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School ListingStudents, you can save time finding a school abroad by signing up here to have schools contact you. | Wrocław University | | Location: | Telephone and Fax: | | pl. Uniwersytecki 1, Wrocław, 50-137, Poland | Tel.: 343-68-47 Fax.: 344-34-21 | | URL: | | http://www.uni.wroc.pl/
| No e-mail available | | Description | | The Wroclaw's Town Council decided to establish a University in Wroclaw in the 16th century, and thanks to their efforts on July 20, 1505, Władysław Jagiellończyk, king of Bohemia and Hungary, signed the foundation deed of a new university. Yet the vigorous opposition from Cracow University put an end to this undertaking. It was only after two hundred years later that a small Jesuit academy - with two faculties (Philology and Theology) - was established in 1702 by the Emperor Leopold I Hapsburg, and named, after him, the Leopoldine Academy.
After Silesia's incorporation into Prussia, the Leopoldine Academy merged with the Protestant Viadrina university, which was moved to Wroclaw from Frankfurt-am-Oder, formed the Universitatis Literarum Vratislaviensis, established on August 3, 1811. The University had five faculties: Philosophy, Medicine, Law, Protestant Theology and Catholic Theology. In the second half of the nineteenth century the University was developing very dynamically, and many institutes, departments, clinics, laboratories were formed then, including museums with excellent collections: botanical, zoological, anatomical and geological. At that time numerous scholars of international renown lectured at the University of Wroclaw, for example E. Buchner (chemistry), R. W. Bunsen (chemistry), P. G. Dirichlet (mathematics), J. G. Galle (astronomy), A. Hillebrandt (classical philology), G. R. Kirchhoff (physics), E. E. Kummer (mathematics), T. Mommsen (history, law), J. Partsch (geography), J. E. Purkynje (physiology), R. Roepell (history), C. T. Siebold (zoology), and H. Steffens (physics). Before the Second World War the University in Wroclaw already had six faculties (Medicine, Law and Political Sciences, Philosophy, Natural Sciences, Protestant Theology and Catholic Theology). | | Alternate language description | | Not Available | | Areas of study | | Philology and Linguistics, English Language and Literature, German language and literature, Classics, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, History, History of Art, Education, Psychology, Archeology, Law, Economics, Criminology, Agriculture Botany and Forestry Science, Geography, Geology, Zoology, Biochemistry, Mathematics, Information Technology, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry | | Language of instruction | Type of School | | Polish | Public University | | Type of studies | Accreditation | | University Degree Program, Graduate, Professional Programs |
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