University course, 19th century manuscript:... - Lot 28 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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University course, 19th century manuscript:... - Lot 28 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
University course, 19th century manuscript: "Université libre de Belgique / (Brussels) / (1840) / Moral Philosophy / A. F." in-4 of 66 pages unencrypted in ink on paper, bound in half cloth. Just after the foundation of the Free University of Belgium on Nov. 20, 1834, which became the Free University of Brussels in 1842. Extremely rare university course from this period. The jurist Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen, venerable master of the lodge "Les Amis philanthropes", launched in June 1834 a call for a subscription in the liberal circles and in the lodges of the Grand Orient of Belgium for the creation of a "free" university which would fight "intolerance and prejudice" by spreading the philosophy of the Enlightenment. However, Verhaegen was told that his project was utopian, as he had neither professors, nor premises, nor money. He had no teachers, no premises and no money, but the Mayor of Brussels and Freemason, Nicolas-Jean Rouppe, found premises in the former palace of Charles-Alexandre de Lorraine on the Place du Musée. Verhaegen added the School of Medicine to his project and found teachers among the experienced men of the Museum of Science and Letters. The Faculty of Law was entrusted to voluntary teachers, such as Henri de Brouckère, who was also a Freemason. The City of Brussels also provided a subsidy. Originally, it was called the Free University of Belgium and consisted of four faculties: philosophy and literature, law, science and medicine. In 1842 it changed its name to the Free University of Brussels. Until 1847, the university lived off subscriptions launched by the Grand Orient and various Masonic lodges in the country, including the Friends of Philanthropy. In addition to financial difficulties, the Church and the State threatened the young Free University of Brussels. The law on higher education of 1835 abolished the State University of Leuven, which allowed the Catholic University of Mechelen to settle in the Brabant city where it took the name of Catholic University of Leuven and to present itself little by little, by ignoring several judgments and by distorting its history, as being the heir and the legitimate continuator of the old university of Leuven, which can still be read today. This left only two state universities - Ghent and Liège. As for the bishops, they found it difficult to accept the existence of a university that proclaimed itself autonomous and thus beyond their control. The Catholic press militated against the teaching given in Brussels. Verhaegen responded to all the attacks with a resounding academic speech in which he proclaimed: "Starting from the freedom of education, we are achieving freedom in education. ».
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