Leuven also has some orchestras, like the famous Arenberg Orchestra ( Dutch ).

Located in the arrondissement or administrative district of Leuven, the official language is Dutch.

Lectures in Dutch, the other official language of Belgium and the language actually spoken in Leuven, began to be provided in 1930.

His last two governments were plagued with linguistic troubles regarding the split of the old bilingual Catholic University of Leuven in a Dutch language university ( the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ), which stayed in Leuven and a French language university which moved to Louvain-la-Neuve and became the Université catholique de Louvain and the start of the process of changing Belgium from a unitary state into a federation with the creation of the Communities.

In 1616 he returned to Leuven, to take charge of the college of St Pulcheria, a hostel for Dutch students of theology.

The city was built to house the Université Catholique de Louvain ; following the linguistic quarrels that took place in Belgium during the 1960s, and Flemish claims of discrimination at the Catholic University of Leuven, the institution was split into the Dutch language Katholieke Universiteit Leuven which remained in Leuven, and the Université Catholique de Louvain.

Shortly after the language dispute at the Catholic University of Leuven, in October 1969 the French and Dutch entities of the Free University separated into two distinct universities.

Shortly after the language dispute at the Catholic University of Leuven, in October 1969 the French and Dutch entities of the ULB separated into two distinct universities.

It split from the Catholic University of Leuven ( founded in 1425 ), Belgium's oldest university, in 1968, the Dutch half staying in Leuven under the name Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

The Catholic University of Leuven, based in Leuven (" Louvain " in French ), 30 km east of Brussels, provided lectures in French from its refounding in 1835, and in Dutch from 1930.

Henry II of Brabant ( French: Henri II de Brabant, Dutch: Hendrik II van Brabant, 1207 – February 1, 1248 in Leuven ) was Duke of Brabant and Lothier after the death of his father Henry I in 1235.

Preston was in the same Irish regiment in the Spanish service as Owen Roe O ' Neill, and distinguished himself in the defence of Leuven against the French and Dutch in 1635.

This view is shared with several Dutch right-winged activists and nationalists, as well as some mainstream politicians both in the Netherlands and Flanders ( such as Louis Tobback, the mayor of Leuven or former minister of defence and Eurocommissioner Frits Bolkestein ).

The Counts of Louvain ( French ) or of Leuven ( Dutch ) were the rulers of the County of Louvain.

From 2 – 12 August 1831 the Dutch army, headed by the Dutch princes, invaded Belgium, in the so-called " Ten Days Campaign ", and defeated a makeshift Belgian force near Hasselt and Leuven.

Lodewijk Elzevir ( c. 1540, Leuven — 4 February 1617, Leiden ), originally Lodewijk or Louis Elsevier or Elzevier, was a Dutch printer.

Leuven fell on 25 May 1706 ; three days later, the Allies entered Brussels, the capital of the Spanish Netherlands.

The chief centres of Erasmus's activity were Paris, Leuven ( in the Duchy of Brabant ), England, and Basel ; yet he never belonged firmly in any one of these places.

In the list of more important bulls issued by him the famous bull " In Coena Domini " ( 1568 ) takes a leading place ; but amongst others throwing light on Pope Pius V's character and policy there may be mentioned his prohibition of quaestuary ( February 1567 and January 1570 ); the condemnation of Michael Baius, the heretical Professor of Leuven ( 1567 ); the reform of the breviary ( July 1568 ); the denunciation of the " dirum nefas " ( August 1568 ); the banishment of the Jews from the ecclesiastical dominions except Rome and Ancona ( 1569 ); the injunction of the use of the reformed missal ( July 1570 ); the confirmation of the privileges of the Society of Crusaders for the protection of the Inquisition ( October 1570 ); the dogmatic certainty of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ( November 1570 ); the suppression of the Fratres Humiliati for profligacy ( February 1571 ); the approbation of the new office of the Blessed Virgin ( March 1571 ); the enforcement of the daily recitation of the Canonical Hours ( September 1571 ); and the purchase of assistance against the Turks by offers of plenary pardon ( March 1572 ).

The subject of the projected work was a matter of discussion between composer, librettists and the Opéra-Comique management ; Adolphe de Leuven, on behalf of the theatre, made several suggestions that were politely rejected.

596 – 597, Leuven, 1782 ), exposing gross abuses in the Curia, in the church administration and public worship ; and proffering many a bold and earnest word on behalf of abolishing such abuses.

The decision was condemned by several French bishops ; by Louis Antoine de Noailles, Archbishop of Paris ; by the theological faculties at Leuven, Douai, and eventually Paris ; and, finally, in 1703, by Pope Clement XI.

It is home to Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer group and one of the top five largest consumer goods companies in the world ; and to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence.

The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ( KU Leuven ; University of Leuven ) is the oldest Catholic university still in existence in the world and the biggest university in Belgium.

There are also a number of hogescholen ( Vocational university, literally translated: " high schools ") such as the Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven ( KHLeuven ; the Catholic High School Leuven ), as well as a university college: Groep T ( Group T ).

Because no guild records were kept prior to 1494 in Leuven there is no concrete proof that Matsys attained his master's status there ; however, historians generally accept this to be the location of his early training because there he had not been previously registered in Antwerp as an apprentice.

Studies in Greek and Byzantine Texts Presented to Jacques Noret for his Sixty-Fifth Birthday Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 137, Leuven – Paris – Dudley, MA, 2004, p. 11-43 ; and id., Le pouvoir de l ' anathème ou Maxime le Confesseur et les moines palestiniens du VIIe siècle, in A. Camplani-G. Filoramo, Foundations of Power and Conflicts of Authority in Late-Antique Monasticism.

It is also at that time that Dirk Martens, a local citizen, became the Southern Netherlands ’ first printer, founding a printing shop in 1473 that published books by various authors including Christopher Columbus ; Martens would later become a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven.

* Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Dutch-speaking, situated in Leuven ; and

He was born at Besançon and educated at Leuven ; but he secretly left the seminary there, and travelled through Germany to Italy, where he remained several years and was often reduced to poverty.

However, an increasingly popular view, first put forward by Edward Lipinski, professor of Oriental and Slavonic studies at the Catholic University of Leuven, is that the Jebusites were most likely an Amorite tribe ; Lipinski identified them with the group referred to as Yabusi ' um in a cuneiform letter found in the archive of Mari, Syria.

X! NK often perform at rock festivals in Belgium ( for example Marktrock in Leuven ).

The printers Pierre Phalèse ( of Leuven ) and Tielman Susato ( of Antwerp ) published more music by him than by any other composer, which shows the extent of his reputation at the time, though his music is not as often recorded today as is that of many of the Netherlanders working at the same time.

In the Low Countries and German-speaking Europe this position was known as baljuw ( from bailli ), but other words were used such as schout " reeve, ( medieval ) bailiff " ( Holland, Antwerp, Mechelen ,'s-Hertogenbosch, Turnhout ), meier " majordomo " ( Asse, Leuven ), drossāte " steward, seneschal " ( other parts of Brabant ), amman ( Brussels ), and Amtmann and Ammann ( Germany, Switzerland, Austria ).

In Antwerp, Ghent, Hasselt, Leuven and Aalst the codex used is that published by the KVHV ( Katholiek Vlaams Hoogstudentenverbond or Catholic Flemish Students Union ).

It is published in two editions: one with a green cover by the KVHV of Leuven ( used in the provinces of Vlaams-Brabant, Limburg, and Antwerp ) and one with a blue cover by the KVHV of Ghent ( used in East and West Flanders ).

He used this system working in collaboration with researchers at the IMEC microelectronics research laboratory in Leuven, Belgium, to build some of the smallest and fastest field effect transistors that had ever been built

An important centre of learning and training for Irish priests developed in Leuven ( Lúbhan in Irish and Louvain historically in English ) in the Duchy of Brabant, now in Flanders ( northern Belgium ).

* Insolubilia ( Insolubles ), Latin text and English translation by Stephen Read, Leuven, Peeters Editions ( Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations, 10 ), 2010.

His public opposition to the Church of England forced him to leave the Kingdom and in that year, having resigned himself from all of his preferments, he left England and sought refuge in the town and the University of Leuven, or Louvain, to join many other students from England who had left the English Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in order to avoid having to take the Oath of Supremacy.

Thomas Bradwardine, Insolubilia ( Insolubles ), Latin text and English translation by Stephen Read, Leuven, Peeters Editions ( Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations, 10 ), 2010.

Kasteel van Arenberg ( Dutch ), or Arenberg Château in English, is a château in Heverlee close to Leuven in Belgium.

Throughout his career, he was guest professor at the University of Zürich ( winter semester 1967 / 68 ); at the Freie Universität Berlin ( winter semester 1968 / 69 ); at Columbia University, New York ( Fall 1973 ); at Yale University, New Haven ( Spring 1976 ; turning down an offer to go there again in 1977 ); at the Sorbonne ( Paris IV, winter semester, 1978 ); at the University of Leuven ( Franqui-Professur, 1982 ); at the University of California, Berkeley ( Spring 1982 ); at the University of California ( 1985 ); at Princeton University ( Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow, February 1986 ); and at the University of Wisconsin – Madison ( Brittingham Visiting Professor of English, March 1986 ).

* Thomas McNevin Veech D Sc Hist ( Leuven ), Dr Nicholas Sanders and the English Reformation 1530-1581.