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Leon van der Essen Quotes

1883–1963 Belgium

Leon van der Essen (12 December 1883 – 10 February 1963) was a Belgian historian.

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The national culture of Belgium is a synthesis, if I may so call it, where one finds the genius of two races — the Romance and the Germanic — mingled, yet modified by the imprint of the distinctively Belgian. It is in that very receptivity — the fact that it has absorbed and unified the best elements of Latin and Teutonic civilization — that the originality of the Belgian national culture resides.

A Short History of Belgium (1916)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leon van der Essen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.