- He was a teacher of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Brussels from 1955 till 1992.
- His 1967 film Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.
- In 1953 and 1954 he carried out anthropological fieldwork in the Belgian Congo.
- He was a Belgian filmmaker, writer, and anthropologist, professor emeritus at the Free University of Brussels.
- . From 1949 to 1951 he lived in an artists' commune, the Ateliers du Marais.
- Luc de Heusch began his career in film in 1947 as assistant to Henri Storck.
- He studied the hamba-tetela societies of the Belgian Congo from 1952 to 1955, as a researcher at the Institute for Scientific Research in Central Africa.
- In 1951, under the pseudonym Luc Zangrie, he directed Perséphone, the only film produced by the CoBrA artistic movement.
- He has written numerous articles and books in his discipline, including five volumes published by Gallimard.
- In 1966-68 and 1973-75 he was visiting professor at the fifth section (religious science) of the Practical School of Advanced Studies in Paris. While there he also directed the laboratory on belief systems in black Africa, associated with the CNRS.
- His passion for art has never faltered. From 1949 to 1951 he lived in a community of artists called the Ateliers du Marais alongside the painter Alechinsky, who brought him into the COBRA movement as a writer and film-maker. He subsequently devoted various articles and films to his friends Alechinsky, Dotremont and Reinhoud, as well as to Magritte and Ensor.
- He had an honorary doctorate from the University of Social Sciences in Strasbourg.
- He evoked the chaotic history of his country, torn apart by the quarrel between the Flemish and the Walloons, in Quand j'étais Belge (When I Was Belgian) (1999).
- Like Henri Storck and Charles Dekeukeleire, he also made documentary films about the Congo.
- From 1987 to 1991 he was president of the scientific council of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren).
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