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The Free University of Brussels (French: Université libre de Bruxelles, or ULB; Dutch: Vrije Hogeschool te Brussel, later Vrije Universiteit Brussel) was a university in Brussels, Belgium. Founded in 1834 on the principle of "free inquiry" ( libre examen ), its founders envisaged the institution as a free-thinker reaction to the ...
The result: on 20 November 1834, the Université Libre de Belgique - later to become "de Bruxelles" - opened its doors. Translate Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) into Dutch and you get Vrije Universiteit van Brussel: Free University of Brussels. In this sense, ULB is also already VUB.
The Free University of Brussels was a university in Brussels, Belgium. Founded in 1834 on the principle of "free inquiry", its founders envisaged the institution as a free-thinker reaction to the traditional dominance of Catholicism in Belgian education.
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel was formed in 1970 by the splitting of the Free University of Brussels, which was founded in 1834 by the lawyer and liberal politician Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen. The founder aimed to establish a university independent from state and church, where academic freedom would be prevalent. [9]
ULB is one of the two institutions tracing their origins to the Free University of Brussels, founded in 1834 by the lawyer and liberal politician Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen. The split occurred along linguistic lines, forming the French-speaking ULB in 1969, and Dutch -speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 1970.
The original Free University of Brussels was founded in 1834, as a reaction against the catholic domination in higher education (see the history of the ULB). Its name refers to the complete freedom of inquiry which is the founding principle of the university, and to the freedom of domination by either state or religious authorities.
…in the region include the Free University of Brussels (founded 1834; divided since 1970 into separate French- and Flemish-speaking universities) and some faculties of the French-language branch of the Catholic University of Leuven (Université Catholique de Louvain).
