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University of Strasbourg

Overview
The University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg
Strasbourg
Strasbourg 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...

, Alsace
Alsace
Alsace 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...

, France
France
France , 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 University
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...

, Marc Bloch University
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...

, and Robert Schuman University
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,...

. On 1 January 2009, the fusion of these three universities recreated a united University of Strasbourg







The university emerged from a Lutheran humanist
Renaissance humanism
Renaissance 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
Gymnasium (school)
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 Sturm
Johannes Sturm
Johannes Sturm, latinized as Ioannes Sturmius was a German educator....

 in the Free Imperial City
Free Imperial City
In 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.
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The University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg
Strasbourg
Strasbourg 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...

, Alsace
Alsace
Alsace 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...

, France
France
France , 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 University
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...

, Marc Bloch University
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...

, and Robert Schuman University
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,...

. On 1 January 2009, the fusion of these three universities recreated a united University of Strasbourg






History


The university emerged from a Lutheran humanist
Renaissance humanism
Renaissance 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
Gymnasium (school)
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 Sturm
Johannes Sturm
Johannes Sturm, latinized as Ioannes Sturmius was a German educator....

 in the Free Imperial City
Free Imperial City
In 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 XIV
Louis XIV of France
Louis 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 Revolution
French Revolution
The 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 war
Franco-Prussian War
The 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-Lorraine
Alsace-Lorraine
Alsace-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 II
World War II
World 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-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-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 Straßburg
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...

 was created.

In 1970, the university was subdivided into three separate institutions:
  • Louis Pasteur University
    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
    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
    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
    Johannes Sturm
    Johannes Sturm, latinized as Ioannes Sturmius was a German educator....

     (1507–1589)
  • Johann Conrad Dannhauer
    Johann Conrad Dannhauer
    Johann Conrad Dannhauer Orthodox Lutheran theologian and teacher of Spener....

     (1603–1666)
  • Philipp Jacob Spener (1635–1705)
  • Antoine Deparcieux
    Antoine Deparcieux
    Antoine Deparcieux was a French mathematician.In 1746, Antoine Deparcieux published Essai sur les probabilités de la durée de la vie humaine . Deparcieux analyzed in detail empirical observations...

     (1703-1768)
  • Johann Hermann
    Johann Hermann
    Johann, or Jean, Hermann was a French physician and naturalist. He was professor of medicine at the University of Strasbourg. He was the author of Tabula affinitatum animalium and Observationes zoologicae quibus novae complures, published posthumously in 1804...

     (1738–1800)
  • Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
    Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
    Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov was the Russian Field Marshal who defeated Napoleon's Grande Armée during France's invasion of Russia in 1812, the decisive turning point of the Napoleonic Wars.- Ancestry :...

     (1745–1813)
  • Dominique Villars
    Dominique Villars
    Dominique Villars or Vilars is a French botanist. His main work is Histoire des plantes du Dauphiné published between 1786 to 1789, in which about 2,700 species are described, after over twenty years of observation...

     (1745–1841)
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science. Goethe's magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust...

     (1749–1832)
  • Louis Ramond de Carbonnières
    Louis Ramond de Carbonnières
    Louis François Élisabeth Ramond, baron de Carbonnières , was a French politician, geologist and botanist...

     (1755-1827)
  • Maximilian von Montgelas
    Maximilian von Montgelas
    Maximilian Josef Garnerin, Count von Montgelas was a Bavarian statesman, from a noble family in Savoy. His father John Sigmund Garnerin, Baron Montgelas, entered the military service of Maximilian III, Elector of Bavaria, and married the Countess Ursula von Trauner...

     (1759–1838)
  • Klemens Wenzel von Metternich
    Klemens Wenzel von Metternich
    Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich was a German-Austrian politician and statesman and was one of the most important diplomats of his era. He was a major figure in the negotiations before and during the Congress of Vienna and is considered both a paradigm of foreign-policy management and a...

     (1773-1859)
  • Jean Lobstein
    Jean Lobstein
    Jean Georges Chrétien Frédéric Martin Lobstein was a German-born, French pathologist and surgeon who was a native of Giessen....

     (1777–1835)
  • Georg Büchner
    Georg Büchner
    Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany...

     (1813–1837)
  • Charles Frédéric Gerhardt
    Charles Frédéric Gerhardt
    Charles Frédéric Gerhardt was a French chemist. He was born in Strasbourg and studied in Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Gießen, and Dresden. In 1838 he went to Paris, and in 1841 to Montpellier, where he became a titular professor for chemistry in 1844...

     (1816–1856)
  • Emil Kopp
    Emil Kopp
    Emil Kopp , German chemist was born at Wasselnheim, Alsace.He became in 1847 professor of toxicology and chemistry at the Ecole superieure de Pharmacie at Straßburg, in 1849 professor of physics and chemistry at Lausanne, in 1852 chemist to a Turkey-red factory near Manchester, in 1868 professor of...

     (1817–1875)
  • Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
    Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
    Adolphe Wurtz was a French chemist of German extraction. He is perhaps best remembered by chemists for the Wurtz reaction, to form carbon-carbon bonds by reacting alkyl halides with sodium, and for his discoveries of ethylamine and ethylene glycol...

     (1817–1884)
  • Louis Pasteur
    Louis Pasteur
    Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of disease. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies. His experiments supported the germ...

     (1822–1895)
  • Adolph Kussmaul
    Adolph Kussmaul
    Adolph Kussmaul was a German physician and a leading clinician of his time. He was born as the son and grandson of physicians at Graben near Karlsruhe and studied at Heidelberg. He entered the army after graduation and spent two years as an army surgeon...

     (1822–1902)
  • Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault
    Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault
    Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault is universally acknowledged as the founder of the famous school that became known as the "Nancy School", or the "Suggestion School", and he is considered by many to be the father of modern hypnotherapy.The Nancy...

     (1823-1904)
  • Georg Albert Lücke
    Georg Albert Lücke
    Georg Albert Lücke was a German surgeon born in Magdeburg.He studied medicine at the Universities of Hedielberg, Göttingen and Halle, and following graduation travelled abroad to France, Italy and Algeria. In 1860 he became an assistant to Bernhard von Langenbeck, and in 1864 gained battle-related...

     (1829–1894)
  • Anton de Bary
    Anton de Bary
    Heinrich Anton de Bary was a German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist ....

     (1831–1888)
  • Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen
    Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen
    Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen was a German pathologist who practiced medicine in Würzburg and Strassburg...

     (1833–1910)
  • Adolf von Baeyer
    Adolf von Baeyer
    Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer was a German chemist who synthesized indigo, and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Born in Berlin, he initially studied mathematics and physics at Berlin University before moving to Heidelberg to study chemistry with Robert Bunsen...

     (1835–1917), Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize
    The 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
    Oswald Schmiedeberg
    Oswald Schmiedeberg was a Baltic German pharmacologist.Schmiedeberg was born at Gut Laidsen in the Imperial Russian province of Courland. In 1866 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Dorpat with a thesis concerning the measurement of chloroform in blood. Afterwards he was an...

     (1838–1921)
  • Gustav von Schmoller
    Gustav von Schmoller
    Gustav von Schmoller was the leader of the "younger" German historical school of economics.-Life:Schmoller was born in Heilbronn. His father was a Württemberg civil servant. Young Schmoller studied Staatswissenschaften in Tübingen...

     (1838–1917)
  • Bernhard Naunyn
    Bernhard Naunyn
    Bernhard Naunyn was German pathologist who was born in Berlin. After receiving his degree at the University of Berlin in 1863, he became an assistant to pathologist Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs...

     (1839–1925)
  • Heinrich Martin Weber (1842–1913)
  • Paul Heinrich von Groth
    Paul Heinrich von Groth
    Paul Heinrich von Groth was a German mineralogist. His most important contribution to science was his explanation of the connection between chemical compound and crystals structure....

     (1843–1927)
  • Lujo Brentano
    Lujo Brentano
    Lujo Brentano was an eminent German economist and social reformer.Lujo Brentano, born in Aschaffenburg into one of the most distinguished German-Catholic intellectual families , attended school in Augsburg and Aschaffenburg...

     (1844–1931)
  • Wilhelm Röntgen (1845−1923), Nobel Prize 1901
  • Harry Bresslau
    Harry Bresslau
    Harry Bresslau was a German historian and scholar of state papers and of historical and literary muniments .-Training:...

     (1848–1926)
  • Ernst Remak
    Ernst Remak
    Ernst Julius Remak was a German neurologist who was the son of famed neurologist Robert Remak. He received his education at the Universities of Breslau, Berlin, Würzburg, Strasbourg and Heidelberg, and obtained the degree of M.D. in 1870. At Heidelberg, he was a student of neurologist Wilhelm...

     (1849–1911)
  • Josef von Mering (1849–1908)
  • Georg Dehio
    Georg Dehio
    Georg Gottfried Julius Dehio , was a German art historian . He was a Baltic German....

     (1850–1932)
  • Karl Ferdinand Braun
    Karl Ferdinand Braun
    Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics . Braun contributed significantly to the development of the radio and TV technology: won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909.-Biography:...

     (1850–1918), Nobel Prize 1909
  • Hans Chiari
    Hans Chiari
    Hans Chiari was an Austrian pathologist who was a native of Vienna. He was the son of gynecologist Johann Baptist Chiari , and brother to rhinolaryngologist Ottokar Chiari ....

     (1851–1916)
  • Hermann Emil Fischer
    Hermann Emil Fischer
    Hermann Emil Fischer was a German chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1902.-Early years:...

     (1851–1919), Nobel Prize 1902
  • Albrecht Kossel
    Albrecht Kossel
    Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel was a German medical doctor.-Biography:Kossel was born in Rostock as the son of Prussian consul Albrecht Kossel and his wife Clara. In 1872, Kossel went to the University of Strasbourg to study medicine, where he visited lectures of Anton de Bary,...

     (1853–1927), Nobel Prize 1910
  • Ludwig Döderlein
    Ludwig Döderlein
    Johann Christoph Wilhelm Ludwig Döderlein , German philologist, was born at Jena. His father was Johann Christoph Döderlein, professor of theology at Jena....

     (1855–1936)
  • Otto Lehmann
    Otto Lehmann
    Otto Lehmann was a German physicist and "father" of liquid crystal technology.- Life :...

     (1855–1922)
  • Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (1856–1921)
  • Georg Simmel
    Georg Simmel
    Georg Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists. His neo-Kantian approach laid the foundations for sociological antipositivism, presenting pioneering analyses of social individuality and fragmentation, and of culture, which he described in terms of historical 'forms and contents'...

     (1858–1918)
  • Oskar Minkowski
    Oskar Minkowski
    Oskar Minkowski Oskar Minkowski Oskar Minkowski (January 13 1858, Kaunas, Lithuania - July 18 1931, Sanatorium Fürstenburg an der Havel, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany was a famous scientist of Jewish descent....

     (1858–1931)
  • Othmar Zeidler
    Othmar Zeidler
    Othmar Zeidler was a German Austrian chemist.As a doctoral student at University of Strasbourg, Zeidler is credited with first synthesis of the insecticide Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane or DDT in 1874, He worked with Adolf von Baeyer at Straßburg.-References:* at www.cdc.gov...

     (1859–1911)
  • Geerhardus Vos
    Geerhardus Vos
    Geerhardus Johannes Vos was an American Calvinist theologian and one of the most distinguished representatives of the Princeton Theology. He is sometimes called the father of Reformed Biblical Theology.-Biography:...

     (1862-1949)
  • Georg Thilenius
    Georg Thilenius
    Georg Christian Thilenius was a German physician and anthropologist who was a native of Soden am Taunus. He studied medicine in Bonn and Berlin, and in 1896 was habilitated as an anatomist at the University of Strasbourg...

     (1868–1937)
  • Gustav Landauer
    Gustav Landauer
    Gustav Landauer was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany in the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of communist anarchism and an avowed pacifist...

     (1870–1919)
  • Franz Weidenreich
    Franz Weidenreich
    Franz Weidenreich was a Jewish German anatomist and physical anthropologist who studied human evolution. He studied at the University of Strasbourg where he earned a medical degree in 1899...

     (1873–1948)
  • Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916)
  • Erwin Baur
    Erwin Baur
    Erwin Baur was a German geneticist and botanist. Baur worked primarily on plant genetics. He was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research research . Baur is considered to be the father of plant virology. He discovered the inheritance of plastids.In 1908 Baur demonstrated a...

     (1875–1933)
  • Albert Schweitzer
    Albert Schweitzer
    Albert Schweitzer was a German-French theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Elsass-Lothringen , at the time in the German Empire...

     (1875–1965), Nobel Prize 1952
  • Ernest Esclangon
    Ernest Esclangon
    Ernest Benjamin Esclangon was a French astronomer and mathematician.Born in Mison , France, in 1895 he started to study mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure, graduating in 1898...

     (1876–1954)
  • Paul Rohmer
    Paul Rohmer
    Paul Rohmer was a Alsacian physician considered the father of modern pædiatrics in eastern France after World War I.-Life:...

     (1876–1977)
  • Maurice René Fréchet
    Maurice René Fréchet
    Maurice Fréchet was a French mathematician. He made major contributions to the topology of point sets and introduced the entire concept of metric spaces. He also made several important contributions to the field of statistics and probability, as well as calculus...

     (1878–1973)
  • Max von Laue
    Max von Laue
    Max Theodor Felix von Laue was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals. He was strongly opposed to National Socialism...

     (1879−1960), Nobel Prize 1914
  • René Leriche
    René Leriche
    René Leriche was a famous French surgeon.-Eponymous terms:René Leriche gave his name to two syndromes:...

     (1879–1955)
  • Hans Kniep
    Hans Kniep
    Karl Johannes Kniep was a German botanist who was a native of Jena.He studied medicine at the University of Kiel, and botany in Jena with Christian Ernst Stahl , where he received his doctorate in 1904...

     (1881–1930)
  • Pierre Montet
    Pierre Montet
    Pierre Montet was a respected French Egyptologist. He first began his studies under Victor Loret at the University of Lyon....

     (1885–1966)
  • Marc Bloch
    Marc Bloch
    Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a medieval historian, University Professor and French Army officer...

     (1886–1944)
  • Robert Schuman
    Robert Schuman
    Robert Schuman was a noted French statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat and an independent political thinker and activist...

     (1886–1963)
  • Ernst Robert Curtius
    Ernst Robert Curtius
    Ernst Robert Curtius was a German literary scholar, a philologist and Romance language literary critic....

     (1886−1956)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Levi
    Friedrich Wilhelm Levi
    Friedrich Wilhelm Daniel Levi was a German mathematician known for his work in abstract algebra. He also worked in geometry, topology, set theory, and analysis...

     (1888–1966)
  • Carl Schmitt
    Carl Schmitt
    Carl Schmitt was a German jurist, political theorist, and professor of law.Schmitt published several essays, influential in the 20th century and beyond, on the mentalities that surround the effective wielding of political power...

     (1888-1985)
  • Beno Gutenberg
    Beno Gutenberg
    Beno Gutenberg was a German-born seismologist who made several important contributions to the science. He was a colleague of Charles Francis Richter at the California Institute of Technology and Richter's collaborator in developing the Richter magnitude scale for measuring an earthquake's...

     (1889–1960)
  • André Danjon
    André Danjon
    André-Louis Danjon was a French astronomer born in Caen.Danjon devised a method to measure "Earthshine" on the Moon using a telescope in which a prism split the Moon's image into two identical side-by-side images...

     (1890–1967)
  • Henri Lefebvre
    Henri Lefebvre
    Henri Lefebvre was a French sociologist, intellectual and philosopher who was generally considered a Neo-Marxist.-Biography:Lefebvre was born in Hagetmau, Landes, France...

     (1901–1991)
  • Michel Mouskhely
    Michel Mouskhely
    Michel Mouskhely born Mikheil Muskhelishvili was a Georgian-French political scientist and jurist....

     (1903-1964)
  • Jean Cavaillès
    Jean Cavailles
    Jean Cavaillès , was a French philosopher, specialized in philosophy of science. He took part in the French Resistance within the Libération movement and was shot by the Gestapo on February 17, 1944....

     (1903–1944)
  • Henri Cartan
    Henri Cartan
    Henri Paul Cartan was a son of Élie Cartan, and was, as his father was, a distinguished and influential French mathematician.-Life:...

     (1904−2008)
  • Emmanuel Levinas
    Emmanuel Lévinas
    Emmanuel Levinas was a Lithuanian philosopher and Talmudic commentator.-Life and philosophy:Emanuelis Levinas received a traditional Jewish education in Lithuania...

     (1906–1995)
  • Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908–2008)
  • Antoinette Feuerwerker
    Antoinette Feuerwerker
    Antoinette Feuerwerker was a French jurist and an active fighter in the French Resistance during the Second World War.-Biography:...

     (1912-2003)
  • Salomon Gluck
    Salomon Gluck
    Salomon Gluck, , was a French physician and a member of the French Resistance.-His ancestors:...

     (1914-1944)
  • Hicri Fişek
    Hicri Fişek
    Prof. Dr. Hicri Fişek was a professor of international law.
    Founded the "Tevfik Fikret" high-school in Ankara . He received the French Légion d'Honneur...

     (1918-2002)
  • René Thom
    René Thom
    René Frédéric Thom was a French mathematician. He made his reputation as a topologist, moving on to aspects of what would be called singularity theory; he became world-famous among the wider academic community and the educated general public for one aspect of this latter interest, his work as...

     (1923–2002), Fields Medal
    Fields Medal
    The 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
    Gabriel Vahanian
    Gabriel Vahanian is a French-born Protestant Christian theologian who is most remembered for his pioneering work in the theology of the "death of God" movement within academic circles in the 1960s, and who taught for some 26 years in the U.S.-Life:...

     (1927-)
  • Yves Michaud
    Yves Michaud
    Yves Michaud is a prominent Quebec public figure, a sovereignist and pur et dur supporter of the Parti Québécois.-Background:Michaud was born on February 13, 1930 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec|Canada....

     (* 1930)
  • Pierre Chambon
    Pierre Chambon
    Pierre Chambon is currently a director of the Institute for Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Biology in Strasbourg, France. His major contribution to science involved discovering nuclear hormone receptors, revealing their structure and showing how they contribute to human physiology...

     (* 1931)
  • Zemaryalai Tarzi
    Zemaryalai Tarzi
    Dr. Zemaryalai Tarzi is an internationally renowned archaeologist from Afghanistan. Born in Kabul in 1939, Professor Tarzi completed his studies under the supervision of Professor Daniel Schlumberger, in the process of obtaining three Ph.Ds...

     (* 1933)
  • Alberto Fujimori
    Alberto Fujimori
    Alberto Ken'ya Fujimori served as President of Peru from July 28, 1990, to November 17, 2000. A controversial figure, Fujimori has been credited with uprooting terrorism in Peru and restoring its macroeconomic stability, though his methods have drawn charges of authoritarianism and human rights...

     (* 1938)
  • Liliane Ackermann
    Liliane Ackermann
    Liliane Aimée Ackermann was a French Jewish Community pioneer, leader, writer, and lecturer.-Biography:Liliane Ackermann was born on September 3, 1938, in Strasbourg, France, the daughter of Lucien Weil and Béatrice Haas.During World War II, her family took refuge in Voiron, Isère...

     (1938-2007)
  • Jean-Marie Lehn
    Jean-Marie Lehn
    Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist. He received the Nobel Prize together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his work in Chemistry, particularly his synthesis of the cryptands...

     (* 1939), Nobel Prize 1987
  • Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
    Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
    Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was a French philosopher. He was also a literary critic and translator....

     (1940–2007)
  • Jean-Luc Nancy
    Jean-Luc Nancy
    Jean-Luc Nancy is a French philosopher.Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre , a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe...

     (* 1940)
  • Katia Krafft (1942–1991)
  • Maurice Krafft (1946–1991)
  • Jacques Marescaux
    Jacques Marescaux
    Jacques Marescaux is a french doctor of international renown. He is Chairman of the digestive and endocrine surgery at University Hospital, Strasbourg.- Biography :* 1948: Born in Clermont* 1971: Major in the contest for the Internat...

     (* 1948)
  • Arsène Wenger
    Arsène Wenger
    Arsène Wenger, OBE is a French football manager who has managed English Premier League side Arsenal since 1996...

     (* 1949)
  • Jean-Claude Juncker
    Jean-Claude Juncker
    Jean-Claude Juncker is a Luxembourgian politician, the leader of the Christian Social People's Party. He is the incumbent Prime Minister of Luxembourg, having succeeded Jacques Santer on January 20, 1995. He is also currently Luxembourg's Minister for Finances, a position that he has held since...

     (* 1954)
  • Thomas Ebbesen
    Thomas Ebbesen
    Thomas Ebbesen is a Norwegian physical chemist currently professor at Louis Pasteur University in StrasbourgThomas Ebbesen received his bachelors from Oberlin College, and a PhD from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. He joined NEC in Tsukuba in 1988 and became active in the field of...

     (* 1954)

See also

  • Reichsuniversität Straßburg
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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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