Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

The Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Polish:. Uniwersytet the Adam Mickiewicz w Poznaniu - abbreviated UAM ) was born on 7 May 1919 in Poznan as a third state university in Poland.

Earlier universities in Poznan

The tradition of higher education began in Poznan in 1518 with the founding of Lubrański Academy, but had no right to award degrees.

The Polish King Sigismund III. Wasa awarded in 1611 at the Jesuit College poses the privilege to grant master 's and doctorate degrees, and so formally founded the university. The privilege was then in 1650 by John II Casimir and 1678 by John III. Sobieski confirmed. Resistors, not least from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow resulted in a final expansion into a university was not made.

The Jesuit College existed for nearly two centuries. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1773, the College under a different name existed until the year 1793.

After the partitions of Poland and the Congress of Vienna poses belonged to the end of the First World War to Prussia.

History of the University

In the centuries-old tradition of Polish university has been invoked as the first academic year of the new Piastenuniversität was inaugurated on 7 May 1919 ( the teaching started on 4th April). The building of the Prussian Royal Academy to Poznan were taken for this purpose. In 1920 the college 's name Uniwersytet Poznański ( University of Poznan ). After the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and Warsaw University Poznań was the third Polish State University. The first Rector was Heliodor Święcicki.

After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Posen was annexed as part of the Warthegau. For the summer semester of 1941, the German Reich University of Posen opened with several faculties, which existed until 1945.

The Polish university was against closed since the outbreak of war. In November 1940, the teaching in the underground in Warsaw, under the name Uniwersytet Ziem Zachodnich, UZZ (University of the Western Territories ), has been resumed and maintained until August 1944, so that at this time more than 2,000 students could be trained. The first rector of UZZ was Ludwik Jaxa Bykowski, the teachers were mainly scientists from the University of Poznan.

Directly after the end of hostilities, the legal training company was founded in 1945 in Poznan reactivated. In 1950 the Medical and Pharmaceutical Faculty were separated and converted into the Medical Academy.

The naming of the University after the Polish national poet Adam Mickiewicz took place in 1955.

Among the most famous alumni include mathematician Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki and Henryk Zygalski. As cryptanalysts they succeeded in the 1930s, first the decryption of the German Enigma machine.

The university today

Currently, the Adam Mickiewicz University comprises fourteen faculties:

• Faculty of English
• Faculty of Biology
• Faculty of Chemistry
• Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology ( Polish Studies )
• Faculty of Physics, the business includes an observatory.
• Faculty of Geosciences
• Faculty of Historical Sciences
• Faculty of mathematics and computer science
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Faculty of Political Science and Journalism
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Philology New
• Faculty of Law and Administration
• Faculty of Theology

Added to this comes the Pedagogical Faculty of Arts in Kalisz.

As institutions of UAM not belonging to any faculty there is also the Foreign Language Institute, the European Institute in Gniezno, Collegium Polonicum in Słubice and the Institute in Kościan. The University also has offices in Krotoszyn, Ostrow Wielkopolski, Pleszew, Pniewy, Srem and Wągrowiec.

In June 2007 49.170 students were enrolled. Rector of the UAM is the chemist Bronisław Marciniak.

In addition to the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, there are other major universities, including the already mentioned Medical University and the Technical University.