Wim Blockmans

{{Short description|Belgian history professor (born 1945)}}

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| birth_name = Willem Pieter Blockmans

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| alma_mater = University of Ghent

| thesis_title = De volksvertegenwoordiging in Vlaanderen onder het huis van Bourgondië (1384–1506)

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| thesis_year = 1973

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| doctoral_advisor = Walter Prevenier

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| discipline = History

| sub_discipline = late-medieval and early-modern Europe

| workplaces = Leiden University

| doctoral_students = Hans Cools

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Willem Pieter Blockmans (born 26 May 1945, Antwerp, Belgium) is a retired Professor of Medieval History at Leiden University.{{cite web|url=http://hoogleraren.leidenuniv.nl/id/201 |title=Willem Pieter Blockmans (Wim) |language=Dutch |publisher=Leiden University |accessdate=4 March 2017}} He earned a PhD from the University of Ghent. He has been Rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study since September 2002. He has published extensively on late medieval and early modern state power.

Blockmans was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.{{cite web|url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/3884 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810104528/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/3884 |title=Wim Blockmans |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |archive-date=10 August 2020}} In 1996, he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.{{cite web|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Blockmans_Wim |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328121228/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Blockmans_Wim |title=Wim Blockmans |publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}} Blockmans was elected a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2003.{{cite web|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/willem-blockmans-FBA/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921091849/https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/willem-blockmans-FBA/ |title=Professor Dr Willem Blockmans FBA |publisher=British Academy |archive-date=21 September 2020}} In 2008, he was made Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.{{cite web|url=https://www.leidenuniv.nl/nieuwsarchief2/2267.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921181251/https://www.leidenuniv.nl/nieuwsarchief2/2267.html |title=Overvloedige Leidse lintjesregen |language=Dutch |publisher=Leiden University |date=29 April 2008 |archive-date=21 September 2018}}

His retirement was marked with two Festschriften, Power and Persuasion: Essays on the Art of State Building in Honour of W.P. Blockmans, edited by Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Antheun Janse and Robert Stein (Turnhout, Brepols, 2010), and Bourgondië voorbij: De Nederlanden, 1250–1650. Liber alumnorum Wim Blockmans, edited by Mario Damen and Louis Sicking (Hilversum, Verloren, 2010).