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- Title
Die Berliner Universität als Idealbild für belgische Studenten bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs.
- Authors
Dhondt, Pieter
- Abstract
Between 1831 and 1914 alltogether 171 Belgian students had been enrolled at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität zu Berlin. For many of them it had been possible to study abroad as winners of the travel scholarships competition, organised by the Belgian government. How the number of Belgian ‚Berlin-students‘, as they are called in this article, had developed in this time period of approximately eighty years is described in the first paragraph. Subsequently, the second and third paragraph discuss the assessment of the education at the Berlin University in general and at the medical faculty in particular. The object is to show in what way their experiences abroad had an influence on their ideas about university education, and to what extent these (former) ‚Berlin-students‘ (now in the capacity of professors) attempted to introduce the foreign methods, ways of thinking and practices at their indigeneous institution. Although before 1880 the number of students at the medical faculty was relatively small, it was still mainly in this discipline that the positive reception of the German university model in Belgium could be noticed. Therefore a central question is to what extent the law of 1876, which introduced major reforms at the faculties of science and medicine, was effected by the pleas of these Belgian ‚Berlin-students‘. The concluding paragraph explores the attitude of these students towards their favourite university model in the process of the conversion of the University of Ghent by the German occupier during the First World War.
- Subjects
GERMANY; BELGIUM; FOREIGN students; COLLEGE students; FOREIGN medical students; HUMBOLDT-Universitat zu Berlin; MEDICAL schools; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; HISTORY of medical education; GHENT University; GERMAN occupation of Belgium, 1914-1918; BELGIAN history, 1830-1914; HISTORY; GERMAN civilization; CIVILIZATION
- Publication
Historische Zeitschrift, 2013, Vol 296, Issue 3, p629
- ISSN
0018-2613
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1524/hzhz.2013.0199