* March 1 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president ( d. 1942 )

* February 17 – Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist and composer ( d. 1881 )

The Belgian violinist Henri Vieuxtemps contributed several works to this form.

Bernhardt had an affair with a Belgian nobleman, Charles-Joseph Eugène Henri Georges Lamoral de Ligne ( 1837 – 1914 ), son of Eugène, 8th Prince of Ligne, with whom she had her only child, Maurice Bernhardt ( 1864 – 1928 ).

The area was first developed in 1801 when a Belgian aristocrat, Henri Joseph Stier, purchased 800 acres situated between two tributaries of the Anacostia River known as the Paint and Northwest branches.

* Henri Alexis Brialmont, Dutch-born Belgian military engineer.

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

( The other two were Henri Büsser and a Belgian, Guillaume Lekeu, the latter having been born only two days before Tournemire.

Paul Henri Charles Spaak ( 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972 ) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium ( 1938 – 1939, 1946 and 1947 – 1949 ), as the first President of the United Nations General Assembly ( 1946 – 1957 ), as the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( 1952 – 1954 ), and as the second Secretary General of NATO ( 1957 – 1961 ).

Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître ( 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966 ) was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.

The Quest for Fire () is a 1911 Belgian novel by " J .- H. Rosny ", the pseudonym of two brothers ; the author was likely the elder of the two, Joseph Henri Honoré Boex ( 1856-1940 ).

* In the Dale Brown novel Storming Heaven, the airport is subject to a massive terror attack when Belgian international terrorist Henri Cazaux in an L-610 cargo plane loaded with explosives violates the Class C, B and A airspace ( in that order ) while being pursued by an F-16 fighter.

Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps () ( 17 February 18206 June 1881 ) was a Belgian composer and violinist.

In 1906 it produced, using the Auto-Mixte patents of Belgian Henri Pieper, a petrol-electric vehicle and on 23 May 1906 registered Gearless Motor Omnibus Co. Limited.

* Henri La Fontaine ( 1854-1943 ), Belgian jurist and Nobel Peace prize laureate

** Nicolas Henri Joseph de Fassin, Belgian landscape painter ( born 1728 )

Henri La Fontaine (; 22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943 ), was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau.