University of Liège

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The University of Liège ( ULg ) (French: Université de Liège) is a French -language university based in Liege, Belgium. The University is a member of cross- border higher composite ALMA.

History

The University of Liège was opened in 1817, at the time of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands under King William I.. The Academy Hall was built according to plans by Jean -Noël Chevron 1819-1824 from again related stones of the old Jesuit Church and was located in an old convent located on the Maas River in the city center of Liege - in today's place du 20 - Août. Today in this building, the administration and the philosophical and literary faculty is housed.

Organization

The university consists of 45 departments, which are distributed over eight faculties. In January 2005, the university HEC -Liège ( Hautes Etudes Commerciales ) was merged with the University of Liege. In 2005, the University had about 17,000 students and 2,500 professors, lecturers and researchers.

The University of Liège is from time immemorial a state university and therefore has no theological faculty. Law, medicine and engineering are a few kilometers south of the city taught on the campus surrounded by woods Sart -Tilman, which has been built in 1967. There is also an open-air museum, where modern works of sculpture can be seen.

Since 1924, the university maintains the Polleur - Venn a scientific outdoor station ( station Scientifique des Hautes Fagnes ). The weather station located on Vennrand is open to visitors.

A campus of the University is located in Arlon.

Faculties

• Philosophy and Literature
• Law and Criminology
• Natural sciences
• Human Medicine
• Veterinary Medicine
• Psychology and Educational Sciences
• Engineering and Applied Sciences
• Economics and Management
• Humanities and Social Sciences

Known graduates

• Edouard van Beneden (1846-1910), Belgian developmental biologist and cytologist
• Jean -Pierre and Luc Dardenne ( born 1951 or 1954), Belgian film directors, film producers and scriptwriters
• Marcel De Corte (1905-1994), a Belgian philosopher
• Fernand Dehousse (1906-1976), Belgian politician
• Fernand Dumont
• Michèle Fabien (1945-1999), Belgian writer, translator and dramaturge
• Maurice Grevisse (1895-1980), Belgian grammarian
• Mathieu Grosch ( born 1950 ), Belgian politician, MEP
• Pierre Harmel (1911-2009), a Belgian lawyer and politician
• Godefroid Kurth (1847-1916), Belgian historian
• Anne -Marie Lizin ( b. 1949 ), Belgian politician
• Jean -Marie Piemme ( b. 1944 ), Belgian dramaturge
• Henri Pirenne (1862-1935), Belgian historian
• Didier Reynders (born 1958 ), Belgian politician
• Léon Rosenfeld (1904-1974), Belgian physicist
• Charles Augustin Sainte -Beuve (1804-1869), French poet and critic
• Theodor Schwann (1810-1882), German physiologist
• Polydore Swings
• Haroun Tazieff (1914-1998), a French volcanologist and geologist
• Jean -François Tielemans (1799-1887), Belgian politician
• Robert Vivier (1894-1989), Belgian poet and writer
• Claude Yserentant

Honorary Doctors

1990 the Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans was awarded an honorary doctorate for his services with respect to the Dutch literature from the University of Liege. Followed in 1999, Salman Rushdie. 2006 were, inter alia, the American physician Jean -Pierre Kinet, the German physician Gottfried Blaschke and the German physicist Dietrich Stauffer an honorary doctorate.