Hervé Hasquin
Belgian historian (1942–2026)
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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.[1]
Preceded byLaurette Onkelinx
Succeeded byMarie Arena
Born31 December 1942
Charleroi, German-occupied Belgium and Northern France
Died13 July 2026 (aged 83)
Hervé Hasquin | |
|---|---|
 Hasquin in 2018 | |
| Minister-President of the French Community | |
| In office 14 July 1999 – 18 July 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Laurette Onkelinx |
| Succeeded by | Marie Arena |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 December 1942 Charleroi, German-occupied Belgium and Northern France |
| Died | 13 July 2026 (aged 83) |
| Party | Reformist Movement |
Hasquin died on 13 July 2026, at the age of 83.[2]
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)[3]
Orders
Commander in the Order of Leopold II (Belgium, 1984) [4]
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)[4]
Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Crown (Belgium, 2004)[4]
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)[5]
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