Léopold Willaert

Léopold Willaert (19 March 1878 – 31 October 1963) was a Belgian Jesuit Church historian with a particular interest in the history of Jansenism.

Life Willaert was born in Bruges on 19 March 1878. He joined the Society of Jesus immediately after finishing his secondary education at the Collège Saint-Servais (Liège), and for three years studied philosophy at Stonyhurst College. His doctorate in history, supervised by Alfred Cauchie, was completed at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1905. He took his final vows as a Jesuit in 1912, and from 1913 to 1956 taught at what is now the University of Namur.