Memorial Couvreurzaal Leuven

The “Couvreurzaal” on the Social Sciences Campus is named after the Belgian pharmacist Albert Couvreur (1887-1955) who, after his death, donated his collection of old pharmacy jars, mortars, scales, books and other objects to the University of Leuven to rebuild an 18th-century pharmacy. After this donation, professor Armand Castille ensured that the collection was given a place.
As a result of the division of the University of Leuven in 1968 into a Dutch-speaking and a French-speaking university, the entire collection moved with the French-speaking medical faculty to the Albert Couvreur Pharmaceutical Museum in Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe (UCL) in 1972.
In 2010, KU Leuven decided to restore the Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences and give it a new purpose as the Agora Learning Centre. In 2018, the restoration work started and the Albert Couvreur Hall was restored to its former glory.

In the hall hangs a memorial plaque for the students and alumni of the School of Pharmacy who died in the First World War. It is a work by sculptor Alphonse Maucquoy

In the middle is the Latin text:
“To the students of the faculty of
Pharmacy of the University of Leuven
who died a glorious death for their country,
their teachers and friends have made a donation.”

The names are listed on the left and right:
-Clabecq R., Cuypers Th., Delsauveniere J., Hamoir J., Panier F., Papegnies A., Rasse E., Reman J.
-Salmon G., Vandeputte H., Vandermeulen A., Van Herck L., Van Snick R., Vermandere R., Vertruyen C., Willio Ch.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Rik De Coninck