LADEUZE, PAULIN. - Exegete and orientalist, titular bishop of Tiberiade, seventh rector of the Catholic University of Lovanio after its restoration in 1834, b. at Harvengt-lez-Mons on 3 July 1870, d. at Lovanio on 10 Feb. 1940. He was educated at Lovanio, specializing in Oriental patrology; there he became professor in the faculty of theology, where from 1900 to 1909 he taught New Testament exegesis and patrology with rare distinction.
Though of progressive tendency, he was able, during the height of the Modernist crisis, to avoid every compromise with error; indeed, it was partly due to his teaching that the University of Lovanio was one of the centres that responded most wisely to the danger. From 1909 until his death he was rector of the University, which he led to broad expansion after having saved it during the First World War (1914–17). Under his rectorship the University Library, burned in 1914, was restored, and the linguistic division of the University took place.
L.'s publications are not numerous. His greatest distinction as a teacher was the impetus he gave to the study of Coptic literature, to which he attracted one of his most brilliant pupils and successors, can. Th. Lefort.
1946, passim; H. Van Waeyenbergh, Eloge académique de S. E. mon. L., in Annuaire de l'Université cath. de Louvain, 1940-41, II, Lovanio 1940-41, pp. XLVII-LXVI. Giuseppe Coppens