Jean Stengers
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Jean Stengers (1922 — 2002) was a Belgian historian.
A precocious and brilliant student, Stengers entered the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) in 1939, at the age of 17. He published his first scholarly article two years later in the Belgian Review of Philology and History. In 1948, he presented his doctoral thesis under the direction of Professor Bonenfant on the historical bases of the national sentiments of Belgium.
"As of this time, evokes the historian Ginette Kurgan, appears the astonishing eclecticism of his interests, doubled of a rigour of approach stimulated by his formation of médiéviste."
Stengers was promoted to professeur ordinaire in 1954. He participated in the foundation of the Institute of the History of Christianity and in 1967 succeeded Guillaume Jacquemyns as director of the seminar of contemporary history. If it is impossible to review his many works, one can nevertheless affirm that the scholarly reputation of Jean Stengers was built at the beginning of the Belgian colonial history. His work Congo, Mythes et réalités was published in 1989.
He is the father of the historian of science and epistemologist Isabelle Stengers.
Works
- Histoire d'une grande peur, la masturbation, with Anne van Neck
- Congo, Mythes et réalités
- L'action du roi en Belgique depuis 1831: Pouvoir et influence : essai de typologie des modes d'action du roi et Vertiges du hasard [ISBN 2-84324-036-0],
