Complutense University of Madrid

The Université Complutense of Madrid is one of the principal universities of Spain.

History

Its origins go up with the foundation with Alcalá de Henares of the Estudio de Escuelas Generales by the King Sancho IV of Castille in 1293. With the agreement of the Pope Alexandre VI, the Cardinal Cisneros, former student of the Estudio and regent of the Spanish Crown, in 1499 the Universitas Complutum founded (What in Latin means " University of Alcalá").

The year 1836 should be awaited, so that the Queen Isabelle II transfers the University in the middle of Madrid by baptizing it " Universidad Central". In 1927, the King Alfonso XIII undertook the construction of a vast campus in the neighborhoods of Madrid. However the Civil war made university residence a battle field, destroying a substantial part of its inheritance human, scientific, artistic, bibliographical and real.

It is only in 1970 that the University took again its original name. A growing number of pupils and the multiplication of the protests against the mode of Franco encouraged the authorities to create a more distant campus dedicated to social sciences; the Campus of Somosaguas.

Today the University has several centers abroad, such as the College of the High European Studies " Miguel Servet" with Paris or the " Real Colegio Complutense de Harvard" with Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The university in figures

  • Approximately: 100000 students

  • Approximately: 6000 professors
  • a catalog centralized of: 2630000 volumes

Notorious students of Complutense

Bonds

Official site of the University

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