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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

University Palace, main building of the former Imperial University of Strasbourg

The Gallia building, formerly Germania, seat of the Regional Student's Service Centre

The National and University Library on Place de la République, former Kaiserplatz

Main Law faculty building of the former Robert Schuman University

Le Bel Institute of the former Louis Pasteur University

[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.^[5]

[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 Jacob Spener (1635–1705)
• Antoine Deparcieux (1703-1768)
• Johann Hermann (1738–1800)
• Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1745–1813)
• Dominique Villars (1745–1841)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
• Louis Ramond de Carbonnières (1755-1827)
• Maximilian von Montgelas (1759–1838)
• Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773-1859)
• Jean Lobstein (1777–1835)
• Georg Büchner (1813–1837)
• Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816–1856)
• Emil Kopp (1817–1875)
• Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884)
• Louis Pasteur (1822–1895)
• Adolph Kussmaul (1822–1902)
• Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault (1823-1904)
• Georg Albert Lücke (1829–1894)
• Anton de Bary (1831–1888)
• Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833–1910)
• Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917), Nobel Prize 1905
• Oswald Schmiedeberg (1838–1921)
• Gustav von Schmoller (1838–1917)
• 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 1901
• Harry Bresslau (1848–1926)
• Ernst Remak (1849–1911)
• Josef von Mering (1849–1908)
• Georg Dehio (1850–1932)
• Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), Nobel Prize 1909
• Hans Chiari (1851–1916)
• Hermann Emil Fischer (1851–1919), Nobel Prize 1902
• Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927), Nobel Prize 1910
• Ludwig Döderlein (1855–1936)
• Otto Lehmann (1855–1922)
• Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (1856–1921)
• Georg Simmel (1858–1918)
• Oskar Minkowski (1858–1931)
• Othmar Zeidler (1859–1911)
• Geerhardus Vos (1862-1949)
• Georg Thilenius (1868–1937)
• Gustav Landauer (1870–1919)
• Franz Weidenreich (1873–1948)
• Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916)
• Erwin Baur (1875–1933)
• Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), Nobel Prize 1952
• Ernest Esclangon (1876–1954)
• Paul Rohmer (1876–1977)
• Maurice René Fréchet (1878–1973)
• Max von Laue (1879−1960), Nobel Prize 1914
• René Leriche (1879–1955)
• Hans Kniep (1881–1930)
• Pierre Montet (1885–1966)
• Marc Bloch (1886–1944)
• Robert Schuman (1886–1963)
• Ernst Robert Curtius (1886−1956)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Levi (1888–1966)
• Carl Schmitt (1888-1985)
• Beno Gutenberg (1889–1960)
• André Danjon (1890–1967)
• Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991)
• Michel Mouskhely (1903-1964)
• Jean Cavaillès (1903–1944)
• Henri Cartan (1904−2008)
• Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995)
• Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908–2008)
• Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912-2003)
• Salomon Gluck (1914-1944)
• Hicri Fişek (1918-2002)
• René Thom (1923–2002), Fields Medal 1958
• 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 1987
• Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940–2007)
• Jean-Luc Nancy (* 1940)
• Katia Krafft (1942–1991)
• Maurice Krafft (1946–1991)
• Jacques Marescaux (* 1948)
• Arsène Wenger (* 1949)
• Jean-Claude Juncker (* 1954)
• Thomas Ebbesen (* 1954)

[edit] See also

• 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 la ville de Strasbourg
• Musée de minéralogie

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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