Leuven
Belgium
Leuven (Louvain), a city in Flanders, Belgium, seat of the old University of Louvain (founded 1425). Erasmus helped found its Collegium Trilingue, and the theologian Cornelius Jansen (Jansenius), whose Augustinus sparked the Jansenist controversy, was its professor and chancellor.
Teachers who lived here
Pope Adrian VI
Pope Adrian VI (1459–1523)
theologian & professor 1476–1515
Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536)
Collegium Trilingue 1517–1521
Gemma Frisius
Gemma Frisius (1508–1555)
Gemma Frisius
Gemma Frisius (1508–1555)
Gerardus Mercator
Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594)
Robert Bellarmine
Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621)
professor, ordained 1569–1576
Cornelius Jansenius
Cornelius Jansenius (1585–1638)
professor and rector 1617–1636
Georges Lemaître
Georges Lemaître (1894–1966)