Frans Vanistendael (1942–2021) was a visionary tax academic. A tireless traveler of Europeanand world universities, he had developed throughout his career a communicating enthusiasmfor the Europeanisation of taxation. Combining an indisputable technical competence with anextraordinary capacity for abstraction, he was a university person in the etymological sense ofthe term, i.e. oriented towards the universal, while at the same time deeply embedded in thepolitical, social and economic reality of his time
Traversa, E. (2023). Tribute to Frans Vanistendael:a personal journey through his writings. Studi Tributari europei, 12(1), III-II1. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/238084 (Original work published 2022)