page_title: Old University of Leuven
section_title: Notable alumni and faculty members
hierarchical_section_title: Old University of Leuven / Related People / Notable alumni and faculty members
context_page_description: The Old University of Leuven is the name historians give to the university, or studium generale, founded in Leuven, Brabant, in 1425. The university was closed in 1797, a week after the cession to the French Republic of the Austrian Netherlands and the principality of Liège by the Treaty of Campo Formio.
  The name was in medieval Latin Studium generale Lovaniense or Universitas Studii Lovaniensis, in humanistical Latin Academia Lovaniensis, and most usually, Universitas Lovaniensis, in Dutch Universiteyt Loven and also Hooge School van Loven.
  It is commonly referred to as the University of Leuven or University of Louvain, sometimes with the qualification "old" to distinguish it from the Catholic University of Leuven. This might also refer to a short-lived but historically important State University of Leuven, 1817–1835. The immediate official and legal successor and inheritor of the old University, under the laws in force in 1797, was the École centrale de Bruxelles, which itself closed down in 1802.
context_section_description: Notable alumni and faculty members of the pre-1797 University of Leuven include:
  Rudolph of Beringen (active 1420–1459), professor of canon law
  Jan Standonck (1454–1504), Master of the Collège de Montaigu in Paris
  Adriaan Floriszoon Boeyens (1459–1523), Pope Adrian VI
  Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536), humanist
  Damião de Góis (1502-1574), Portuguese humanist,  philosopher
  Johannes Sturm (1507–1589), German educator
  Gerard Mercator (1512–1594), cartographer
  Michael Baius (1513–1589), theologian
  Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), father of modern anatomy
  Rembert Dodoens (1517–1585), botanist
  Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517–1586), cardinal, statesman
  Wilhelmus Damasi Lindanus (1525–1588), Bishop of Roermond and Gent, author
  John Dee (1527–1608 or 9), mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher, imperialist and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I
  Petrus Peckius the Elder (1529–1589), law professor
  Blessed Diarmaid Ó hUrthuile, or Dermot O'Hurley (c. 1530–1584), Archbishop of Cashel, Roman Catholic martyr
  Willem Hessels van Est (1542–1613), biblical scholar
  Justus Lipsius (1547–1606), philologist
  Leonardus Lessius (1554–1623), Jesuit moral theologian
  Petrus Peckius the Younger (1562–1625), diplomat and chancellor of Brabant
  Aubert Miraeus (1573–1640), ecclesiastical historian
  Jacobus Boonen (1573–1655), Archbishop of Mechelen
  Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578–1625), anatomist and botanist
  Lawrence Beyerlinck (1578–1627), encyclopedist
  Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583–1649), Latin playwright
  Abbé de Saint-Cyran (1583–1643), French ecclesiastic
  Cornelius Otto Jansen (1585–1638), father of Jansenism
  St Robert Bellarmine (1569–1576), Cardinal, Jesuit theologian.
  John of St. Thomas (1589–1644), theologian and philosopher
  John Sinnich (1603-1666), Irish born, professor of theology
  Marcin Kalinowski (c. 1605–1652), Polish nobleman
  Łukasz Opaliński (1612–1666), political writer
  Franciscus Deurweerders (c. 1616–1666), founder of the Confraternity of the Cord of Saint Thomas
  Cornelis de Bie (1627 – c.1715), Flemish rhetorician
  Joannes Roucourt (1636–1676), parish priest and theologian
  Francis Martin (1652–1722), Irish controversialist
  Edward Ambrose Burgis (c.1673-1747), historian and theologian
  Febronius (1701–1790), historian and theologian
  Charles Nerinckx (1761–1824), founder of the Sisters of Loretto
  Jean-Baptiste van Dievoet (1775-1862), Licentiatus in both laws
caption: Gerardus Mercator(1512-1594), the celebrated mapmaker, active in the Protestant movements he was arrested by the Inquisition at the same time as a group of citizens of Louvain. He fled to Germany to Duisburg where he became famous for his production of maps.
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