UNIVERSITY OF LIèGE

The 'University of Liège' (ULg), in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium, is a major public university in the French Community of Belgium. Its official language is French.

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History

Organization

Notable alumni

Notable academia

See also

External links

History

The University was founded in 1817 by William I of the Netherlands, and by his Minister of education Anton Reinhard Falck. The foundation of the university was the result of a long intellectual tradition which dates back to the origins of the Bishopric of Liège. Starting from 11th century, under the impulse of the prince-bishops of Liège. The city attracted students and scientists, like Petrarca, to study in its libraries. The reputation of its medieval schools gave the city its reputation as the new Athens.
The decree of Napoleon I of 17 March 1808, bearing on the organization of an imperial University and indicating Liege as the site of an Academy, comprising a Faculty of Arts and a Faculty of Science, was the first university charter for Liège. In the end, Liège owes its university to William I of the Netherlands, who remembered the prestigious past of teaching and culture of the City, when he decided to establish a new university on Walloon soil.
Nearly 200 years afterwards, even if it settled to some extent in Sart-Tilman, the University of Liege, which depends now on the French Community of Belgium, is located at the edge of the river Meuse, in the center of what is called the Island, Latin Quarter of Liège.

Organization

The University of Liège has:

★ 17,000 students

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★ 3,100 foreign students

★ 3,300 employees

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★ 2,400 faculty members (both teaching and research)

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★ 800 administrative and technical support staff
The ULg comprises:

★ 7 Faculties

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★ Philosophy and Letters

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★ Law and School of Criminology

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★ Sciences

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★ Medicine

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★ Applied Sciences

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★ Veterinary Medicine

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★ Psychology and Educational Sciences

★ 3 Schools

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★ HEC Management School - University of Liege (Economics and Management)

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★ Social Sciences

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★ Criminology

★ 45 Departments

Notable alumni

★ Joaquín Arderíus, novelist

★ Albert Claude, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1974

★ Marie Delcourt, first female professor at the ULg

★ Marcel Detienne, philosophy and literature (PhD)

★ Paul Demaret, rector of the College of Europe

★ Jean Gol lawyer, politician (1942-1995)

★ David Keilin, entomologist

★ Auguste Kerckhoffs, Dutch linguist and cryptographer

★ Jan Kowalewski, Polish cryptologist

★ Wincenty Kowalski, Polish military commander

★ Joseph Lebeau, statesman

★ Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, statesman and diplomat

★ Paul Pastur, lawyer and politician (1866-1938)

★ Joseph Plateau, physicist (1801-1883)

★ Georges Poulet, literary critic

★ Guy Quaden, economist, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium

★ Max Rooses, writer

★ Léon Rosenfeld, physicist

★ Polidor Swings, 1948 laureate of the Francqui Prize

★ Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist

★ André Henri Constant van Hasselt, poet

★ Jeremy Weate, philosopher

Notable academia

★ Zénon-M. Bacq (1903-1983), radiobiologist

★ Florent-Joseph Bureau (1906-1999), mathematician

★ Eugène Charles Catalan, mathematician

★ André Danthine, computer scientist

★ Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck (1809–1887), palaeontologist and chemist

★ Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, economist

★ Marie Delcourt (1891-1979), classical philologist

★ Paul Fourmarier (1877-1970), geologist

★ Godefroid Kurth (1847–1916), historian

★ Pol Swings (1906-1983), astrophysicist

★ Edouard Van Beneden, biologist

See also

★ University Foundation

★ Francqui Foundation

★ Academia Belgica

★ Belgian Academy Council of Applied Sciences

★ National Fund for Scientific Research

★ Science Parks of Wallonia

External links

★ University of Liège

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★ A brief description

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★ Ten centuries of intellectual tradition