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Université catholique de Louvain | |
 The Sedes Sapientiae, seal of UCLouvain. | |
| Latin: Universitas Catholica Lovaniensis | |
Other name | UCLouvain |
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Former name | Université catholique de Belgique |
| Motto | Sedes Sapientiae (Latin) |
Motto in English | Seat of Wisdom, Seat of Knowledge |
| Type | Private, subsidised by public authorities |
| Established | 1834 in Mechelen as Catholic University of Belgium 1970 (split) |
Religious affiliation | Roman Catholicism |
| Endowment | €1.1 billion[1][failed verification] |
| Rector | Vincent Blondel |
Administrative staff | 6,097 (2021) |
| Students | 37,686 (2023-24)[2] |
Doctoral students | 5,088 |
| Location | Louvain-la-Neuve, with campuses in Brussels (City of Brussels, Woluwe & Saint-Gilles), Mons, Tournai, Charleroi, Namur, Dinant, Yvoir , Belgium |
| Campus | Planned community |
| Colors | Blue and white |
| Nickname | Wolves |
| Affiliations | Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities CEMS CESAER CLUSTER Coimbra Group IMCC EMPA TIME |
| Mascot | Woulfy |
| Website | www.uclouvain.be |
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| Data as of 2011[update] | |
UCLouvain or Université catholique de Louvain (also known as the Catholic University of Louvain, the English translation of its French name, and the University of Louvain, its official English name)[3] is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It is located in Louvain-la-Neuve, which was expressly built to house the university, and Brussels, Charleroi, Mons, Tournai and Namur. Since September 2018, the university uses the branding UCLouvain, replacing the acronym UCL, following a merger with Saint-Louis University, Brussels.
The original University of Louvain (Universitas Lovaniensis) was founded at the centre of the historic town of Leuven (or Louvain) in 1425, and abolished by the law in 1797 making it the first university in Belgium and the Low Countries. This university was the centre of Baianism, Jansenism[4] and Febronianism in Europe. A new university, the State University of Louvain, was founded in 1817 and abolished by the law in 1835. A new catholic university was founded in Mechlin in 1834, the Catholic University of Mechlin and moved in Leuven in 1835 that is frequently, but controversially, identified as a continuation of the older institution.AB In 1968 the Catholic University of Leuven split into the Dutch-language Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, which stayed in Leuven, and the French-language Université catholique de Louvain, which moved to Louvain-la-Neuve in Wallonia, 30 km southeast of Brussels. Since the 15th century, Leuven/Louvain, as it is still often called, has been a major contributor to the development of Catholic theology.
- ^ Une nouvelle spin-off.
- ^ http://www.cref.be/annuaires/tab_rentr%C3%A9e_2023
- ^ "University of Louvain - EUTM file information". European Union Intellectual Property Office. 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ Dictionnaire historique de la Papauté, sous la direction de Philippe Levillain, éd. Fayard, 1994, sub verbo "Innocent XII Pignatelli 1691-1700" : "Bien que la théologie et l’éthique jansénistes dans leurs postulats théoriques et pratiques aient été largement rejetées par le Saint-Siège, elles sont encore bien loin de disparaître de la vie de l’Église à la fin du XVIIe siècle. À l’époque d’Innocent XII, quelques groupuscules plus combatifs ont quitté la France et se sont transférés en Belgique et en Hollande, d’où ils redoublent d’activité, souvent en conflit avec les directives de Rome. L’université de Louvain est leur forteresse". Daniel Tollet et Pierre Chaunu, Le jansénisme et la franc-maçonnerie en Europe centrale au XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle, p. 143 : "Louvain plaque tournante des idées jansénistes", and Henri Francotte1, professeur à l'université de Liège, La Propagande des encyclopédistes français au pays de Liège (1750-1790), Bruxelles : Hayez, 1880, p. 28. : "le jansénisme régnait en maître à l'université de Louvain".