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unusual facts about University of Leuven


University of Leuven

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


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.


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Albin van Hoonacker

Abbeloos, then rector of the Catholic University of Leuven, and a biblical scholar himself, proposed to the Belgian bishops that Van Hoonacker be appointed to the newly created chair of Histoire critique de l'Ancien Testament.

Antoine Vergote

Vergote was a former student of the French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and played an important role introducing psychoanalysis to the University of Leuven.

H. Narayan Murthy

After securing his Master's degree in psychology from University of Mysore, H.N.Murthy gained admission into "Katholieke Universiteit Leuven" or the "Catholic University of Leuven", Belgium to pursue his doctoral studies in psychology for the award of a PhD.His subject chosen was "Causality in Experimental Psychology".

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.

Paul De Grauwe

In 2012, De Grauwe reached the legal age for mandatory retirement in Belgium, after which he was offered the John Paulson Chair in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and retired from his position at the University of Leuven.

Sedes Sapientiae, Leuven

It is the symbol of the Catholic University of Leuven, in whose seal it is enclosed in a vesica piscis shape whose margin bears the text "Universitas catholica Lovaniensis. Sedes sapientiae" (Latin for Catholic University of Leuven. Seat of Wisdom).