The Commission royale d'Histoire (in French) or Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis (in Dutch) is the Belgian Royal Historical Commission. It was founded by royal decree on 22 July 1834.
6-519: The Commission initially published their proceedings under the title Compte-rendu des séances de la commission royale d'histoire and since 1845 have published a journal, the Bulletin de la Commission royale d'Histoire / Handelingen van de Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis . It is the mission of the Commission 'to undertake research, to identify, edit or analyse written sources of interest to
12-566: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Victor Coremans Victor Amédée Jacques Marie Coremans (5 October 1802 – 23 October 1872) was a Belgian archivist , journalist , historian , and political activist . He supported the Flemish Movement , advocating nationhood for Flanders . Victor was born in Brussels on 5 October 1802, the son of Jacques-Jean Coremans, a judge, and Anne-Marie Vandersande. In 1821 he
18-756: The Dungeon), Kerkerblumen (Dungeon Flowers), and Die göttlichen Befreier (The Divine Liberator). After his release he spent some time in Switzerland before returning to his native Belgium. On 13 April 1836, he was appointed as a collaborator to the newly created Commission royale d'Histoire in Brussels. His task was to make the German collection in the National Archives of Belgium available for research. He published some of his own findings from
24-697: The archives in several publications. His scholarly writing addressed various topics in the history, culture, and politics of Belgium , Germany, and Austria . He published scholarly pieces in the Bulletin de la Commission royale d'histoire (1844–1847) and in the Revue d'histoire et d'archéologie (1860–1863). One article examined the origins and permutations of the legendary monarch Gambrinus . Throughout his later career he continued to promote liberal nationalism , and especially Flemish nationhood , through his writing in such journals as Vlaamsch België , De Noordstar , and De Zweep . On 7 August 1872, he retired from
30-575: The history of Belgium, to publish critical studies relating to these sources and to make working tools available to historians'. To fulfill this mission, the Commission has had numerous collaborators. In 1836, for example, Victor Coremans was given the task, under the Commission's supervision, of making the German-language archives from the National Archives of Belgium available for research. This article about an organization in Belgium
36-700: Was banished from Vienna for sedition. In 1824 he edited the Erlanger Zeitung . From 1831 to 1832, while living in Munich, he published and edited the Nuremberg radical newspaper Die Freie Presse (The Free Press). The Bavarian authorities responded by laying political charges on him, for which he was imprisoned. While in prison he wrote three German-language books that were well-received in Germany: Die Stimme aus dem Kerker (The Voice from
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