Paul Fredericq
Paul Fredericq was a Belgian historian at Ghent University active in the promotion of the use of the Dutch language in Belgium.
Paul Fredericq was born in the Sleepstraat in Ghent, Belgium. A student at the Koninklijk Atheneum of Ghent, where Max Rooses and Jacob Heremans influenced him. He became a Protestant in his youth and his tendencies in religion, as in politics, were liberal. In 1871 he graduated as a high school teacher from the University of Lige and started working as a teacher in Mechelen and Arlon. In 1875, Fredericq received a special doctorate in historical sciences, with his study Essai sur le rle politique et social des ducs de Bourgogne dans les PaysBas, and he became professor of history at the University of Lige.
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