Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
The KU Leuven ( KU Leuven German ) (until 2011 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ) is a Dutch-speaking university with headquarters in Leuven (Dutch Leuven) in the Belgian region of Flanders. In its present form it was due to the cleavage of the Louvain University in a Dutch and a French-speaking university in 1968 as part of the Flemish and Francophone conflict. The German translation of the old name was ambiguous because it was true of the French-speaking Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain- la -Neuve.
History
→ The History to 1968 see History of the University of Leuven
The University Today
The KU Leuven is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious universities. According to the World University Rankings 2012/2013 the Times Higher Education, the KULeuven is world number 58, and in Europe in 13th place at the Catholic University of Leuven study 41,255 students, of whom 16.3 % were foreign students from over 145 countries. The university has 18,600 employees, has an area of 1,000,000 square meters and 26,500 rooms. In total there are 15 faculties in Leuven:
- Faculty of Theology
- Faculty of Canon Law
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Faculty of Philology
- Faculty of Psychology and Education
- Medical school
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Applied Science
- Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences
The largest and oldest campus in Leuven. The university also offers study courses in Kortrijk, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Ostend, Diepenbeek, Sainte-Catherine -Waver, Aalst and Brussels.
Rectors
After the division of the following principals led the Catholic University of Leuven:
Alumni
Expanded to: List of famous personalities of the University of Leuven
- Georges Lemaître, originator of the Big Bang theory
- Joan Daemen, cryptographer, one of the developers of the Advanced Encryption Standard ( AES)
- Vincent Rijmen, cryptographer, one of the developers of the Advanced Encryption Standard ( AES)
- Gustavo Gutiérrez, co-founder and namesake of liberation theology
- Otto von Habsburg, publicist, politician and writer
- Affonso Felippe Gregory, Bishop of Imperatriz, president of Caritas International 1991-1998
- Emile van Dievoet, lawyer and Flemish pioneer, Professor
- Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, 2009 -.
Honorary Doctors
- Hendrik Conscience (1881 )
- Guido Gezelle (1888 )
- Stijn Streuvels (1938 )
- Corneel Heymans (1940 )
- Alexander Fleming (1945 )
- Paul Claudel (1946 )
- Konrad Adenauer ( 1958)
- Robert Schuman (1958 )
- Walter Hallstein (1967 )
- U Thant (1968 )
- January Tinbergen (1971 )
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1972 )
- Karl Rahner (1972 )
- Mansholt (1973 )
- Edward Schillebeeckx (1974 )
- Kurt Waldheim (1975 )
- Emmanuel Levinas (1976 )
- Rudolf Mössbauer (1976 )
- Eugène Ionesco (1977 )
- Ralf Dahrendorf (1977 )
- Krzysztof Penderecki (1979 )
- Helmut Schmidt ( 1983)
- Richard von Weizsäcker (1986 )
- Franz Pöggeler (1986 )
- Jacques Derrida (1989 )
- Roger Schutz (1990 )
- Niklas Luhmann (1993 )
- Joseph Stiglitz (1994 )
- Helmut Kohl ( 1996)
- Gerard ' t Hooft (1996 )
- Alan Greenspan (1997)
- Martha Nussbaum (1997)
- Philippe Herreweghe (1997)
- Muhammad Yunus (1998)
- Carla Del Ponte ( 2002)
- Mario Vargas Llosa (2003)
- Gerhard Ertl (2003)
- Roger Penrose (2005)
- Roberto Benigni (2007)
- David Grossman (2007)
- Sigrid Weigel ( 2007)
- Rem Koolhaas (2007)
- Bas van Fraassen (2008)
- Sari Nusseibeh (2009)
- Walter Bear ( 2010)
- Timothy Garton Ash (2011)
- Christian Thielemann (2012 )
- Jacques Rogge ( 2012)
- Herman Van Rompuy (2012 )
- Navanethem Pillay (2012 )
- Leon Chua (2013 )
- Antonio Damasio (2013 )
- Dennis J. Selkoe (2013 )
- Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (2014)
- Michael Marmot (2014)