Kurt Martens
Kurt Martens (born March 31, 1973 in Tielt, Belgium) is a Belgian professor and canon lawyer. Biography Martens studied as a secondary school student at the Sint-Jozefscollege in Tielt. Later as a student at the Catholic University of Louvain, he obtained a civil law degree (1996), licentiate degree in canon law (1997), and earned his doctorate in canon law (2004). During his student years he was president of the faculty circle ''Canonica'' for the 1996-1997 academic year, and worked as a research assistant at the Special Faculty of Canon Law of the Catholic University of Louvain until 2005. In 2003 he was a visiting professor at the Institut de Droit Canonique of the Université Marc Bloch in Strasbourg, France. Starting with the 2005-2006 academic year, Martens has been a member of the faculty of the School of Canon Law at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He received the Young Faculty Research Award from the University in 2009, and was promoted to Ordinar ...
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Tielt
Tielt (; french: Thielt) is a Belgian city and municipality in the province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the town of Tielt proper and the villages of Aarsele, Kanegem, and Schuiferskapelle. History Some traces of Gallo-Roman occupation have been found in this area. The region was invaded by the Viking Rikiwulf of the Wulfing dynasty in 880 AD, who built Rikiwulfinga-haim, which survives as the Rijkegem-kouter today. The first written mention of ''Tiletum'', dates from 1105, when Baldric of Noyon, Bishop of Tournai, awarded the right of presentment for the parish church to the chapter of St Salvator in Harelbeke.K. Maddens, "Schenking van het altaar van Tielt aan het Sint-Salvatorskapittel van Harelbeke, 1105", in ''Doorheen de nationale geschiedenis'' (Brussels, 1980), pp. 15-17. In 1245, Margaret of Constantinople, Countess of Flanders gave the city its charter and decided to found a hospital here. A few years later, a market place and cloth hall were built as w ...
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