Herman Vander Linden

Herman Vander Linden (1868–1956) was a Belgian historian who was a professor at the University of Liège.

Life Vander Linden was born in Leuven on 27 April 1868 and was educated in the state secondary school there. He graduated doctor of philosophy from Ghent University in 1891, with a thesis on the constitution of the medieval city of Leuven. His teachers were Henri Pirenne and Paul Fredericq. He visited a number of German universities and studied at the Ecole des Chartes in Paris (1892-1894). In 1895 he obtained a special doctorate in historical sciences with a thesis on merchant guilds in the medieval Low Countries.

From October 1895 to October 1903 he taught history and geography in a state secondary school in Antwerp. Itinéraires de Marie de Bourgogne et de Maximilien d'Autriche, 1477-1482 (Brussels, 1934). Itinéraires de Charles, duc de Bourgogne, Marguerite d'York et Marie de Bourgogne, 1467-1477 (Brussels, 1936). Itinéraires de Philippe le Bon, duc de Bourgogne, 1419-1467, et de Charles, comte de Charolais, 1433-1467 (Brussels, 1940). "La Forêt charbonnière", Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, vol. 2 (1923), pp. 203-214.