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Book celebrating the 25 anniversary of the founding of the Catholic University of Louvain, November 3, 1859. UCLouvain (or Université catholique de Louvain [ynivɛʁsite katɔlik də luvɛ̃], French for Catholic University of Louvain, officially in English the University of Louvain) [4] is Belgium's largest French-speaking university and one of the oldest in Europe (originally established in ...
Pope Gregory XVI, co-founder in 1834 with the bishops of Belgium of the Catholic University of Malines, which would later become the Catholic University of Leuven. The Catholic University of Leuven or Louvain (French: Université catholique de Louvain, Dutch: Katholieke Hogeschool te Leuven, later Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven) was founded in 1834 in Mechelen as the Catholic University of ...
The Catholic University of Leuven was founded in 1834 in Mechelen [19] by the bishops of Belgium, after an official Papal Brief of Pope Gregory XVI. This new Catholic university stayed only briefly in Mechelen, as the bishops already moved the university headquarters to Leuven on 1
This university was suppressed in 1797, however, many university professors taught at the Catholic University of Louvain which is regarded by many as the continuation of the old university. 1817: The State University of Leuven was founded. This university was officially abolished in 1835.
Flemish students and Gendarmes clash at Leuven in January 1968. The Catholic University of Leuven was one of Belgium's major universities. It split along linguistic lines after a period of civil unrest in 1967–68 commonly known as the Leuven Affair (Affaire de Louvain) in French and Flemish Leuven (Leuven Vlaams), based on a contemporary slogan, in Dutch.
Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven or KU Leuven (1968–), a Dutch-speaking university in Leuven Université catholique de Louvain or UCLouvain (1968–), a French-speaking university in Louvain-la-Neuve, Brussels, Mons, Namur, Charleroi and Tournai
Ateliers of the FUCaM. UCLouvain FUCaM Mons is a satellite campus of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Mons, Wallonia, Belgium founded in 1896. Until 2011, it was an independent institution known as the Catholic university of Mons (French name: Facultés universitaires catholique de Mons, abbreviation: FUCaM). [2]
The library of the Catholic University of Leuven in a turn-of-century postcard The ruins of the University of Leuven's library after it was burned by the German army in 1914. This library was established in Mechelen at the very beginning of the Catholic University of Belgium in 1834.