Albert Henry (historian)

Albert Henry (Grand-Manil, 20 March 1910 – Nancy, 22 February 2002) was a Belgian Romance philologist and a Walloon activist.

A Romance philologist at the Université libre de Bruxelles and a graduate of the École pratique des hautes études at the Paris Sorbonne, Albert Henry studied literature in the second half of the twentieth century.

He participated in the Fortified position of Namur and was taken as a prisoner of war on 28 May 1940, at the time of the surrender ordered by Leopold III.

During his captivity, he wrote clandestinely Offrande wallonne about the contributions of the Romance regions of Belgium to French civilization.

[2] In 1976, he cosigned the Lettre au Roi pour un vrai fédéralisme (Letter to the King for a true federalism) with Marcel Thiry, Fernand Dehousse, and Jean Rey.