The
University of Strasbourg in
StrasbourgStrasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in north-eastern France. With 702,412 inhabitants in 2007, its metropolitan area is the ninth largest in France...
,
AlsaceAlsace is the fourth-smallest of the 26 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the sixth-most densely populated region in France , with 222 inhabitants per km²...
,
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
, 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 UniversityLouis Pasteur University , also known as Strasbourg I or ULP was a large university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. As of January 15 2007, there were 18,847 students enrolled at the university, including around 3,000 foreign students. Research and teaching at ULP concentrates on the natural...
,
Marc Bloch UniversityThe Université Marc Bloch, also known as Strasbourg II or UMB was a university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. As of 2006, it had around 13,000 students. Its name used to be Université des Sciences Humaines , but it was renamed in 1998 in honour of the French historian Marc Bloch...
, and
Robert Schuman UniversityThe Université Robert Schuman, also known as Strasbourg III or URS, was a university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. In 2007, there were nearly 10,000 students enrolled at the university, including more than 1,500 foreign students. The university tended to teach and research in fields such as law,...
. On 1 January 2009, the fusion of these three universities recreated a united University of Strasbourg
The university emerged from a Lutheran
humanistRenaissance Humanism was a European intellectual movement that was a crucial component of the Renaissance, beginning in Florence in the latter half of the 14th century. The humanist movement developed from the rediscovery by European scholars of Latin literary and Greek literary texts. Initially,...
German
Gymnasium A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools...
, founded in 1538 by
Johannes SturmJohannes Sturm, latinized as Ioannes Sturmius was a German educator....
in the
Free Imperial CityIn the Holy Roman Empire, a free imperial city was a city formally ruled by the emperor only — as opposed to the majority of cities in the Empire, which were governed by one of the many princes of the Empire, such as dukes or prince-bishops...
of Strassburg.
The
University of Strasbourg in
StrasbourgStrasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in north-eastern France. With 702,412 inhabitants in 2007, its metropolitan area is the ninth largest in France...
,
AlsaceAlsace is the fourth-smallest of the 26 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the sixth-most densely populated region in France , with 222 inhabitants per km²...
,
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
, 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 UniversityLouis Pasteur University , also known as Strasbourg I or ULP was a large university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. As of January 15 2007, there were 18,847 students enrolled at the university, including around 3,000 foreign students. Research and teaching at ULP concentrates on the natural...
,
Marc Bloch UniversityThe Université Marc Bloch, also known as Strasbourg II or UMB was a university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. As of 2006, it had around 13,000 students. Its name used to be Université des Sciences Humaines , but it was renamed in 1998 in honour of the French historian Marc Bloch...
, and
Robert Schuman UniversityThe Université Robert Schuman, also known as Strasbourg III or URS, was a university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. In 2007, there were nearly 10,000 students enrolled at the university, including more than 1,500 foreign students. The university tended to teach and research in fields such as law,...
. On 1 January 2009, the fusion of these three universities recreated a united University of Strasbourg
History
The university emerged from a Lutheran
humanistRenaissance Humanism was a European intellectual movement that was a crucial component of the Renaissance, beginning in Florence in the latter half of the 14th century. The humanist movement developed from the rediscovery by European scholars of Latin literary and Greek literary texts. Initially,...
German
Gymnasium A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools...
, founded in 1538 by
Johannes SturmJohannes Sturm, latinized as Ioannes Sturmius was a German educator....
in the
Free Imperial CityIn the Holy Roman Empire, a free imperial city was a city formally ruled by the emperor only — as opposed to the majority of cities in the Empire, which were governed by one of the many princes of the Empire, such as dukes or prince-bishops...
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 XIVLouis XIV , popularly known as the Sun King , was King of France and of Navarre His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days, and is the longest documented reign of any European monarch.Louis began personally governing France after the death...
in 1681, but mainly turned into a French university during the
French RevolutionThe French Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based...
.
The university was refounded as the German
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Universität in 1872, after the
Franco-Prussian warThe Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War was a conflict between France and Prussia. Prussia was aided by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria...
and the return of
Alsace-LorraineAlsace-Lorraine was a territorial entity created by the German Empire in 1871 after the annexation of most of Alsace and the Moselle region of Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian War. The Alsatian part lay in the Rhine Valley on the west bank of the Rhine River and on the east of the Vosges Mountains...
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 IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, when France was occupied, personnel and equipment of the University of Strasbourg was transferred to
Clermont-FerrandClermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census....
. In its place, the short-lived German
Reichsuniversität StraßburgThe Reichsuniversität Straßburg was founded 1941 by the National Socialists in Alsace. The purpose was to create a continuousness to the German character of the University of Strasbourg, that had been a German Imperial University from 1872 to 1918. In 1941, it was to the fore of German invaders to...
was created.
In 1970, the university was subdivided into three separate institutions:
- Louis Pasteur University
Louis Pasteur University , also known as Strasbourg I or ULP was a large university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. As of January 15 2007, there were 18,847 students enrolled at the university, including around 3,000 foreign students. Research and teaching at ULP concentrates on the natural...
(Strasbourg I)
- Marc Bloch University
The Université Marc Bloch, also known as Strasbourg II or UMB was a university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. As of 2006, it had around 13,000 students. Its name used to be Université des Sciences Humaines , but it was renamed in 1998 in honour of the French historian Marc Bloch...
(Strasbourg II)
- Robert Schuman University
The Université Robert Schuman, also known as Strasbourg III or URS, was a university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. In 2007, there were nearly 10,000 students enrolled at the university, including more than 1,500 foreign students. The university tended to teach and research in fields such as law,...
(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.
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.
Notable academics and alumni
- Johannes Sturm
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(1507–1589)
- Johann Conrad Dannhauer
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(1603–1666)
- Philipp Jacob Spener (1635–1705)
- Antoine Deparcieux
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(1703-1768)
- Johann Hermann
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(1738–1800)
- Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
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(1745–1813)
- Dominique Villars
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(1745–1841)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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(1749–1832)
- Louis Ramond de Carbonnières
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(1755-1827)
- Maximilian von Montgelas
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(1759–1838)
- Klemens Wenzel von Metternich
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(1773-1859)
- Jean Lobstein
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(1777–1835)
- Georg Büchner
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(1813–1837)
- Charles Frédéric Gerhardt
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(1816–1856)
- Emil Kopp
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(1817–1875)
- Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
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(1817–1884)
- Louis Pasteur
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(1822–1895)
- Adolph Kussmaul
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(1822–1902)
- Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault
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(1823-1904)
- Georg Albert Lücke
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(1829–1894)
- Anton de Bary
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(1831–1888)
- Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen
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(1833–1910)
- Adolf von Baeyer
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(1835–1917), Nobel PrizeThe Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901...
1905
- Oswald Schmiedeberg
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(1838–1921)
- Gustav von Schmoller
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(1838–1917)
- Bernhard Naunyn
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(1839–1925)
- Heinrich Martin Weber (1842–1913)
- Paul Heinrich von Groth
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(1843–1927)
- Lujo Brentano
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(1844–1931)
- Wilhelm Röntgen (1845−1923), Nobel Prize 1901
- Harry Bresslau
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(1848–1926)
- Ernst Remak
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(1849–1911)
- Josef von Mering (1849–1908)
- Georg Dehio
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(1850–1932)
- Karl Ferdinand Braun
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(1850–1918), Nobel Prize 1909
- Hans Chiari
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(1851–1916)
- Hermann Emil Fischer
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(1851–1919), Nobel Prize 1902
- Albrecht Kossel
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(1853–1927), Nobel Prize 1910
- Ludwig Döderlein
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(1855–1936)
- Otto Lehmann
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(1855–1922)
- Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (1856–1921)
- Georg Simmel
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(1858–1918)
- Oskar Minkowski
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(1858–1931)
- Othmar Zeidler
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(1859–1911)
- Geerhardus Vos
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(1862-1949)
- Georg Thilenius
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(1868–1937)
- Gustav Landauer
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(1870–1919)
- Franz Weidenreich
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(1873–1948)
- Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916)
- Erwin Baur
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(1875–1933)
- Albert Schweitzer
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(1875–1965), Nobel Prize 1952
- Ernest Esclangon
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(1876–1954)
- Paul Rohmer
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(1876–1977)
- Maurice René Fréchet
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(1878–1973)
- Max von Laue
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(1879−1960), Nobel Prize 1914
- René Leriche
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(1879–1955)
- Hans Kniep
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(1881–1930)
- Pierre Montet
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(1885–1966)
- Marc Bloch
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(1886–1944)
- Robert Schuman
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(1886–1963)
- Ernst Robert Curtius
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(1886−1956)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Levi
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(1888–1966)
- Carl Schmitt
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(1888-1985)
- Beno Gutenberg
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(1889–1960)
- André Danjon
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(1890–1967)
- Henri Lefebvre
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(1901–1991)
- Michel Mouskhely
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(1903-1964)
- Jean Cavaillès
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(1903–1944)
- Henri Cartan
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(1904−2008)
- Emmanuel Levinas
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(1906–1995)
- Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908–2008)
- Antoinette Feuerwerker
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(1912-2003)
- Salomon Gluck
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(1914-1944)
- Hicri Fişek
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Founded the "Tevfik Fikret" high-school in Ankara . He received the French Légion d'Honneur...
(1918-2002)
- René Thom
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(1923–2002), Fields MedalThe Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. The Fields Medal is often viewed as the top honor a mathematician can receive. It...
1958
- Gabriel Vahanian
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(1927-)
- Yves Michaud
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(* 1930)
- Pierre Chambon
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(* 1931)
- Zemaryalai Tarzi
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(* 1933)
- Alberto Fujimori
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(* 1938)
- Liliane Ackermann
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(1938-2007)
- Jean-Marie Lehn
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(* 1939), Nobel Prize 1987
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
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(1940–2007)
- Jean-Luc Nancy
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(* 1940)
- Katia Krafft (1942–1991)
- Maurice Krafft (1946–1991)
- Jacques Marescaux
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(* 1948)
- Arsène Wenger
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(* 1949)
- Jean-Claude Juncker
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(* 1954)
- Thomas Ebbesen
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(* 1954)
See also
- Reichsuniversität Straßburg
The Reichsuniversität Straßburg was founded 1941 by the National Socialists in Alsace. The purpose was to create a continuousness to the German character of the University of Strasbourg, that had been a German Imperial University from 1872 to 1918. In 1941, it was to the fore of German invaders to...
- Jardin botanique de l'Université de Strasbourg
The Jardin Botanique de l'Université de Strasbourg , also known as the Jardin botanique de Strasbourg and the Jardin botanique de l'Université Louis Pasteur, is a botanical garden and arboretum located at 28 rue Goethe, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France...
- Observatory of Strasbourg
The Observatory of Strasbourg is an observatory in Strasbourg, France. It was built in 1881, when the city was part of the German Empire. It is surrounded by the Jardin botanique de l'Université de Strasbourg....
- On the Poverty of Student Life
On the Poverty of Student Life: A Consideration of Its Economic, Political, Sexual, Psychological and Notably Intellectual Aspects and of a Few Ways to Cure it is a pamphlet first published by students of the University of Strasbourg and the Situationist International in 1966...
- Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire
The Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire , is a public library in Strasbourg, France. It is located on Place de la République, the former Kaiserplatz, and faces the Palais du Rhin.- History :...
- Musée zoologique de la ville de Strasbourg
- Musée de minéralogie
The Musée de minéralogie is a museum in Strasbourg in the Bas-Rhin department of France. It belongs to the University of Strasbourg, of which is displays the historical collections of minerals....
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