Complutense University of Madrid

• 819 Chair ( catedráticos )
• 5385 else professors and scientific staff

The Complutense University of Madrid (Spanish Universidad Complutense de Madrid ) is the largest Spanish presence University. It is located in Madrid.

History

The origins of the university can be found in the Middle Ages, when King Sancho IV of Castile, the Studium Generale allowed in an educational institution of the Franciscans on May 20, 1293. In 1499 corresponded to Pope Alexander VI. the request of one of the former pupils, Cardinal Gonzalo Jiménez de Cisneros, to convert the General Studies in a university. This was called because originally the name of the city was Complutum Universitas Complutensis. She was also known as the University of Alcalá de Henares.

The city of Alcalá de Henares was completely re-scheduled as a unit with the university buildings to display as an original model of a Civitas Dei (City of God), the ideal city for the Spanish missionaries in America in reality. This should be the first concept of an ideal city.

Task of the new university, it should be according to de Cisneros, train competent clerics who should be a counter-movement to reformers. In addition, the mission of the university was to train new and knowledgeable imperial officials for the different kingdoms of Spain.

In 1836, the University was moved to the capital Madrid and renamed the Universidad Central. From 1857 they had the monopoly for the award doctorates in Spain. This monopoly ended in 1954, when the University of Salamanca their historical privilege to confer the title of Doctor regained. This eliminated the justification for the name " Central University " and the Universidad was renamed University of Madrid.

Due to the university and study reform of 1970, the University of Madrid was divided into two parts: the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and linguistics as well as the medical courses remained with the university, which was now called Universidad Complutense de Madrid, while the Centers for technical studies were grouped together with other institutions such as the army previous carrier or the Ministry of Industry in the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ( technical University of Madrid ). In 1977, in a university Alcalá was re-opened, this was the name Alcalá University.

The University Today

The Complutense University is located on two campuses ( Campus), the Ciudad Universitaria at Moncloa district, the Complutense with the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the National Open University of Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia divides, and the campus in Somosaguas. The Ciudad Universitaria formed in the Spanish Civil War for several months the front in the defense or conquest of Madrid by Republican and Nationalist troops (see Siege of Madrid). Here, not only the buildings were destroyed, but also an important part of scientific preparations and the libraries that dated back to from the old Complutense. Also a lot of the professors stood by exile and deposed after 1939 no longer available.

With 88 177 students enrolled in the academic year 2006/2007 is the Universidad Complutense, the largest presence University ( the National Distance University has more students enrolled ) in Spain and the second largest in Europe.

Among other things, the following courses may currently be occupied in the 21 faculties: biology, environmental science, economics, business administration, law, tourism, sociology, journalism, documentation system, pharmacy, philosophy, philology, psychology, medicine, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy, teaching, mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, geography, fine arts, geology, chemical engineering ( not an exhaustive list).

On the university campus, the Estadio Nacional Universidad Complutense, which is mainly used for rugby matches located.

Personalities of the historic university

• Antonio de Nebrija, 1513-1522 Professor of Rhetoric, humanist and philologist
• Tomás de Villanueva, after 1500 study and professor, theologian and writer
• Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, philosopher and theologian
• Pedro de Lerma, first Chancellor of the University
• Ignatius of Loyola, 1526-1527 study and 8 weeks of detention, theologian and co-founder of the Jesuit order
• Domingo de Soto, early 16th century studies, theologian and confessor of the Emperor
• Ambrosio de Morales, about 1530s study, humanist, historian and archaeologist
• Benedictus Arias Montanus, mid-16th century studies, theologian and orientalist
• Juan de Mariana, mid-16th century studies, historians
• Francisco Vallés de Covarrubias
• Francisco Suárez, 1585-1592, theologian and philosopher
• Juan de la Cruz, poet, mystic and Doctor of the Church
• Mateo Alemán, 16th Century Studies, writer
• Lope de Vega, 1577-1581 study, poets
• Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas 1596-1600 studying, writer
• Jules Mazarin, 17th Century Studies, French diplomat and cardinal of Italian descent.
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 17th Century Studies, playwright and poet
• Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, 18th Century Studies, statesman and writer
• Andrés Manuel del Río, 18th Century Studies, mineralogist and chemist

Significant faculty and alumni (selection)

Physicians and scientists

• Gregorio Marañón (1887-1960), physician, researcher, historian, writer ( professor of endocrinology since 1931 )
• Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), physician, was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize for Medicine ( since 1892 Professor of Histology and Pathology )

Theologians and philosophers

• José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), philosopher, sociologist and essayist ( 1910-1936 Professor of Metaphysics )
• Fernando Savater ( b. 1947 ), philosopher and writer, presently Professor of Philosophy
• Domingo de Soto (1494-1560), a Dominican monk, theologian and philosopher, confessor of Charles V.

• Alejandro Amenábar (born 1972 ), Chilean film director (including The Sea Inside )
• Lope de Vega (1562-1635), poet
• Javier Marías (* 1951), writer
• Erich Hackl (born 1954 ), Austrian writer
• Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645), poet and writer
• Mario Vargas Llosa ( b. 1936 ), Peruvian writer and politician ( his doctorate in 1959 at the Complutense )
• Julio Iglesias ( born 1943 ), Spanish singer ended in 2001, after 33 - year break, his law studies.

Politician

• José María Aznar ( born 1953 ), former Prime Minister of Spain ( 1996-2004)
• Manuel Azaña y Díaz (1880-1940), Second and last President of the Second Republic (1936-1939), received his doctorate in 1900 at the Universidad Central.
• María Teresa Fernández de la Vega ( b. 1949 ), since 2004, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister
• Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos y Ramírez (1744-1811), politician and writer
• Juan Negrin (1889-1956), politician, during the Spanish Civil War, Prime Minister (1937-1939)
• Loyola de Palacio (1950-2006), Former Vice- President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Transport and Energy (1999-2004)
• Nicolás Salmerón (1838-1908), professor of philosophy and metaphysics from July to September 1873 President of the First Republic in Spain.
• Javier Solana ( born 1942 ), former NATO Secretary General (1995-1999) and Secretary General of the European Council and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy ( since 1999); former Professor of Solid State Physics
• Pedro Solbes, current Spanish Economy Minister and EU Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, European Commission President Prodi
• Adolfo Suárez ( born 1932 ), First Prime Minister after the end of the Franco era ( 1976-1981 )

Other

• Letizia Ortiz (born 1972 ), wife of Crown Prince Felipe of Spain and former television presenter
• Javier Pradera (1934-2011), journalist and publisher, co-founder of the daily newspaper El País
• Pedro Paterno (1857-1911), lawyer, writer and Deputy Prime Minister of the first Philippine Republic
• José Rizal (1861-1896), doctor, writer and Philippine National Hero
• José Luis Sampedro (1917-2013), economist and writer (1955-1969 Professor of Economic structure )
• Anselm lucky man (1913-1999), German economist and jurist was a specialist in copyright
• Marianela Szymanowski (* 1990), Argentine soccer player

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Faculty of Law

Pharmacy school

Faculty of computer science