St Joseph College (
Dutch: ''Sint-Jozefcollege'') is a
Roman Catholic secondary school
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...
in
Turnhout,
Belgium. It was founded by the
Society of Jesus in 1845 and was rebuilt in the same style as
Xaverius College
Xaverius College, in Borgerhout, near Antwerp, Belgium, is affiliated with the Jesuits in Flanders, the northern and western part of Belgium where Dutch is spoken.
History
Xaverius College enrolls about 800 students, girls and boys, between ...
in Borgerhout.
Jesuits in Europe
retrieved 20 February 2014
History
As early as 1639, there was a Latin school in the area. This lasted until the 1796 and the Napoleonic wars.[
In 1845 a landowner, Maria de Nef, asked the Jesuits to take over the school. It was re-established as the ''Collegium Sancti Josephi Turnholtanum''. Over the following 90 years, its campus grew in size to accommodate the increasing student population. In 1935, a new school was built on a 22-acre site on the outskirts of the city. In 1941, this was expanded and in 1958 a new primary school was built.][
Originally, it only taught Greek and Latin. In 1959, sciences were introduced and in 1985 it became co-educational.][''150 jaar Sint-Jozefcollege Turnhout 1845-1995'' (Turnout: Boekenantiquariaat De Lezenaar, 1996) pp. 200-220.]
Alumni
Notable former students include:
*Paul Stoffels
Paul, Baron Stoffels (born 8 March 1962 in Turnhout, Belgium) is a Belgian MD, who studied medicine at the University of Hasselt and the University of Antwerp (UA). In addition he studied Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at the Prince Leo ...
Gallery
File:Palmares gymnasium turnholtanum.jpg, Original Latin School Charter
File:Oud college turnhout.jpg, Old College drawing
See also
* List of Jesuit sites in Belgium
* Xaverius College
Xaverius College, in Borgerhout, near Antwerp, Belgium, is affiliated with the Jesuits in Flanders, the northern and western part of Belgium where Dutch is spoken.
History
Xaverius College enrolls about 800 students, girls and boys, between ...
* Diocese of Antwerp
The Diocese of Antwerp is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Belgium. The diocese was restored in 1961. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolis (religious jurisdiction), metrop ...
References
External links
St Joseph College site
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Turnhout
Jesuit secondary schools in Belgium
Educational institutions established in 1845