Camille Tihon (1890–1972) was a Belgian archivist and historian.

Life

Tihon was born in

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, on 25 June 1890. He studied at the

University of Liège The University of Liège (), or ULiège, is a major public university of the French Community of Belgium founded in 1817 and based in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. Its official language is French (language), French. History The university was foun ...

under Eugène Hubert and Karl Hanquet, graduating with a doctorate for a thesis on the rule of Robert of Berghes as

Prince-Bishop of Liège A prince-bishop is a bishop who is also the civil ruler of some secular principality and sovereignty, as opposed to '' Prince of the Church'' itself, a title associated with cardinals. Since 1951, the sole extant prince-bishop has been the B ...

.''La Principauté et le Diocèse de Liège sous Robert de Bergues, 1557-1564'' (Liège, 1923). From 1912 until his retirement in 1955 he worked at the Belgian State Archives, first at the State Archives in Mons and then on secondment to the State Archives in Liège, before transferring in 1919 to the Central State Archive in Brussels. Carlos Wyffels
Camille Tihon 1890-1972
'' Bulletin de la Commission royale d'Histoire'', 150 (1984), pp. 152-157. He served as head archivist of the State Archives (1939–1955), and led the efforts to recover archival material transported elsewhere in the

German occupation of Belgium during World War II The German occupation of Belgium (, ) during World War II began on 28 May 1940, when the Belgian army surrendered to German forces, and lasted until Belgium's liberation by the Western Allies between September 1944 and February 1945. It was ...

. After the war he also served as director of the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome (1948–1955). From 1955 Tihon was an associate member of the Commission royale d'Histoire, and from 1 March 1971 a full member. He died in

Schaerbeek (French language, French, ; former History of Dutch orthography, Dutch spelling) or (modern Dutch language, Dutch, ) is one of the List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, 19 municipalities of the Brussels, Brussels-Capital Reg ...

on 7 July 1972.

Publications

* "Le rôle des financiers italiens à la Monnaie des Comtes de Hainaut. Un acte de société de 1304", in ''Hommage à Dom Ursmer Berlière'' (Brussels, 1931), pp. 197-211. * "Les Archives de l'État en Belgique pendant la guerre", ''Archives, Bibliothèques et Musées de Belgique'', 17 (1946), pp. 1-11. * ''Lettres d'Urbain V, 1366-1370'' (Analecta Vaticano-Belgica; Brussels, 1932) * ''Lettres de Grégoire XI, 1371-1378'' (3 vols., Analecta Vaticano-Belgica; Brussels and Rome, 1958–1964) * "Aperçus sur l'établissement des lombards dans les Pays-Bas aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles", ''

Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire ''Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire – Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis'', abbreviated RBPH/BTFG or simply RBPH, is a scholarly journal in the fields of philology and history, published in Belgium since 1922. Since 1953 ...

'', 39 (1961), pp. 334-364.

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