Léon Vanderkindere

Léon Vanderkindere (22 February 1842 – 9 November 1906) was a Belgian historian, academic and politician.

Albert had been a member of the provincial assembly of the province of Brabant from 1844 to 1850 and from 1854 to his death in 1859, and was mayor of Molenbeek from 1842 to 1848, and then of Uccle, where the family moved, from 1854.

Léon Vanderkindere studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he later became a professor.

[1] He followed this up with a study of the combination of Celtic and Germanic "traits" that he regarded as identifiable in Belgian culture.

[2] His later work was primarily made up of more conventional documentary study of medieval institutions and culture.