University of Genoa

The University of Genoa (Italian: Università degli Studi di Genova; Latin: Genuense Athenaeum ) is a public university in the northern Italian port city of Genoa with a total of around 37,000 students and approximately 1,600 academic staff. The University of Genoa was founded by a papal bull by Pope Sixtus IV in 1471, and today has faculties both in Genoa and along the Ligurian coast in Imperia, Savona and La Spezia.

In evaluating the Italian universities, the University of Genoa came at the national level to fifth place ( out of a total of 65 state universities). The Italian equivalent of the German Excellence Initiative thus provides a financial bonus in the amount of approximately EUR 4.5 million for the university.

History

In the 13th century existed in Genoa schools that offered degrees in law, theology, medicine and art. The Academy of Theology in 1471 it was officially recognized by a bull IV of the then Pope Sixtus. Some years later, in 1481, the Council of Elders published the Statute of the medical academy.

In 1569 the Senate of the Republic of Genoa transferred the management of individual academies the resident Jesuit Order. This moment had to expand his lands near the old San Girolamo Del Rosso Church and in the process, of which the now affiliated academies benefited his seat. It was built under the supervision of the architect Bartolomeo Bianco, the present main building of the university, which began operating in 1640.

After the Jesuits ban 1773 a special committee dealing with the reorganization of the universities. The various training courses were divided ( rhetoric, reading and writing ) to higher education ( canon law, philosophy, civil law, theology, logic, and metaphysics and physics ) and primary education.

During the French occupation under Napoleon Bonaparte university teaching was further subdivided into technical schools. It created its own faculties of law, medicine, physics and mathematical sciences, business, languages ​​and literature, as well as chemistry. The university itself was attached to the Imperial University of Paris. It was not until 1812 again independently.

After the fall of Napoleon, the provisional government of the Republic appointed a committee with the orientation of university teaching. At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, it was decided to entrust the Kingdom of Sardinia, the University of Genoa. Thus, the university received the same rights and privileges as the University of Turin. Due to political incidents, the University 1821-1823, and 1830-1835 was closed.

1870, the first technical institutes were opened: The Royal Naval College and the Royal Business School, which were recorded in 1936 as a Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Economics, the University of Genoa.

In the late 20th century, the university expanded rapidly. It created new regional campus. In 1996, a part of the Institute to Savona in a restored army barracks around. The campus there encloses the Department of Engineering and Economics and expanded with laboratories for simulation, logistics and industrial engineering.

In January 2001, an "Institutional Review of University of Genoa" by the European Rectors' Conference ( CRE) issued. In this encouraging external professors and an international student body is established.

Faculties

The university is organized in 11 faculties.

  • Faculty of Architecture
  • Faculty of Engineering
  • Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
  • Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences
  • Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (connected to the Ospedale San Martino)
  • Faculty of Modern Languages ​​and Literature
  • Faculty of Education
  • Faculty of Pharmacy
  • Faculty of Political Science
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Economics

Renowned lecturers

  • Evandro Agazzi, philosopher
  • Ubaldo Barbieri, Geophysicists
  • Flavio Baroncelli, philosopher
  • Carlo Becchi, physicists
  • Alberto Maria Bedarida, mathematicians
  • Arciero Bernini, physicist
  • Gerolamo Boccardo, economist and politician
  • Stanislao Cannizzaro, chemist and politician
  • Edgardo Ciani, mathematicians
  • Francesco Della Corte, Romance
  • Fausto Cuocolo, lawyer
  • Giacomo Devoto, linguists
  • Carlo Freccero, Writer
  • Elio Gioanola, Romance
  • Corrado Maltese, art historian
  • Renato Mannheimer, pollster
  • Joy Marino, computer
  • Ettore Pancini, physicists
  • Carlo Pucci, mathematician
  • Edoardo Sanguineti, writer
  • Antonio Scarpa, ethnologist
  • Michele Federico Sciacca, philosopher
  • Antonio Tabucchi, linguists
  • Adalberto VALLEGA, President of the International Geographical Union (2004-2006)

Renowned students

  • Alberto Alessio, geophysicists
  • Enrico Bellone, physicists
  • Felice Romani (1788-1865) author and librettist
  • Benedict XV. (1854-1922), Pope
  • Paolo Fresco, director of FIAT (1998-2002)
  • Franco Malerba ( born 1946 ), astronaut
  • Raffaele Mattioli, an economist
  • Sandro Pertini (1896-1990), President of the Republic of Italy
  • Achille Pesce, Journalist
  • Claudio Scajola (* 1948), politician
  • Angelo Bagnasco ( born 1943 ), Archbishop of Genoa and president of the Italian Episcopal Conference
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