Portrait Medallion of Marcel Hoc 1933 Artist Auguste BIJA Numismatics Belgium

240- TIR41 Bronze medallion, France. Dimensions : 130 mm in diameter.

Punch on the edge (Mark on the Edge) : none. The stand is not for dirty. The support is not for sale. Scientific and academic career After having started his higher education in the Faculties Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur, Marcel Hoc obtained a license in classical philology, then, in 1919, a doctorate in philosophy and letters at the Catholic University of Louvain (with a thesis on the humanist Jean Gaspard Gervaerts, known as Gervatius). He then teaches at the Royal Athénée de Verviers, then became, in 1923, a librarian at the cabinet of medals of the Royal Library of Belgium.

He is associated with the Numismatian Victor Tourneur; In 1936, he succeeded him in the post of curator. He will lead the cabinet of medals until 1955, accumulating this charge, during the last two years, with that of chief curator of the royal library1. At the same time, he began to publish, from the start of the. After having started his higher education in the Faculties Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur, Marcel Hoc obtained a license in classical philology, then, in 1919, a doctorate in philosophy and letters at the Catholic University of Louvain (with a thesis on the humanist Jean Gaspard Gervaerts, known as Gervatius). At the same time, he began to publish, from.

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