Place
Leuven
Overview
Leuven (UK: , US: , Dutch: [ˈløːvə(n)] ), also called Louvain (, US also , French: [luvɛ̃] ), is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. A Dutch-speaking municipality, it is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. The municipality itself comprises the sub-municipalities of Heverlee, Kessel-Lo, Leuven proper, Wilsele, and Wijgmaal and parts of Haasrode and Korbeek-Lo. It is the eighth largest city in Belgium, with more than 100,244 inhabitants.
Leuven has been a university city since 1425. This makes it the oldest university city in the Low Countries. KU Leuven, the largest Dutch-speaking university in the world and the largest university in the Low Countries (and thus also Belgium's largest university), has its flagship campus in Leuven.
The city is home of the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest beer brewer and sixth-largest fast-moving consumer goods company.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Leuven
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Thomas More
- Justus Lipsius
- Jacques Derrida
- Shaun Gallagher
- Edmund Husserl
- Xavier Zubiri
- Thomas De Koninck
- Philippe Van Parijs
- John Punch (theologian)
Place in the tradition
Part of Maoism.