Ghent University (in Dutch, Universiteit Gent, abbreviated UGent) is one of the three large Flemish universities. It is located in the historic town of Ghent in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking (northern) part of Belgium. It has 28,000 students and 6,400 Staff members. Seal of Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium This work is copyrighted. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings, but all of them indicate someone who is in charge of something. ... Paul Van Cauwenberge Paul Van Cauwenberge (Zottegem, Belgium, April 2, 1949) is the rector of Ghent University since October 1, 2005. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... Geography Country Belgium Community Flemish Community Region Flemish Region Province East Flanders Arrondissement Ghent Coordinates , , Area 156. ... For other uses, see Flanders (disambiguation). ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ... A head of Minerva found in the ruins of the Roman baths in Bath Roman mythology, the mythological beliefs of the people of Ancient Rome, can be considered as having two parts. ... Head of Minerva by Elihu Vedder, 1896 For other uses, see Minerva (disambiguation). ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... For other uses, see Flanders (disambiguation). ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... Geography Country Belgium Community Flemish Community Region Flemish Region Province East Flanders Arrondissement Ghent Coordinates , , Area 156. ... For other uses, see Flanders (disambiguation). ...

It is a relatively young university, founded 9 October 1817. The year before, king William I of the Netherlands had proclaimed the establishment of three universities in the Southern Netherlands. The language of teaching from 1817 till Belgium's autonomy and separation from the Netherlands (1830) was Latin; from 1830 till 1930 it was first French and then later a bilingual French/Dutch system. In 1930, Ghent University became the first Belgian university to teach in the Dutch language. is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... For other men at some time in history called William I of Orange-Nassau, see William of Orange. ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution 1830 (MDCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dutch (  ) is a West Germanic language spoken by around 23 million people, mainly in the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname, but also by smaller groups of speakers in parts of France, Germany and several former Dutch colonies. ...

On March 22, 2005, Paul Van Cauwenberge succeeded Andreas De Leenheer as rector. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Paul Van Cauwenberge Paul Van Cauwenberge (Zottegem, Belgium, April 2, 1949) is the rector of Ghent University since October 1, 2005. ...

Characteristics

In contrast to the Catholic University of Leuven, Ghent University is a pluralist university (i.e. not connected to any kind of religion, hence its motto 'Inter Utrumque', 'In Between Both <Extremes>'). The Catholic University of Leuven is the largest and most prominent university in Belgium. ...

Eminent People Associated with University of Ghent

The Boekentoren, designed by Henry van de Velde, is one of the most famous university buildings

• Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (Chemist)
• Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer(Chemist, Nobel Prize winner)
• Erwin_Schrödinger (Physicist, Nobel Prize winner)
• Leo Apostel, philosopher
• Leo Baekeland, chemist
• Wim Blockmans, historian
• Thierry Bogaert, founder of DevGen
• Marc Bossuyt, judge, professor
• Jo Bury, pharmacology, General Director of the VIB
• Robert Cailliau, inventor of the World Wide Web
• Marc Coucke, co-founder of Omega Pharma
• Franz Cumont, historian
• Jean Daskalidès, (1922-1992), gynecologist, founder of Leonidas chocolates
• Els De Bens, philologist, media specialist
• Rudy Dekeyser, molecular biology, Assistant Director of the VIB
• Paul Fredericq, historian
• Walter Fiers, molecular biologist
• Leopold Flam (1912-1995), histroian, philosopher
• Dirk Frimout, physicist, astronaut
• Joseph Guislain, physiologist and psychiatrist
• Paul Janssen, pharmacologist
• Jacques-Joseph Haus, jurist
• Philippe Herreweghe, doctor, psychiatrist, orchestra conductor
• Corneille Heymans, physiologist (Nobel prize winner)
• Tom Lanoye, philologist, writer
• François Laurent, law
• Marguerite Legot (1913-1977), law, first Belgian woman to serve as a government minister
• Yves Leterme, statesman
• Herman Liebaers, literature, former Marschal of the Royal Household.
• Suzanne Lilar (born Suzanne Verbist) (1901-1992), philosophy, law, essayist, novelist
• Julius Mac Leod, botanist
• Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), law, writer
• Paul Mansion, mathematician
• Gerard Mortier, artistical director
• Peter Piot, doctor, assistant secretary-general of the United Nations
• Henri Pirenne, historian
• Karel Poma, chemist and politician
• Adolphe Quetelet , statistician
• Godfried-Willem Raes, composer, performer and instrument maker
• Jacques Rogge, doctor, president of the International Olympic Committee
• Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns (1835-1902), law, diplomat and cofounder of the Institut de droit international
• Jozef Schell, molecular biologist
• Ferdinand Augustijn Snellaert, (1809-1872), physician and writer
• Guido van Gheluwe, lawyer and founder of the Orde van den Prince
• Herman Vanderpoorten, (1922-1984), politician
• Hugo Van Heuverswyn (b. 1948) chemist, biotech pioneer and businessman
• Karel van de Woestijne, (1878-1929), writer
• Prudens van Duyse, (1804-1859), writer
• Henry van de Velde, architect
• Marc Van Montagu, biotech pioneer
• Désiré van Monckhoven, physicist
• Jules Van Praet, statesman
• Guy Verhofstadt, prime minister of Belgium
• Etienne Vermeersch, philosopher
• André Vlerick (1919-1990), economy

Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 1187 KB) Deze afbeelding toont de zuidwestelijke kant van het boekentoren. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 1187 KB) Deze afbeelding toont de zuidwestelijke kant van het boekentoren. ... The Boekentoren, (Dutch for Book Tower) is a famous building located in Ghent, Belgium, designed by the Belgian architect Henry Van de Velde. ... Henry Van de Velde (3 April 1863 – 15 October 1957) was a Belgian painter, architect and interior designer. ... Bust of Schrödinger, in the courtyard arcade of the main building, University of Vienna, Austria. ... The Belgian philosopher Leo Apostel (Antwerp, 4 September 1925 - Ghent, 10 August 1995) studied with Baron Chaim Perelman, Rudolf Carnap and Jean Piaget. ... Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863-1944) Leo Hendrik Baekeland (Ghent, November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian-American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893) and Bakelite (1907), an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile, and popular plastic. ... Wim Blockmans, born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1945. ... DevGen is a biotech company located in Ghent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium. ... Marc Bossuyt (b. ... Jo Bury is the Managing Director of VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and previously held the post of Managing Director of VLAB (Flanders Action Programme in Biotechnology). ... VIB (Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie) or the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, is a research institute located in Flanders, Belgium. ... Robert Cailliau. ... Marc Coucke (b. ... Omega Pharma is a Belgian Pharmaceutical company, founded in 1987 by Marc Coucke (b. ... Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont (Aalst, Belgium, January 3, 1868 - Brussels, August 25, 1947) was a Belgian archaeologist and historian, a philologist and student of epigraphy, who brought these often isolated specialties to bear on the syncretic mystery religions of Late Antiquity, notably Mithraism. ... Jean Daskalidès (Constantinopel, Turkey, 1922-Ghent, 3 November 1992), was a Belgian of Greek descent who became famous for his chocolates under the name Daskalidès and Leonidas and moreover he was also a gynecologist, film director, jazz musician, hospital director and lector at the University of Ghent. ... Rudy Dekeyser is the Managing Director of VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and heads the technology transfer team of the institute. ... VIB (Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie) or the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, is a research institute located in Flanders, Belgium. ... Walter Fiers was born in Ieper (Belgium) in 1931. ... Leopold Flam (Antwerp, 16 March 1912 - Brussels, 29 September 1995) was a Belgian philosopher. ... Dirk D. Frimout Dirk Dries David Damiaan Frimout (Ph. ... Joseph Guislain (Ghent, 2 February 1797-Ghent, 1 April 1860) was a Belgian physician and a pioneer in psychiatry. ... Statue of Dr. Paul Janssen in Beerse, Belgium Paul Adriaan Jan Janssen (Turnhout, Belgium, 12 September 1926 - Rome, Italy, 11 November 2003) was the founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica, a pharmaceutical company with over 20,000 employees. ... Jacques-Joseph Haus, White marble bust by Paul de Vigne. ... Born: May 2, 1947 - Ghent, Belgium Philippe Herreweghe studied piano with Marvel Gazelle at the Ghent Conservatory. ... Dr. Corneille Jean François Heymans (March 28, 1892 - July 18, 1968) was a Belgian physiologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for for showing how blood pressure and oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain. ... 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Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, Belgian author Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist. ... Gérard Mortier (b. ... Dr. Peter Piot (* 1949 in Leuven/Belgium) ist Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN specialized agency UNAIDS. After he qualified as a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Ghent in 1974, he became co-discoverer of the Ebola virus in Zaire in... The foundation of the U.N. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ... Henri Pirenne (December 23, 1862, Verviers - October 25, 1935, Uccle) was a leading Belgian historian. ... Karel Poma Karel Emiel Hubert Poma (b. ... Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quételet (February 22, 1796 – February 17, 1874) was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. ... Godfried-Willem Raes is a Belgian composer, performer and instrument maker. ... Jacques Rogge Count Jacques Rogge (born May 2, 1942 in Ghent, Belgium) is by profession an orthopedic surgeon. ... Stamp The International Olympic Committee (French: Comité International Olympique) is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23, 1894. ... Gustave Rolin-Jacquemyns in a traditional Thai garment. ... The Institut de droit international (Institute of International Law) is an organization devoted to the study and development of international law. ... Jozef Schell (Antwerp, 20 July 1935 - Brussels, 17 April 2003) was a Belgian molecular biologist. ... Ferdinand Augustijn Snellaert (Kortrijk, 21 July 1809-Ghent, 3 July 1872) was a Belgian writer. ... Guido Richard van Gheluwe (b. ... Orde van den Prince The Orde van den Prince or Order of the Prince is a Flemish-Dutch society of men and women who do their best for the promotion of language and culture of the Netherlands (Flanders and Netherlands). ... Herman Vanderpoorten (Lier 25 August 1922- 3 September 1984) was a Belgian liberal politician. ... Hugo Van Heuverswyn (b. ... Karel van de Woestijne (Ghent, 10 March 1878 - Zwijnaarde, 24 August 1929) was a Belgian writer and brother of the painter Gustave van de Woestijne. ... Prudentius van Duyse or Prudens van Duyse (Dendermonde, 17 September 1804-Ghent, 13 November 1859) was a Belgian writer. ... Henry Van de Velde (3 April 1863 – 15 October 1957) was a Belgian painter, architect and interior designer. ... Marc Van Montagu is a Belgian molecular biologist. ... Van Monckhoven photo from [1] Désiré Charles Emanuel van Monckhoven (1834–1882) was a Belgian chemist, physicist, and optician, who wrote several of the earliest books on photography and photographic optics, in French, later translated to English and other languages. ... Jules Van Praet (Bruges, 2 July 1806-Brussels, 29 December 1887) was a Belgian diplomat and personal secretary of King Leopold I of Belgium. ... Guy Verhofstadt (help· info) (born April 11, 1953) is a Belgian politician, municipal councillor in Ghent and current Prime Minister of Belgium. ... Professor Etienne Vermeersch (Sint-Michiels- Brugge, 2 May 1934) is a renown Belgium (moral) philosopher, skeptic, opinion maker and debater. ... Baron André Vlerick (1919 - 1990) was a Belgian politician, businessman, professor and founder of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. ...

Notable faculty

• Walter Fiers, molecular biologist
• Corneille Heymans, physiologist (Nobel prize winner)
• Joseph Plateau, physicist
• Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, statesman
• Marc Van Montagu, biotech pioneer
• August Vermeylen, author, art historian, statesman

Walter Fiers was born in Ieper (Belgium) in 1931. ... Dr. Corneille Jean François Heymans (March 28, 1892 - July 18, 1968) was a Belgian physiologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for for showing how blood pressure and oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain. ... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ) are awarded for Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, and Physiology or Medicine. ... Plateaus phenakistiscope Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (October 14, 1801 - September 15, 1883) was a Belgian physicist. ... Johan Rudolf Thorbecke (January 14, 1798 - June 4, 1872) was one of the most important Dutch politicians. ... Marc Van Montagu is a Belgian molecular biologist. ... August Vermeylen (1872–1945) was a Belgian writer and literature critic. ...

See also

• List of universities in Belgium
• Catholic University of Leuven
• Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Flanders Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology (VIB)
• University Foundation
• Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC)

This is a list of Belgian universities. ... The Catholic University of Leuven is the largest and most prominent university in Belgium. ... The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is a Flemish university situated in Brussels, Belgium. ... VIB (Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie) or the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, is a research institute located in Flanders, Belgium. ... The Belgian University Foundation (French: Fondation Universitaire, Dutch: Universitaire Stichting) was founded in 1920. ... IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Center) is a microelectronics research facility on the outskirts of Leuven, Belgium with affiliated laboratories throughout Flanders. ...

External link

• Official website of Ghent University
• More information about higher education in Flanders/Belgium (in English)
• Find an officially recognised programme of this institution in the Higher Education Register