University of Wrocław

L'university of Polish Wroclaw (: Uniwersytet Wrocławski, in German Universität Breslau, Latin Universitas Wratislaviensis) is a university with the traditions rich founded in 1702.

History

Until 1945

As of on July 20th 1505 Vladislas IV (1456 - 1516), king of Bohemia (starting from 1471) and of Hungary (starting from 1490), and which belonged to the dynasty polono-Lithuanian of the Jagellons, signed the constitutive instrument of a university, but of many wars prevented its effective creation.

In 1638 the Jesuits founded a school and, finally, in 1702, decided the emperor Léopold Ier to make of it a university with a high school of philosophy and catholic theology which took the name of Leopoldina. November 15th, 1702 it was officially open. After the Austria had yielded the Silesia to the Prussia, the university ceased being a center of the Counter-Reformation but remained the university for the formation of the catholic clergy in Prussia.

August 3rd 1811 the Leopoldina old woman and the university Viadrina of Frankfurt-on-the Oder were joined together by order of the royal cabinet within the framework of the reform of the Prussian State after the defeats against Napoleon and became Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität with seat with Wrocław and including/understanding five Faculties (catholic theology, Protestant theology, right, medicine and philosophy). It became thus the first German university which included/understood a catholic faculty of theology and a faculty of Protestant theology.

One found three seminars of theology there, a seminar of philology and a seminar of German philology, and also a seminar for Romance and English philology, a seminar of history, a seminar of mathematics and physics, a seminar of private law and public law. As of 1842 the university also had a pulpit for the study of the languages, the literatures and Slavic civilizations. The university had twelve different scientific institutes, six clinical establishments and three collections of Art schools. In 1881 one opened an institute of agriculture (before in Proskau) with 10 professors and 44 listeners who included/understood a veterinary institute of chemistry, a veterinary institute and an institute of technology. The number of the students was assembled in 1884 to 1.481, and that of the teachers with 131.

The college library sheltered in 1885 approximately 400.000 works, including approximately 2.400 incunables (printed papers form former to 1500), approximately 250 volumes in Aldine characters and 2.840 manuscripts. They came from the collections of the foundations and the cloisters which had been removed and the old college libraries of Frankfurt and Wrocław; belonged to it also the Habichtiana Library, rich in printed and handwritten Eastern works and the academic institute of reading.

One will still quote: the observatory; the botanical garden (5 hectares) with the botanical museum and the founded zoological garden in 1862 by a privately held company; the museum of natural history and the museum of zoology; collections of chemistry and physics; the chemistry laboratory; the institute of vegetable physiology and the institute of mineralogy; the institute of anatomy; clinical establishments; the gallery of prints (generally coming from churches, convents etc), rich in old German works; the museum of Silesian antiquities, the State File for Silesia etc

After 1945

After the conquest of the city by the Red Army, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität was dissolved. With the handing-over of the city in Poland, the German university and the high technical training school of Breslau (1910 - 1945) were transformed into Polish establishments as of on August 24th, 1945. November 15th of the same year a conference of the professor Ludwik Hirszfeld inaugurated teaching in Polish and on June 9th 1946, the Polish university was open. Since the Stalinist period and until the end of the Communist regime, it bore officially the name of university Bolesław Bierut (Uniwersytet Wrocławski im. Bolesława Bieruta).

The tradition of the old woman Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität silesia was preserved at Cologne by a decision of the Senate of the university in 1951. Since 2003 a partnership was agreed with the university of Wrocław. Since 1988 there exists already a collaboration with the university of the the Ruhr to Bochum.

During the academic year 2000/01, 38607 students were registered. In 2007, Internet site of the university indicates the total figure of 44000 students.

In 2001 was founded the germano-Polish Association of the university of Wrocław which aims to the bringing together of the people and the transfer of knowledge. This association gathers all the institutions of higher education of the town of Wroclaw: University, faculty of pontifical theology, Academy of Medicine, high technical training school, universities for the economy, agriculture, the sport, music and Article.

Faculties of the university are the following ones:

Faculty of Arts (Wydział Filologiczny)
biological Faculty of Science (Wydział Nauk Biologicznych)
Faculty of Biotechnologies (Wydział Biotechnologii)
Faculty of Sciences of the Earth and Formation of the Environment (Wydział Nauk O Ziemi I Kształtowania Środowiska): geography and geology
Faculty of History and Sciences of education (Wydział Nauk Historycznych I Pedagogicznych)
Faculty of Law, Administration and Economic scenes (Wydział Prawa, Administracji I Ekonomii)
Faculty of Physics and Astronomy (Wydział Fizyki I Astronomii)
Faculty of Social sciences (Wydział Nauk Społecznych)
Faculty of Chemistry (Wydział Chemii)
Faculty of Mathematics and Data processing (Wydział Matematyki I Informatyki)

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