University of Orléans explained
| University of Orléans |
| Type: | Public |
| President: | Ary Bruand |
| Faculty: | 1,203 |
| Total Staff: | 861 |
| Students: | 20,083 |
| City: | Orléans |
| Country: | France |
| Coor: | 47.8507°N 1.934°W |
| Campus: | Orléans-la-Source |
The University of Orléans (French: Université d'Orléans) is a French university, in the Academy of Orléans and Tours. As of July 2015 it is a member of the regional university association Leonardo da Vinci consolidated University.[1]
History
In 1230, when for a time the doctors of the University of Paris were scattered, a number of the teachers and disciples took refuge in Orléans; when pope Boniface VIII, in 1298, promulgated the sixth book of the Decretals, he appointed the doctors of Bologna and the doctors of Orléans to comment upon it.
St. Yves (1253–1303) studied civil law at Orléans, and Pope Clement V also studied there law and letters; by a papal bull published at Lyon, 27 January 1306, he endowed the Orléans institutes with the title and privileges of a university.
Twelve later popes granted the new university many privileges. In the 14th century it had as many as five thousand students from France, Germany, Lorraine, Burgundy, Champagne, Picardy, Normandy, Touraine, Guyenne and Scotland.
The current university was founded in 1960, after its medieval predecessor was closed down in 1793 and merged into the University of France in 1808.
Organisation
The university is organised into three Teaching and Research divisions (UFR):
- Law, Economics and Management
- Literature, Languages and Human Sciences
- Science and Technology
In addition, it has:
Notable people
Faculty
Ancient
Modern
Alumni
Ancient
- Emo of Friesland (c.1175–1237) - Frisian scholar and abbot
- Eustache Deschamps (1346 – 1406 or 1407) - poet
- Walter de Coventre (died 1371 or 1372) - Scottish ecclesiastic
- Walter Forrester (died 1425 or 1426) - Bishop of Brechin, Scotland
- Henry de Lichton (died 1440) - Scottish prelate and diplomat, Bishop of Moray and Bishop of Aberdeen
- John Calvin (1509–1564), influential French theologian, pastor and reformer during the Protestant Reformation
- Anne du Bourg (1521, Riom – 1559) - magistrate, Protestant martyr
- William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579) - English Puritan, translator of the Geneva Bible
- Claude Fauchet (1530 – 1602) - historian, antiquary, and pioneering romance philologist
- Anselmus de Boodt (Bruges, 1550 - 1632) - humanist, mineralogist, physician and naturalist
- François de Joyeuse (1562 – 1615) - churchman and politician
- Jørgen Bjelke (1621 – 1696) - Norwegian officer and nobleman
- Molière (1622–1673), French playwright and actor, considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature
- Pierre de Fermat (c. 1601 – 1665), best known for his Fermat's principle for light propagation and his Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory
- St Ivo of Kermartin (died 1303), patron of lawyers
- Étienne de Mornay, counsellor of Philippe IV le Bel
- Johannes Reuchlin (1455–1522)
- Guillaume Budé (1468–1540) - scholar and humanist
- Francis Bothwell, Procurator of the Scottish Nation at Orléans during 1513–1514, later a member of the Parliament of Scotland and a judge
- Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563) - writer, poet, political theorist
- Thomas Brooke alias Cobham (1533–1578) - English nobleman, privateer, conspirator
- Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630) - poet, soldier, propagandist
- Mathieu Molé (1584 – 1656) - statesman
- Théophraste Renaudot (1586–1653) - physician, philanthropist, journalist
- Charles Perrault (1628–1703) - author
- Johann Christoph Wagenseil (1633 - 1705) - German historian, Orientalist, jurist and Christian Hebraist
- Anthonie Heinsius (1641 – 1720) - Grand Pensionary of Holland
- Conrad von Reventlow (1644 – 1708) - Grand Chancellor of Denmark
- Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696) - philosopher
- Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754 – 1793) - leading member of the Girondins
- Jacques Paul Migne (1800 – 1875) - theologian
- Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805 – 1871) - watchmaker, magician and illusionist
- Alphonse Magnien (1837 – 1902) - priest, theologian, academic administrator
Modern
Recipients of honorary degree
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Decree 2015-857 of 13 July 2015 on the statutes for the ComUE " Université confédérale Léonard de Vinci ". 27 July 2015.
- Web site: Chiffres cles . Universite d'Orleans . 26 August 2022.
