Catholic University of Leuven
Latin: Universitas Catholica Lovaniensis
Motto	Sedes Sapientiae (Seat of Wisdom, Seat of Knowledge)
Established	1425
Type	Private Catholic
Endowment	506.8 million EUR
Rector	Marc Vervenne (2005- )
Staff	8,107
Students	31.447
Doctoral students	427
Location	Leuven, Belgium
Campus	Leuven, Kortrijk
Affiliations	Coimbra Group LERU
Website	www.kuleuven.be
Data as of 2005

The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven in English) or in short K.U.Leuven, is the oldest, largest and most prominent university in Belgium. As a Flemish university, it is located in the town of Leuven in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking (northern) region of Belgium. The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven also has a campus at Kortrijk, formerly known as Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Afdeling Kortrijk (KULAK). Worldwide, however, especially in the English speaking world, the university is more commonly known by its anglicized French name 'Louvain'. And throughout its illustrious history, Louvain has contributed greatly to the development of Catholic theology, with Louvain theologians having made significant contributions in key Church Councils such as Trent, the First and Second Vatican Councils, as well as playing a major role in the so-called Counter-Reformation. Today, in the world of Catholic theology at least, Louvain holds a prominent place. Seal of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Leuven, 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. ... Events Foundation of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Births John II, Duke of Lorraine (died 1470) Edmund Sutton, English nobleman (died 1483) Deaths January 18 - Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (born 1391) March 17 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (born 1407) May 24 - Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of... Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds. ... A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, with the stipulation that it be invested, and the principal remain intact. ... 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. ... Marc Vervenne (born on April 16, 1949 in Ieper, Belgium) is a Belgian theologian. ... 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. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Geography Country Belgium Community Flemish Community Region Flemish Region Province Flemish Brabant Arrondissement Leuven Coordinates , , Area 56. ... Geography Country Belgium Community Flemish Community Region Flemish Region Province Flemish Brabant Arrondissement Leuven Coordinates , , Area 56. ... Geography Country Belgium Community Flemish Community Region Flemish Region Province West Flanders Arrondissement Kortrijk Coordinates , , Area 80. ... The Coimbra Group (CG) is a network of European universities that gathers 38 universities, some of which are among the oldest and most prestigious in Europe. ... According to its mission statement, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) is a group of European research-intensive universities committed to the values of high quality teaching within an environment of internationally competitive research. ... 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... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... For other uses, see Flanders (disambiguation). ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... Geography Country Belgium Community Flemish Community Region Flemish Region Province Flemish Brabant Arrondissement Leuven Coordinates , , Area 56. ... For other uses, see Flanders (disambiguation). ... Geography Country Belgium Community Flemish Community Region Flemish Region Province West Flanders Arrondissement Kortrijk Coordinates , , Area 80. ... The collectivisation campaign in the USSR, 1930s. ...

In 2006, more than 30,000 students were attending classes at the 14 faculties of the University of Leuven. The K.U.Leuven is a member of the Coimbra Group (a network of leading European universities) as well as of the LERU Group (League of European Research Universities). Since August 2005, the university has been led by Marc Vervenne who replaced former rector André Oosterlinck. The Belgian archbishop, Cardinal Godfried Danneels is the current Grand Chancellor and a member of the university board. Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... The Coimbra Group (CG) is a network of European universities that gathers 38 universities, some of which are among the oldest and most prestigious in Europe. ... According to its mission statement, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) is a group of European research-intensive universities committed to the values of high quality teaching within an environment of internationally competitive research. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Marc Vervenne (born on April 16, 1949 in Ieper, Belgium) is a Belgian theologian. ... 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. ... In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop. ... The coat of arms of a Cardinal are indicated by a red galero (wide-brimmed hat) with 15 tassels on each side (the motto and escutcheon are proper to the individual Cardinal). ... Godfried Cardinal Danneels (born June 4, 1933) is the archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and the chairman of the Belgian episcopal conference. ... Wooden boards as used in construction. ...

The K.U.Leuven is dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus, under her traditional attribute as 'Seat of Wisdom', and organises an annual celebration on 2 February in her honour. On that day, the university also awards its honorary doctorates. Saint Mary and Saint Mary the Virgin both redirect here. ... This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ... Candlemas (Russian: Sretenie, Spanish: Candelaria) is a Christian feast commemorating the purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple. ... An Honorary degree (Latin: honoris causa ad gradum) is a degree awarded to someone by an institution that he or she may have never attended, it may be a bachelors, masters or doctorate degree - however, the latter is most common. ...

In polarized Flanders, the K.U.Leuven is nominally Catholic, whereas the University of Ghent and the University of Antwerp like to consider themselves pluralist, and the Free University of Brussels, founded by freemasons, is secularist. However, nowadays these polarized classifications are less relevant than they once were: the K.U.Leuven is not Catholic in any meaningful sense, and students and staff tend to choose a university rather for pragmatic reasons - such as the quality of education, the distance to the campus or even the offered opportunities - than purely for religious or philosophical reasons. Pillarization is a term used to describe the way their dutch and belgians dealt with the multicultural societies. ... Ghent University (in Dutch, Universiteit Gent, abbreviated UGent) is one of the two large Flemish universities. ... University of Antwerp (Dutch: Universiteit Antwerpen) is a university located in Antwerp, Belgium. ... In the social sciences, pluralism is a framework of interaction in which groups show sufficient respect and tolerance of each other, that they fruitfully coexist and interact without conflict or assimilation. ... The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is a Flemish university situated in Brussels, Belgium. ... George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906), British writer who coined the term secularism. ...

K.U.Leuven is a strongly research oriented university, and among its many achievements is to have featured among the top European universities in terms of scientific output. For instance, Rijndael, the cipher chosen as the Advanced Encryption Standard, was developed at K.U.Leuven. For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... This article is about the block cipher. ... This article is about algorithms for encryption and decryption. ... In cryptography, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known as Rijndael, is a block cipher adopted as an encryption standard by the U.S. government. ...

History

Castle Arenberg, part of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

In the 15^th century the city of Leuven requested a university and John IV, Duke of Brabant gave his support to the request. With a papal bull issued by Pope Martin V on 9 December 1425 the Louvain University was founded as a Studium Generale. As such it can claim to be the oldest Catholic university in the world still in existence today (a claim that remains valid even counting from its refoundation in 1834, although not from the foundation of a specifically Flemish university in 1970). In its early days this university was modeled upon the universities of Paris, Cologne and Vienna. The university flourished in the 16^th century due to the presence of famous scientists and professors, such as Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens (Pope Adrian VI), Desiderius Erasmus, Joan Lluís Vives, Andreas Vesalius and Gerardus Mercator. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2708x1900, 858 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2708x1900, 858 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ... Castle Arenberg Castle Arenberg is built on the exact spot where there was once a 12th century water castle. ... Coat of Arms of the Dukes of Brabant of the Burgundy family. ... Papal bull of Pope Urban VIII, 1637, sealed with a leaden bulla. ... Martin V, né Oddone Colonna or Odo Colonna (1368 – February 20, 1431), Pope from 1417 to 1431, was elected on St. ... is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events Foundation of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Births John II, Duke of Lorraine (died 1470) Edmund Sutton, English nobleman (died 1483) Deaths January 18 - Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (born 1391) March 17 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (born 1407) May 24 - Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of... This article is about the capital of France. ... , For other uses, see Cologne (disambiguation). ... “Wien” redirects here. ... Pope Adrian VI (Utrecht, March 2, 1459 – September 14, 1523), born Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens, son of Floris Boeyens, served as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1522 until his death. ... “Erasmus” redirects here. ... Statue of Juan Luís Vives, outside of the Biblioteca Nacional de España, in Madrid. ... Andreas Vesalius or Andreas Vesal (1514 - Belgian anatomist and the author of the first complete textbook on human anatomy: De Humanis Corporis Fabrica (On the workings of the Human Body) (Basel, 1543). ... Gerardus Mercator (March 5, 1512 – December 2, 1594) was a Flemish cartographer. ...

In 1797, however, the old university, a bastion of reactionaries, was closed down by the French Republic, as the region was annexed to France during the French Revolutionary Wars. When the region was part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815-1830), William I of the Netherlands founded a new university in 1816 in Leuven as a Rijksuniversiteit (E: State university). Belgium became independent in 1830, and the Belgian bishops founded a new Roman catholic university in 1834, at Mechelen, but already in 1835, the catholic university returned to Leuven, where the Rijksuniversiteit had been closed. 1797 (MDCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Combatants Great Britain Austria Prussia Spain[1] Russia Sardinia Ottoman Empire Portugal Dutch Republic[2] France The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states. ... The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Limburg in 1839 1, 2 and 3 United Kingdom of the Netherlands (until 1830) 1 and 2 Kingdom of the Netherlands (after 1830) 2 Duchy of Limburg (In the German Confederacy after 1839 as compensation for Waals-Luxemburg) 3 and 4 Kingdom of Belgium (after... For other men at some time in history called William I of Orange-Nassau, see William of Orange. ... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution 1830 (MDCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Year 1834 (MDCCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Mechelen: Grote Markt square, with St. ... | Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

The next milestone came in 1968 when the bilingual Catholic University of Leuven was split into two universities, which became independent institutions in 1970, being the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Université Catholique de Louvain. The split was caused by repeated protests from Flemish nationalist organisations and student population (Leuven Vlaams action, E: Leuven Flemish). The Dutch-speaking Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), remained in Leuven (Flanders, north part of Belgium), and Pieter De Somer became the first rector of the new university. The French-speaking Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) was forced to move out of the city and founded a greenfield campus at Louvain-la-Neuve near Ottignies (Wallonia, south part of Belgium). Now there is about a thirty minute drive between the two universities. Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Catholic University of Leuven is the largest and most prominent university in Belgium. ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Catholic University of Leuven (french-speaking). ... For other uses, see Flanders (disambiguation). ... Pieter De Somer (1917 - 1985) was a Belgian physician and biologist. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Catholic University of Leuven (french-speaking). ... Wallonia (French: Wallonie, German: Wallonien, Walloon: Walonreye, Dutch: Wallonië) or the Walloon Region (French: Région Wallonne, Dutch: Waals Gewest) is the predominantly French-speaking region that constitutes one of the three federal regions of Belgium, with its capital at Namur. ...

Library

The first library was located inside the university halls, and was enlarged in 1725 in a baroque style. In 1914, during World War I, Leuven was plundered by German troops, and a large part of the city was put fire to, effectively destroying about half of the city. The library was lost, as well as about 300,000 books, and a huge collection of manuscripts. Events February 8 - Catherine I became empress of Russia February 20 - The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony. ... For other uses, see Baroque (disambiguation). ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ...

The new main library was built between 1921 and 1928 and designed by the American architect Whitney Warren in low countries neorenaissance style. Its monumentality is a reflection of the victory against Germany. It is one of the largest university buildings in the city. However, in 1940, ironically, during the German invasion of Leuven, the building largely burnt down, including its (at that time) 900,000 manuscripts and books. Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Architect (disambiguation). ... Grand Central Terminal Warren and Wetmore was an architecture firm in New York City. ... It has been suggested that Regents: Low Countries be merged into this article or section. ... Château de Ferrières 1855 The façade of the Vladimir Palace in Saint Petersburg (1867-72) harks back to Albertis designs. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

After the reconstruction and the separation of the university in 1968, the library now owns about one million works. At the time of the separation, those books that could not be divided otherwise (e.g. according to the wishes of the benefactors who donated them) were divided as follows: those with an odd-numbered shelfmark stayed in Leuven, while the even-numbered ones moved to Louvain-la-Neuve. This gave rise to the widespread myth that every other volume was separated - splitting up runs of journals and volumes of encyclopedias - but since such series each had a single shelfmark this was never in fact the case. The K.U. Leuven's Faculty of Theology library is among the most comprehensive in the world.

Faculties

• Faculty of Theology
• Institute of Philosophy
• (Extraordinary) Faculty of Canon Law
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Economics and Applied Economics
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Applied Bioscience and Engineering
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences

Notable alumni

• Herman Van Den Berghe, founder of the Centrum voor Menselijke Erfelijkheid.
• Adriaan Florisz. Boeyens (1459 - 1523), later Pope Adrian VI.
• Emile Boulpaep MD, President of the Belgian American Educational Foundation.
• Frans Van Cauwelaert (1880-1961), politician
• Joan Daemen (1965 - ), cryptographer, one of the designers of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
• Rembert Dodoens (1517 - 1585), botanist.
• Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536), humanist.
• Otto von Habsburg (1912 - ), the current head of the Habsburg family.
• Cornelius Otto Jansen (1585 - 1638), father of Jansenism.
• Dr. A. Q. Khan, Founder of Pakistan's Nuclear Program. (b. 1935)
• Georges Lemaître (1894 - 1966), astronomer and proposer of the Big Bang theory.
• Justus Lipsius (1547 - 1606), humanist.
• Malachi Martin (1921 - 1999), Irish priest and writer.
• Gerard Mercator (1512 - 1594), cartographer.
• Rudi Pauwels, pharmacologist, (1960-) co-founder of Tibotec and Virco
• Vincent Rijmen (1970 - ), cryptographer, one of the designers of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
• Pieter De Somer (1917 - 1985), physician and former rector of the university
• Jan Standonck (1454 - 1504) - priest and reformer, Master of the Collège de Montaigu in Paris.
• Catherine Verfaillie, physician, stem cell scientist
• Antoon Vergote (°1921), catholic priest, theologist, philosopher, psychologist and psychoanalyst (also known as Antoine Vergote)
• Andreas Vesalius (1514 - 1564), father of modern anatomy.
• Arthur Vierendeel (1852 – 1940) civil engineer.
• Weng Wenhao (1889~1971), geologist
• Anton van Wilderode, Flemish activist and writer
• Jan Zaprudnik (1924 - ), Belarusian American historian and poet.

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Pre-19th century Leone Battista Alberti, polymath/universal genius, inventor of polyalphabetic substitution (see frequency analysis for the significance of this -- missed by most for a long time and dumbed down in the Vigenère cipher), and what may have been the first mechanical encryption aid. ... In cryptography, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known as Rijndael, is a block cipher adopted as an encryption standard by the U.S. government. ... Rembert Dodoens (Mechelen June 29, 1517 - Leyden March 10, 1585) was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus. ... Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ... Desiderius Erasmus in 1523 Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, probably 1466 – July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian. ... 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Honorary doctorates

Famous recipients of honorary doctorates at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven include:

• Roger Penrose, professor in Mathematical Physics, University of Oxford
• Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer
• Carla Del Ponte, former Chief UN War Crimes Prosecutor
• Alan Greenspan, economist, former chairman of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve
• Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany
• Jacques Derrida, French philosopher
• Nadine Gordimer, South African author, Booker Prize 1974, Nobel Prize in Literature 1991
• Oscar Arnulfo Romero, former cardinal of San Salvador (El Salvador), human rights activist
• Jeanne Devos, founder of the National Domestic Workers Movement in India

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Organisations

Notable divisions of the university include the Higher Institute of Philosophy and the Rega Institute for Medical Research. The Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven was founded in 1889 by Cardinal Désiré Mercier to be a beacon of Neo-Thomist philosophy. ... The Rega Institute for Medical Research is a Belgian scientific establishment that is part of the Catholic University of Leuven in central Belgium. ...

The university is a member of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology (VIB). The Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) is a spin-off company of the university. VIB (Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie) or the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, is a research institute located in Flanders, Belgium. ... IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Center) is a microelectronics research facility on the outskirts of Leuven, Belgium with affiliated laboratories throughout Flanders. ...

Since July 2002, thirteen higher education institutes have formed the K.U.Leuven Associations. The members are^[1]:

• Europese Hogeschool Brussel
• Groep T
• Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel
• Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst
• Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge-Oostende
• Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen
• Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven
• Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg
• Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen
• Katholieke Hogeschool Sint-Lieven
• Katholieke Hogeschool Zuid-West-Vlaanderen
• Lessius Hogeschool
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

The Association also collaborates closely with the soon to be defunct Katholieke Universiteit Brussel. Europese Hogeschool Brussel (European University College Brussels in English) or EHSAL is a leading European Business School which was founded in 1925. ... Groep T is a hogeschool (college) in Leuven, Belgium. ... Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel, based in the Schaarbeek municipality of Brussels, Belgium, is said to still be the only independent art school in Flanders. ... The Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge-Oostende (Catholic College Bruges-Ostend) is a college in Belgium which was founded in the 1990s. ... The Catholic University of Brussels is a Flemish-language university located in Brussels. ...

Electronic learning environment: TOLEDO

Toledo, which started in September 2001, was gradually developed into the central electronic learning environment at the Association K.U.Leuven.

The word is an acronym for "TOetsen en LEren Doeltreffend Ondersteunen" (English: effectively supporting testing and learning). It is the collective name for a number of commercial software programs and tools, such as Blackboard. The project offers the Question Mark Perception assignment software to all institution members and has implemented the Ariadne KPS to reuse digital learning objects inside the Blackboard environment. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Backronym and Apronym (Discuss) Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and ABC, written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form. ... Blackboard Inc. ... Ariadne (named for the figure from Greek mythology) is a European association for sharing knowledge and fostering international cooperation in teaching that is open to the world. ...

See also

• List of universities in Belgium
• University Foundation

This is a list of Belgian universities. ... The Belgian University Foundation (French: Fondation Universitaire, Dutch: Universitaire Stichting) was founded in 1920. ...

Footnotes

1. ^ Associations Members. Retrieved March 4, 2007.

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External links

• Official website of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for foreign students on iAgora - Reviews by former Erasmus and other international students in Leuven on iAgora.