Eddy H. G.  VAN CAUWENBERGHE

Curriculum Vitae

PROFESSION:

- Full Professor (‘Gewoon Hoogleraar’) KU-Brussels-KU-Louvain, 1988-2004.

-  Professor do Quadro Complementar Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

September 1984 – October 2004 (20 years 2 months) Florianópolis, Brazil.

- Special Emeritus (Bijzonder Emeritus) KU-Brussels, 2004-2008.

- Professor Emeritus (2008 -present).

DIPLOMA'S

1. PhD Arts & Sciences/History - KU-Louvain, 19/9/1975 "Summa cum Laude".

2. Computer Analyst (Certificate IBM-Belgium, 1970).

FORMER PROFESSIONS

1. Aspirant (N.F.W.O. / Belgian National Science Foundation, 1970-1974.

2. Assistant professorFaculty of Economics, KU-Louvain, 1974-1976.

3. Lecturer in Economic History (i. S. of Herman Van der Wee) 1976-1977.

4. Director of Research (N.F.W.O.  / 'Belgian National Science Foun­dation', 1977-1982.

5- Associate professor KU-Brussels, 1978-1988.

6. Lecturer (lector-maître de conferences) KU-Louvain, 1977-1988.

SCIENTIFICAL DISTINCTIONS

1. Laureate of the "History Price: PRO CIVITA­TE – “Credit Communal” Belgium, 1976.

2. Laureate of a D.A.A.D. fellowship (Deutsche Academische Austausch Dienst -1985) at the University of Trier, Germany.

ACADEMIC FUNCTIONS (-former)

- PRESIDENT of the International Association on Quantitative Monetary History (Heidelberg/Trier).  

- PRESIDENT of the Belgian National Science Foundation-Committee on Histo­ry and Archaeology.

- PRESIDENT of the Belgian Economic History Association.

- DIRECTOR of the Centre for the History of Material Culture;

- TREASURER of INTERQUANT (Washington D.C. & Köln);

- Member (Board) of the Association on History and Computing (London);

- VICE-PRESIDENT of the LOW COUNTRIES Association for History and Computing (Groningen/Brussels);

- VICE-PRESIDENT of the N.F.W.OSF-Committee on Economic and Social History;

- Member of the Advisory Board of the Museums of the Brussels Com­munity;

- Member of the Board of Administrators of the Museums of the Brussels Community;

- FOUNDING Member of the NSF-Committee on the History of Insurances;

- FOUNDING Member of the Workshop on Quantitative Economic History (Louvain);

- SECRETARY of the NSF- Committee on the Economic History and the History of Economic Growth (Leuven/Liège);

- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD "Volkswagen Stiftung" (Germany);

- Member of the Redaction Committee of the Journal on the History of Brussels;

 - VICE-PRESIDENT of the Centre for the History of Brabant;

- Member of the Advisory Board of the Colloquia organized by the Province of Brabant;

- Member of the Clio metrics Society (Univ. Chicago V.S.);

- Member of the Economic History Society (London);

- Editor (Benelux) of the International Newsletter: Historians of Early Modern Europe (Missouri-Univ. V.S.);

- Member of the Social Sciences History Association (V.S.);

- Member of the General Assembly of the International Economic History Association;

- Member of the Belgian National Committee of Historical Sciences;

- Member of the Board of Administrators K.U. Brussels;

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Organisation of Colloquia:

- Organiser of the International Colloquium Theoretical History (KU-Leuven, 1978);

- Organiser of C- and B-Themes at the International Economic History Congresses at Edin­burgh (1978), Budapest (1982), Bern, (1986), Leuven, 1990;

- Organiser of sessions on European Economic History at the Social Sciences History Asso­ciation Conferences at Nashville, Washington en Bloomington (V.S.) in 1981, '82 and     '83;

- Organiser of different International Colloquia on the Integration History-Archaeology at Leuven, Brussels and Ghent;

- Founder and Organiser of the International Conferences on Monetary History at Bloo­mington (Indiana, V.S.); Budapest, Stockton (C.A.), Tokyo, New Delhi, Brussels;

- Co-Organiser (with E. RUIZ) of the First Latin American International Conference on Quantification in Historical Research at Florianopolis (Santa-Catharina, Brazil), 1984;

‑ Co-Organiser of the International Conference: Mutation urbai­ne et analyse des correspon­dances (traite­ment informatique/analyse factorielle), 'Maison des Sciences de     l'Homme', Paris 27‑28/4/84;

- Organiser of different colloquia on History and Computing for the VGI (Low Countries Association for History and Computing).

CONTRIBUTIONS - LECTURES etc. :

- Different lectures and reports held on colloquia organised by Belgian universities, scienti­fic institu­tions and, by the Belgian Radio and Televi­sion;   

- Lectures at the symposia organised by the Workshop on Quantitative Economic History (KU-Leuven);

- Lectures at the symposia of the International Association on Quantitative Monetary His­tory (Leuven, Heidelberg and Trier);

- Papers presented at the International Economic History Congresses, at Leningrad (1970), Copenhagen (1974), Edinburgh (1978), Budapest (1982), Bern (1986), Louvain (1990), Milano (1994)

- Paper at the International Congress on Peasant Economy at Bialowieza (Poland) lectures at the Universities of Warschau, Poznan and Bialystok (Poland 1973);

- Referent at the Colloque International d' Histoire Rurale, at the Collège de France and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (VI-me Section) in 1977;

- Visiting professor at the Centre d' Etudes Rurales, University of Caen (P. CHAUNU) in 1977;

- Referent at the International Conference on Methodology in History at Bialowieza (Poland), 1977;

- Referent at the Internationale Tagung für Hanse Geschichte at Greifswald and at Rügen (Sellin) -D.D.R., 1978;

- Visiting professor at the Hungarian Academy for sciences and at the University of Buda­pest, in 1978;

- Fellowship at the Institut für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsge­schichte from the Universität Heidelberg, 1979;

- Referent at the Brooklyn-College of CUNY (New York) on the Eight Brooklyn College Conference on Society in Change, 1980;

- Visiting professor at the Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto (Canada), 1980;

- Lectures, invited by different American Universities, March-April, 1981: CUNY (New York); Bloomington (Indiana); Chicago; Stockton (C.A.); Austin (Texas); the Lyndon B. JOHNSON Library (Texas); Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island); the Widener Library (Harvard/Bos­ton);

- Referent at the S.S.H.A.- Conference at Nashville (Tennessee), 1981;

- Referent at the First International Colloquium on the Use of Quantitative Methods in History (Washington D.C.), 1982;

- Referent at the 30ste Nederlands-Belgisch Historisch Congres at Leiden, 1982;

‑ Referent at the International Congress on 'Bauerliche Sachkul­tur des Spätmittelalters', at Vienna and Krems a. Donau, 1982;

‑ Visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Champaign (Urba­na), 1982;

- Referent at the International Colloquium Krise des Spät-Mittelalters, Ruhr-Univesität Bochum, Tegern-See, 1982;

‑ Chairman at the "Italo‑Belgian Colloquium of Social and Economic History: Structural Changes in the Urban Industries of the Southern Netherlands and Italy from the Late Middle Ages until the Begin­ning of the Indus­trial Revolution", Antwerp, 14‑17 October

1984;

- Referent at the International Congres "Die Histori­sche Metrologie in den Wissenschaf­ten", SIEGEN, 26­‑30/9/1984;

- Lectures at different Brazilian Universi­ties (march-April, 1983), Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Sao Paolo, Porto Alegre and Florianopolis;

- Visiting professor at the Universität Trier (1986);

- Visiting professor at the Universität Paderborn (1988)

PUBLICATIONS:

I‑ BOOKS:

- "Het Vorstelijk Domein en de Overheidsfinanciën in de Ne­derlanden (15de en 16de eeuw). Een kwantitatieve analyse van Vlaamse en Brabantse domeinrekeningen". Gemeentekrediet van België. Historische Uitgaven Pro Civitate, reeks in octavo,­ nr. ­61. Brussel, 1982, 434 pp. + 5 microfi­ches.

- "The Productivity of Land and Agricultural Innovation in the Low Countries (1250-1800)". Leuven (University Press), 1978, 187 pp.

- "Münzprägung, Geldumlauf und Wechselkurse ‑ Minting, Mone­tary Cir­culation and Ex­change Rates". (Trierer Historische Forsch­ungen, Band 7). Trier, 1984, 421 pp.

- "Sociale structuren en topografie van armoede en rijkdom in de 14e en 15e eeuw. Methodo­logische aspecten en resultaten van recent onderzoek. Structures sociales et topo­graphie de la pauvreté et de la richesse aux 14e et 15e siècles. Aspects méthodologiques et résultats de recherches récentes". (Handelingen van het colloquium gehouden te Gent op 24 mei 1985). In: STUDIA HISTORICA GANDENSIA, 267. Gent, 1986, 176 pp. (co-edit. W. PREVENIER en R. VAN UYTVEN).

- "Precious Metals, Coinage, and the Changes of Monetary Structu­res in Latin-America, Europe and Asia (Late Middle Ages-Early Modern Times)", Leuven (University Press), 1989, 222 pp.;

- "Extranr. "Tijdschrift voor Ge­schiedenis", 103de Jaar­gang, 2, pp. 213-394: Geschiedenis en Informatica (Wolters-Noordhoff), Groningen, 1990 (Editor);

- "Historical Information Systems: Proceedings Tenth Inter­national Economic History Congress", Leuven, August 1990, 118 pp. (Editor);

- "Money, Coins, and Commerce: Essays in the Monetary History of Asia and Europe from Antiquity to Modern Times". Leuven (University Press), 1991, 554 pp.;

- Data, Computers and the Past. Proceedings of the Conference: Archiving and dissemina­ting Historical Machine Readable Data, Leiden, April 1990). CAHIERS VGI, 5. Hilver­sum, 1992, 172 blz. (Co-editor);

- Proceedings of the "6th International Monetary History Conference", Brussels, October 1992: Monetary History and Computing (Editor ca. 200 pp.).

II‑ ARTICLES:

- "L'Utilisation de l'ordinateur pour l'étude des domaines royaux aux Pays Bas, XIIe-XVIIe Ss., in: Reports of the Fifth International Congres of Economic History (Leningrad, 1970). Moscow, 1974-'76, 11 pp. (with H. Van der Wee);

- "Bijdrage tot de financiëel-economische evolutie van een vorstelijk domein in Vlaanderen: Deinze-Drongen (XIVe-XVIIe eeuw)", in: Handelingen van het Genootschap gesticht onder de benaming "Société d'Emulation" te Brugge, 107, 1971, pp. 250-268;

- "Het belang van de domeinrekeningen voor de agrarische geschiedenis van het graafschap Vlaanderen, 14de-17de eeuw", in: Akten van het colloquium: Economische Geschiedenis van België. Behandeling van bronnen en problema­tiek, Brussel, 1971, 4 pp. ;

- "Some new methodological Concepts and the Use of the Compu­ter in Quantitative Eco­nomic History", in: Archief- en Bi­bliotheekwezen in België, extranr. 6, 1971, pp. 1-18 (with H. Van der Wee and H. Daems);

- "Méthodes et techniques nouvelles en histoire économique quantitative", in: Mélanges en l'honneur de F. Braudel, II. Toulouse, 1973, pp. 443-452 (with H. Van der Wee and H. Daems);

- "Histoire agraire et finances publiques en Flandre du XIVe au XVIIe siècles. Interprétation d'une élaboration statisti­que provisoire des comptes d'un domaine comtal: 1329-1604", -An­nales. Economies. Sociétés­. Ci­vilisations, 1973, 4, pp. 1051-1065.;

- "De nobiliaire mobiliteit in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden (15de-18de eeuw). Inleiding tot de computer-analyse", - Bij­dragen tot de Ge­schiedenis, 57, pp. 59-83.;

- "De mecanografie als hulpwetenschap voor de kwantitatieve economische geschiedenis, deel I: Inleiding tot de informa­tieverwerkende systemen", in: Reports Workshop on Quantita­tive Economic History, Leuven, 1974, 27 pp.;

 - "De mecanografie als hulpwetenschap voor de kwantitatieve economische geschiedenis, deel II: Van analyse tot produc­tie", in: Reports Workshop ..., Leuven, 1975, 35 pp.;

- "Finances publiques et politique domaniale aux Pays Bas (XVme-XVIme Ss.)", in: N.F.W.O.-Contactgroepen, Brussel, 1975, pp. 50-71;

- "Structures et mobilité nobiliaires aux Pays Bas méridio­naux (1425-1795)", in: Reports of the Workshop on Quantita­tive Economic History;

‑ "Mintage and Coin Circulation in the Southern Low Countries (14th‑18th Centuries): Some theoretical Reflections." In : E. VAN CAUWENBERGHE & F. IRSIGLER (Eds.), "Münzprägung ...". Trier, 1984, pp. 151‑180.

‑ "Geld und Währung in den südlichen Niederlanden während der frühen Neuzeit". In: E. VAN CAUWENBERGHE & F. IRSIGLER (eds.­), "Münzprägung...".Trier, 1984, pp. 123‑150.

  ‑ "Die Grafschaft Flandern und die sogenannte spätmittelal­ter­liche Depression". In: F. SEIBT und W. EBERHARD (eds.), ­"Eu­ro­pa 1400. Die Krise des Spätmittelalters". Stuttgart (K­let­t‑­Cot­ta), 1984, pp. 95‑116.

‑  "Overheidsinitiatief aangaande leefmilieu, de openbare hygiëne en veiligheid in enkele ste­den van de Zuidelijke Nederlanden uit de pré‑in­dustriële tijd (17de‑18de eeuw)".

Brussel, (Gemeentekrediet van België) 1984, Historische Uitga­ven, reeks in‑Octavo, nr.65, pp.258‑285;

‑ "Inflation in the Southern Low Countries, from the Four­teen­th to the Seventeenth Century: A Record of some signifi­cant Periods of High Prices". In: N. SCHMUCLER & E. MARCUS ed­s.,­ "Inflation through the Ages: Economic, Social, Psycho­lo­gical and Historical Aspects. Social Science Monographs (­Brook­lyn College Press & Columbia University Pres­s). New York­, 1983, pp. 147‑156.

 ‑ "Milieuvervuiling. Nieuwe belangstelling voor een oud pro­bleem". INTERMEDIAIR, 13, 24 juni 1983, pp. 11‑14 (coll. J. DEGADT).

- "Pénzügypolitika és Kincstarpolitika Németalföldön a Bur­gun­diak és a panyol‑Habsburgok Koraban (15‑16.Szazad)". ‑ Külön­lenyomat a Törtnélmi Szemle (Budapest) 1982/1. Szama­bol,­ pp. ­121‑135.

‑ "L'automatisation et l'informatique en histoire économique  quan­titative: quelques réflec­tions théoriques". ‑ Studia His­to­riae Oeconomi­ca, 15, 1980, pp. 55‑64. Poznan, 1982.

- "Organization und Technik der Münzherstellung in den Südli­chen Nieder­landen während des Ancien Régime". In: H. WITTHÖFT e.a. (Eds.), Die Histo­rische Metrologie in den Wis­senschaf­ten. Sachüberlieferung und Geschichte: Siegener Abhandlungen zur Entwicklung der materiellen Kultur, Bd.3. (Scripta Merca­turae Verlag). St. Katharinen, 1986, pp. 338-415.

- "The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank, - Cologne Compu­ter Con­ference, Volume of Abstracts, Köln, 1988, F.12-F.14.

- "Coinage and the Coin (Money) Stock: Problems, Possibi­li­ties and First Results (The Southern Low Countries: 1334­-1­789)", - E. VAN CAUWENBERGHE (Ed.), "Precious Metals, Coina­ge, and the Changes of Monetary Structu­res in Latin-Ame­rica, Euro­pe and Asia (Late Middle Ages-Early Modern Times)", Leuven (Universi­ty Press), 1989, pp. 7-24;

- "Die Münzproduktion in den Niederlan­den 14.-18. Jahrhun­dert", - M. NORTH (Ed.) Gel­dum­lauf, Währungssysteme und Zah­lungsverkehr in Nordwes­teuropa 1300-1800, Köl­n/Wien, 1989, pp. 93-108;

- "The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (MEMDB), E. VAN CAUWENBERGHE -R. BELL, in: TIJDSCHRIFT voor GESC­HIEDENIS, 1990, 103, 2 , pp. 260-278.

- "Een lang millennium van stagnatie of 'verzuiling' ?  Kos­mografie en geografie tussen Hel­lenisme en Renaissance". In: En toch was ze Rond ... Middeleeuws mens- en wereld­beeld. Brussel, 1990, pp. 80-101.

- "MEMDB: The Medie­val and Early Modern Data Bank, in: Nouvelles de la Science et des Technologies, IX (1), Brussel, 1991, pp. 79-91.

- "The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank in Europe and North America, in: H. BEST, E. MOCHMANN en M. THALLER (eds.), Computers in the Humani­ties and the Social Sciences, München, London, New York, Paris, 1991, pp. 92-96.

- The Monetary History Databank: The Low Countries 1334-1790  - "6th International Monetary History Conference", Brussels, 1992.                

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See also:

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