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Ghent University (in Dutch, Universiteit Gent or UGent) is one of the two
large Flemish universities. It is
located in the historic town of Gent in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking (northern) part of Belgium.
It is a relatively young university, founded in 1817. The year before, king William I of the Netherlands had proclaimed the
establishment of three universities in the Southern Netherlands. The language of teaching from 1817 till Belgium's autonomy and
separation from the Netherlands (1830 was Latin;
from 1830 till 1930 it was first French and then a bilingual
(French–Dutch) system. In 1930, Ghent University became the first Belgian university
to teach in the Dutch language.
In contrast to the Catholic University of
Leuven, Ghent University is independent university (i.e. not connected to any kind of religion).
Eminent professors
- Paul Fredericq,
historian
- Joseph Guislain,
physiologist and psychiatrist
- Jean-Jacques Haus,
jurist
- Corneille Heymans,
physiologist
- François Laurent,
jurist
- Julius Mac Leod,
botanist
- Paul Mansion,
mathematician
- Henri Pirenne, historian
- Joseph Plateau, physicist
See also
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