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Sorbonne University
Sorbonne University (French: Sorbonne Université [sɔʁbɔn ynivɛʁsite]),
Sorbonne University
shortened to the Sorbonne and formerly called the University of Paris, is a
prestigious university in Paris. The Sorbonne is the oldest university in the
Francophone world, and the third oldest university in Europe, after the University of
Bologna and the University of Oxford.
The University of Paris (known as the Sorbonne) existed between the middle age Motto Hic et ubique
(founded as a corporation of students and masters around 1150 and chartered by the terrarum
king Louis IX of France in 1257) and the French revolution (1793) and again
Motto Here and everywhere
between the First French Empire in 1806 and its dissolution in 1970 after the May in English on Earth
1968 events.
Type Public
The reestablishment of the university was decreed 21 April 2017,[1] and took place
Established c. 1150 (first
on the 1st January 2018.
teachings)
1257 (royal charter)
1806 (public
university)
Contents 2018
History (reestablishment)
Campus Budget €567 million
Sorbonne
Students 54,000
Jussieu
Maison de la Recherche Location Paris, France
Clignancourt and Malesherbes Campus Latin Quarter
Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie
Nickname Sorbonne
Other campuses in Paris
Sorbonne University in Abu Dhabi Website www.sorbonne-
Academic universite.fr/en
The Sorbonne College
The Doctoral College
Research
Faculties
Humanities (Lettres)
Sciences
Medicine
Law
Collections
Scientific collections
University rankings
Notable people
Faculty Chapel of the main Sorbonne
Alumni building
Nobel prizes
Alumni
Faculty
Notes
References
External links
History
Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated with the cathedral school of Notre
Dame de Paris, it was considered the second-oldest university in Europe.[2]
Officially chartered in 1200 by King Philip II (Philippe-Auguste) of France and
recognised in 1215 by Pope Innocent III, it was later often nicknamed after its
theological College of Sorbonne founded by Robert de Sorbon and chartered by
French King Saint Louis around 1257.
Internationally highly reputed for its academic performance in the humanities ever
since the Middle Ages – notably in theology and philosophy – it introduced several
academic standards and traditions that have endured ever since and spread
internationally, such as doctoral degrees and student nations. Vast numbers of popes,
scientists, intellectuals and royalty were educated at the University of Paris.
In 1793, during the French Revolution period, the University was closed and by Historical coat of arms of the
Item-27 of the Revolutionary Convention, the college endowments and buildings University of Paris
were sold[3]. A new University of France replaced it in 1806 with four independent
faculties: the Faculty of Humanities ("Faculté des Lettres"), the Faculty of Law
(later including Economics), the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Theology (closed in 1885).
In 1970, following the May 1968 events, the university was divided into 13 autonomous universities. Three of the new universities
took over three of the faculties and the majority of their professors: humanities by Paris-Sorbonne University, law and economics by
Panthéon-Assas University, natural sciences by Pierre and Marie Curie University.[4] The faculty of medicine had no direct successor
because teaching was organized in relation with different hospitals, which were separated between Paris Descartes University, which
kept the historical buildings of the Paris Medicine Faculty, Pierre and Marie Curie University, and Paris Diderot University. Some of
the other inheritors, like Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris Descartes University and Paris Diderot University chose to be
multidisciplinary[5][6][7].
In 2010, the direct successors of the faculties of the University of Paris created the
Sorbonne University group.
Panthéon-Assas University(1971– ), formerly thefaculty of law and economics of the University of Paris
University of Technology of Compiègne(1972– )
Campus
The Sorbonne Perspective view from The "Amphithéâtre
the Jardin des Plantes Richelieu", a Paris-
Sorbonne University's
lecture hall
Sorbonne
The University's central campus is the historic central Sorbonne building in the Latin Quarter. Before the 19th century, the Sorbonne
occupied several buildings. The chapel was built in 1622 by the then-Provisor of the University of Paris, Cardinal Richelieu, during
the reign of Louis XIII. In 1881, politician Jules Ferry decided to convert the Sorbonne into one single building. Under the
supervision of Pierre Greard, Chief Officer of the Education Authority of Paris, Henri-Paul Nénot constructed the current building
from 1883 to 1901 that reflects a basic architectural uniformity. The integration of the chapel into the whole was also Nénot’s work
with the construction of a cour d'honneur. The Sorbonne building is generally reserved for undergraduate students in their third year
and graduate students in certain academic disciplines. Only students in Semitic studies, regardless of level, take all their classes at the
Sorbonne campus.
The Library of the Sorbonne is shared by several Parisian universities. It is open exclusively to undergraduate students in their third
year and graduate students. With the former archives of the now-defunct University of Paris, 2,500,000 books, 400,000 of them
ancient, 2,500 historical manuscripts, 18,000 doctoral dissertation papers, 17,750 past and current French and international
periodicals and 7,100 historical printing plates, the Library of the Sorbonne is the lar
gest university library in Paris.
Jussieu
[8] .
The Jussieu campus has been totally refurbished in the 2010
Maison de la Recherche
The Maison de la Recherche campus is the central building for doctoral studies that
hosts the history and geography departments. It houses the Serpente Library that has
55,000 works and 292 past and current French and international periodicals. All
doctoral dissertations since 1 January 1986 have been stored at the Serpente Library
.
There are also Campus Pitié and Campus Saint-Antoine for medicine ; Campus Les Cordeliers, Campus Curie and Campus Raspail
for sciences.
Academic
Members have worked on several projects in order to strengthen the relations between them and potentially create a new international
institution. The most famous projects are the "Sorbonne College" (Collège de la Sorbonne) for bachelor's degree teaching and the
"Sorbonne Doctoral College" (Collège doctoral de la Sorbonne) for PhD candidates.
Sorbonne University, in partnership with INSEAD, also offers all of its alumni and PhD students a professionalizing course in
business management to complete their curriculum.
The Sorbonne Doctoral College, created in 2013, coordinates the activities of the 26
doctoral schools. Since 2014, it has developed cross-disciplinary PhDs between the
different members of theSorbonne University group.
Since 2011, Sorbonne University celebrate its graduates in a formal ceremony where every PhD graduate wears a scholar
uniform.[11]
Research
To strengthen the influence of its research infrastructures on the international scale, Sorbonne University has developed several
research programs aiming at reinforcing or exploring new fields of study. This innovative cross-disciplinary approach was embodied
[12]
with the creation of four new academic positions gathering several establishments of the group:
A Department of Digital Humanities, exploring the use of digital technologies in the social science
A Department of Polychromatic Studies of Societies, associating architecture, anthropology , chemical physics,
literature and art history
A Department of Digital Health, exploring biomedical tools
A Department of 3D Craniofacial Reconstruction
Sorbonne University has also formed with academic institutions such as the China Scholarship Council or the Brazilian foundation
FAPERJ several partnerships enabling bilateral research programs.
Faculties
Sorbonne University historically has 4 faculties.
Humanities (Lettres)
Letters are the more ancient teachings of the Sorbonne University
.
Sciences
The faculty of science of Sorbonne University is a major pole of research in France.
It has more than 125 laboratories, most of them in association with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Some of
its most notable institutes and laboratories include the Institut Henri Poincaré, Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Laboratoire
d'informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu (shared with University Paris-Diderot) and the Laboratoire
Kastler-Brossel (shared with École Normale Supérieure).
Medicine
The faculty of Medicine is located in the teaching hospitals Pitié-Salpêtrière and Saint-Antoine (the latter itself being the successor to
Saint-Antoine-des-Champs Abbey).
Law
Sorbonne University's law faculty became independent in 1971 under the name Panthéon-Assas University. It is now providing the
law reachings for the Sorbonne University as an independent university part of the Sorbonne University group and is expected to
merge with it in the future.
Collections
Scientific collections
The Sorbonne University houses eight notable scientific collections that are open to researchers.[13] Some collections are open to the
public as noted.
University rankings
Only the former universities have been ranked.
UPMC is often ranked as the best university in France [14] . In 2014 UPMC was ranked 35th in the world, 6th in Europe and 1st in
France by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.[15] It was ranked 4th in the world in the field of mathematics by the same
study. The 2013 QS World University Rankings[16] ranked the university 112th overall in the world and 3rd in France. In 2013,
according to University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP),[17] Pierre and Marie Curie University is the 1st ranked
Sorbonne Universités.[18]
university in France and 44th ranked university in the world. The UPMC is a member of
Paris-Sorbone is ranked 222 in the world by the QS World University Rankings 2015. By faculty, it was ranked 9 in modern
languages, 36 in arts and humanities (1st in France), and 127 in social sciences and management (5th in France).[19] By academic
reputation, it was ranked 80 (2nd in France), according to the QS World University Rankings, and 2nd in overall highest international
reputation of all academic institutions in France, according to the Times Higher Education 2015.[20][21] In 2014 Paris-Sorbonne
ranked 227 in the world, according to the QS World University Rankings, 115 for Social Sciences and Management, 33 for Arts and
Humanities.[21]
Notable people
Faculty
Bonaventure François Guizot Jean-Jacques Ampère Victor Cousin
Henri Poincaré
Alumni
Honoré de Balzac
Haïm Brézis
Fabrice Bardeche
Philippe G. Ciarlet
Gérard Férey
Jacques-Louis Lions
Marc Yor
Bernard Derrida
François Loeser
Claire Voisin
Jean-Michel Coron
Michel Talagrand
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Serge Haroche
Nobel prizes
Alumni
The university counts 48 Nobel Prize winners, placing it in 13th position globally, and 1st outside of the English-speaking world. The
Sorbonne has taught 11 French Presidents, almost 50 French heads of government, 2 Popes, as well as many other political and social
figures. The Sorbonne has also educated leaders of Albania, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Gabon, Guinea, Irak, Jordan, Kosovo,
Tunisia and Niger among others. List of Nobel Prize winners that had attended the University of Paris or one of its thirteen
successors.
1. [Ph.] Albert Fert (PhD) - 2007 23. [PM] François Jacob (M.D) - 1965
2. [Ph.] Alfred Kastler (DSc) - 1966 24. [PM] Françoise Barré-Sinoussi(PhD) - 2008
3. [Ph.] Gabriel Lippmann (DSc) - 1908 25. [PM] Jacques Monod (DSc) - 1965
4. [Ph.] Georges Charpak (DSc) - 1992 26. [PM] Jean Dausset (MD) - 1980
5. [Ph.] Henri Becquerel (DSc) - 1903 27. [PM] Luc Montagnier (MD) - 2008
6. [Ph.] Jean Perrin (DSc) - 1926 28. [Ec.] Gérard Debreu (DSc) - 1983
7. [Ph.] Louis Néel (MSc) - 1970 29. [Ec.] Maurice Allais (D.Eng.) - 1988
8. [Ph.] Louis de Broglie (DSc) - 1929 30. [Pe.] Albert Schweitzer (PhD) - 1952
9. [Ph.] [Ch.] Marie Curie[24] (DSc) - 1903, 1911 31. [Pe.] Charles Albert Gobat (Attendee) - 1902
10. [Ph.] Pierre Curie (DSc) - 1903 32. [Pe.] Ferdinand Buisson (DLitt) - 1927
11. [Ph.] Pierre-Gilles de Gennes(DSc) - 1991 33. [Pe.] Frédéric Passy (LLB) - 1901
12. [Ph.] Serge Haroche (PhD, DSc) - 2012 34. [Pe.] Léon Bourgeois (DCL) - 1920
13. [Ch.] Frédéric Joliot-Curie (DSc) - 1935 35. [Pe.] Léon Jouhaux (Attendee) - 1951
14. [Ch.] Gerhard Ertl (Attendee) - 2007 36. [Pe.] Louis Renault (DCL) - 1907
15. [Ch.] Henri Moissan (DSc) - 1906 37. [Pe.] Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant
16. [Ch.] Irène Joliot-Curie (DSc) - 1935 (LLB) - 1909
17. [Ch.] Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (Attendee) - 2007 38. [Pe.] René Cassin (DCL) - 1968
18. [Ch.] Paul Sabatier (DSc) - 1912 39. [Li.] Giorgos Seferis (LLB) - 1963
19. [PM] André Frédéric Cournand(M.D) - 1956 40. [Li.] Henri Bergson (B.A) - 1927
20. [PM] André Lwoff (M.D, DSc) - 1965 41. [Li.] Jean-Paul Sartre (B.A) (refused the Prize) - 1964
21. [PM] Charles Nicolle (M.D) - 1928 42. [Li.] Odysseus Elytis (Attendee) - 1979
22. [PM] Charles Richet (M.D, DSc) - 1913 43. [Li.] Patrick Modiano (Attendee) - 2014
44. [Li.] Romain Rolland (D Litt) - 1915
Antoine-Henri Becquerel Marie Skłodowska Curie René Cassin Henri Bergson
Faculty
List of Nobel Prize winners that were affiliated with the University of Paris or one of its thirteen successors.
1. [Ph.] George Smoot (Professor) - 2006 9. [Ch.] Peter Debye[25] (Visiting Lecturer) - 1936
2. [Ph.] Gabriel Lippmann (Professor) - 1908* 10. [PM] Charles Richet (Professor) - 1913*
3. [Ph.] Jean Perrin (Professor) - 1926* 11. [PM] Jules Bordet (Researcher) - 1919
4. [Ph.] Louis de Broglie (Professor) - 1929* 12. [PM] Roger Guillemin (Researcher) - 1977
5. [Ph.][Ch.] Marie Curie[24] (Professor) - 1903*, 1911* 13. [PM] Jean Dausset (Professor) - 1980*
6. [Ph.] Alfred Kastler (Researcher) - 1966 14. [Pe.] Louis Renault (Professor) - 1907*
7. [Ch.] Henri Moissan (Professor) - 1906* 15. [Li.] T.S. Eliot[26] (Visitor) - 1948
8. [Ch.] Irène Joliot-Curie (Professor) - 1935*
Gabriel Lippmann Jean Perrin Alfred Kastler Irène Joliot-Curie
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References
THE - France’s most iconic university, the Sorbonne, is reborn
University World News, Merger of elite Parisuniversities gets the go-ahead
Le Figaro, Le retour de la grande université de Paris
Study International, Consolidation of two elite Paris universities confirmed for 2018
The Pie News, Mega university planned for Paris’ s Left Bank
External links
Official website (English version)of the university.
Official website of the project.
Official website of the Sorbonne University group.
Decree officially creating the university.
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