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Riga Technical University (RTU) (previously known as Riga Polytechnical Institute and Riga Polytechnicum) is located in Riga
Riga

Riga the Capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava River. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states....
, Latvia
Latvia

Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....
.

Riga Polytechnicum, 1862-1918
Riga Polytechnicum was first established in 1862 and was the first polytechnical institute in Imperial Russia.






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Riga Polytechnic 1890 1900
Riga Technical University (RTU) (previously known as Riga Polytechnical Institute and Riga Polytechnicum) is located in Riga
Riga

Riga the Capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava River. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states....
, Latvia
Latvia

Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....
.

Riga Polytechnicum, 1862-1918


Riga Polytechnicum was first established in 1862 and was the first polytechnical institute in Imperial Russia. It offered degrees in agriculture, chemistry, engineering, mechanics, trade and architecture, with education in German language
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
. In 1896, it was renamed Riga Polytechnical Institute and the language of instruction was changed to Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
.

When the World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 started in 1914, Riga Polytechnical Institute was evacuated to Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
 and worked there until 1918. After that, part of the faculty returned to Latvia and joined the newly established University of Latvia
University of Latvia

University of Latvia is the oldest university in Latvia located in Riga, Latvia....
. Others stayed in Russia and taught at universities there.

Riga Technical University, 1958-now


Riga Polytechnical Institute was re-established in 1958 by splitting off the engineering departments from the State University of Latvia
University of Latvia

University of Latvia is the oldest university in Latvia located in Riga, Latvia....
. In 1990, it was renamed to Riga Technical University. The university currently consists of 8 faculties:
  • Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning
  • Faculty of Building and Civil Engineering
  • Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
  • Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications
  • Faculty of Engineering Economics
  • Faculty of Materials Science and Applied Chemistry
  • Faculty of Power and Electrical Engineering
  • Faculty of Transport and Mechanical Engineering
, it had 17,281 students.

Notable faculty and alumni


  • Wilhelm Ostwald
    Wilhelm Ostwald

    Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald was a Baltic German chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities....
     - Nobel prize
    Nobel Prize

    The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
     winner in chemistry, faculty 1881-1887
  • Paul Walden
    Paul Walden

    Paul Walden was a Latvians-Germany chemist. He was born in the parish of Rozula near Cesis in Latvia and initially studied at the Riga Polytechnicum and Saint Petersburg State University before receiving his doctorate at the University of Leipzig in 1891 with Wilhelm Ostwald....
     - chemist, invented ethylammonium nitrate
    Ethylammonium nitrate

    Ethylammonium nitrate is one of the first known ionic liquids. It was first synthesised by Paul Walden.References...
     as the first example of an ionic liquid
    Ionic liquid

    An ionic liquid is a liquid that contains essentially only ion s. Some ionic liquids, such as ethylammonium nitrate are in a dynamic equilibrium where at any time more than 99.99% of the liquid is made up of ionic rather than molecular species....
    , alumnus
  • Friedrich Zander
    Friedrich Zander

    Friedrich Zander , often transliterated Fridrikh Arturovich Tsander, was a pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union....
     - rocketry and spaceflight
    Spaceflight

    Spaceflight is the use of space technology to achieve the flight of spacecraft into and through outer space.Spaceflight is used in space exploration, and also in commercial activities like space tourism and telecommunications satellite....
     pioneer, alumnus
  • Ignacy Moscicki
    Ignacy Moscicki

    Ignacy Moscicki was a Poland politician and chemist, List of Presidents of Poland . As of 2008 he remained the longest-serving President in country, spending 13 years in office ....
     - president of Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
     (1922-1939), alumnus
  • Bruno Abakanowicz
    Bruno Abakanowicz

    Bruno Abdank Coat of Arms-Abakanowicz was a mathematician, inventor and electrical engineer....
     - Polish mathematicial and electrical engineer, alumnus
  • Wladyslaw Anders
    Wladyslaw Anders

    Lieutenant-General Wladyslaw Anders CB was a General in the Poland Army and later in life a politician with the Polish government-in-exile in London....
     - a General in the Polish Army and a politician with the Polish government-in-exile


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