Gérard Garitte, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Gérard Garitte

scientist

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1914

Date of Death: 27-Aug-1990

Profession: historian, linguist

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Gérard Garitte (1914–1992) was a Belgian historian and scientist at the Catholic University of Leuven and later the French-speaking University of Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
He raised the study of Georgian ecclesiastical literature to a high level.
In 1959, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences ("Orientalisme chrétien - Philologie classique").
In 1962, strongly opposed to the expulsion of French speakers from the Catholic University of Louvain, he created the ACAPSUL movement together with Georges Lemaître to fight against the split of the university.