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in 1932, elephant Lady died. The cadaver was donated to professor Hasse, a biologist at the institute. He performed an autopsy on the animal with his students, after which Hasse and his students buried the remains next to the institute. After a local Antwerp television network made a documentary of
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Begin 1929 werd het hoofdgebouw van de school door een felle brand geteisterd. Meteen werd met de wederopbouw gestart en in mei 1931 werd het herstelde hoofdgebouw feestelijk heropend.
264:, abbreviated to UNIOG, later UNIVOG)). Being an institute at university level, it issued degrees of colonial and administrative sciences, as well as commercial and colonial sciences. 638: 688: 589: 643: 490: 465: 440: 668: 658: 574: 39: 287:(RUCA) (English: National University Centre Antwerp). From the merger of the institution with the department international cooperation of the 663: 86: 633: 58: 673: 65: 304: 683: 268: 72: 209:". In order to train future settlers for a (high) administrative function in the colony, the initiative was taken to found the 246: 54: 613: 230: 105: 161:. Founded in 1920, the institute was established to prepare students for a careers as colonial functionaries in the 628: 515: 383: 648: 130: 43: 653: 79: 348:
the urban legend, they discovered that the elephant was reburied in 1934 and is nowadays preserved at the
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in 1960, the INUTOM was discontinued in 1962. Its library was sold in 1963, and INUTOM merged with the
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is supposed to be buried underneath the university building. When a fire erupted at circus
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Nowadays, the university building functions as Building A of the Middelheim Campus of the
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Description of the building on the website of the Flemish inventory of immovable heritage
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The building of the former Colonial University currently serves as the rectorate of the
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was founded at the École coloniale supérieure in 1921, and ceased to exist in 1965.
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and to the annexation of the Congo as a colony of Belgium, known as the "
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By 1908, public pressure and diplomatic manoeuvres led to the end of
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The University of Antwerp named a historic auditorium after
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It was dissolved in 1962. 669:Defunct universities and colleges in Belgium 171:University Institute of Overseas Territories 573:: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 256:The institute was again renamed in 1949 to 243:Koloniale Hoogeschool van België (UNIVOG) 106:Learn how and when to remove this message 281:Hoger Instituut voor Vertalers en Tolken 120: 659:Organisations based in Antwerp Province 542: 621: 587: 495:Institute of Development Policy (IOB) 470:Institute of Development Policy (IOB) 445:Institute of Development Policy (IOB) 303:(English: Third World Centre) of the 664:Universities and colleges in Belgium 279:: National Business School) and the 247:Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum 44:adding citations to reliable sources 15: 634:Buildings and structures in Antwerp 285:Rijksuniversitair Centrum Antwerpen 13: 14: 705: 674:1962 disestablishments in Belgium 600: 299:merged again, this time with the 305:Saint Ignatius University Centre 297:College voor Ontwikkelingslanden 293:College voor Ontwikkelingslanden 235:Université coloniale de Belgique 147:Université coloniale de Belgique 55:"Colonial University of Belgium" 20: 155:Koloniale Hogeschool van België 31:needs additional citations for 684:1920 establishments in Belgium 581: 536: 508: 483: 458: 433: 418:. 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The buildings near the 211:École coloniale supérieure 192: 516:"Detailed Middelheim Map" 384:"Detailed Middelheim Map" 335:According to one Antwerp 329: 324:Association des Étudiants 118:Former Belgian university 491:"A brief history of IOB" 466:"A brief history of IOB" 441:"A brief history of IOB" 322:The student association 251:King Albert I of Belgium 201:'s personal rule of the 629:Universities in Belgium 225:of 11 February 1920 by 219:Hogere Koloniale School 412:"Koloniale Hogeschool" 289:Rijkshandelshogeschool 273:Rijkshandelshogeschool 186: 178: 154: 146: 134: 649:University of Antwerp 548:"De verloren olifant" 523:University of Antwerp 391:University of Antwerp 312:University of Antwerp 269:Republic of the Congo 169:. 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