The State University of Leuven was founded by King William I of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1817 in Leuven. This continued the history of having a major university in Leuven, with the Old University of Leuven having been active from 1425 to 1797, and the State University used the same campus and facilities. A dozen professors that had taught at the Old University taught at the State University, including:
Belgium's independence from the Netherlands in 1830/31 plunged the universities into disorder. Attempting to prevent university education from being fragmented, the new government closed Leuven's faculties of law and natural science but backed down due to protests.[citation needed] A proposal to concentrate university education at Leuven was rejected by parliament on 4 August 1835. On 27 September 1835, the state university was officially closed, with most professors moving to the state universities of Ghent and Liège.[citation needed]
Meanwhile, the bishops of Belgium had founded a new university, the Catholic University of Mechlin, in 1834. This provoked serious riots in the cities of Ghent, Leuven and Liège by liberals, who feared the Church encroaching on state education. After the State University had been closed, the Catholic University moved its headquarters to Leuven on 1 December 1835 and then took the name of Catholic University of Leuven, again leading to protests by liberals, particularly due to its efforts to usurp the heritage and identity of the historical Old University of Leuven.[1]
The State University of Leuven counted upon the creation the Faculties of Law, Medicine, Science and Mathematics and of the Natural Philosophy and Letters.
Karl Bernhardi (1799-1874), librarian of the State University of Leuven.Joseph Jacotot, professor at the State University of Leuven.A famous old student of the State University of Leuven: Sylvain Van de Weyer.
André Dieudonné Trumper[fr] (1794–1874), doctor in medicine and Venerable Master of the respectable lodge of the "True Friends of the Union and Progress" at the Orient of Brussels.
Bibliography concerning the State University of Leuven
1817-1826: Annales Academiae Lovaniensis, 1821-1827 (1817–1826).
1821: Annales Academiae Lovaniensis, 1821: "Discours prononcé le 6 octobre 1817 à l'occasion de l'installation de l'Université par M. le docteur François-Joseph Harbaur, professeur en médecine, nommé recteur magnifique de la même université".
1835: J. J. Dodt, Repertorium dissertationum belgicarum, Utrecht, 1835.
1837: A. Ferrier, Description historique et topographique de Louvain, Brussels, Haumann, Cattoir and Cie, 1837.
1842: Joseph-Marie Quérard, La littérature française contemporaine, 1842. Biographical notice of the professor Birnbaum, p.539.
1848: P. Namur, "notes concernant le Repertorium dissertationum belgicarum", in Le bibliophile belge, n° 5, 1848, pp.115–118.
1854: Pierre François Xavier De Ram, Analectes pour servir à l'histoire de l'Université de Louvain, Louvain, 1854, p.155 (Biography of Xavier Jacquelart).
1860: E. Van Even, Louvain monumental..., Louvain, C.-J. Fonteyn, 1860.
1884: Léon Vanderkindere, L'université de Bruxelles. Notice historique, Brussels, 1884 (Concerning the State University of Louvain see: p.9 et 10).
1906: Victor Brants, La faculté de droit de l'Université de Louvain à travers cinq siècles (1426-1906) esquisse historique, Louvain, 1906.
1917: Hubert Nélis, Inventaire des archives de l'Université de l'État à Louvain, Brussels, Hayez, 1917.
1925: Dr. G. Bourgeois, "Un Fumacien oublié: Charles Jacmart, Recteur Magnifique de l'Université de Louvain", in, Nouvelle Revue de Champagne et de Brie, Largentière (Ardèche), 3rd year, 1925, pp.9 and seq. .
1948: Carlo Bronne, L'amalgame ou la Belgique de 1814 à 1830, Brussels, ed. Paul Legrain, s. d.(Concerning the State University of Louvain, see: pp.269–270).
1952: Carlo Bronne, La tapisserie royale, Brussels-Paris, 1952, p.92.
1955: Albert Bruylants, "Les chimistes louvanistes et leur temps", II, "L'École Centrale de la Dyle (1795-1814) et l'Université d'État (1816-1835)", in, Bulletin trimestriel de l'Association des Amis de l'Université de Louvain, n°3, 1955.
1964: Jean Jacmart, "Généalogie de la famille Jacmart", in, Recueil de l'Office Généalogique et Héraldique de Belgique, tome XII, Brussels, 1963, p.114.
1967: Florilège des sciences en Belgique, Brussels, Royal Academy of Belgium, 1967, p.118.
1973: B. Borghgraef van der Schueren, De Universiteiten in de Zuidelijke Provincies onder Willem I, Brussels, 1973.
1975: "La faculté de droit de l'Université d'État de Louvain", in Jura Falconis, XI, 1975 (3).
1986: Mia De Neef, De Faculteit Wijsbegeerte en Letteren van de Rijksuniversiteit te Leuven (1817-1835), non edited thesis, Leuven, KUL, 1986.
1986: G. Vanpaemel, "J. B. Van Mons (1765-1842) en het scheikundige-onderwijs aan de Rijksuniversiteit Leuven", in Communications de l'Académie Royale, Classe des Sciences, 48, 1986, n° 4, pp.87–100.
1987: Geertrui Couderé, "De studenten aan de Rijksuniversiteit Leuven (1817-1835)", in Liber amicorum Dr. J. Scheerder, Louvain, 1987, p.241 à 261.
1987: Arlette Graffart, "La matricule de l'Université de Louvain (1817-1835)", in Album Carlos Wyffels, Brussels, 1987, pp.177–178.
1990: Emiel Lamberts and Jan Roegiers, Leuven University, 1425-1985, Louvain, University Press, 1990.
1999: Christian Laporte, L'affaire de Louvain: 1960-1968, 1999, p.26.
2008: Philippe et Nadine Quinet-De Saeger, André Dieudonné Trumper, médecin à Bruxelles au XIXe siècle, Brussels, Studia Bruxellae, 2008, p.47.
↑ Maurice Voituron, Le parti libéral joué par le parti catholique dans la question de l'enseignement supérieur, Bruxelles, 1850: "et alors aurait paru plus évidente encore aux yeux du pays l'intention du parti catholique de tuer l'enseignement de l'État, afin de ne laisser debout que l'Université catholique de Malines, qui allait prendre le titre d'Université de Louvain, pour y usurper la renommée de l'ancienne, ainsi que ses fondations de bourses. Cependant, malgré lui, le parti catholique laissa échapper cet espoir par la bouche de son rapporteur M. Dechamps, lorsqu'il disait: "la confiance entourera de telle façon les établissements privés que les Universités de l'État, par exemple, deviendront à peu près désertes".
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