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7 unusual facts about Université libre de Bruxelles


Alfred Renard

The same First World War forces Alfred Renard to suspend his study at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the "Faculté des sciences appliquées", just at a time when aviation makes great progress.

Groupe G

Groupe G was founded in 1942, by a group of former students of the Université libre de Bruxelles and its ranks were mainly filled by students.

History of Freemasonry in Belgium

Présidé par le prix Nobel de la paix, Henri Lafontaine, membre de la loge les "Amis Philanthropes" et professeur à l'Université libre de Bruxelles (l'Université nouvelle), la Ligue belge des Droits des femmes invite Maria Deraismes à Bruxelles.

Joseph Van Schoor, sénateur et administrateur de la jeune Université libre de Bruxelles, membre des "Amis Philanthropes" va succéder à Théodore Verhaegen.

It had a bearing on public education, up to the point that in 1834 the "Les Amis Philanthropes" lodge founded the Université libre et laïque de Bruxelles, on the suggestion of Théodore Verhaegen in his discourse of 24 June 1834 to that lodge.

Jonathan D. C. Turner

Turner was born on 13 May 1958 in Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England, and educated at Rugby School, Cambridge University (1979 BA, 1982 MA), the Université libre de Bruxelles (1981 Licence Spéciale en Droit Européen) and Queen Mary College, London (1982).

Xavier Chen

He completed his Master's degree in Law at Université libre de Bruxelles, making him the only active European first division football player in the modern era to have obtained such a degree.


A. C. Cuza

Born in Iaşi, Cuza attended secondary school in his native city and in Dresden, then studied law at the University of Paris, the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, and the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Alain Bosquet

In 1925, his family moved to Brussels and he studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, then at the Sorbonne.

André-Joseph Léonard

In April 2013, Leonard was doused with water from bottles shaped like the Virgin Mary by four topless FEMEN activists while participating in a debate with philosophy professor Guy Haarscher on the subject of blasphemy and freedom of speech at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

Delta station

Delta station is located near the intersection of "Boulevard du Triomphe/Triomflaan" and "Boulevard des Invalides/Invalidenlaan" and provides access to the adjacent campus Plaine of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and to the campus Etterbeek of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Ian Dalziel

Dalziel was educated at Daniel Stewart's College in Edinburgh, St John's College, Cambridge, studying as a postgraduate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and London Business School.

Jean-Marie Derscheid

From 1919 to 1922 Derscheid was enrolled in the Science Faculty of the Université libre de Bruxelles, studying under Professor Auguste Lameere and earning a doctorate in Zoology based on his dissertation on the morphology of bird skulls (Morphologie du squelette céphalique des oiseaux).

Jerrold Levinson

He has also held visiting appointments in other countries, such as England (University of London and University of Kent), New Zealand (University of Canterbury), France (Université de Rennes), Belgium (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Portugal (Universidade de Lisboa) and Switzerland (Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana).

Louis Franck

He was born in Antwerp, and began his education at the Koninklijk Atheneum (E: Royal Atheneum) of Antwerp, where he was influenced by the Flemish writer and liberal politician Jan van Beers, and he obtained a law degree at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

Radu Bălescu

Radu Bălescu (Bucharest, 18 July 1932 – 1 June 2006, Bucharest) was a Romanian and Belgian (Belgian since 1959) scientist and professor at the Statistical and Plasma Physics group of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).


see also

Bruss

Franz Thomas Bruss, a Belgian-German professor of mathematics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles

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.

Two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

The first two-dimensional experiment, COSY, was proposed by Jean Jeener, a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in 1971.