University of Strasbourg
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| Université de Strasbourg | |
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| Established: | 1 January 2009[1] |
| Type: | Public |
| Endowment: | €406,073 million[2] |
| President: | Alain Beretz |
| Students: | 41,740 |
| Location: | Strasbourg, France |
| Website: | http://www.unistra.fr |
The University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, is the largest university in France, with 43,000 students and over 4,000 researchers.
The present-day French university traces its history to the earlier German language University of Straßburg, which had been founded in 1631, and was divided in the 1970s into three separate institutions: Louis Pasteur University, Marc Bloch University, and Robert Schuman University. On 1 January 2009, the fusion of these three universities recreated a united University of Strasbourg
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[edit] History
The university emerged from a Lutheran humanist German Gymnasium , founded in 1538 by Johannes Sturm in the Free Imperial City of Strassburg. It was transformed to a university in 1631.
The German university still persisted even after the annexation of the City by King Louis XIV in 1681, but mainly turned into a French university during the French Revolution.
The university was refounded as the German Kaiser-Wilhelm-Universität in 1872, after the Franco-Prussian war and the return of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany provoked a westwards exodus of Francophone teachers. In 1918 Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France, so a reverse exodus of Germanophone teachers took place.
During World War II, when France was occupied, personnel and equipment of the University of Strasbourg was transferred to Clermont-Ferrand. In its place, the short-lived German Reichsuniversität Straßburg was created.
In 1970, the university was subdivided into three separate institutions:
- Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg I)
- Marc Bloch University (Strasbourg II)
- Robert Schuman University (Strasbourg III)
These were however reunited in 2009, a process that should finish in 2012, and were able to be among the first twenty French universities to gain greater autonomy.[3]
[edit] Buildings
The university campus covers a vast part near the center of the city, located between the "Cité Administrative", "Esplanade" and "Gallia" bus-tram stations.
Modern architectural buildings include: Escarpe, the Doctoral College of Strasbourg, Atrium, Pangloss and others. The structures are depicted on the main inner wall of the Esplanade university restaurant, accompanied by the names of their architects and years of establishment.
The administrative organisms, attached to the university (Prefecture; CAF, LMDE, MGEL -- health insurance; SNCF -- national French railway company; CTS -- Strasbourg urban transportation company), are located in the "Agora" building.
[edit] Notable academics and alumni
- Johannes Sturm (1507-1589)
- Johann Conrad Dannhauer (1603-1666)
- Philipp Jakob Spener (1635–1705)
- Antoine Deparcieux (1703-1768)
- Jean Hermann (1738-1800)
- Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1745-1813)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
- Louis Ramond de Carbonnières (1755-1827)
- Maximilian von Montgelas (1759-1838)
- Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773-1859)
- Georg Büchner (1813-1837)
- Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816-1856)
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
- Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault (1823-1904)
- Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833-1910)
- Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917), Nobel Prize in 1905
- Bernhard Naunyn (1839-1925)
- Heinrich Martin Weber (1842–1913)
- Paul Heinrich von Groth (1843-1927)
- Lujo Brentano (1844-1931)
- Wilhelm Röntgen (1845−1923), Nobel Prize in 1901
- Joseph von Mering (1849-1908)
- Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918), Nobel Prize in 1909
- Hermann Emil Fischer (1851-1919) Nobel Prize in 1902
- Albrecht Kossel (1853-1927), Nobel Prize in 1910
- Georg Simmel (1858-1918)
- Oskar Minkowski (1858-1931)
- Othmar Zeidler (1859-1911)
- Geerhardus Vos (1862-1949)
- René Leriche (1870-1955)
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), Nobel Prize in 1952
- Martin Spahn (1875-1945)
- Ernest Esclangon (1876-1954)
- Paul Rohmer (1876-1977)
- Max von Laue (1879−1960), Nobel Prize in 1914
- René Leriche (1879–1955)
- Pierre Montet (1885 – 1966)
- Fred Vlès (1885-1944)
- Marc Bloch (1886–1944)
- Robert Schuman (1886-1963)
- Ernst Robert Curtius (1886−1956)
- Beno Gutenberg (1889 - 1960)
- André Danjon (1890–1967)
- Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991)
- Michel Mouskhely (1903-1964)
- Jean Cavaillès (1903–1944)
- Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995)
- Michael E. DeBakey (1908-2008)
- Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912-2003)
- Salomon Gluck (1914-1944)
- René Thom (1923-2002), Fields Medal in 1958.
- Guy Ourisson (1926-2006)
- Gabriel Vahanian (1927-)
- Yves Michaud (1930- )
- Pierre Chambon (1931-)
- Zemaryalai Tarzi (1933- )
- Alberto Fujimori (1938-)
- Liliane Ackermann (1938-2007)
- Jean-Marie Lehn (1939- ), Nobel Prize in 1987
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007)
- Jean-Luc Nancy (1940- )
- Jacques Marescaux (1948-)
- Katia and Maurice Krafft
- Arsène Wenger (1949- )
[edit] See also
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- Reichsuniversität Straßburg
- Jardin botanique de l'Université de Strasbourg
- Observatory of Strasbourg
- On the Poverty of Student Life
- Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire
- Musée zoologique de l'ULP et de la ville de Strasbourg
- Musée de minéralogie
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[edit] References
- ^ following the fusion of three Strasbourg universities: Louis Pasteur University, Marc Bloch University, and Robert Schuman University
- ^ (French) http://www.unistra.fr/fileadmin/upload/unistra/universite/fonctionnement/recettes_uds.pdf
- ^ "Décret n° 2008-787 portant création de l'université de Strasbourg" (in French). legifrance.gouv.fr. 2008-08-18. http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000019341825&dateTexte=. Retrieved on 2009-06-21.
