university in Brussels, Belgium. Founded in 1834 on the principle of "free inquiry" (libre examen), its founders envisaged the institution as a free-thinker...

of Brussels (1834–1969), a defunct university which split along linguistic lines in 1970 Catholic University of Brussels, a Dutch-medium university founded...

Uccle, Brussels, on 11 June 1903. In 1924, he completed studies of classical philology at the Free University of Brussels. He then accompanied one of his...

University of Oslo. De Houwer completed her bachelor's degree in Germanic linguistics and literature in 1977 at the Free University of Brussels, and her...

the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) (1962–1964), the University of Bonn...

Congolese politician who is currently serving as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 12 June 2024. She was nominated for the position...

lecturer at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (1967–1969) and then a professor at Bar-Ilan University in the Chemistry Department. He became a...

received a PhD in zoology in 1930 from Free University Brussels. In 1963, Tong inserted DNA of a male carp into the egg of a female carp and became the first...

also published several critical editions of Middle Ages texts, including one of Les Poésies de Froissart (Brussels, 1870–1872), and a monograph Sur le séjour...

sister Antoinette Spaak was head of the Democratic Front of Francophones. Spaak was shot dead in his flat in Brussels in 1981 by his estranged wife with...

enrolled in law studies at the Free University of Brussels. At that time he developed an interest in psychology and the study of behavior; in turn, reading...

He studied law and took a degree in German philology at the Free University of Brussels, after which he worked as a teacher. Delvaux's filmmaking career...

78-year-old painter died and was buried in Ixelles, Brussels. Ni Pollok then returned home to take care of her house which had become the Le Mayeur Museum...

Belgian businessman and president of Dexia Group and the Belgian Olympic Committee. From 2002 until 2004 he was a member of the International Olympic Committee...

Doctor of Medicine from the Free University of Brussels in 1892 and began his work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1894, in the laboratory of Elie...

politician, known as the founder of the Free University of Brussels. He was twice chairman of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (from 28 June 1848...

spectrales (Theorem of Lefschetz and criteria of degeneration of spectral sequences). He completed his doctorate at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay...

footsteps of his deceased father, by enrolling in a study of the sciences (1870-1871) and then medicine (1871-1873) at the Free University of Brussels. But...

at Brussels in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. By the end of the war, he became the youngest full professor in the history of that university. Perelman's...

in Europe." La Fontaine was born in Brussels on 22 April 1854 and studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université libre...

Commander in the Order of Leopold II 22 June 2000: Commander of the Legion of Honour 4 January 1977: Knight Grand Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau "Atheneum...

engineering degree at the Free University of Brussels at the age of 15 before his studies were interrupted by the German invasion of Belgium in August 1914...

precocious and brilliant student, Stengers entered the Free University of Brussels in 1939, at the age of 17. He published his first scholarly article two years...

facilitated the recovery of the economy of Belgium after the Second World War. Born in Brussels, he was a son of Max Guttenstein and Marie-Paule Schweitzer...

Congo. From 1955 to 1992 he was professor of social and cultural anthropology at the Free University of Brussels, later Université libre de Bruxelles. In...

of Christian sources. Joly was born in Carnières, Belgium on 12 May 1922. He was a professor at the Free University of Brussels and at the University...

1944. Born in Brussels, Janson was the son of liberal statesman Paul Janson (died 1913). He studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into...

caché) in the rural Province of Namur. Gotovitch studied at the Athénée Léon Lepage and later the Free University of Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles...

and director of the State Normal School in Arlon. She became a professor of mathematics at the Berkendael State Normal School in Brussels in 1960. In 1961...

the Official University of the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi from 1958 to 1960, and secured a law degree from the Free University of Brussels in 1964. He married...