Metadata: Archives of Prof. Dr. L. Flam
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Centre for Academic and Free-thinking Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Centrum voor Academische en Vrijzinnige Archieven
- Postal address:
- CAVA – Universiteitsarchief VUB, Room 0B033, Pleinlaan 2 / Boulevard de la Plaine 2, 1050 Brussel (Elsene)
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 629 24 34
- Web address:
- www.cavavub.be
- Email:
- info@cavavub.be
- Reference number:
- CAFThAr-Ixelles-Archief prof. dr. L. Flam
- Title:
- Archives of Prof. Dr. L. Flam
- Title (official language):
- Archief prof. dr. L. Flam
- Creator/accumulator:
- Flam, Leopold
- Date(s):
- 1928/1988
- Extent:
- 135 files
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains many (sometimes annotated) manuscripts of courses but also books, articles and other writings of Flam. We note manuscripts of i.a. “Naar de dageraad. Kroniek en getuigenis van de oorlogsjaren 1943-1945”, “Grote Stromingen van de Filosofie van de oudheid tot heden”, “Ideologie en Filosofie”, “Het Marxisme van 1918-1968”, “La Philosophie au Tournant de notre Temps”, “Filosofie en Eros”, “De Macht”, “Mors et Vita”, “De Bron”, “Dwang en geweld”, “Lectuur van Kant”, “Een-en-Veel”, “De betekenis”, “Ontbinding en Protest”, “Estetica”, “De Kunstenaar”, “de la Religion à la Philosophie”, “De Walg van Sartre, zijn en niets”, “Geschiedenis van het Atheïsme”, “De Dialectiek”, “Marx Studies”, “Hedonisme, Geluk en Eros van de 13de tot de 19de eeuw”, “Utopie”, “Filosofie & Revolutie”, etc. The fonds furthermore contains a few diaries and notebooks of Flam. There are five diaries and notebooks (1928-1939), two booklets with a romanticised diary (1932-1934), a red unbound diary/notebook (?-1940) and a diary (autumn 1975).
- 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
- Finding aids:
- The fonds is described in the Pallas database of the CAVA.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
