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Encyclopedia > University of Louvain

The Catholic University of Leuven, founded in 1425, is now the names of two Belgian universities, after the original university split in 1968:


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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: University of Louvain (5761 words)
Louvain had the character of a studium generale, i.e., it had the right to receive students from all parts of the world, and the degree of doctor which it conferred gave the right to teach anywhere.
Louvain is in the very heart of this literary movement, and, apart from the subtle trifling with ideas which endangered orthodoxy, reference must be made, and often with well-deserved praise, to the brilliant phalanx of linguists, philologists, and historians gathered at the university.
In seeking to impregnate the university with centralizing and royalist ideas the Austrian ministers and particularly the Marquis of Nony, the commissioner attached to the university, practically defeated the attempt to reform the programme of studies.
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