In 1906, Kurth was promoted to emeritus status and left the university to take up the position of director of the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome. In 1908, a Festschrift was published in his honor, Mélanges Godefriod Kurth (Université de Liège, 1908).Available online through the Internet Archive. Accessed 24 June 2017. Halkin said of him, "Godefroid Kurth [was] the last of the romantic historians and the first of the 'technical' historians in Belgium."Quoted in Jean-Louis Kupper, Godefroid Kurth and Henri Pirenne: An improbable friendship, Journal of Belgian History, 41:3–4 (2011), pp. 411–426.
