Hervé Hasquin (31 December 1942 – 13 July 2026) was a Belgian historian, politician and academic who was a university professor at the Université libre de Belgique.
Hasquin died on 13 July 2026, at the age of 83.Hervé Hasquin, ancien ministre et recteur de l’ULB, s’est éteint à l’âge de 83 ans
Honours
Alumni Prize (University Foundation) (1977) Literary Prize of the Parliament of the French Community (1981) Eugène Lameere Prize of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (1991) Honorary degree from Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (1992) Socio de Honor of the Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid (1996) Sociétaire honoris causa of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2000) Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (2002) Corresponding Member of the Class of Historical and Philosophical Sciences of the Tuscan Academy of Sciences and Letters of Florence (2009) Foreign Corresponding Academician of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (2014)
Orders
Commander in the Order of Leopold II (Belgium, 1984) Commander in the Order of the Lion (Senegal, 1987). Knight in the Legion of Honour (France, 1989) Commander in the Order of Leopold (Belgium, 1995) Grand Officer in the Order of Leopold(Belgium, 1999) Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Crown (Belgium, 2004) Commander in the Walloon Merit (Belgium, 2011) Commander in the Ordre des Palmes académiques (France, 2013) Officer in the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (Poland, 2015) Commander in the Order of Cultural Merit (Romania, 2015)
References
Sources academieroyale.be