University of Strasbourg

The university of Strasbourg also called Protestant Académie is a French Université located at Strasbourg. Its origin goes back to the Gymnase Protesting founded by Johannes Sturm in 1538. In 1566, the Emperor Maximilien II, confers to him row of Académie, then it becomes university in 1621 and of royal university in 1631. In 1681 the troops of the Sun king invade Strasbourg and, grace also to the Traités of Westphalia, France reigns on all western bank of the the Rhine and on the University.

Three institutions

In 1970, the university of Strasbourg was subdivided in three institutions:

University Strasbourg I (University Louis Pasteur);
University Strasbourg II (University Marc Bloch);
University Strasbourg III (University Robert Schuman).

It is currently question of again gathering the three universities at the horizon 2009.

Personalities (by chronological order)

Antoine Deparcieux (1703-1768) mathematician
Jean Hermann (1738-1800), zoologist
Mikhaïl Illarionovitch Golenichtchev-Koutousov (1745-1813), Russian marshal
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) poet, novelist and German and scientific playwright.
Ramond de Carbonnières (1755-1827) politician, geologist and botanist French
Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773-1859) diplomatic and an Austrian politician
Georg Büchner (1813-1837), doctor, poet, writer, revolutionist and German scientist
Emile Kuss (1815-1871) mayor of Strasbourg
Charles Frederic Gerhardt (1816-1856), chemist
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) erudite French
Gustav von Schmoller (1838-1917) economist
Paul Heinrich von Groth (1843-1927) German mineralogist.
Lujo Brentano (1844-1931) economist and large reforming social German
Ernst Remak (1849-1911) German neurologist.
Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918) professor of physics at the university of Strasbourg, Nobel Prize of Physics in 1909
Albrecht Kossel (1853-1927) doctor, Nobel Prize in 1910
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) theologist, philosopher and doctor, Nobel Prize in 1952
Martin Spahn (1875-1945) historian
Ernest Esclangon (1876-1954) astronomer and mathematician
Paul Rohmer (1876-1977) father of modern pediatry in the North-East of France
Fred Vlès (1885-1944) biologist and physicist died in deportation
Marc Bloch (1886-1944) historian French and member of Resistance.
Robert Schuman (1886-1963) French statesman, father of European construction
Beno Gutenberg (1889-1960) seismologist
Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) sociologist, intellectual and philosopher.
Henri Cartan (1904-), French mathematician, one of the founding members of the group Bourbaki
Emmanuel Lévinas (1906-1995) French philosopher of Lithuanian origin
Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912-2003) lawyer and teacher, member of the Resistance
Albert Rohmer (1913-2006) pediatrist of Strasbourg and Resistant off-set
Solomon Gluck (1914-1944), French doctor, Resistant off-set
Etienne Juillard (1914-2006), French geographer of international repute
Serge Wets (1922-1988) goldsmith
Rene Thom (1923-2002) mathematician, founder of the theory catastrophes, Fields medal in 1958.
Louis O' Neill (1925-) writer, politician, philosopher, catholic priest and a Canadian theologist.
Guy Ourisson (1926-2006) French chemist and member of the Academy of Science
Yves Michaud (Quebec) (1930 -) politician and a Québécois journalist
Pierre Chambon (1931-) geneticist of international reputation
Michel Roos (1932-2002) professor of medicine and champion of France of failures
Alberto Fujimori (1938 -) Peruvian politician
Liliane Ackermann (1938-2007) scientific, écrivaine and lecturer
Jean-Marie Lehn (1939 -) chemist, Nobel Prize in 1987
Katia Kraft (1942-1991) and Maurice Kraft (1946-1991) volcanologists
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007), philosopher
Jean-Luc Nancy (1940 -) philosopher
Jacques Marescaux (1948-) French doctor of international repute
Jean-Claude Juncker, (1954 -) Luxembourg politician, Prime Minister since 1995
Jean Waline (born in?), Professor in the USSR and Alsatian politician
Costel Gilca (1975 -) Rumanian lawyer
Mikheil Saakachvili (born in 1967), President of Georgia

Others

Pedagogy of philosophy

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