Christian de Duve

Christian de Duve

male, 92 years old
Leuven alumni before 1968, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, CatholicUniversityofLeuven, Jesuit, eukaryotic, eukaryote…leuven, Origin of life, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Christian René de Duve is an internationally acclaimed cytologist and biochemist. De Duve was born in Thames-Ditton, Britain, as a son of Belgian e...
Koenraad Elst

Koenraad Elst

male, 50 years old
institutional, Leuven alumni, flemish, Academic Institution, anti-communist, Indian history…Banaras Hindu University alumni, born in 1959 in Leuven, Belgium, banaras hindu university, CatholicUniversityofLeuven, Catholic University
Koenraad Elst is a Belgian writer and orientalist (without institutional affiliation). He has authored fifteen books on topics related to Hinduism,...

Herman van Breda

male, deceased (1974)
Leuven alumni before 1968, Roman Catholic priest, philosopher, philosophy, flemish, belgian…leuven, CatholicUniversityofLeuven, Higher Institute of Philosophy
Herman Leo Van Breda (28 February, 1911, Lier, Belgium – 4 March, 1974, Leuven) was a Franciscan, philosopher and founder of the Husserl archives at...
Rudi Pauwels

Rudi Pauwels

male, 49 years old
Leuven alumni, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, CatholicUniversityofLeuven, lausanne, EPFL, flemish…Development of New Anti-HIV Agents
Rudi Pauwels (b. 1960) is a Belgian pharmacologist. He studied pharmaceutical sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and obtained...
Willy Vande Walle

Willy Vande Walle

male
CatholicUniversityofLeuven, japanologist, Japanese Studies, Order of the Rising Sun
Willy Vande Walle is a professor of Japanese Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. On June 9th 2006, he received the Order of the...
Joan Lluís Vives

Joan Lluís Vives

male, deceased (1540)
Judaizers, Crypto-Judaism, Renaissance humanist, university of leuven, Université catholique de Louvain, erasmus…Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, CatholicUniversityofLeuven
Joan Lluís Vives (6 March, 1492-6 May, 1540 in Valencia) was a famous Valencian scholar and humanist. As a child he saw his father, grandmother a...
Jacques Taminiaux

Jacques Taminiaux

male
Boston College, political philosophy, phenomenology, scientist, belgian, leuven…CatholicUniversityofLeuven, Higher Institute of Philosophy, Husserl-Archives Leuven
Jacques Taminiaux is a Belgian scientist, since 1989 Professor at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States). He studied...
John IV, Duke of Brabant

John IV, Duke of Brabant

male, deceased (1427)
Philip III, Duke of Burgundy, Duke of Lothier, John III, battle of agincourt, CatholicUniversityofLeuven, Philip the Good…House of Valois, John, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing, Antoine, Duke of Brabant, Philip I, Duke of Brabant, Philip of St. Pol
John IV, Duke of Brabant (Atrecht June 11, 1403 - April 17, 1427, Brussels) was the son of Antoine, Duke of Brabant and Jeanne de St. Pol. He...

Jacques-Joseph Haus

male, deceased (1881)
Ghent University alumni, United Kingdom of the Netherlands, CatholicUniversityofLeuven, University of Liège, liege, ghent university…University of Würzburg
Jacques-Joseph Haus was born in Würzburg, Germany on January 5, 1796 to Ernest-Augustus Haus and Marie-Barbe Stang. He died in Ghent, Belgium on f...

Gustavo Gutiérrez

male, 81 years old
Hispanic theologian, Leuven alumni before 1968, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Dominicans, CatholicUniversityofLeuven, From Lima…leuven, University of Notre Dame, Pontifical University of Peru, legion of honor
Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino, O.P. (born 8 June 1928 in Lima) is a Peruvian theologian and Dominican priest regarded as the founder of Liberation T...