Wim Blockmans

Willem Pieter Blockmans (born 26 May 1945, Antwerp, Belgium) is a retired Professor of Medieval History at Leiden University.^[1] He earned a PhD from the University of Ghent. He has been Rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study since September 2002. He has published extensively on late medieval and early modern state power.

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Professor W. P. Blockmans
Wim Blockmans (2002)
Born	Willem Pieter Blockmans (1945-05-26) May 26, 1945 (age 80)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Ghent
Thesis	De volksvertegenwoordiging in Vlaanderen onder het huis van Bourgondië (1384–1506) (1973)
Doctoral advisor	Walter Prevenier
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	late-medieval and early-modern Europe
Institutions	Leiden University
Doctoral students	Hans Cools
Main interests	Burgundian Netherlands
Website	www.unige.ch/ihr/fr/equipe/professeurs-honoraires/backus/
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Blockmans was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.^[2] In 1996, he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.^[3] Blockmans was elected a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2003.^[4] In 2008, he was made Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.^[5]

His retirement was marked with two Festschriften, Power and Persuasion: Essays on the Art of State Building in Honour of W.P. Blockmans, edited by Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Antheun Janse and Robert Stein (Turnhout, Brepols, 2010), and Bourgondië voorbij: De Nederlanden, 1250–1650. Liber alumnorum Wim Blockmans, edited by Mario Damen and Louis Sicking (Hilversum, Verloren, 2010).