DaLeT: Database of the Leuven Trilingue KU Leuven
The Database of the Leuven Trilingue (DaLeT), is the first database devoted to an early modern trilingual institute, the Collegium Trilingue Lovaniense, or the Three-Language College in Leuven, where one could study the three so-called sacred languages Latin, Greek, and Hebrew for free. The Trilingue was also known as the Collegium Buslidianum, or Busleyden College, named after its material founder Jerome of Busleyden (ca. 1470-1517), a prominent diplomat with humanist interests and many important connections throughout Habsburg Europe. The brainchild of Desiderius Erasmus, the institute ...