Bas van Bavel

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bas van Bavel
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Jun 24, 1964(1964-06-24)
Age	60
Birthplace	Breda
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	North Brabant
Horoscope	Cancer

Bas van Bavel Biography

Bas van Bavel is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on June 24, 1964 in Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands.

Balthassar Jozef Paul “Bas” van Bavel (born 24 June 1964) is a Dutch historian. He has held the chair of Transitions of Economy and Society at Utrecht University since 2011, and has been professor of Economic and Social History since 2007. His research has mostly focused on pre-industrial Northwestern Europe. He was one of the winners of the 2019 Spinoza Prize, the highest award in Dutch science.

In 2001 van Bavel was awarded a VIDI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for the research project ‘The organisation of markets in late medieval Holland’.

Bas van Bavel Net Worth

Bas van Bavel is one of the richest Historian from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bas van Bavel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Van Bavel was born on 24 June 1964 in Breda. He obtained an MA in history at Utrecht University in 1988, and continued at the university as a post- graduate, gaining his PhD in 1993. From 1993 to 1995 Van Bavel was a university lecturer at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. He then worked as a research fellow at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences until 1998. In 1999 he returned to the University of Amsterdam as postdoctoral researcher funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Between 2001 and 2008 he led a research project on ‘The organisation of markets in late medieval Holland’, and between 2007 and 2012 he led a project on ‘Economic growth and stagnation in the pre-industrial era: Iraq, Italy and the Low Countries, 600-1700’, both at Utrecht University and funded by the NWO. He was appointed as professor of Economic and Social History of the Middle Ages by Utrecht University in 2007. Furthermore, in 2007 he became the academic coordinator for the Utrecht University focus area “Origins and Impacts of Institutions”, which developed into the Utrecht University strategic theme Institutions for Open Societies in 2012, for which he became the programme director. Between 2011 and 2014 he served as head of the section Economic and Social History of the Department of History. In 2014 he was appointed as professor Transitions of Economy and Society and started directing a research team for the project ‘Coordinating for life. Success and failure of Western European societies in coping with rural hazards and disasters, 1300–1800’.

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In 2014 van Bavel contributed to a report on economic disparity published by the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy. He called the increased disparity in personal capital between 2008 and 2013 “quite shocking” (the capital of the wealthiest 1% had increased from about the same as the least owning 20%, to around 25%).

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Sonja Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Bas van Bavel celebrates birthday on June 24 of every year.