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The Old University of Leuven (or Studium Generale Lovaniense) was founded in 1425 by Duke John IV of Brabant, the civil authorities of Brabant, as well as the municipal administration of the city of Leuven, [14] despite the initial opposition of the chapter of Sint-Pieter. [15]
The city of Leuven, in the former Duchy of Brabant, has been the seat of four universities: . 1425: The University of Leuven (1425–1797) or Studium Generale Lovaniense or Universitas Studiorum Lovaniensis, was founded by the French prince Jean de Valois Bourgogne, Duke John IV of Brabant, with the consent of Pope Martin V.
A new university, the State University of Louvain, was founded in 1817 and abolished by the law in 1835. A new catholic university was founded in Mechlin in 1834, the Catholic University of Mechlin and moved to Leuven in 1835 that is frequently, but controversially, identified as a continuation of the older institution.
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–), a Dutch-speaking university in Leuven; Université catholique de Louvain or UCLouvain (1968–), a French-speaking university in Louvain-la-Neuve, Brussels, Mons ...
The rich archives of the old University of Leuven, after its suppression by the law of the French Republic, so as all the other Universities of the French Republic, were transferred to a "Commission in charge of the management of the goods of the abolished university in Leuven", set up in 1797 and active until 1813. [40]
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 Leuven , founded in 1834, which moved from Mechlin to Leuven after the State University had been closed in 1835.
Historische universiteitscolleges in Leuven definitief beschermd, Archeonet.be, 13 Nov 2009. Accessed 15 Feb. 2015. Cornelius Van Gestel, Historia sacra et profana Archiepiscopatus Mechliniensis (The Hague, 1725), 182-186. Valerius Andreas, Fasti academici studii generalis Lovaniensis (Leuven, 1650), 252-330.
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 ...