Free University of Brussels (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Free University of Brussels was a university in Brussels, Belgium. In 1969, it split into the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel.The two universities continue to collaborate, and are together referred to as the Brussels Free Universities.When the nine provinces that broke away from the Kingdom of the Netherlands formed the Belgian State in 1830, there were three state universities in the country: Ghent, Liege and Leuven. Even though Brussels had been promoted to the rank of capital, it still had no university. For this reason, in 1831 a group of leading Brussels Masonic figures in the fields of the arts, science and education set themselves the objective of creating a university for the city. They had the choice between a state university and, failing that, a private institution, since the Belgian Constitution, the most liberal in Europe, allowed for this possibility.