Émile Fairon

Émile Fairon (1875–1945) was a Belgian archivist and historian.

Life[edit]

Fairon was born in Pepinster on 11 October 1875. After studying at the Athénée royal de Verviers he matriculated at the University of Liège, where he went on to obtain a doctorate in classical philology.^[1] In 1901 he started working at the Royal Library of Belgium, where he catalogued the seals and seal molds.^[1] In 1902 he qualified as an archivist, and in 1903 obtained a position at the State Archives in Liège. He became head of the depot in 1924, in succession to Léon Lahaye.^[1] During the 1930s he oversaw the transfer of the archives from the Provincial Palace to a purpose-built repository on the site of the defunct Liège-Jonfosse railway station.^[1] He died on 1 January 1945.^[1]

Works[edit]

• "L'affaire Blanjean: un épisode d'histoire religieuse et diplomatique en 1633-1634", Bulletin de la Société Verviétoise d'Archéologie et d'Histoire, 11 (1910), pp. 115-160.
• Chroniques liégeoises, vol. 2 (1931) – edited by Sylvain Balau and posthumously prepared for publication by Fairon.^[2]
• Régestes de la Cité de Liège (4 vols., 1933–1939)
• with Henri Heuse, Lettres de Grognards (1936)
• Inventaire des archives de la Chambre des comptes (1937)
• Chartes confisquées aux bonnes villes du pays de Liège et du comté de Looz après la bataille d'Othée (1408) (1937)

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