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KAV Lovania

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Basic data
University location: Lions
University / s: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Founding: 1896
Corporation association : CV -friended since 1897
Abbreviation: Lov!
Color status : colored
Colours:
Fox colors:
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Position to the scale : not striking
Motto: The spirit lives in all of us!
Field shout ( Panier ): Semper excelsius!
Total members: 130 (2017)
Active: 8th
Website: www.kav-lovania.org

The Catholic Academic Association Lovania Leuven is a color-bearing Catholic student union founded in 1896 at the Catholic University of Leuven . It is with the Cartellverband friends .

history

Color map of the KAV Lovania Löwen (1914)

The KAV Lovania was founded on January 21, 1896 under the significant influence of Armand Thiéry by students of different nationalities based on the model of the student associations in Germany. In August 1897, Lovania was incorporated into the Cartell Association of Catholic German student associations as a friendly association under the sponsorship of the KDStV Bavaria Bonn .

Principles and goals

Principles

Lovania is based on the principles religio , scientia and amicitia . She wants to establish a lifelong friendship , which is borne by her couleur student traditions and comment .

  • Religio includes the unrestricted commitment to the traditional Roman Catholic faith.
  • Scientia means the pursuit of science and education, even beyond one's own subject area.
  • Amicitia means a friendship that lasts beyond the course of studies and in this way can be seen as a bond of life between students and old men.

The fourth, so-called patria principle, which is common in Catholic associations, does not exist in Lovania. The connection is non-striking .

aims

From the day it was founded, the purpose of Lovania is to encourage its members to live a godly life according to the three connecting principles mentioned. In addition, she endeavors to shape friendship among the members on a strictly Christian basis in a truly European spirit. Lovania cultivates the German couleur student tradition in a very disciplined and sociable manner while at the same time respecting the Flemish student traditions.

Lovania is expressly far from taking an active role in political events. The connection is non-partisan and neutral in nation-state affairs. She acknowledges responsibility before God for the European idea of Christian character.

Comment and customs

The connection has special characteristics that distinguish it from other student connections.

founder

Lovania cherishes the special memory of its founder, Armand Thiéry . The restoration of the great tomb of the scientist and priest, who obtained doctorates in law , psychology (with Wilhelm Wundt ), architecture and philosophy, is one of the declared goals of the old rulers. Thiéry established several institutes of general scientific and international importance in Leuven: the higher institute of philosophy, the first laboratory of experimental psychology and the buildings of the Seminaire du pape Léon XIII (Leo XIII seminar) go back to his initiative. While Thiéry in World War I before the arsonists Prussian regiments courageously and by applying its perfect knowledge of German at least part of the historic Louvain urban area - retaliation against the city of Leuven for alleged snipers - has preserved, he worked for peace 1919 bis 1926 for the construction a new university library. During the Second World War , the mystic and priest was able to save the lives of numerous Jews by helping them to find shelter and escape. In 1980 , twenty-five years after his death, Thiéry was posthumously awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel and the Jad waSchem Center .

For saving Jewish life in World War II, Thiéry received the posthumous award “ Righteous Among the Nations ” from Jad waSchem and the State of Israel in 1980 at the instigation of the Jewess Grunia Schicharewitch, who was saved by him .

Thiéry founded KAV Lovania in 1896 after studying at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn and becoming a member of the KDStV Bavaria Bonn .

Because of the international significance of Thiéry's life, the association established a charity association for the restoration of the tomb of its founder.

Color, motto and coat of arms

Color

The connection has the colors green-white-red with golden percussion. The fuxes are green-white-green with golden percussion. Head couleure are a dark green flat cap and a dark green striker.

Motto

The first motto of Lovania, the spirit lives in us all! , was adopted in SS 1896 and comes from the song We had built a stately house . The second motto of Lovania, SEMPER EXCELSIUS , was accepted in the winter semester of 1897/98.

coat of arms

The second coat of arms of the KAV Lovania Löwen

The first coat of arms of Lovania was adopted in SS 1896. The second coat of arms of Lovania was adopted in WS 1897/98. The designer and designer of both coats of arms are unknown.

The first Lovanen coat of arms is divided horizontally and shows in the upper half a silver striding lion in front of a black (sabel) background and in the lower half two crossed clubs over the founding year 1896 (below). Below the sign is a banner with the first connection motto ( The spirit lives in us all! ).

The circle of the KAV Lovania Löwen

The second Lovanen coat of arms is quartered: at the top right it shows a silver-colored owl with a lantern as a bird of wisdom on two closed books ( scientia ) in front of a black (sabel) background . At the top left it shows the boy colors green (Sinopel), white (silver) and red (Keel) with the connecting circle in the middle ( amicitia ). At the bottom right the coat of arms shows a gold-yellow crowned silver-colored Marian monogram against an azure background, which refers to the Mother of God, who is also venerated as ULF of Flanders ( religio ). The coat of arms of the Duchy of Brabant (a golden lion on a black background) is shown at the bottom left. The heart shield in the middle bears the Löwen city arms. The shield head is a crowned spangenhelm with a neck ornament, a blanket and three ostrich feathers in green (Sinopel), silver and red (Keel) as a crest ornament. Below the sign is a banner with the second connection motto ( Semper excelsius! ).

The Lovanenkirkel is a couleur student monogram consisting of four letters, V, C, F, L, and a call sign. These letters stand for VIVAT CRESCAT FLOREATQUE LOVANIA ( Lovania live, grow and prosper! ). Another interpretation is VIVAT CIRCULUS FRATRUM LOVANIAE ( Long live the Lovania Brethren! ). The callsign stands for IN AETERNUM and means that the connection has an activity, it also refers to the principle of life covenant. The stylized L in the middle stands for the connection name Lovania. The stylized V in the lower half stands for VIVAT ( live ). The stylized C in the lower part of the middle arch stands for CRESCAT ( grow ). The upper part of the middle arch, together with the line above, forms a stylized F and stands for FLOREAT ( bloom or thrive ).

Known members (selection)

Charged in full weight and Lovania colors

See also

literature

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  • Florian Werr : History of the CV. 2nd Edition. Berlin 1900.
  • Armand Thiery: Chansonnier des étudiants Belges publié par la fraternity Lovania. Breitkopf et Härtel, Brussels 1901.
  • Lovania - 10 years of German-speaking students in Löwen 1895–1905, Löwen 1906.
  • 15th year of the association - Academic Student Association Lovania 1895–1910, Leuven 1910.
  • Joseph Wils: Les étudiants des régions comprises dans la Nation germanique de l'Université de Louvain. Löwen 1910, digitized version (2 volumes).
  • Lovania Catholic Academic Fraternity - Annual Report 1910–1912, printed. F. Giele, Löwen 1912.
  • Hans Contzen: Lovania. Twenty years of German-speaking student life in Belgium. Student library of the Secretariat of Social Student Work, Mönchengladbach 1916.
  • Friedrich Schulze, Paul Ssymank : The German student body from the oldest times to the present. 1932 Munich (reprint), ISBN 3-923621-90-6 .
  • Arthur de Bruyne (Ed.): Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van een generatie - Een liber amicorum voor mr. Willem Melis. Kemzeke 1977.
  • Mon de Goeyse: O Vrij-Studentenheerlijkheid. Leuvense Universitaire Pers, Leuven 1987, ISBN 90-6186-251-5 .
  • Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk: Lexicon of CV and ÖCV connections. Association for German Student History, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-89498-040-0 . Pp. 444-446.
  • R. Uytterhoeven: Nostalgia Lovaniensis. Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven 2000, ISBN 90-5867-065-1 .
  • Vos Louis, Weets Wilfried (Ed.): Vlaamse vaandels, rode petten. Uitgeverij Pelckmans, Kapellen 2002, ISBN 90-289-3204-6 .
  • Jan Huys: Van de Weyer Stefan, De studentikoze erfenis van Rodenbach. Lions 2006.

Web links

Commons : KAV Lovania Löwen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yad Vashem yadvashem.org
  2. ↑ Mordecai Paldiel : Churches and the Holocaust: unholy teaching, good Samaritans, and Reconciliation. KTAV Publishing House, 2006, pp. 143-145.
  3. ↑ Dan Mikhman, Israel Gutman, Sarah Bender: The encyclopedia of the righteous among the nations: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust in Belgium. Vol. 2, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 2005.