His full name is Fons Sapientiae, Latin for Source of Wisdom. The Fonske is one of Jef Claerhout's works and was donated to the city in 1975 on the occasion of the 550th anniversary of the Catholic University of Leuven.
The statue represents a student who, reading a book, lets wisdom flow through his head in the form of water. But this explanation would have been given to the statue later. According to sculptor Claerhout: "It is a sculpture of someone who, pouring a beer into his cup, studies his behaviour". Student organizations did not agree with this and found it to be a caricature of the drinking student. That is why the statue was renamed "Source of Wisdom"
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