Raymond van Uytven


Raymond van Uytven was a Belgian medievalist, a specialist in the economic and urban history of the medieval Duchy of Brabant, who was a professor at the University of Antwerp.

Life

Van Uytven was born in Leuven on 1 February 1933, and studied at the Catholic University there. He earned a Ph.D. in 1959 with a thesis on the city finances and urban economy of Leuven between the 12th and 16th centuries. After a number of years working at the National Archives of Belgium, he obtained a university appointment. A Festschrift was published at his retirement in 1998. He died at home in Halle-Booienhoven on 20 December 2018.

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