List of well-known personalities from the University of Leuven
This list includes well-known members of the Reichsuniversität Leuven , a liberal and neutral university, founded in Leuven and dissolved in 1835.
In 1817 an imperial university was founded in Leuven, but abolished in 1835 as part of the reorganization of higher education in the Kingdom of Belgium.
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Pierre-Joseph van Beneden (1809-1894) |
Belgian parasitologist and paleontologist | Professor of Zoology (from 1835) at the Catholic University, studied at the University of Leuven. | |
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Karl Bernhardi (1799–1874) |
German writer and politician | University librarian (from 1826) |
Johann Michael Franz Birnbaum (1792–1877) |
German legal scholar and playwright | Professor of Law |
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August van Dievoet (1803-1865) |
Belgian legal historian, judge and lawyer at the Belgian Court of Cassation | study of law |
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Jules Guérin (1801-1886) |
Belgian medic | Studies (1821–1826) |
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Jean Joseph Jacotot (1770-1840) |
French scholar and founder of the teaching method named after him | Professor of French Language and Literature at the University of Leuven. |
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Franz Josef Mone (1796–1871) |
archivist and historian from Baden | Professor of Statistics and Politics (1827–1830) at the University of Leuven |
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Leopold August Warnkönig (1794–1866) |
German lawyer | Professor of Law at the University of Leuven. | |
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Clemens August von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg (1805–1885) |
German Fideikommissherr and politician | study of law |
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Sylvain van de Weyer (1802-1874) |
Belgian politician | Studied law at the University of Leuven. |