Stanislas Bormans


Stanislas Marie Bormans was a Belgian archivist and historian.

Life

Bormans was born in Hasselt on 2 February 1835. When he was a few months old, his father, Jean-Henri Bormans, was appointed a professor at the University of Ghent. Two years later he transferred to the University of Liège.
Stanislas graduated Doctor of Philosophy in July 1857 and was appointed assistant curator of the State Archives in Liège. In 1864 he married Victoire Francotte, daughter of a family in Liège. In 1873 he became curator of the State Archives in Namur, but in 1882 he returned to his former position of assistant curator in Liège so that his wife, whose health was poor, could be near her parents. In 1884 he became chief curator of the archives in Liège, but in 1885 he was appointed to the University of Liège, where he remained until his retirement in 1905. He taught palaeography from 1886, and from 1890 to 1896 was Professor of the History of Medieval and Modern Institutions, a position that he was glad to resign.
After being widowed in 1886, he remarried the following year with Anne de Roodenbeke, who bore him four children.
He was a co-founder of the Société des Bibliophiles liégeois and served as secretary, vice-president and president of the Institut archéologique liégeois. He was also on the editorial committee of the Biographie Nationale de Belgique.
He died in Liège on 15 November 1912.

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