National University of Trujillo

National University of Trujillo
Universidad Nacional de Trujillo
National University of Trujillo
Established	May 10, 1824
Type	Public University
Academic staff	12
Students	19,000
Location	Trujillo, La Libertad,  Peru
Campus	35 ha
Website	www.unitru.edu.pe

The National University of Trujillo (Spanish: Universidad Nacional de Trujillo) (UNT) is a major public university located in Trujillo, Peru, capital of the department of La Libertad. The university was founded by Simón Bolívar and José Faustino Sánchez Carrión, who met in Huamachuco; they signed the decree of foundation on May 10, 1824, before Peru's independence from Spain.^[1] National University of Trujillo, was the first republican university founded in Peru.^[2]

UNT has approximately 19,000 students in 12 academic faculties, making it one of the largest universities in the country. The current headmaster is Dr. Victor Carlos Sabana Gamarra.

The UNT is ranked as one of the best universities in Peru.

History

The National University of Trujillo is a Peruvian university located in the city of Trujillo, La Libertad Region in northern Peru whose acronym is UNT, was founded during the Republican era by General Simón Bolívar, who issued from his headquarters in the Huamachuco a decree founding the university in May 10, 1824, having as secretario Don José Faustino Sánchez Carrión. The first director was Don Carlos Pedemonte y Talavera and whose term begins on October 22, 1831. On 23 November 1831 the Government appointed as supreme patron of the University to St. Thomas and St. Rose of Lima, where it ran. The first colleges environments were inside the school founded by bishops El Salvador. The first classes were Dogmatic and Moral Theology, Canons and Laws, Anatomy and Medicine, Philosophy and Mathematics. The first academic degrees awarded by UNT were those of Bachelor, Master and Doctor of Laws and Sacred Canons. It adopts the College system starting in 1861. From Its classrooms exited the universal poet César Vallejo in 1916, the first political philosopher Antenor Orregoin 1928, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Eduardo González Viaña, Carlos Hugo Garrido Chalén, among others.

People related with UNT

People related with National University of Trujillo (UNT)
Poet Cesar Vallejo called by Thomas Merton "the greatest universal poet since Dante", studied at National University of Trujillo	Maria Julia Mantilla Miss World 2004, studied Education at UNT	Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre Political leader, studied literature at UNT	Ciro Alegría journalist, politician, and novelist	Antenor Orrego Studied Philosophy at UNT	Eduardo González Viaña Studied laws at UNT, he's a direct successor of the North Group

Organization

UNT is organized into 12 faculties which contain 35 professional academic schools.

Notable students

Among former renowned professors and students are:

• César Vallejo, poet and journalist. Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante". The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." He also was leader of the cultural group in Trujillo city called Grupo Norte (Group North).
• Abundio Sagástegui Alva, biologist. He has proposed about four new genus and 88 new species, based on Peruvian botanical diversity.
• Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, political leader who founded the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) political movement. He is recognized as the most influential Peruvian political leader of the twentieth century and one of the most important Latin American political ideologues.
• María Julia Mantilla García, Miss World 2004.
• Carlos Hugo Garrido Chalén, writer and poet.
• Eduardo González Viaña, writer and journalist.
• Antenor Orrego, political philosopher.
• Ciro Alegría, novelist, writer and journalist.
• Cesar Acuña Peralta, political leader; he was founder of the party Alliance for Progress and also of USS-UCV-UA Consortium comprising the Cesar Vallejo University (UCV), Lord of Sipan University (USS) and the Autonomous University of Peru (UA). He is founder of Club Deportivo Universidad César Vallejo and in 2010 was elected a second time as mayor of Trujillo city.
• Allan Wagner Tizón

See also

• North Group

Peruvian Public Universities National University of San Marcos National University of Engineering National Agrarian University National University of Callao National University of Education Enrique Guzmán y Valle National University of Cajamarca National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco San Cristóbal of Huamanga University San Luis Gonzaga National University Daniel Alcides Carrión National University Universidad Nacional San Agustín de Arequipa Universidad Nacional Jorge Basadre Grohmann Universidad Nacional de Trujillo

External links

• Universidad Nacional de Trujillo Official Site

References

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