LVIV POLYTECHNIC

'Lviv Polytechnic' National University (, , ) is the biggest scientific university in Lviv. Since its foundation in 1844 it was one of the most important centres of science and technolgical development in Central Europe.

Contents

History

Notable alumni

Notable professors

Other

References

History

★ November 4, 1844
Technical Academy was opened in Lviv. Its first director was Florian Schindler. It was situated at the corner of Virmenska and Theatralna streets in the building of Darovsky.

★ November 1, 1848
Lviv's center was shelled by the Austrian artillery, during which the building of the Technical Academy was destroyed by the fire. Lectures was replaced in Town Municipality building (3-rd floor) and continued there till 1850.

★ December 4, 1850
The beginning of studies in the newly-restored building.

★ 1851
The number of students at the Technical Academy made up 220 people.

★ 1852/1853
The beginning of the Academy reorganization.

★ 1872
The Ministry of Affairs of Religions and Education gave permission to teach chemical technologies.

★ March 12, 1872
Felix Stshelecki was elected as the first Rector.

★ April 1, 1874 - October, 1877
Academy obtained permission to build new academic premises. Yu. Zakharievych was elected as the construction superintendent.

★ October 7, 1877
The first telephone conversation on the territory of the Austro-Hungarian empire took place. Telephone line connected the Assembly Hall of the Main Building with the primises of the Department of Technical Chemistry.

★ November 15, 1877
Inauguration of the new Rector - Professor Yu. Zakharievych.

★ 1877
Technical Academy was renamed a Polytechnical School.

★ September 13, 1880
Emperor Frantz-Jozeph visited the Polytechnical School. During that visit he ordered J. Mateiko to depict the technical progress of mankind in 11 pictures. Now these pictures decorate the Assembly Hall.

★ 1894
The 50th jubilee of the Polytechnical School. To commemorate that date professor V. Zayonchkovsky published the book "The imperial Polytechnical School in Lviv. Historical essay on its foundation and development as well as its present state".

★ February 13, 1894
Polytechnic School Statute was adopted.

★ 1905
Lviv Polytechnical School possessed the second place in the number of students after Viena.

★ November 8, 1919
Unification of Agricultural Academy (Dubliany) and Higher School of Forestry (Lviv) with Politechnical School.

★ June 28, 1920
Adoption of the New Statute and renaming the Polytechnical School to Lviv Polytechnic.

★ February 23, 1931
Council of the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry of Polytechnic conferred academic rank of Honorary Doctor to professor Nils Handson (Stockholm, Sweden).

★ 1934
Construction of the building of the Library on Professor Street 1 was finished.

★ October 1939
Lviv Polytechnic was renamed to Lviv Polytechnical Institute.

★ July 4, 1941 (at night)
On Vuletsky Hills fascists shot professors of the Polytechnic Institute - V. Krukovsky, A. Lomnytsky, S. Pilyat, V. Stozhek, K. Vaihel, R. Vitkevych and others.

★ July 26, 1941
Professor Kazimierz Bartel was murdered in the basements of Gestapo headquarters.

★ Spring 1942 - Spring 1944
Special three-month courses for electrical engineers, road and bridge civil engineers, agrarian engineers, etc. were working in the premises, of the present Mechanical Technology Department.

★ Autumn 1944
The 100th jubilee of Lviv Polytechnical Institute was celebrated very quietly in Lviv - the Second World War was still going on.

★ 1945
Geodetic Department was founded.

★ Since October 1946
Lviv Polytechnical Institute began to publish the periodical newspaper Lviv Polytechnic.

★ 1952
Radioengineering Department was founded.

★ 1962
Automation, Electronmechnical and Mechanical Technology Departments was founded.

★ 1966
Economical Engineering Department was founded.

★ 1967
Department of Technology of Organic Substances was founded.

★ 1970
The second building of the Library was erected.

★ 1971
Heating Engineering Department was founded.

★ 1989
Democratic Changes began at Polytechnical Institute

★ April 10, 1991
Inauguration of the first democratically elected Rector for the last 50 years - Yu. Rudavsky.

★ 1992
Computer Engineering Department and Information Technology Department was founded.

★ 1992
Institute of Humanities was founded on the basis of the following chairs:
History of Ukraine, its Science and Technology
Ukrainian Language
Politology
Philosophy
Foreign Languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese)

★ 1993
Department of Applied Mathematics was founded.

★ June 1993
Lviv Polytechnical Institute got the status of university becoming Lviv Polytechnic State University.

★ 1994
Lviv Polytechnic got the status of national university becoming Lviv Polytechnic National University.

Notable alumni

★ Kazimierz Bartel

★ Piotr Wilniewczyc

★ Wilhelm Orlik-Rueckemann

★ Władysław Sikorski

★ Włodzimierz Puchalski

Notable professors

★ Kazimierz Bartel

★ Włodzimierz Stożek

★ Kazimierz Kuratowski

★ Antoni Łomnicki

★ Otto Nadolski

Other

★ Ignacy Mościcki

References

★ History overview at the University web-site