University of Liège
| University of Liège | |
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| Université de Liège | |
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| Latin: Universitas Leodiensis | |
| Established | 1817 |
| Type | Public university of the French Community of Belgium |
| Rector | Prof. Bernard Rentier |
| Administrator | François Ronday |
| Academic staff | 2,800 |
| Admin. staff | 4,300 |
| Students | 20,000 |
| Location |
Liège, Wallonia, Belgium Coordinates: 50°38′27″N 05°34′29″E / 50.64083°N 5.57472°E |
| Campus | Urban, suburban |
| Affiliations |
AUF Académie Wallonie-Europe T.I.M.E. |
| Website | www.ulg.ac.be |
The University of Liège (ULg), in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium, is a major public university in the French Community of Belgium. Its official language is French.
History
The University was founded in 1817 by William I of the Netherlands, then King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and by his Minister of Education, Anton Reinhard Falck. The foundation of the university was the result of a long intellectual tradition which dates back to the origins of the Bishopric of Liège. Beginning in the eleventh century, the influence of the prince-bishops of Liège attracted students and prominent scientists and philosophers, such as Petrarch, to study in its libraries. The reputation of its medieval schools gave the city the reputation as a new Athens.
A 17 March 1808 decree by Napoleon I concerning the organization of an imperial university indicated Liège as the site of a new academy to be composed of a Faculty of Arts and a Faculty of Science - the first university charter for Liège. Ultimately, Liège owes its university to William I of the Netherlands, who remembered the city's prestigious legacy of teaching and culture when he decided to establish a new university on Walloon soil.
Nearly 200 years later, settled to some extent in the Sart-Tilman (fr) district of Liège, the University of Liège depends on the French community of Belgium. The University is located at the edge of the River Meuse, in the center of "the Island," the Latin Quarter of Liège. By 2009, the Agronomical University College of Gembloux (FUSAGx) is part of ULg. It has adopted a new name for academics as well as research, namely 'Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech'.
Organization
The University of Liège has:
- 20,000 students
- 4,600 foreign students
- 4,300 employees
- 2,800 faculty members (both teaching and research)
- 1,300 administrative and technical support staff
The ULg comprises:
- 9 Faculties
- Faculty of Philosophy and Letters
- Faculty of Law and Political Science
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science (Applied Science)
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech - Faculty of Agronomical Science and Biological Engineering (at the Gembloux campus)
- Faculty of Psychology and Education
- Faculty of Architecture
- 2 Schools
- HEC Management School - University of Liege (Economics, Finance, Management & Business Engineering)
- The J. Constant Graduate School of Criminology (part of the Faculty of Law and Political Science)
- 1 Institute
- The ULg Institute for Social Science (Sociology & Human Sciences)
- 45 Departments
Notable alumni
For full list see University of Liège alumni
- Joaquín Arderíus, novelist
- Philippe Bodson, engineer
- Albert Claude, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1974
- Marie Delcourt, first female professor at the ULg
- Marcel Detienne, philosophy and literature (PhD)
- Paul Demaret, rector of the College of Europe
- Jacques H. Drèze, economist
- Paul Fredericq (1850–1920), historian
- Michel A. J. Georges, veterinary, 2008 Francqui Prize
- Jean Gol (1942–1995), lawyer, politician
- Alexis Jacquemin (1938–2004), economy, 1983 Francqui Prize on Human Sciences
- David Keilin, entomologist
- Auguste Kerckhoffs, Dutch linguist and cryptographer
- Jan Kowalewski, Polish cryptologist
- Wincenty Kowalski, Polish military commander
- Marc Lacroix, biochemist
- Joseph Lebeau, statesman
- Jean-Christophe Marine, biologist
- Marcel Nicolet, Belgian physicist and meteorologist[1]
- Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, statesman and diplomat
- Paul Pastur, lawyer and politician (1866–1938)
- Joseph Plateau (1801–1883), physicist
- Georges Poulet, literary critic
- Guy Quaden, economist, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium
- Jean Rey (1902–1983), second President of the European Commission
- Max Rooses, writer
- Léon Rosenfeld, physicist
- Polidor Swings, 1948 laureate of the Francqui Prize
- Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist
- André Henri Constant van Hasselt, poet
Notable faculty
- Zénon-M. Bacq (1903–1983), radiobiologist
- Florent-Joseph Bureau (1906–1999), mathematician
- Eugène Charles Catalan, mathematician
- André Danthine, computer scientist
- Marcel Florkin (1900–1979), medicine, biochemistry
- Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck (1809–1887), palaeontologist and chemist
- Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, economist
- Marie Delcourt (1891–1979), classical philologist
- Philippe Devaux (1902–1979), philosopher
- Paul Fourmarier (1877–1970), geologist
- Paul Gochet (1932), philosopher
- Groupe µ, Group of semioticians
- Godefroid Kurth (1847–1916), historian
- Paul Ledoux (1914–1988), astrophysicist
- Jean-Pierre Nuel (1847-1920), physiologist
- Pol Swings (1906–1983), astrophysicist
- Edouard Van Beneden (1846–1910), biologist
- Theodor Schwann (1810–1882), biologist
Honorary doctorate
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn (May 2011)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (2011)
- Bill Viola (2010)
See also
- Academia Belgica
- Belgian Academy Council of Applied Sciences
- BioLiège
- Cointe Observatory
- Francqui Foundation
- Liège Science Park
- List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)
- National Fund for Scientific Research
- Science and technology in Wallonia
- Science Parks of Wallonia
- Top Industrial Managers for Europe (TIME) network for student mobility
- TRAPPIST, a telescope operated since 2010
- University Foundation
Notes and references
- ↑ History of Geopyhysics, Volume 1. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union. 1984. p. 44. ISBN 8755-1217 Check
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