Talk:Leuven

message: The destruction of the library of Leuven in August 1914 is an event of some notoriety. I wonder if we can say more about that. The event figures in Allied accounts of the lack of civilization and barbarism of the Germans. I am guessing it is more complex than that. Anyway additional details will be helpful to the reader. 64.48.158.34 05:09, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I found out that there is a bit in the Treaty of Versailles about reparations to balance the destruction of the library of Leuven. "Germany undertakes to furnish to the University of Louvain, within three months after a request made by it and transmitted through the intervention of the Reparation Commission, manuscripts, incunabula, printed books, maps and objects of collection corresponding in number and value to those destroyed in the burning by Germany of the Library of Louvain." (Article 247 of Part VIII, ). Maybe it can be mentioned in this article. Best, 64.48.192.31 04:26, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Library of Leuven

message: I was a resident in Leuven for a total of four years, and from what I remember, "Fonske" was to remind the students that only beer -or- wisdom could be in the head at one time, not both.  Notice the Dutch diminutive "~ke" ending to the Latin word "Fons" for "Fountain".
:Fons is also a Flemish and Dutch variant af the name Alphons. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.241.179.3 (talk) 01:21, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fonske

message: This link (External Links, Student Forum) claims to be a student forum, but it's limited to economics students. I don't see the point of linking such a specific group's forum in the Leuven article. To be honest, I think it's just an attempt at advertising their forum.
Remove it? Key to the city 12:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm in favour of removing it.
Erik Van Thienen 21:43, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Student Forum

message: Hello everyone, for those interested: you are free to participate in the move request put here: Talk:Counts of Louvain#Requested move2. My argumentation behind this move request is that "counts of Leuven" has a much higher contemporary usage than "counts of Louvain". Google shows an overall preference for "counts of Leuven", on average (=including all counts) there are five times more "of Leuven"'s than "of Louvain"'s. Morgengave (talk) 21:48, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Counts of Louvain: request move to Counts of Leuven

message: Is it really necessary to mention the Husserl Archives in the introduction? The introduction is particularly for topics that pertain the city as a whole, while the archives have not really anything to do with the city as such. Maybe it is more appropriate to give it a separate section in the article. Atlas89 (talk) 23:17, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right. I've moved it to 'culture', but there's a case to be made for its removal entirely. Oreo Priest talk 16:33, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Husserl Archives 

message: I have removed a sentence, which either used a bad source or improperly understood it, that stated that the burgomaster of Leuven was killed by German soldiers during the sacking. While many inhabitants of Leuven were indeed brutally murdered in cold blood by German soldiers without any serious inquiry, the burgomaster survived and fled to the Netherlands where he advocated the Belgian cause. He died soon after the war, but peacefully.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:1811:90E:D000:3541:CACE:7A61:3B49 (talk) 20:34, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a reliable reference for that? Materialscientist (talk) 21:37, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: That whole sentence is wrong, neither the burgomaster nor the rector were shot. Here is biography of Leo Colins, the mayor of Leuven in 1914. He returned as mayor after the war. http://www.oorlogsdagboekleuven.be/bio-leo-colins/ The rector of the university also wasn't shot. He also fled Leuven http://www.oorlogsdagboekleuven.be/rector-op-de-vlucht/. He continued as rector until 1940.  Here is a news paper article recounting the hostage taking of the rector: http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20140825_01231830. It also explicitly says he's survived.  See also https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_burgemeesters_van_Leuven and https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulin_Ladeuze. I'm removing that sentence from the article. Anton3ss (talk) 09:16, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Death of the Burgomaster 

message: What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content! Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 17:28, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Timeline of Leuven]] 

message: No geography section.  Anyone know anything?  is the river called Dijl? 95.144.182.222 (talk) 17:22, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geography 

message: Leuven has experienced extreme political instability since the death of black engineering student Sanda Dia, the only black of his undergraduate school who was killed six months before graduation. Can we add demographics of race and ethnicity to the page? There is a severe level of political instability and it needs to be measured. There is severe level of covert apartheid violence and it needs to be measured. There have been many racial killings and tortures since Sanda's death in Leuven, since the 2015 migrant crisis. Namely forced euthanasia organized by 'Broeders van Liefde' and the courts of Leuven. SOS Very high level of racial stratification and white supremacist networks in police force and very high level of neo-Nazi related judicial corruption. 94.225.153.245 (talk) 14:15, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intercultural instability