Metadata: Leopold Flam archives
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- House of Literature
- Holding institution (official language):
- Letterenhuis
- Postal address:
- Minderbroedersstraat 22, 2000 Antwerpen
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)3 222 93 20
- Web address:
- http://www.letterenhuis.be/
- Reference number:
- HLit-Antwerp-F3007
- Title:
- Leopold Flam archives
- Title (official language):
- Archief van Leopold Flam
- Creator/accumulator:
- Flam, Leopold
- Date(s):
- 1848/1962
- Extent:
- 5.17 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- At the time of writing this fonds was not yet completely described. It contains i.a. diaries of Flam, booklets with notes and reading notes.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Leopold Flam (1912-1995) worked as a teacher in the athenaeum in Deurne after his studies at Ghent university (i.a. philosophy and history). During the Occupation he was active (under the name ‘Flamme’) in the resistance, more specifically the Joods Verdedigingscomité (CDJ); he was i.a. the editor in chief of the clandestine periodical De Vrije Gedachte. After a first arrest in 1943, he was arrested again in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz and Buchenwald. After the war Flam worked for the AIVG and taught history at the athenaeum in Brussels (1944-1945) as well as philosophy at the Instituut Émile Vandervelde in Antwerp (1947-1955). After obtaining a PhD in history (1952) Flam became a professor at the ULB/VUB (from 1961); he taught i.a. Dutch and philosophy. He was the (co)founder of various philosophical associations such as the Humanistisch Verbond, the Vlaamse Vereniging voor Wijsbegeerte, the philosophy group Aurora and the Centrum voor de Studie van de Verlichting. Apart from this he also directed the journals Dialoog, Aurora and Clio. Leopold Flam was one of the leading philosophers in post-war Belgium. He left an important body of work, i.a. De crisis van de burgerlijke moraal, Denken en existeren, Ethisch Socialisme and Utopie en universele hervorming. (E. Wulliger & J.-P. Schreiber, “Flam, Léopold”, in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Brussel, De Boeck, 2002, p. 111.)
- Access points: persons/families:
- Flam, Leopold
- Access, restrictions:
- Consultation requires the authorisation of Prof. Hubert Dethier; contact the Letterenhuis for more information.
- Finding aids:
- The fonds is partially described in the Agrippa database of the Letterenhuis.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
