Jagiellonian University
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The Jagiellonian University in Krakow (also Jagiellonian University; Polish: Uniwersytet Jagielloński; Latin: Universitas Jagellonica Cracoviensis ) was founded in 1364 by King Casimir the Great as a Studium Generale. Since 1817 it is called " Jagiellonian University ". It is the oldest and second oldest Polish after the Charles University in Prague university in Central Europe. Among its most famous graduates include the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus and Pope John Paul II
- 2.1 Summer Academy
History
Following the approval by Pope Urban V., the University of King Casimir the Great, was first launched by the introduction of General Studies in 1364 as the second university in Central Europe after the Charles University in Prague in life. After the death of King stagnated, she was promoted again until about 1400, but the construction of the later Collegium Maius. The University received an unusual for this time secular embossed with the Faculties of Philosophy, Theology, Law and Medicine.
Establishment of the sciences in the 15th century Reformation
Already in 1409, a university professor Johann Ysner had set up a home for poor students. He bought a house to Johann Statschreiber, which stood beside Andreas burner house.
With the resumption of the University of Sciences have been established under the leadership of professors from Bohemia and Germany. It came Johann von Schelling of Glogau, Thomas Murner, Rudolf Agricola ( poet ), Konrad Celtes, Benedikt Hesse, Johann Sommerfeld, Georg Schmed, Laurenz Raven ( Corvinus ), Bartholomew Stone, Bernhard Feyge, Michael Sternberg, George incense, Valentin Eck, Sebastian Stein Hofer and many others in the 15th and in the first half of the 16th century. Likewise, students came from other European countries, such as Leonard Cox to study in the university famous to. One of the most famous students was the future astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus in the mid- 1490s studied here not finish mathematics and astronomy. Professors Albert Blar from Mazovia and Stanislaus Selig, from Krakow taught these subjects. Johann bear came also from Krakow. At the same time the German professors in the Carpathian countries also came the printers traveling, some of which are well established in Krakow and how Kaspar Straube, later Johann Haller, Schweipolt Fiol and Hieronymus Vietor began letterpress printing in Poland. During the Reformation, many Krakow left due to strict anti - Reformation decrees ( Counter-Reformation ). For example, the University lost its popularity, the record number of 3215 students for 1510 could be achieved until centuries later.
At the end of the 18th century, as had lost with the decline of the state, the University of reputation, helped Kołłątaj Hugo ( 1750-1812 ), priest and rector of the University, through comprehensive reforms of this educational institution to new scientific importance and recognition. He replaced Latin as the language of instruction by Polish. The University founded modern clinics and laboratories and a modern astronomical observatory was established. In the same period a generous botanical garden was created.
18th century
At the end of the 18th century disintegrated the Polish Kingdom, Austrian troops made their entrance. In 1817, the proclaimed by the Congress of Vienna Free City of Krakow has renamed the Cracow University of Jagiellonian University ( Uniwersytet Jagielloński ), by a native of Lithuania Jagiellonian.
19th century
As a result of the Cracow uprising of 1846, Krakow was fully part of the Habsburg monarchy. Considerations to close the University due to the political actions were terminated by an emperor decree. It has invested in new buildings ( Collegium Novum, 1887) and conducted research until 1918 in German and Polish language and taught, while also significant discoveries were made.
In the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (1861-1918) decreed by the Dean on a Virilstimme in the Galician parliament. The first was Joseph Dietl.
The present in the Collegium Maius Jagiellonian library was inventoried comprehensively in the 19th century.
20th century
With the establishment of the Second Polish Republic ended the German -speaking tradition of the university. In medicine, Joseph Dietl had introduced the Polish language as early as the 1850s.
After the Polish campaign, the Gestapo began in November 1939 with the arrest of Polish professors and many university staff who were deported to concentration camps to exterminate the Polish elite. A number of 183 displaced persons in the context of the promotion Krakow is given in the literature. The holdings of the university were confiscated and the teaching prohibited. Nevertheless, continued underground with about 800 listeners a teaching operation. The library was housed from 1940 in 1931 to a new building at the Mickiewicz Ave.
Evidence of this long history of the university are in the Museum of the Collegium Maius, the oldest preserved building of the Jagiellonian University to look at. The Gothic arcade, steep roofs and the little details ( like the faces of Rain Gutters ) are fine examples of the architecture of the 14th century. The southwestern part of the town is strongly influenced by the university. Groups and administration buildings are close together. The Collegium Novum, which today serves as the main building of the University, is a large neo-Gothic building.
Today's profile
The Jagiellonian University is today with about 40,000 students, the second largest in Poland. Since the academic year 2005/2006 the new Auditorium Maximum is used both for teaching and for international congresses. The ultra-modern prestigious building was funded in part with support from the European Union.
Until 2010, the original campus of the 600 -year renewal should (also called third campus ) will be completed. It is located four kilometers south of the city center. The proximity to the Cracow Technology Park has been deliberately chosen to establish an infrastructure for research in the field of future technologies. Some institutes such as the Institute of Molecular Biology, are already located on the new campus since 2004. In the next stage, the Institute will move to mathematics and physics. Meanwhile, the budget for the project is raised to nearly a billion zloty ( 240 million euros ) and was postponed to 2015, the completion.
In addition to the numerous new buildings bachelor's and master's degree programs are increasingly being offered in English in order to attract more foreign students at the Jagiellonian University. These are chargeable in contrast to the Polish-language programs in the rule.
The Jagiellonian University, founded in 1985 is a member of the Coimbra Group, a network of leading European universities with a long tradition, such as Oxford and Cambridge.
Since 1996, the monthly magazine of the University alma mater is issued, the information in Polish on the history and current developments of the University.
Summer Academy
The Summer Academy of the School of Polish Language and Culture ( Polish SzkoĹ Języka i Kultury Polskiej ) is an independent unit in the center of the Polish language and culture in the world, at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University.
The Academy was founded in 1969 organized annually 3 -, 4 - and 6- week courses of Polish language and culture. In the summer of 2005 thereto attended by nearly 600 people, two thirds of the participants were from the United States, of which many familiar with Polish background. The second largest group with 86 German
In addition to an intensive introduction to the Polish language, the Summer Academy is distinguished by a comprehensive cultural offering. These include visits to museums and theaters as well as excursions into the surrounding Krakow, in the Wieliczka Salt Mine and in the former concentration camp Auschwitz.
2000 Summer Academy was honored for her contribution to the promotion of Polish culture abroad with an award of the Polish Foreign Ministry.
Faculties
The university is organized today in 15 faculties:
- Faculty of Law and Administration
- Faculty of Medicine "Collegium Medicum " ( incorporated since 1993, previously stand-alone)
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Faculty of Philosophy
- Faculty of History
- Faculty of Philology
- Faculty of Polish Studies
- Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied computer science
- Faculty of mathematics and computer science
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences
- Faculty of Management and Communication Sciences
- Faculty of International and Political Doctrine
- Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology
Known graduates
- Paweł Włodkowic (around 1370-1435 ), lawyer, writer and diplomat
- Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822-1882), chemist, pharmacist and inventor
- Karol Olszewski (1846-1915), chemist, mathematician and physicist
- Bronisław Malinowski (1884-1942), social anthropologist
- Leo Sternbach (1908-2005), American chemist and pharmacist
- Manfred Lachs (1914-1993), diplomat, jurist, professor and judge at the International Court of Justice
- Karol Wojtyla (1920-2005), who later became Pope John Paul II
- Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), philosopher, essayist, and science fiction author
- Anna Morawska (1922-1972), journalist, translator and writer
- Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012), poet, Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1996
- Holm Putzke (* 1973), German legal scholar, professor at the University of Passau