Lot n° 49
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University course - Manuscript on 19th century... - Lot 49 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
University course - Manuscript on 19th century paper (1852-1853), entitled "Histoire politique de la Belgique", with the name of the student-copyist, Emile Van Hoorde and the mention of the dates of the academic year (1852-1853), 8°, 486 unpaginated pages in fine handwriting, contemporary brown half-chagrin, decorated spine (some wear). Well preserved. Interesting specimen of historiography of Belgium barely 20 years after its independence. Obviously a course of the Catholic University of Louvain given during the academic year 1852-1853, Van Hoorde's first year of university being 17 years old. He received his doctorate in law in 1859. Emile Antoine Marie Van Hoorde, born on 12 September 1835 in Brussels and died there on 21 June 1901, was a Belgian Catholic politician. Van Hoorde was a doctor of law and a lawyer at the Brussels Court of Appeal (1859-1901). He was a director (1889), then chairman (1893-1901) of the SA des Charbonnages de Sars-Longchamps et Bouvy. He was elected deputy for the district of Bastogne, replacing Constant d'Hoffschmidt de Resteigne (1863-1868), then elected (1870-1898) and finally provincial senator, replacing Alphonse Nothomb (1898-1901). A document that deserves a thorough study. The history of the University of Leuven is not a long quiet river from the Middle Ages to the separation into two universities in the last century. On November 8, 1834, the bishops of Belgium, authorized by a brief of Pope Gregory XVI of December 13, 1833, founded in Mechelen the "Catholic University of Belgium", usually called "Catholic University of Mechelen". This new university, following the abolition of the State University of Leuven on 15 August 1835, decided to establish itself in the same year in this old university town, where it took the name of "Catholic University of Leuven". The city of Leuven had long had the reputation of an old university city, which had already been the seat of: the university of the Dukes of Brabant in 1425 and the State University of Leuven founded in 1817. In 1835, the law on higher education was discussed in Parliament. In a last attempt to save the State University of Leuven, Charles Rogier proposed in the session of August 11, 1835 that there should be only one state-funded university in Belgium, based in Leuven, He was supported in his fight by the fiery eloquence of the Catholic deputy Ignace Quirini, a former student of the State University, who later became a professor at the new Catholic university, but their last fight, sounding the death knell of unionism, was in vain and the proposal was rejected. The law passed on 27 September 1835 definitively abolished the State University of Leuven, which closed its doors on 15 August 1835. It was then that the Catholic University of Mechelen, after the suppression of the State University of Leuven, settled in Leuven and took the name of "Catholic University of Leuven" (Universitas catholica Lovaniensis) Monseigneur de Ram wanted, in the spirit of the Catholic reconquest established by Gregory XVI, to make it a bulwark that could oppose "the enemies of religion" and hinder "the progress of those disastrous doctrines that for half a century have shaken the foundations of society".
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