Jan Vansina
(1929-2017)
Belgian historian and anthropologist
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Jan Vansina (14 September 1929 – 8 February 2017) was a Belgian historian and anthropologist regarded as an authority on the history of Central Africa, especially of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi. He was a major innovator in the historical methodology of oral history. As a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he taught several generations of students and, according to a biographer, "set the pace in African historical studies from the 1950s into the 1990s."
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14 September 1929 Antwerp, Belgium
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8 February 2017 (aged 87) Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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