Johan Decavele

He contributed to the Algemene Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, Monasticon belge, The Golden Delta of the Low Countries and The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation.

[1] With its almost 850 pages, the dissertation is generally regarded as the foundational work for the history of the early Protestant Reformation in the Netherlands,[2] with the use of many hitherto unknown sources.

On the basis of new archival information he has radically revised the chronology of the Reformation in Flanders and set this firmly within the contemporary religious and social context".

The highlight was the organisation of the successful exhibition "Unity and Separation in the Netherlands" in St Peter's Abbey in 1976, on the occasion of the four-hundredth anniversary of the Pacification of Ghent.

[6] Beyond his archival and historical contributions, Decavele chaired the Gentse Straatnaamgeving Commission, which played a pivotal role in renaming approximately 600 streets after the 1977 merger.