Charles Felix Van Quickenborne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Jesuit, founder of St. Louis University
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Place of Birth: Petegem-aan-de-Leie, Flemish Region, Belgium
About Charles Felix Van Quickenborne
- Charles Felix Van Quickenborne (1788–1837) was born in Petegem, near Deinze, Belgium on 21 January 1788.
- Van Quickenborne is best known as the founder of St.
- Louis University.
- He became a Jesuit in Ghent, Belgium in 1815, and, at his request, was sent to the American Missions in 1817.
- He was appointed Superior and Novice Master of the Jesuit novitiate in White Marsh, Maryland, in 1819.
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