Edouard Van Even

Gérard Edouard Van Even (1821–1905) was a Belgian archivist and historian.

Life

Van Even was born in Leuven on 6 December 1821. In 1846 he was appointed assistant librarian to the Catholic University of Leuven, resigning in 1853 to take up a position working for the local council as city archivist and secretary of municipal festivals. He died in Leuven on 11 February 1905.[1]

He had been a member of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, and the Royal Academy of Archaeology of Belgium.

Works
  • Les Artistes de l'Hôtel de ville de Louvain (1852)
  • Louvain monumental (1860)
  • L'Ancienne École de peinture de Louvain (1870)
  • Mengelingen voor de geschiedenis van Braband (1871)
  • Inventaire chronologique et analytique des chartes et autres documents sur parchemin appartenant aux archives de la ville de Louvain (1873)

References
  1. Raymond van Uytven, "Even (Gérard-Edouard Van)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 33 (Brussels, 1966), 304-306.
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