Karel Hendrik Geerts

Karel Hendrik Geerts (10 August 1807 – 16 June 1855)[1] was a Belgian neo-Gothic sculptor who mainly focused on wood carving.

A few years later, in 1846, he bought a wing of the former Savoy College [nl] in the same street, which had been confiscated by the French occupier in 1797.

He had a side building constructed at the back in the direction of the Nieuwstraat, which is nowadays called the Leopold Vanderkelenstraat.

After Geerts' death in 1855, his widow sold the premises of the Savoy College in May 1858 to the future mayor of Leuven Leopold Vander Kelen and his wife Maria Mertens.

In Borgerhout (Antwerp) Karel Geertsstraat (near the Turnhoutse Poort) was named after him.