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43-536: Guislain started his medical studies at Ecole de Médicine and he was one of the first students to the University of Ghent ; he graduated as a medical doctor in 1819. In 1828 Guislain became head of the psychiatric hospitals of Ghent, for which he wrote a new internal regulation together with Petrus Josef Triest . It was the first of its type and stipulated how to handle the patients in a decent and therapeutically justified way. In 1850, together with Edouard Ducpétiaux , he

86-665: A candidate for the municipality Council elections and was elected. Three years later he was re-elected for a second period of three years, but in 1854 he made an end to his political career. In 1852, the municipality Council of Ghent accepted his plans for a new psychiatric hospital and in 1857 the Guislain Institute was inaugurated. After he died on 1 April 1860 in Ghent he was interred at the Campo Sancto in Sint Amandsberg . In 1887,

129-400: A separate school called Instituut Professor Vlerick voor Management . Later in 1999 together with KU Leuven , Ghent University established Vlerick Business School merging the two MBA programs of the universities, naming the newborn institute Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School . In 2006, the school rebranded itself as Vlerick Business School . KU Leuven and Ghent University are still

172-561: A statue for him was inaugurated at the Begijnhoflaan in Ghent. University of Ghent Ghent University ( Dutch : Universiteit Gent , abbreviated as UGent ) is a public research university located in Ghent , Belgium. Located in Flanders , Ghent University is the second largest Belgian university, consisting of 50,000 students and 9,000 staff members. The university also supports

215-740: The Belgian Revolution . With the de facto secession of Belgium , the Netherlands was left as a rump state and refused to recognise Belgian independence until 1839 when the Treaty of London was signed, fixing the border between the two states and guaranteeing Belgian independence and neutrality as the Kingdom of Belgium . Before the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), the Low Countries

258-723: The Boekentoren houses the Ghent University Library , which contains nearly 3 million volumes. The university library has joined the Google Books Library Project . Among other notable collections, it preserves Papyrus 30 , an early manuscript of the Greek New Testament. The university is also a partner in the development of De Krook , the new public library and media center in the center of Ghent that opened in 2017. Ghent University consistently ranks among

301-632: The Ghent University Library (including the famous Boekentoren ) and the Ghent University Hospital , which is one of the biggest hospitals in Belgium. In addition to satellite campuses elsewhere in Flanders and a Global Campus in Songdo, South Korea , Ghent University maintains many inter-university partnerships and programs both inside and outside of Europe. Established before the state of Belgium itself,

344-565: The Napoleonic Wars . It was taken for granted that any new regime would have to be headed by the son of the last Dutch stadhouder , William Frederik of Orange-Nassau . A provisional government was formed, most of whose members had helped drive out the House of Orange 18 years earlier. However, they realised that it would be better in the long term to offer leadership of the new government to William Frederik themselves rather than have him imposed by

387-596: The steel industry in Wallonia . Antwerp emerged as major trading port. William I actively supported economic modernisation. Modern universities were established in Leuven , in Liège , and in Ghent in 1817. Lower education was also extended. The General Netherlands Society for Advancing National Industry ( Algemeene Nederlandsche Maatschappij ter Begunstiging van de Volksvlijt ) was created in 1822 to encourage industrialisation in

430-429: The 110-seat House of Representatives, for example, was divided equally between south and north, although the former had a larger population. This was resented in the south, which believed that the government was dominated by northerners. Additionally, the king had somewhat greater power than is the case for Dutch and Belgian monarchs today. Most notably, the ministers were responsible solely to him. The United Netherlands

473-630: The First Coalition broke out in 1792 and France was invaded by Prussia and the Holy Roman Empire . After two years of fighting, the Austrian Netherlands and Liège were captured by the French in 1794 and annexed into France. The Dutch Republic collapsed in 1795 and became a French client state . In 1813, the Netherlands was liberated from French rule by Prussian and Russian troops during

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516-601: The Flemish politician Lodewijk De Raet led a successful campaign to begin instruction in Dutch , and the first courses were begun in 1906. During World War I , Ghent University was closed initially due to the hostilities and subsequently due to the refusal of the academic staff and the students to resume classes while Belgium was occupied . Moritz von Bissing , the German Governor-General of occupied Belgium sought to make

559-540: The German administration of the university attempted to create a German orientation, removing faculty members and installing loyal activists. In the postwar period, Ghent University became a much larger institution, following the government policy of democratizing higher education in Flanders during the 1950s and 1960s. By 1953, there were more than 3,000 students, and by 1969 more than 11,500. The number of faculties increased to eleven, starting with Applied Sciences in 1957. It

602-538: The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, French was the de facto official language while German was used in education. Differences between Southern and Northern Netherlands were never totally resolved. The two were divided by the issue of religion because the south was strongly Roman Catholic and the north largely Dutch Reformed . The Catholic Church in Belgium resented the state's encroachment on its traditional privileges, especially in education. In French-speaking parts of

645-607: The Netherlands, though it remained part of the German Confederation . Though the United Netherlands was a constitutional monarchy , the king retained significant control as head of state and head of government . Beneath the king was a bicameral legislature known as the States General with a Senate and House of Representatives . From the start, the administrative system proved controversial. Representation in

688-654: The Southern Netherlands and the Prince-Bishop of Liège , which combined are almost all of what is now Belgium. For all intents and purposes, William Frederik had completed his family's three-century dream of uniting the Low Countries under a single rule. Discussions on the future of the region were still ongoing at the Congress of Vienna when Napoleon attempted to return to power in the " Hundred Days ". William used

731-575: The allies. Accordingly, William Frederick was installed as the "sovereign prince" of a new Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands . The future of the Southern Netherlands, however, was less clear. In June 1814, the Great Powers secretly agreed to the Eight Articles of London which allocated the region to the Dutch as William had advocated. That August, William Frederik was made Governor-General of

774-617: The development of COinS and Unipept . 51°02′48″N 3°43′41″E  /  51.046582°N 3.727918°E  / 51.046582; 3.727918 United Kingdom of the Netherlands The United Kingdom of the Netherlands ( Dutch : Verenigd Koninkrijk der Nederlanden ; French : Royaume uni des Pays-Bas ) is the unofficial name given to the Kingdom of the Netherlands ( Dutch : Koninkrijk der Nederlanden ; French : Royaume des Belgiques ) as it existed between 1815 and 1830. The United Netherlands

817-408: The language of instruction being Latin . In the first year, it had 190 students and 16 professors. In the wake of the Belgian Revolution , of 1830, the number of students declined, having peaked at 414. Although the faculties of humanities and science were dissolved from the university, they were restored five years later, in 1835. At this time, French also became the language of instruction, taking

860-465: The newly formed Belgian state began to administer Ghent University. In 1930, UGent became the first Dutch -speaking university in Belgium. Previously, French (and, even earlier, Latin) had been the standard academic language in what was Université de Gand . In 1991, it was granted major autonomy and changed its name accordingly from State University of Ghent ( Dutch : Rijksuniversiteit Gent , abbreviated as RUG ) to its current designation. Ghent

903-595: The north. By the mid-1820s, a union of opposition had formed in Belgium, uniting liberals and Catholic conservatives against Dutch rule. The Belgian Revolution broke out on 25 August 1830, inspired by the recent July Revolution in France. A military intervention in September failed to defeat the rebels in Brussels , radicalising the movement. Belgium was declared an independent state on 4 October 1830. A constitutional monarchy

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946-574: The occasion to declare himself king on 16 March 1815 as William I. After the Battle of Waterloo , discussions continued. In exchange for the Southern Netherlands, William agreed to cede the Principality of Orange-Nassau and parts of the Liège to Prussia on 31 May 1815. In exchange, William also gained control over the Duchy of Luxembourg , which was elevated to a grand duchy and placed in personal union with

989-513: The parent institutions of the business school where many of the school's professors teach also in Leuven or Ghent. Nevertheless, UGent still offer MBA programs even after the merger. Ghent University consists of eleven faculties with over 130 individual departments. In addition, the university maintains the Zwijnaarde science park and Greenbridge science park . Standing on the Blandijnberg ,

1032-433: The place of Latin. Ghent University played a role in the foundation of modern organic chemistry. Friedrich August Kekulé unraveled the structure of benzene at Ghent and Adolf von Baeyer (Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer), a student of August Kekulé , made contributions to organic chemistry. In 1882, Sidonie Verhelst became the first female student at Ghent University, in science and pharmacology. In 1903,

1075-499: The psychiatric doctrine of unitary psychosis which was highly influential in German psychiatry from the mid-nineteenth century. In his three-volume work Leçons orales sur les phrénopathies of 1852 he further expanded his vision on mental illness. In 1835, he was appointed as professor in physiology at the University of Ghent. In 1848, he became a member of the governing board of the new moderate Liberal Association, put himself up as

1118-449: The south, attempts to enforce the use of Dutch language were particularly resented among the elite. Many Belgians believed that the United Netherlands' constitution discriminated against them. Though they represented 62 percent of the population, they were only allocated 50 percent of the seats in the House and less in the Senate while the state extracted money from the richer south to subsidise

1161-549: The south, while the Netherlands Trading Society ( Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij ) was created in 1825 to encourage trade with the colonies. William I also embarked on a program of canal building that saw the creation of the North Holland , Ghent–Terneuzen and Brussels–Charleroi canals . Willem I felt that one nation must have one language and began a policy of Dutchification in politics and education. In

1204-449: The southern provinces of Antwerp, East-, West-Flanders, Limburg (1819), and the bilingual South Brabant (1823); Dutch was made the sole official language. While in the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Liège, Namur; French was maintained as official language but Dutch was gradually introduced into education. Although French was still used to some degree in administration in both North and South. In

1247-577: The territory easier to govern by exploiting the pre-war linguistic division. The Flamenpolitik ("Policy regarding the Flemish people") was launched in 1916. The occupying German administration set up the first Dutch-speaking university in Belgium in Ghent under the name Vlaamsche Hoogeschool (Flemish Institute of Higher Learning). Pejoratively referred to as the Von Bissing University , the Vlaamsche Hoogeschoolwas founded in 1916 but

1290-765: The top 100 universities in the world, alongside the Catholic University of Leuven . In 2017, it was ranked, globally, 69th by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (or Shanghai ranking) and 125th by QS World University Rankings . For 2021, Ghent University has been ranked, worldwide, 85th by U.S. News & World Report and 96th by Times Higher Education . The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration has also been awarded with an international Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation. The university maintains many partnerships within Belgium, across Europe, and throughout

1333-818: The university cooperates with numerous universities for the Erasmus and Erasmus Mundus programs; within the framework of the latter, it heads the International Master of Science in Rural Development and the International Master of Science in Soils and Global Change (IMSOGLO). Beyond Europe, Ghent University conducts exchange programs on all six continents. Frameworks include its campus in South Korea and its 3C Partnership. Ghent University has been instrumental in

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1376-500: The university officially changed its name from Rijksuniversiteit Gent (RUG) to Universiteit Gent (UGent), following an increased grant of autonomy by the government of the Flemish Community . The faculty of Politics and Social Sciences is the most recent addition, in 1992. Ghent University had a program founded by Andre Vlerick in 1953, then called Centre for Productivity Studies and Research . The program later evolved into

1419-567: The university was founded by the Dutch King William I in 1817, when the region was incorporated into the United Kingdom of the Netherlands after the fall of First French Empire . In that same year, he founded two other universities for the southern provinces as well, alongside Ghent University: University of Liège and State University of Leuven . After the Belgian revolution of 1830,

1462-813: The world. Inside Belgium, Ghent University supports the Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms and the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie . Within Europe, it is a member of the Santander Network , the Enlight (previously the U4) Network, and the 3i University Network. It also participates in the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research . In addition,

1505-741: Was a patchwork of different polities created by the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648). The Dutch Republic in the north was independent; the Southern Netherlands was split between the Austrian Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège - the former being part of Habsburg monarchy , while both were part of the Holy Roman Empire . In the aftermath of the French Revolution , the War of

1548-399: Was at the basis of the law on psychiatric care, which would remain the framework for psychiatric care in Belgium until 1991. Joseph Guislain published his Traité sur les phrénopathies in 1833, in which he proposed a new form of psychiatric classification. He argued that although mental illnesses could take many forms they were all derived from the same single disease process. This gave rise to

1591-530: Was centralised, reducing their powers. They included: The United Netherlands was also a colonial power with overseas colonies in the East Indies and elsewhere. Economically, the United Netherlands prospered. Supported by the state, the Industrial Revolution began to affect the Southern Netherlands where a number of modern industries emerged, encouraged by figures such as John Cockerill who created

1634-459: Was created in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars through the fusion of territories that had belonged to the former Dutch Republic , Austrian Netherlands , and Prince-Bishopric of Liège in order to form a buffer state between the major European powers. The polity was a constitutional monarchy , ruled by William I of the House of Orange-Nassau . The polity collapsed in 1830 with the outbreak of

1677-471: Was disestablished after the war and the University of Ghent resumed its activities with French as the sole medium of instruction. In 1923, Cabinet Minister Pierre Nolf put forward a motion to definitively establish the university as a Dutch-speaking university, and this was realized in 1930. August Vermeylen served as the first rector of a Dutch-language university in Belgium. In the Second World War ,

1720-434: Was divided into 17 provinces and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg which was constitutionally distinct. All of these provinces can trace their origin to a medieval lordship , county , duchy or bishopric , apart from Antwerp (previously part of Duchy of Brabant ) and Limburg (previously part of Prince-Bishopric of Liège and Duchy of Gelderland ). Their status changed when they came under French rule, when their administration

1763-598: Was established under King Leopold I . William I refused to accept the secession of Belgium. In August 1831, he launched the Ten Days' Campaign , a major military offensive into Belgium. Though initially successful, the French intervened to support the Belgians and the invasion had to be abandoned. After a period of tension, a settlement was agreed at the Treaty of London in 1839. The Dutch recognised Belgian independence, in exchange for territorial concessions. The frontier between

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1806-509: Was followed by Economics and Veterinary Medicine in 1968, Psychology and Pedagogy, as well as Bioengineering, in 1969, and Pharmaceutical Sciences. In the 1960s, there were several student demonstrations at Ghent University, notably around the Blandijn site, which houses the Faculty of Arts & Philosophy. The most severe of demonstrations took place in 1969 in the wake of May 1968 . In 1991,

1849-605: Was one of the largest and most important cities of Europe in the medieval period. The university in Ghent was opened on 9 October 1817, with JC van Rotterdam as the first rector . The foundation of universities in Ghent, Liege, and Leuven that year – by the Dutch King William I – was part of a larger policy to stimulate academic lag across the southern provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (which would later become Belgium). The original four faculties comprised Humanities (Letters), Law, Medicine, and Science, with

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