The University of Helsinki (in Finnish, Helsingin yliopisto ; in Swedish, Helsingfors universitet) is the principal one and the oldest university in Finland.
It succeeded, in 1828, with old the royal Académie of Åbo ( Kungliga Akademien I Åbo ), founded as of 1640, which it initially replaced with the transfer of capital between Turku and Helsinki, wanted by the Russians for controlling best.
It trains approximately 38.000 students (including 5.500 in 3rd cycle). It is member of the League of the European universities of research and Europaeum and underlines the search for quality.
The University enjoys broad a autonomy , confirmed by a law of 1923. Its “large-Master” is the chancellor elected by the President of the Republic for 5 years and re-eligible, he is selected among three candidates submitted to the Council of Ministers by the assembly of the ordinary and extraordinary professors, of associated and other personalities. The vice-chancellor and the prorector are elected by the Large Consistory, trained of all the ordinary professors.
The languages employed for teaching are the Finnois and the Swedish.
The students divide themselves into nations according to the area from where they are originating. The nations are 15 (of which 4 are suédophones). Their unit forms the Body of the students, which has many buildings.
Personalities having studied in this university
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Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884), collector of the Kalevala
- Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901), geologist, Arctic explorer
- Hugo Gyldén (1841-1896), astronomer
- Anders To give (1854-1938), astronomer
- Karl Fritiof Sundman (1873-1949), astronomer
- Mika Waltari (1908-1979), novelist
- Esa Saarinen (1953-), philosopher
- Tarja Halonen (1943-), lawyer, President of Finland since 2000.
- Linus Torvalds, (1969), engineer of software (inventive of Linux)
- Ernst Lindelöf (1870-1946), mathematician
- Rolf Nevanlinna (1895-1980), mathematician
- Lars Ahlfors (1907-1996), mathematician, one of the two first to obtain the Medal Fields in 1936
- Björn Kurtén (1924-1988), paleontologist
- Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895-1973), Nobel Prize of chemistry (1945)
- Jorma Ollila (1950-), leader of Nokia (M.Pol.Sci.)
- Olli Rehn (1962-), European Commissioner
- Teija Tiilikainen (1964-), political economist, member of the European Convention
- Pekka Himanen, (1973-) Finnish philosopher, professor at the university of Helsinki, like Berkeley in California.
See too
Internal bonds
External bonds
- Official site
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