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unusual facts about Sedes Sapientiae, Leuven



Alexander Sakkers

During his term in office he was responsible for the increased cooperation between the three local technology cities Eindhoven, Aachen and Leuven.

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.

Andreas Felix von Oefele

He attended the Jesuit secondary school "Wilhelmsgymnasium" and continued his studies of Law, history and theology at the universities of Ingolstadt and Leuven.

Andreas Masius

Following his education, and after a short period of training at Leuven Masius worked as secretary for the bishop of Constance, Johannes von Weeze († 13. November 1548).

Bible translations into French

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

This Bible, in turn, became the basis of the first French Catholic Bible, published at Leuven in 1550, the work of Nicholas de Leuze and François de Larben.

Cambio CarSharing

The cambio locations in Belgium in 27 cities, for example: Arlon, Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Chiny, Ghent, Hasselt, Kortrijk, Leuven, Lier, Liège, Mechelen, Mons, Namur, Oostende, Ottignies, Turnhout and Zwijndrecht.

David Vychodil

David Vychodil (born March 25, 1980 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic) is a Czech professional ice hockey player, currently playing and coaching for Chiefs Leuven in Belgium .

Devlag

It was founded in 1936 by academics Jef Van de Wiele and Rolf Wilkening as a cultural association, with the purpose of strengthening the exchange of students and professors between the universities of Leuven and Cologne.

Donald Fairbairn

He currently teaches part-time as a professor of Historical Theology at Evangelische Theologische Faculteit in Leuven and as a professor of Theology at Donetsk Christian University in Donetsk.

Donald Garland

Garland is buried at the Heverlee War Cemetery near Leuven, Belgium.

E314

European route E314, a European route class B road connecting the Belgian city of Leuven with the German city of Aachen

François Gény

Nine universities conferred him the title of Doctorate Honoris Causa: Groningen (1914), Leuven (1927), Warsaw (1929), Brussels (1929), Geneva (1930), Jassy (1934), Lausanne (1935), Basel (1936) and Athens (1937).

Giles de Coninck

Giles de Coninck (Aegidius; also called Regius) (b. 20 December 1571, at Bailleul in French Flanders; d. 31 May 1633, at Leuven) was a Flemish Jesuit theologian.

Greggs

Starting in 2003, in an attempt to test the foreign market, Greggs opened a total of ten stores in Belgium; principally in Antwerp and Leuven.

Hafla

Hafla is a live album by Khaled composed of highlights from his Kenza Tour 97 in Confolens, France and Leuven, Belgium except for the track "Chebba" which was recorded in Bordeaux.

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.

Henry I, Duke of Brabant

# Ysabeau (Elizabeth) (d. October 23, 1272), married in Leuven March 19, 1233 Count Dietrich of Cleves, Lord of Dinslaken (c. 1214–1244), married 1246 Gerhard II, Count of Wassenberg (d. 1255)

Henry III, Duke of Brabant

# Maria of Brabant (1256, Leuven – January 12, 1321, Murel), married at Vincennes on August 27, 1274 to King Philip III of France.

Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT (ICRI) is an interdisciplinary centre based at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven.

ITL – International Journal of Applied Linguistics

The journal is published twice a year by the Department of Linguistics at the K.U.Leuven, the Department of Applied Linguistics of the VLEKHO (Brussels) and the Department of Applied Linguistics of the Lessius Hogeschool (Antwerp).

Javier Sologuren

Javier Sologuren received a doctoral degree in Hispanic literature at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and also made postdegree studies at the Colegio de México an the University of Leuven, Belgium.

Keena Young

In 2007, Young had a short stint with Spotter Leuven, a professional team in Belgium, before joining Mobis Phoebus of the Korean Basketball League (in South Korea).

Keizersberg Abbey

The Keizersberg ("Caesar's" or "Emperor's hill") was the site of the castle around which the city of Leuven grew up, and which local legend connected with Julius Caesar.

Lepus cornutus

In the biography of French scientist Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc is related that in 1606 he visited a widow in Leuven who had two living horned hares, said to be from Norway, but that one of them had died before his arrival.

Lidwina

The well-known German preacher and poet, Friar John Brugman, wrote two Lives of St. Lidwina, the first of which, printed at Cologne in 1433, was reprinted anonymously at Leuven in 1448, and later epitomised by Thomas à Kempis at Cologne in his Vita Lidewigis.

Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein

From 1545, Louis and two of his brothers studied at the Universities of Leuven, Paris and Orléans.

Louvain

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

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.

Marc R. Alexander

After completing his seminary studies in the American College of Louvain (Leuven), he was ordained to the presbyterate for the diocese of Honolulu at Saint John Vianney Church in Kailua on October 18, 1985 where he served as a parochial vicar.

Nossegem

In 2005, the Nossegem Curve was opened, which connects Brussels Airport with the railway in the direction of Leuven.

Oscar van Dillen

After studies of medieval and Renaissance music with Paul Van Nevel in Leuven (Belgium), he studied classical composition with, among others, Dick Raaymakers and Gilius van Bergeijk at the Koninklijk Conservatory in The Hague in 1990/1991 and with Klaas de Vries, Peter-Jan Wagemans and René Uijlenhoet at the Rotterdam Conservatory from 1996 to 2002.

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).

Pierre François Xavier de Ram

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).

Piet Vanthemsche

In 2008, he succeeded Noël Devisch as President of the Boerenbond (E: Catholic Belgian Farmers Union) in Leuven.

Risin'

We see Natalia performing on the mainstage of Marktrock in Leuven and in the backstage preparing and give signatures to fans.

Satya Vrat Shastri

Satya Vrat Shastri was also the Vice-Chancellor of Shri Jagannath Sanskrit University, Puri, Orissa, and a visiting professor at the Chulalongkorn and Silpakorn Universities in Bangkok, as well as the Northeast Buddhist University, Nongkhai, Thailand, the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, the Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium, and the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Science and technology in Flanders

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School (Leuven, Ghent): MBA and other management degrees taught in English and Dutch.

Seat of Wisdom

More recently, sedes sapientiae is for example the motto of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Université catholique de Louvain, founded when Latin still was the academic lingua franca.

Sergei Nilus

Michael Hagemeister: "Vladimir Solov’ev and Sergej Nilus: Apocalypticism and Judeophobia" in Reconciler and Polemicist (eds.) Wil van den Bercken, Manon de Courten, Evert van der Zweerde, and Vladimir Solov’ev (Leuven: Peeters, 2000), pp.

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.

Staf Van Reet

He obtained a degree of engineering in Applied Biological Sciences and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) and a Law degree from the University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium).

Uccle-Calevoet railway station

Trains calling at Uccle-Calevoet are local trains running from Nivelles to Leuven, Braine-l'Alleud to Brussels-North, Nivelles to Antwerp-Central, Châtelet to Schaerbeek and Charleroi-Sud to Antwerp Central.

Uccle-Stalle railway station

Trains calling at this station are local trains connecting Brussels-North and Nivelles, Leuven and Nivelles (via Brussels-North), Brussels-North and Charleroi as well as Antwerp-Central and Charleroi (via Brussels-North).

Victor Joseph Reed

After earning his Ph.D. from Leuven in 1939, he declined a teaching position at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. to return to Oklahoma.

William I, Count of Schwarzburg-Frankenhausen

Before he took up government, he studied for several years, in Erfurt, Jena, Leuven, and Padua.

William Nobrega

A former member of Army Special Forces who handled military operations in Kurdistan, Mr Nobrega's academic background includes a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) from Leuven and a bachelor's degree from Ohio University.


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