Louis Bergeron

[Iain]

Former President of TICCIH Louis Bergeron has passed away.

Many in Australia will have come across Louis Bergeron when he was TICCIH President or, like me, as Editor of "Industrial Patrimony" where I found him extremely helpful and we had a very interesting series of exchanges regarding landscape histories in Australia.

He was widely regarded as not only a brilliant historian of world economy and of industrial history but also he widened the horizon of industrial heritage research, stressing on comparative research between the old Europe and the different parts of America and later also other parts of the world.

He was a very strong character, all his energy to the same objectives that of encouraging the identification and protection of industrial heritage in France and elsewhere. He did this with a great respect for everybody, not only for scientific investigators but also for small heritage associations and organisations of volunteers working without financial public support, but who care about Industrial heritage education, training, local heritage tourism and so on.

Iain Stuart with information from fellow TICCIH Board Members Patrick Viaene and Gracia Dorel