Original sentence: The Catholic University of Leuven (of Louvain in French, and historically in English), founded in 1425 in Leuven as the University of Leuven, closed by the French Republic in 1797, transferred to Mechelen as the Catholic University of Mechelen in 1834 and returned to the town of Leuven in 1835, was considered the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium
Edited sentence: The Catholic University of Leuven (of Louvain in French, and historically in English), founded in 1834 in Mechelen as the Catholic University of Belgium, usually called Catholic University of Mechelen and transferred to the town of Leuven in 1835, is a private catholic university in Belgium