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University Of Leuven
The city of Leuven , in the former duchy of Brabant was the seat of successive three universities and a university institute:
- in 1425: the University of Louvain (1425-1797) or Studium Generale Lovaniense or Universitas Studiorum Lovaniensis, was founded by a French prince However, these different institutions. These three universities, although located in the same city, have been developing clean and different.
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- recall here that France was then the great center of new universities, runners from that of Paris. The old tradition taken over by the "Delights of the Netherlands," said John IV of Brabant only as "founder" of the University of Louvain and adds "with the consent of Pope Martin V". It also cites as co-founders ministers Duke Englebert of Nassau and Dynter Emond, who were responding to a collective demand of the ruined city of Leuven and the Duke's desire to form its own administrative elites outside the influence his opponents in the House of Valois. Read: Collective (Jan Roegiers et al), "The Old University 1425-1797", in University Leuven, Leuven, ed. Leuven University Press, 1990 21: "These Universities (= medieval universities) Were Created by sovereign princes Either by gold towns, and Were Confirmed By The Pope" and "The foundation of Louvain Was The work of Both Duke and Municipal Authorities. John IV, the Duke of Brabant, Encouraged by Two of His concillors, Engelbert van Nassau van Dynter and Edmund, Strongly Favoured The Establishment Of A Higher center of learning in history dukedom. "
- recall here the ruling of the "Cour de Cassation of 26 November 1846:" The Catholic University of Leuven can be regarded as continuing the old University of Louvain, and when an act of Trustees appointed a professor collator This ancient university, it is necessary to meet them from the government, "Consolidated Table alphabetical and chronological Pasicrisie the Belgian case law containing the Kingdom from 1814 to 1850, Brussels, 1855, p. 585, column 1, paragraph 2. See also: Bulletin of Acts and Everyday Arrested, 1861, p.166.
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