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Old University of Leuven
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
.
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