Charles Moeller (historian)

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Charles Moeller
Born
Charles Clément Auguste Moeller

(1838-04-14)14 April 1838
Leuven, Belgium
Died28 July 1922(1922-07-28) (aged 84)
Uccle, Belgium
OccupationHistorian

Charles Clément Auguste Moeller (1838–1922) was a Belgian historian.

Life

Moeller was born in

Catholic University of Leuven.[1][2] He himself became a lecturer at the same university in 1863, teaching courses on the political history of classical antiquity and of the Middle Ages. From 1883 he also taught contemporary history. In 1891 he stopped teaching ancient history.[1]
His son,
Alfred Alphonse Moeller, became a colonial administrator, governor of Orientale Province in the Belgian Congo, and later a businessman.[3]

To mark his fifty years of teaching at the university (1863–1913), a two-volume

First World War he briefly became a refugee in Oxford.[1] In 1916 he was appointed director of the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome. He retired in 1919, and died in Uccle (Brussels) on 28 July 1922.[1]

Publications

References

  1. ^ a b c d Léopold Genicot, "Moeller, Charles", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 33 (Brussels, 1965), 495-496.
  2. The Encyclopedia Press
    . 1917. p. 117. Retrieved 24 September 2021 – via archive.org.
  3. JSTOR 1158836
  4. ^ Both volumes in one at Internet Archive.
  5. ^ On Google Books