Holy Ghost College was one of the colleges of
Leuven University
KU Leuven (or Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, l ...
, now listed as built heritage of Flanders, Belgium.
[Agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed 2017]
Heilige Geestcollege
''Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed''. Accessed 22 January 2017.
The college was founded in 1442 when Louis de Rycke gave the University a former brewery that he owned to house seven poor students of the
Faculty of Theology.
[Hastings Rashdall, ''The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. Volume 2, Part 1: Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Scotland, etc.'' (Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 261.] The gift was confirmed on 5 June 1445, and was extended in 1462 when de Rycke bequeathed his own house and garden to the college. Other donations followed until the college owned the whole block in which it was situated. Renovations began in the 16th century and continued throughout the college's history. The current appearance derives from 18th-century renovations.
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When the French authorities confiscated the university buildings in 1797, the property was given to the city, which used it for a school. In 1835 it was leased back to the refounded university as a hall of residence for Theology students. The buildings were seriously damaged by allied bombing in May 1944. In 1948 the main building was listed as a protected monument. Reconstruction work was carried out 1950-1957.][
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See also
* List of colleges of Leuven University
This is a list of the constituent colleges of the Old University of Leuven (founded 1425; suppressed 1797). Many of them are listed heritage sites and some are in use by the current Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
KU Leuven (or Katholieke Un ...
References
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Old University of Leuven colleges
Protected heritage sites in Belgium
1440s establishments in the Burgundian Netherlands
1442 establishments in Europe
1440s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
Educational institutions established in the 15th century