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The University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, founded in 1631, was divided in the 1970s into three separate institutions with a total of approximately 48,500 students as of 2007. They are (with approximate specialisations in parentheses):
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Structure
- Strasbourg I - Université Louis Pasteur (science/technology)
- Strasbourg II - Université Marc Bloch (humanities)
- Strasbourg III - Université Robert Schuman (law/politics/economy)
Strasbourg I is a member of the LERU (League of European Research Universities).
History
The university emerged from a Lutheran humanist German Gymnasium , founded in 1538 by Johannes Sturm in the Free Imperial City of Strassburg. It was transformed to a university in 1631.
The German university still persisted even after the annexation of the City by King Louis XIV in 1681, but mainly turned into a French university during the French Revolution.
The university was refounded as the German Kaiser-Wilhelm-Universität in 1872, after the Franco-Prussian war and the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany provoked a westwards exodus of francophone teachers. In 1918 Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France, so a reverse exodus of germanophone teachers took place.
During World War II, when France was occupied, personnel and equipment of the University of Strasbourg was transferred to Clermont-Ferrand. In its place, the short-lived German Reichsuniversität Straßburg was created.
Notable academics and alumni
- Johannes Sturm (1507-1589)
- Johann Conrad Dannhauer (1603-1666)
- Antoine Deparcieux (1703-1768)
- Jean Hermann (1738-1800)
- Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1745-1813)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
- Louis Ramond de Carbonnières (1755-1827)
- Maximilian von Montgelas (1759-1838)
- Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773-1859)
- Georg Büchner (1813-1837)
- Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816-1856)
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
- Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault (1823-1904)
- Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833-1910)
- Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917), Nobel Prize in 1905
- Bernhard Naunyn (1839-1925)
- Paul Heinrich von Groth (1843-1927)
- Lujo Brentano (1844-1931)
- Joseph von Mering (1849-1908)
- Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918), Nobel Prize in 1909
- Hermann Emil Fischer (1851-1919) Nobel Prize in 1902
- Albrecht Kossel (1853-1927), Nobel Prize in 1910
- Georg Simmel (1858-1918)
- Oskar Minkowski (1858-1931)
- Othmar Zeidler (1859-1911)
- Geerhardus Vos (1862-1949)
- René Leriche (1870-1955)
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), Nobel Prize in 1952
- Martin Spahn (1875-1945)
- Ernest Esclangon (1876-1954)
- Paul Rohmer (1876-1977)
- Pierre Montet (1885 – 1966)
- Fred Vlès (1885-1944)
- Marc Bloch (1886–1944)
- Robert Schuman (1886-1963)
- Beno Gutenberg (1889 - 1960)
- Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991)
- Emmanuel Lévinas (1906-1995)
- Michael E. DeBakey (1908-2008)
- Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912-2003)
- Salomon Gluck (1914-1944)
- René Thom (1923-2002), Fields Medal in 1958.
- Guy Ourisson (1926-2006)
- Gabriel Vahanian (1927-)
- Yves Michaud (1930- )
- Pierre Chambon (1931-)
- Zemaryalai Tarzi (1933- )
- Alberto Fujimori (1938-)
- Liliane Ackermann (1938-2007)
- Jean-Marie Lehn (1939- ), Nobel Prize in 1987
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007)
- Jean-Luc Nancy (1940- )
- Jacques Marescaux (1948-)
- Katia and Maurice Krafft
- Arsène Wenger (1949- )
See also
- List of public universities in France by academy
- Reichsuniversität Straßburg
- Jardin botanique de l'Université de Strasbourg
- Observatory of Strasbourg
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