University of Geneva
The University of Geneva (French Université de Genève ) is a comprehensive university and was founded in 1559 by John Calvin as a theological and humanistic Académie de Genève. With the establishment of a medical school, the university received 1873 status and name of a university. The University of Geneva has a broad study and research opportunities.
History
In the beginning, especially theology and humanistic subjects taught at the Académie de Genève. In the 16th and 17th centuries they had a big international reputation; Geneva was then considered as the " Protestant Rome ". In the 18th century, new subjects have been added, especially the natural sciences. 1873, the Academy was formally renamed University.
Organization
The University of Geneva is organized into seven faculties ( natural sciences, medicine, law, humanities, economics and social sciences, psychology and educational sciences, Protestant Theology ), a translation school, Institute for European Studies ( Institut Européen de l' Université de Genève, IEUG ) and autonomous institutions ( Architecture, Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies ( Graduate Institute ) development Studies: university Institute d' études du développement ( GIDS ), Ecumenical Theology: Institute Oecuménique de Bossey ).
Partner universities
The University of Geneva offers joint master's degree programs with the Swiss Universities:
- University of Lausanne ( Université de Lausanne ( UNIL ) )
- University of Basel ( University of Basel )
- University of Neuchâtel ( Université de Neuchâtel ( UniNE ) )
Statistics
In the summer semester 2005, the university counted 14,600 students ( including 59 percent of women and 38 percent foreigners), 750 professors and 2,500 others in the teaching and research staff employed.
Ranking
The renowned U.S. magazine Newsweek downgraded the University in its 2006 ranking as the third best in continental Europe, " Global University " a ( ranked 28th worldwide), after the Federal Institutes Zurich ( 18th place) and Lausanne ( No. 23 ).
Also for the renowned British newspaper The Times, the University of Geneva is one of the top 50 universities in the world. According to the Times Higher World University Rankings 2006, the UNIGE is the world's number 39 and thus into the Top Ten in Europe (including GBR). In the ranking of 2009, the University took the number 72 in 2010 ranked it the number 118 (33 in Europe).
Famous people
Researchers and teachers
16th century
- Theodore de Beza ( reformer, first rector, Protestant theologian )
- John Calvin ( reformer, theologian )
- Erich Hedemann ( lawyer)
17th Century
- Giovanni Diodati ( Protestant theologian )
- Bénédict Turrettini ( Protestant theologian )
- François Turrettini ( Protestant theologian )
18th century
- Johann Bernoulli ( mathematician )
- Gabriel Cramer ( mathematician )
- Jacques Necker ( lawyer, economist )
- Marc- Auguste Pictet ( scientist )
- Horace - Bénédict de Saussure ( scientist )
- Jean- Alphonse Turrettini ( Protestant theologian )
19th century
- Henri -Frédéric Amiel (philosopher )
- Augustin de Candolle Pyrame ( botanist )
- Alphonse Louis Pierre de Candolle Pyrame ( botanist )
- Jean -Daniel Colladon ( physicist )
- Moritz Hartmann ( German Studies )
- Raoul Pictet ( physicist )
- Nicolas Theodore de Saussure ( scientist )
- Rodolphe Töpffer ( rhetoric and literature)
- Carl Vogt ( scientist )
20th century
Student
Andreas Ackermann, Johannes Althusius, Jean Pierre Frédéric Ancillon, Kofi Annan, Jacobus Arminius, Fritz Arndt, Gustav Baist, José Manuel Durão Barroso, Birgitt Bender, Andreas Benz, Kurt Birrenbach, Klaus Bonhoeffer, Daniel Bovet, Birgit Breuel, Peter Gustav Bucky, Johann Buxtorf the Elder, Micheline Calmy -Rey, Michael Georg Conrad, Franco Costa, Hans Daniels, Hernando de Soto, Carla Del Ponte, Arved Deringer, Ruth Dreifuss, Ubbo Emmius, Carl Feer - Herzog, Johannes Fischer, Pierre Frieden, Emanuel Friedli Frederick I (Anhalt), Frederick II ( Hesse -Homburg ), Riadh Sidaoui, Walter Friedrich, Samuel Frisching (I.), Samuel Frisching ( II ), Claire Goll, Claude Goretta, Edvard Hambro, Alexandre Hay, Rudolf Hotzenköcherle, Annemarie Huber- Hotz, Claudio Humes, Meinrad Ingle, Urs Jaeggi, Marcel Junod, Kalniete, Charles III. Wilhelm ( Baden -Durlach ), Victor Klemperer, Karl Korsch, Otto Kranzbühler, Jean -Georges Lossier, Alexander Lowen, Prince Hubertus zu Löwenstein -Wertheim -Freudenberg, Hans Luther, Maria Teresa Mestre, Ferenc Molnár, Johann Michael Moscherosch, Alva Myrdal, Claude Nicollier, Jean Frédéric Ostervald, Fabienne Pakleppa, Pericle Patocchi, Charles Poncet, Peter Radtke, Else Reventlow, Angelo Sala, Jochen Sanio, Simon Schwendenerstrasse, Adolf von Steiger, Alain Tanner, Savielly Tartakower, Jean -Claude Thoenig, Peter Ulmer, Philips van Marnix, Henry Vane, Traugott Vogel, Ernst von Borstel, George of the Wense, Christoph von Dohna, Heinrich von Gagern, Hellmut von Gerlach, Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck, Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Henri of Luxembourg, Hans von Mangoldt, Ulrich Friedrich by Suhm, Jürgen Warnke, Dieter E. Zimmer