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1618 in Ireland

Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil (Hugh MacCaghwell or Hugo Cavellus) publishes Scáthán Shacramuinte na hAthridhe (or Tractatus de poenitentia et indulgentiis) in Irish at Louvain.

Abbotskerswell Priory

In 1797 a group of English nuns living in a French community in Louvain, Belgium, was driven back to England by the French Revolution.

An Cléireach

His hereditary responsibility brings him to the Spanish Netherlands, to Bohemia where he takes part in the Battle of White Mountain as a musketeer in captain Somhairle Mac Domhnaill's company, and from there to the Irish College of St Anthony in Leuven (Louvain), in the company of Brother Mícheál Ó Cléirigh and Father Brian Mac Giolla Coinnigh, and finally back to Ireland during the wars of the Irish Catholic Confederation and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.

Antanas Baranauskas

Between 1863-1864, he studied at Munich's, Rome's, Innsbruck's and Louvain’s Catholic universities.

Antoine Vergote

After receiving his graduate degrees from the University of Louvain in 1954, he continued his education in Paris where he studied with Levi-Strauss, attended the lectures of Merleau-Ponty, and completed his analytic training under the direction of Jacques Lacan.

Bible translations into French

1550‑1608, La Bible de Louvain: a revision of the Bible by Lefebvre d'Étaples.

Boitsfort railway station

Trains calling at this station are local trains travelling between Brussels-South and Louvain-La-Neuve, Louvain-La-Neuve and Binche (via Brussels-South) and between Brussels-South and Namur.

Bonn Graduate School of Economics

The coordinated curriculum of Bonn, Barcelona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Florence (European University Institute), London (London School of Economics), Louvain-la-Neuve (Université catholique), Paris (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), and Tel Aviv provides the opportunity for stundents to specialize in almost any area of quantitative economics.

Business engineering

Among others, university business schools offering those programmes are the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Université Libre de Bruxelles and Vrije Universiteit Brussel), the Louvain School of Management (Université catholique de Louvain, Université de Namur), HEC Management School - University of Liege, the KULeuven, the HUBrussel (Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel), Ghent University or still the University of Antwerp.

Cape Pioneer Trek

Stage 2 was over 85 km from Calitzdorp to Prince Albert, stage 3 109 km from Prince Albert to De Rust, stage 4 63 km from De Rust to Louvain guest farm at Herold, stage 5 75 km from Herold to George, and finally stage 6 84 km from George to Oudtshoorn.

Clement of Ireland

The 17th-century hagiographer John Colgan, in his Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae (Louvain, 1645) says that he was living in 818, and gives the date of Clement's death as 20 March and the place as Auxerre, where he was interred in the church of Saint-Amator.

Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc

When the university split into two the French-speaking part moved to Ottignies except for the medical faculty, which moved to the Brussels site.

Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques

This immense and exhaustive work is currently edited by Luc Courtois and Eddy Louchez of Louvain and published by Letouzey et Ané of Paris.

Eaton Chapel

The clock tower contains a carillon of 28 bells which were cast by Chavalier Severian Van Aerschodt of Louvain; it plays 31 tunes.

Edward Génicot

After being ordained priest and sustaining a public defense in all theology, taught first canon law and then moral theology at the Jesuit theological faculty of Louvain, from 1889 until his death.

Frédéric-Vincent Lebbe

The Vincent Lebbe Archives are maintained at the Faculté de théologie at the l'Université Catholique de Louvain in Louvain, Belgium.

Gertrude Aston Thimelby

In 1658, after the deaths of her husband and only child, Getrude became a nun at St. Monica's Convent, Louvain, where her sister-in-law, Winefrid Thimelby, a notable letter-writer, was the Prioress.

Gordon Landsborough

He had five children by his marriage to Louvain (Peggy) Hussey: Drew, Stuart (proprietor of Puzzling World in Wanaka, New Zealand), Diana, Bonny and Euan.

György Bónis

The Powers of Deputies in the Hungarian Feudal Diet, 1790-1848.(In: Liber memorialis Sir Maurice Powicke, Dublin, 1963. Louvain - Paris, 1965. Čtudes présentées ŕ la Commission internationale pour l' histoire des Assemblées d' états et duparlamentarisme 27. 87-307. oldal)

Heindonk

The rivers Zenne coming from Brussels, Dyle coming from Louvain, Nete coming from Lier and the channel Louvain-Dyle all come together north of Heindonk, forming the river Rupel.

Jacques Forget

The abbé Jacques Forget (Chiny, 6 January 1852 – Louvain, 1933) was a Belgian priest, biblical scholar and professor of Arabic at the Catholic University of Louvain.

Jacques-Joseph Haus

Around 1817, King William I of the Netherlands enacted the creation of three universities in the southern provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands: in Ghent, in Liège and in Louvain (former Catholic University).

Jean-Charles della Faille

From 1626 to 1628, he taught mathematics at the Jesuit scolasticate of Louvain, before being appointed to the Imperial College in Madrid.

KW Line

The KW Line, also known as the Dyle Line (Dijle-line) (named after the river Dijle) or Iron Wall, was requested by the Belgian Ministry of Defence and built between September 1939 and May 1940.

Les Pastoureaux

Les Pastoureaux (literally: "The Shepherd Boys"), Petits Chanteurs de Waterloo et de Louvain-la-Neuve (Waterloo & Louvain-la-Neuve Boys' choir) is a Belgian choir of boys and men based in Waterloo, Belgium.

Louvain

Catholic University of Leuven, a prominent university in Belgium founded in 1425 and split in 1968

French name for Leuven, the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium

Université catholique de Louvain, a French-speaking university in Louvain-la-Neuve and in Brussels

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven or Louvain, a Dutch-speaking university in Flanders, Belgium

Louvain-la-Neuve, a planned city in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Louvain-la-Neuve

After his death in 1983, Hergé's widow, Fanny, led the efforts, undertaken at first by the Hergé Foundation and then by the new Studios Hergé, to catalogue and choose the artwork and elements that would eventually become part of the Museum's exhibitions.

Put under the direction of Raymond Lemaire, Jean-Pierre Blondel and Pierre Laconte, this urbanistic project saw the first students arrive in 1972.

Mac an Bhaird

In collaboration with Micheál Ó Cléirigh and his team of scholars in Ireland, the entire effort was supervised by Father Hugh Ward (Aedh Mac an Bháird), rector and guardian of the great Irish College of St. Anthony in Louvain, the Spanish Netherlands (modern Belgium), and the most important Irish publishing center in Europe for nearly fifty years.

Patrick Bath

F.X. Martin wrote of him – “Though Bath died at Cahors in 1607, before the Irish Mission became a reality, he brought prestige to the Irish Capuchins by his appointment as guardian of the friary at Namur. His prominence among the Capuchins was due to the fact that a bare nine months after profession he was appointed lector of philosophy in the Capuchin study house newly opened at Louvain.” (p. 9).

Philippe DeVille

Philippe R. DeVille (born August 5, 1944) is a Belgian economist, and Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Louvain, known for his contributions in the field of socioeconomic systems theory in collaboration with Tom R. Burns and others.

Pierre Willems

Following the custom of Belgian students he did not confine himself to the courses at Catholic University of Leuven (French: Louvain) but went to Paris to hear Julius Oppert, Émile Egger, and Henri Patin, and to Berlin, Utrecht, and Leyden, where he followed the courses of Cobet.

Rixensart

Rixensart is served by two railway stations (at Rixensart and at Genval), connecting it with Brussels to the North and Louvain-la-Neuve to the South.

Robert Senelle

After the liberation, in September 1944, he progressed, becoming in 1946 a judge at Louvain and, in 1947, a Courts-martial magistrate.

Ronald Rolheiser

He received his doctorate at the University of Louvain, and is a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the Canadian Theological Society, and the Religious Studies Association of Alberta.

St Monica's Priory, Spetisbury

In 1800 it was acquired by an exiled community of Augustinian nuns from Louvain, canonesses regular of the Windesheim Congregation.

Theo Peeters

Theo Peeters holds a License in Philosophy and Literature (University of Louvain), M.A. in Neurolinguistics (University of Brussels), MSc in Human Communications (University of London) and is affiliated to TEACCH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Tocharian and Indo-European Studies

Jörundur Hilmarsson (Reykjavík, died 1992, founder and former editor-in-chief), Werner Winter (Preetz, died 2010), Guðrún Þórhallsdóttir (1992-1993 and supervision of the supplementary series 1992-1997), Lambert Isebaert (Louvain/Namur, assistant editor until 2000)

University of Leuven

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

Viglius

He was undoubtedly avaricious, and accumulated great wealth, part of which he left to found a hospital at his native place, Swichum, and a college at the University of Louvain.

Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday

Background vocals by The Originals (Freddie Gorman, Walter Gaines, Hank Dixon, C.P. Spencer) and The Andantes (Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps)

Your Old Standby

Background vocals by The Andantes (Jackie Hicks, Louvain Demps, and Marlene Barrow)


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