The Old University of Leuven (or of Louvain) is the name historians give to the

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, or ''

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'', founded in

Leuven Leuven (, , ), also called Louvain (, , ), is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipalit ...

, Brabant (then part of the

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, now part of

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), in 1425. The university was closed in 1797, a week after the

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to the French Republic of the

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and the principality of Liège (jointly the future Belgium) by the

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The name was in medieval Latin or , in humanistical Latin , and most usually, , in Dutch and also . It is commonly referred to as the University of Leuven or University of Louvain, sometimes with the qualification "old" to distinguish it from the

Catholic University of Leuven University of Leuven or University of Louvain (; ) may refer to: * Old University of Leuven (1425–1797) * State University of Leuven (1817–1835) * Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968) * Katholieke Universiteit Leuven or KU Leuven (1968 ...

(established 1835 in Leuven). This might also refer to a short-lived but historically important

State University of Leuven The State University of Leuven () was a university founded in 1817 in Leuven in Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was distinct from the Old University of Leuven (1425–1797) and from the Catholic University of L ...

, 1817–1835.

History

In the 15th century the civil administration of the town of

, with the support of John IV, Duke of Brabant, a prince of the

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, made a formal request to the

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for a university.

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issued a

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dated 9 December 1425 founding the University in Leuven as a . This university was institutionally independent of the local ecclesiastical hierarchy. From the founding of the university to its abolition in 1797, Latin was the sole language of instruction. In its early years, this university was modelled on those of

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and

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. The university flourished in the 16th century due to the presence of famous scholars and professors, such as Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens (

Pope Adrian VI Pope Adrian VI (; ; ; ), born Adriaan Florensz Boeyens (2 March 1459 – 14 September 1523), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 January 1522 until his death on 14 September 1523. The only Dutch people, Du ...

Desiderius Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( ; ; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and Catholic theology, theologian, educationalist ...

, Johannes Molanus, Joan Lluís Vives,

Andreas Vesalius Andries van Wezel (31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564), latinized as Andreas Vesalius (), was an anatomist and physician who wrote '' De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem'' (''On the fabric of the human body'' ''in seven books''), which is ...

and

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. In 1519, the Faculty of Theology of Leuven, jointly with that of the

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, became the first institution to condemn a number of statements drawn from

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's Ninety-five Theses (preceding the

by several months). After the

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, by the

signed on 17 October 1797, the

were ceded in perpetuity to the

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by the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, in exchange for the

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. Once formally integrated into the French Republic, a law dating to 1793 mandating that all universities in France be closed came into effect. The University of Leuven was abolished by decree of the Département of the Dyle on 25 October 1797. What remained of the university's movables and books were requisitioned for the in Brussels. This was the immediate official and legal successor and inheritor of the old University, under the laws in force at the time. It was in turn closed down in 1802.

Cultural role and influence

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the University of Leuven was until its closure a great centre of

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H. Francotte, , p. 28: . in Europe. To shake off this reputation, the faculty of theology thrice declared its adherence to the papal condemnation of Jansenist beliefs in the papal bull (1713) but without effect. The University of Louvain, with Baïus and Jansenius, the cradle of Jansenism and remained, during the 17th and 18th centuries until its closure, the bastion and the hub of Augustinian theology known as

, in Europe, with professors like Jansenius, Petrus Stockmans, Johannes van Neercassel, Josse Le Plat and especially the famous Van Espen and his disciple Febronius, and as Henri Francotte says: "Jansenism reigned supreme at the University of Louvain”. This fidelity to the spirit of Van Espen remained alive in the University of Louvain until its abolition in 1797, as evidenced by what Charles Lambrechts wrote in 1818, former

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and successor to the chair of canon law of Van Espen : "The encroachments of the Catholic clergy and their claims were so vexatious that, at a time when their religion was dominant, no other remedy had been found for their abuse of power except the appeals in question. This is what prompted the famous Van Espen to write, at the age of eighty, his treatise , in order to put a barrier against the ever-recurring abuses of clerical jurisdictions; but this virtuous ecclesiastic, who distributed to the poor all the revenues of the chair of canon law which he occupied at the University of Louvain, was soon obliged to have recourse to appeal as an abuse for himself; still, this remedy could not save him entirely from the persecution of intolerant priests. Loaded with years, glory and infirmities, he was compelled to seek shelter in Holland from their vexations; he soon died in Amsterdam in feelings of piety and resignation, after having employed his life in defending the discipline and customs of the primitive church, of which he was the most zealous supporter".

Subsequent institutions

The first attempt to found a successor university in the nineteenth-century was the secular

, 1817–1835, where a dozen professors of the old University taught. This was followed by a private Catholic university, the

, established in Leuven in 1835 (initially the Catholic University of Mechlin, 1834–1835). This institution was founded with the intention of restoring the confessionally Catholic pre-Revolutionary traditions of learning in Leuven. In 1968 this split to form the two current institutions: the Dutch language

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. Founded in 1425, it is the oldest university in Belgium and the oldest university in the Low Countries. In addition to its main camp ...

and the French language

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Library

From the founding of the university in 1425 up until 1636, there was no official library of the university. Very likely the students had access to manuscripts and printed books preserved in the homes of their professors or colleges. In 1636, however, a

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was founded in the

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, previously the seat of the cloth weavers' guild, and was enlarged in 1725 in a

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style. This library, with its various additions, was transferred in 1797 by Charles Antoine de La Serna Santander to the Central School, the official continuation of the old university. Wauthier, head of office of the department of Dyle and the ex-Jesuit De la Serna Santander, librarian of the Central School of Brussels, were responsible for the application of this measure. On October 26, 1797, they went with Michel-Marcel Robyns, receiver of national domains, to the municipal administration of Louvain, to notify it, while its most precious works and manuscripts were deposited in Paris among the national treasures of the National Library. It is also very likely that on the occasion of the troubles of the wars of this time, many precious works and documents surreptitiously followed an unofficial route, sometimes with the high aim of saving them from disaster, sometimes with the sordid goal of profiting from it. In 1797, much of what remained of this library was sent to the Central School of Brussels, established as the official replacement of the abolished university, although its most precious books and manuscripts were deposited in Paris at the

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. The library of the Central School of Brussels came to number about 80,000 volumes, which later became part of the Library of Brussels, and then the

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. When invading German forces burned the library of the

at the beginning of the

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, but this library did not contain the books and archives of the old university, or of the

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, but only those of the 19th-century founded

List of colleges

Chronological list of colleges by foundation, the oldest 4 (Castle/Pork/Lely and Faulcon) were considered as Grand College. in the early 18th century there were 18 colleges.Supplement aux trophees tant sacres que profanes du Duche de Brabant (etc.): 3-4

Related people

List of chancellors

Chronological list of chancellors.

Notable professors in chronological order

* Michael Baius (1513–1589), theologian, inspirer of the Baianism. * Petrus Peckius the Younger (1562–1625), diplomat and

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of Brabant *

Grégoire de Saint-Vincent Grégoire de Saint-Vincent () - in Latin : Gregorius a Sancto Vincentio, in Dutch : Gregorius van St-Vincent - (8 September 1584 Bruges – 5 June 1667 Ghent) was a Flemish Jesuit and mathematician. He is remembered for his work on quadrature of ...

(1584–1667), mathematician * Cornelius Jansen (1585–1638), inspirer of Jansenism. * Petrus Stockmans (1608–1671), Hellenist and jurisconsult, important member of Jansenism. * Christian Lupus (1612–1681), jansenist theologian. * Zeger Bernhard van Espen (1646–1728), canonist, jansenist theologian.. * Martin van Velden (1664–1724), philosopher. * John Sullivan (1633–1699), rector of the University of Louvain(1690–1691), president of Irish Pastoral College(1672–1697), president of the College de Drieux, Louvain(1692–95). He returned to President of the Irish Pastoral College 1695. * Josse Le Plat (1732–1810), jurisconsult and professor of canon law, supporter of Josephinism and

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. * Martin Fery (1754–1809), professor of philosophy, became representative of the people in the Council of the Five Hundred in 1797. He was a Freemason. * Charles Joseph van der Stegen, Freemason, member of the lodge the True Friends of the Union. * Jean-Pierre Minckelers (1748–1824), inventor of lighting gas. * Guillaume van Cutsem (1749–1825) jurisconsult, deputy of the departement of the Deux-Nèthes and adviser to the Imperial Court of Justice in 1811. * Charles Lambrechts (1753–1825), professor of canon law (1777), rector of the university (1786) and freemason,Initieted in 1778 at the lodge La Vraie et Parfaite Harmonie of Mons. Paul Duchaine, ''La franc-maçonnerie belge au XVIIIe siècle'', Brussels, 1911, p. 103: " dans la suite plusieurs professeurs (de Louvain) et plusieurs étudiants se firent encore initier aux mystères maçonniques, Fery (N. B. Martin François Joseph Fery, professeur de philosophie à Louvain) et Lambrechts, Verhulst et Van der Stegen notamment" and Adolphe Cordier, ''Histoire de l'ordre maçonnique en Belgique'', Mons, 1854, p. 337: "Tableau des loges : 117: Lambrechts, professeur de droit à l'université de Louvain, Init., 1778". member of the lodge of the True and Perfect Harmony in Mons, became Minister of Justice of the French Republic from 3 vendémiaire year VI to 2 thermidor year VII. * Ferdinand Sentelet (1754–1829), graduate in theology, professor of philosophy at the Pedagogy of the Lily and president of the college of Craenendonck, since 1780. Then becomes professor of physics and rural economy at the new State University of Louvain, member of the Netherlands Institute. * Jean-Baptiste Liebaert, professor of philosophy, after the abolition of the university in 1797 he will continue his course as a private professor and will then become a professor at the State University of Louvain. * Étienne Heuschling (1762–1847), professor of Hebrew at the

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, orientalist and philologist, then became a professor at the State University of Louvain. * Jean Philippe Debruyn (1766-), then became a professor at the State University of Louvain. * Xavier Jacquelart (1767–1856), jurisconsult, professor at the Faculty of Law, he became in 1797 professor at the Law School of the Imperial University in Brussels and then professor at the law faculty of the State University of Louvain

Notable alumni

* Rudolph of Beringen (active 1420–1459), professor of canon law * Jan Standonck (1454–1504), Master of the

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* Adriaan Floriszoon Boeyens (1459–1523), Pope Adrian VI *

(1466–1536),

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(1502–1574), Portuguese

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* Johannes Sturm (1507–1589), German educator * Gerard Mercator (1512–1594),

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(1514–1564), father of modern

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(1517–1585),

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(1517–1586), cardinal, statesman * Wilhelmus Damasi Lindanus (1525–1588), Bishop of Roermond and Gent, author *

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(1527–1608 or 9), mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher, imperialist and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I * Petrus Peckius the Elder (1529–1589),

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* Blessed Diarmaid Ó hUrthuile, or Dermot O'Hurley (c. 1530–1584), Archbishop of

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, Roman Catholic martyr * Willem Hessels van Est (1542–1613), biblical scholar *

Justus Lipsius Justus Lipsius (Joest Lips or Joost Lips; October 18, 1547 – March 23, 1606) was a Flemish Catholic philologist, philosopher, and humanist. Lipsius wrote a series of works designed to revive ancient Stoicism in a form that would be compatibl ...

(1547–1606),

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* Leonardus Lessius (1554–1623), Jesuit moral theologian * Petrus Peckius the Younger (1562–1625), diplomat and

of Brabant * Aubert Miraeus (1573–1640), ecclesiastical historian * Jacobus Boonen (1573–1655),

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(1578–1625), anatomist and botanist * Lawrence Beyerlinck (1578–1627), encyclopedist *

Nicolaus Vernulaeus Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583–1649) was a professor at the University of Leuven and an important Neo-Latin playwright. Life Nicolas de Vernulz (later Latinized Nicolaus Vernulaeus) was born at Robelmont, near Virton in the Duchy of Luxembourg, o ...

(1583–1649), Latin playwright * Abbé de Saint-Cyran (1583–1643), French ecclesiastic * Cornelius Otto Jansen (1585–1638), father of

* St Robert Bellarmine (1569–1576), Cardinal, Jesuit theologian. * John of St. Thomas (1589–1644),

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and

* John Sinnich (1603–1666), Irish born, professor of theology * Marcin Kalinowski (c. 1605–1652), Polish nobleman * Łukasz Opaliński (1612–1666), political writer * Franciscus Deurweerders (c. 1616–1666), founder of the Confraternity of the Cord of Saint Thomas * René-François de Sluse (1622–1685), mathematician *

Cornelis de Bie Cornelis de Bie (10 February 1627 – ) was a Flemish '' rederijker'', poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier. He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies. He is known internationally today for his biographical sketches of Flemish ...

(1627 – c.1715), Flemish rhetorician * Joannes Roucourt (1636–1676), parish priest and

* Francis Martin (1652–1722), Irish controversialist * Edward Ambrose Burgis (c.1673-1747), historian and theologian * Febronius (1701–1790), historian and theologian * Henri-Jacques Le Grelle (1753–1826), politician, one of three authors of the 1790

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. * Charles Nerinckx (1761–1824), founder of the Sisters of Loretto * Jean-Baptiste van Dievoet (1775–1862), Licentiatus in both laws

Notes

Bibliography

* 1627:

, ''Academia Lovaniensis. Ejus origo, incrementum, viri illustres, res gestae'', Louvain, 1627. * 1635: Valerius Andreas, ''Fasti academici Lovanienses'', Louvain, edited by Jean Olivier et Corneille Coenesteyn, 1635. * 1829: Baron Frédéric de Reiffenberg, ''Mémoires sur les deux premiers siècles de l'Université de Louvain'', Brussels, 1829–35. * 1838: P. De Ram, Laforêt et Namêche, "Analectes pour servir à l'histoire de l'Université de Louvain", in, ''Annuaire de l'Université de Louvain'', 1838–65. * 1856: F. Nève. ''Mémoire historique et littéraire sur le collège des Trois-langues à l'Université de Louvain'', Brussels, 1856. * 1881:

Edmond Reusens Edmond Henri Joseph Reusens (25 April 1831 in Wijnegem, Antwerp – 25 December 1903 in Leuven) was a Belgian archeologist and historian. Biography Sent to the University of Leuven immediately after his ordination to the priesthood ( ...

, ''Documents relatifs à l'histoire de l'Université de Louvain (1425-1797)'', in ''Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique'', t. XVII and sequents, 1881–92. * 1881: P. De Ram, ''Codex veterum statutorum Academiae Lovaniensis'', Brussels, 1881. * 1884: Arthur Verhaeghen, ''Les cinquante dernières années de l'ancienne Université de Louvain'', Liège, 1884. * 1945: Léon van der Essen, ''L'université de Louvain'', Brussels, 1945. * F. Claeys Boúúaert, ''L'Ancienne Université de Louvain, Études et Documents'', Louvain 1956. * 1959: F. Claeys Boúúaert, ''Contribution à l'histoire économique de l'Ancienne Université de Louvain'',1959. * 1977: Claude Bruneel, ''Répertoire des thèses de l'Ancienne Université'', Louvain,1977. * 1990: Emiel Lamberts et Jan Roegiers, ''Leuven University'', 1425–1985, Louvain, University Press, 1990. * 1990: Jan Roegiers, "Was de oude Universiteit Leuven een Rijksuniversiteit? ", in ''Archief-en bibliotheekwezen in België'', 1990, p. 545. * 2007: Toon Quaghebeur, "Quelques caractéristiques de la querelle entre l’Université de Louvain et le Saint-Office sur le Jansénisme louvaniste du XVIIe siècle", in: ''Controverse et polémiques religieuses. Antiquité-Temps Modernes'', Paris, l’Harmattan, 2007, p. 87-96.

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of the university's history
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