Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen
Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen was a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician, known as the founder of the Free University of Brussels. He was twice chairman of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.
Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen
Verhaegen with masonic symbols
The clock tower of the Free University of Brussels', now the Université Libre de Bruxelles', campus in Solbosch
St V festivities, 2004.
Free University of Brussels (1834–1969)
The Free University of Brussels was a university in Brussels, Belgium. Founded in 1834 on the principle of "free inquiry", its founders envisaged the institution as a free-thinker reaction to the traditional dominance of Catholicism in Belgian education. The institution was avowedly secular and particularly associated with Liberal political movements during the era of pillarisation. The Free University was one of Belgium's major universities, together with the Catholic University of Leuven and the state universities of Liège and Ghent.
The main building of the Solbosch campus of the Free University of Brussels, built in the 1920s. It now houses the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen, founder of the Free University of Brussels
The Free University, then housed in the Granvelle Palace, c. 1900
The university's football team that won the bronze medal at the 1900 Olympic Games
