University of Limoges

University of Limoges
Université de Limoges
Type Public
Chancellor The Rector of the Academy of Limoges
President Jacques Fontanille
Location Limoges, France
Website http://www.unilim.fr/

The University of Limoges (Université de Limoges) is a French public university, based in Limoges. The semiotician Jacques Fontanille, a senior member of the "Institut Universitaire de France", is the president. Its chancellor is the rector of the Academy of Limoges (an administrative district in France for education and research). It counts more than 14,000 students and near 1,000 scholars and researchers. It offers complete curricula up to the doctorates and beyond in the traditional areas of knowledge and continues to develop new courses in line with the evolution of the postmodern and postcolonial society. It is a member of the Center Atlantic University PRES with the University of Poitiers, the University of La Rochelle and several engineering schools.

History

The university of Limoges was created in 1968 by the incorporation into a single institution of various research schools of higher learning in Limoges, some of them previously affiliated to the University of Poitiers. At the time of its creation it counted 7,000 students and soon expanded to 15,000 making it a middle size university in France. It inherits from a long tradition of research, innovation and teaching possibly dating back in the Midlle Ages from the famed Abbaye Saint-Martial de Limoges fr:Abbaye Saint-Martial de Limoges founded in 848 and suppressed by the French Revolution in 1891, which was a major intellectual center in Medieval Europe (technology of materials, enamel,manuscripts, scholarship, liturgy, theater, etc.). The modern School of Medicine and Pharmacy was created in 1626 (the present day's university council meets in the "Salle Saint-Alexis", the 17th century former chapel of the old Hôtel-Dieu university hospital).

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See also

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