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unusual facts about Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven



Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak

He obtained a licenciate in philosophy at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and a PhD in the humanities at the University of Paris (Sorbonne).

Albert d'Orville

He joined the Society of Jesus in 1646, and while studying theology at the Catholic University of Leuven he attended the 'Chinese lectures' given by Martino Martini an Italian Jesuit missionary, then visiting the University of Leuven.

Albert Étienne Jean Baptiste Terrien de Lacouperie

In recognition of his services to oriental study he received a Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Leuven.

Arthur Van Gehuchten

He was professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of Leuven until the eruption of the War in Europe in 1914.

Chromosomal crossover

He relied on the discovery of the Belgian Professor Frans Alfons Janssens of the University of Leuven who described the phenomenon in 1909 and had called it 'chiasmatypie'.

Jacobus Vaet

In 1547 he was enrolled at the University of Leuven, and by 1550 he was in the court of Charles V, where he was listed as tenor in the chapel choir.

Noel B. Salazar

Salazar studied psychology, philosophy, and development studies at the University of Leuven (Belgium), neuropsychology at the University of Essex (UK), and anthropology and African studies at the University of Pennsylvania (US).

Sylvain Ngabu Chumbu

Ngabu obtained a master Degree in Economic Sciences from the University of Leuven in Brussels.

Thomas Gatacre

His parents sent him to the English college at the University of Leuven.

University of Leuven

Université catholique de Louvain (1968—), a French-speaking university in Louvain-la-Neuve and Brussels


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