This library was established at the very beginning of the Catholic University of Mechlin in 1834.
The announcement of the bishops' founding of the University in Mechelen provoked serious riots in the cities of Ghent, Leuven and Liege as it was feared that the State education system would be destroyed by the bishops.
Pierre François Xavier de Ram (September 2, 1804, Leuven - May 14, 1865, Leuven), was a Belgian churchman, and historian, best known for being the first rector of the new Catholic University of Mechlin (1834) and then of the new Catholic University of Leuven (1835).
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