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The Old University of Leuven or of Louvain is the name historians give to the university, or ''studium generale'', founded in Leuven, Brabant (then part of the Burgundian Netherlands, now part of Belgium), in 1425. The university was closed in 1797, a week after the cession to the French Republic of the Austrian Netherlands and the principality of Liège (jointly the future Belgium) by the Treaty of Campo Formio. The name was in medieval Latin Studium generale Lovaniense〔In the act of approbation of Pope Martin V : "''Generale literarum Studium in eodem Oppido ordinari desiderant''" et "''in dictis Studiis generalibus''".〕 or Universitas Studii Lovaniensis,〔''ibidem'' : "''Rector Universitatis Studii''".〕 in humanistical Latin Academia Lovaniensis,〔For example : Nicolaus Vernulaeus, ''Academia Lovaniensis. Ejus origo, incrementum, viri illustres, res gestae'', Lovanii, 1627 or ''Privilegia Academiae Lovaniensis per Summos pontifices et Supremos Belgii Principes concessa'', Lovanii, apud Aegidium Denique, 1728.〕 and most usually,〔''Rector et Universitas Lovaniensis''.〕 Universitas Lovaniensis,〔For example: ''Œuvres complètes de Bossuet'', : publiées par F. Lachat, Louis Vivès, Paris, 1864 : p. 247 : "''Epistola LXV RECTOR ET UNIVERSITAS LOVANIENSIS AD BOSSUETUM''", or : Jean-François Van de Velde, ''Nova et absoluta collectio synodorum'', 1829, p. 171 : ''seu in Universitatibus, praecipuè Lovaniensi, alios non habuisse Magistros, quam errorum similium osores, de quo omnibus Dioecesanis praecipua, et communis debet esse vigilantia : sanè famosa Universitas Lovaniensis''".〕 in Dutch Universiteyt Loven〔For example : ''Privilegia Academiae Lovaniensi per summos pontifices ...'', Louvain, 1728, p. 95 : "'' Gesien het voorschreven Advies, wiert versoght Advies vanden Conservateur vande Privilegien der Universiteyt Loven''", or, J.B. Lameere, ''Beschryf van oud en nieuw Loven, gevolgd van de lyst der primussen van de oude UniversiteyT Loven'', 1829.〕 and also Hooge School van Loven.〔For example : ''Beschryving der stadt Schoonhoven'', 1762, p. 458 : "''De bovengenoemde Heer (....) stigte in het jaar 1557 twee Beursen in de Hooge School van Loven''".〕 It is commonly referred to as the University of Leuven or University of Louvain, sometimes with the qualification "old" to distinguish it from the Catholic University of Leuven (established 1835 in Leuven). This might also refer to a short-lived but historically important State University of Leuven, 1817–1835. The immediate official and legal successor and inheritor of the old University, under the laws in force in 1797, was the École centrale de Bruxelles, which itself closed down in 1802. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the University of Leuven was until its closure a great centre of Jansenism〔H. Francotte, ''La propagande des encyclopédistes français au pays de Liège'', p. 28: "''le jansénisme règnait en maître à l'université de Louvain''".〕 in Europe, with professors such as Cornelius Jansen, , Johannes van Neercassel, and especially Zeger Bernhard van Espen and his famous disciple Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim under the pseudonym Febronius. To shake off this reputation,〔''Leuven University'', Leuven University Press, p. 153: " ''In 1698 a clandestine group of anti-Jansenists was formed, mainly of Jesuits and regular clergy, and it denounced the University of Louvain to Rome as 'a hide-out of Jansenists' '' "〕 the faculty of theology thrice declared its adherence to the papal condemnation of Jansenist beliefs in the papal bull ''Unigenitus'' (1713).〔Toon Quaghebeur, "The Reception of Unigenitus in the Faculty of Theology at Louvain, 1713-1719", ''The Catholic Historical Review'' 93:2 (2007), pp. 265-299.〕 ==History== In the 15th century the civil administration of the town of Leuven, with the support of John IV, Duke of Brabant,〔Jan Roegiers et al., "The Old University 1425-1797", in ''Leuven University'', Leuven, Leuven University Press, 1990, p. 57: "''The town had promised Pope Martin V that it would provide the University with premise".'' ...."''The municipality also undertook to pay for the repair, maintenance and extension of the four paedagogies''", p. 36 "''The Bull of Foundation in 1425 had made finance and appointment of professors a matter for the Civil authorities: the town gave the University its site and paid its professors''", and p. 43: "''On 20 June 1425 the Louvain magistrates agreed to engage the doctors, masters and other persons needed for the studium''".〕 a prince of the House of Valois, made a formal request to the Holy See for a university.〔(Jan Roegiers et al.), "The Old University 1425-1797", in ''Leuven University'', Leuven, Leuven University Press, 1990, p. 21: "''These universities (the medieval universities) were created either by sovereign princes or by towns, and were confirmed by the Pope''", and further: "''The foundation of Louvain was the work of both ducal and municipal authorities. John IV, the Duke of Brabant, encouraged by two of his concillors, Engelbert van Nassau and Edmund van Dynter, strongly favoured the establishment of a higher centre of learning in his dukedom''".〕 Pope Martin V issued a papal bull dated 9 December 1425 founding the University in Leuven as a ''Studium Generale''. This university was institutionally independent of the local ecclesiastical hierarchy. From the founding of the university to its abolition in 1797, Latin was the sole language of instruction.〔Jozeph IJsewijn,'' Companion to Neo-Latin Studies'', Amsterdam-New-York-Oxford, 1977, p. 102: "''Latin survived as the language of the University of Louvain until the French Revolution but the abolition of this institution (1797) was a catastrophe for Latin in the Southern Netherlands"''.〕 In its early years, this university was modelled on those of Paris, Cologne and Vienna. The university flourished in the 16th century due to the presence of famous scholars and professors, such as Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens (Pope Adrian VI), Desiderius Erasmus, Johannes Molanus, Joan Lluís Vives, Andreas Vesalius and Gerardus Mercator. In 1519, the Faculty of Theology of Leuven, jointly with that of the University of Cologne, became the first institution to condemn a number of statements drawn from Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses (preceding the papal bull ''Exsurge Domine'' by several months).〔Richard Marius, ''Martin Luther: The Christian between God and Death'' (1999), p. 188.〕 After the French Revolutionary Wars, by the Treaty of Campo Formio, the Austrian Netherlands was ceded to the French Republic by Austria in exchange for the Republic of Venice. Once formally integrated into the French Republic, a law dating to 1793 mandating that all universities in France be closed came into effect.〔The law of 15 September 1793 had decreed the suppression of all the colleges and universities in France, but the universities remain de facto until the new law of 7 ventôse year III (25 February 1795) creating the Écoles centrales. In accordance with this law the University of Louvain was abolished by Decree of the Departement of the Dijle. Louis Trénard, ''De Douai à Lille, une université et son histoire'', Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 1978, p.37 note 6.〕 The University of Leuven was abolished by decree of the Département of the Dyle on October 25, 1797.〔Jan Roegiers et al., ''Leuven University'', Leuven, Leuven University Press, 1990, p. 31: "''With the Law of 3 Brumaire of Year IV, which reorganized higher education in the French Republic, there was no place for the University of Louvain, and it was abolished by Decree of the Departement of the Dijle on 25 october'' (1797)".〕 What remained of the university's movables and books were requisitioned for the École centrale in Brussels.〔''Leuven University'', p. 31: "''The university colleges were closed on 9 November 1797, and all items of use, with all the books, were requistionned for the new École Centrale, in Brussel''". And also: ''Analectes pour servir à l'histoire de l'Université de Louvain'', edited by P. F. X. De Ram, Leuven, 1840, library Vanlinthout en Vandenzande, vol. 3, p. 58, footnote 1: "''De La Serna Santander fut spécialement chargé de faire transférer à Bruxelles les principaux ouvrages de la bibliothèque académique qui déjà, en 1794 et 1795, avait été spoliée par les commissaires français.''"〕 This was the immediate official and legal successor and inheritor of the old University, under the laws in force at the time. It was in turn closed down in 1802. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Old University of Leuven」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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