University of Liège

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name = University of Liège
native_name = Université de Liège


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latin_name = Universitas Leodiensis
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established = 1817
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rector = Prof. Bernard Rentier
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head = François Ronday
faculty = 2,400
staff = 3,300
students = 17,000
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city = Liège
state = Wallonia
country = Belgium
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campus = Urban
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website = [http://www.ulg.ac.be/ www.ulg.ac.be]

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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 11th 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, though settled to some extent in the Sart-Tilman 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.

Organization

The University of Liège has:
* 17,000 students
** 3,100 foreign students
* 3,300 employees
** 2,400 faculty members (both teaching and research)
** 800 administrative and technical support staff The ULg comprises:
* 7 Faculties
** Philosophy and Letters
** Law and School of Criminology
** Sciences
** Medicine
** Applied Sciences
** Veterinary Medicine
** Psychology and Educational Sciences
* 3 Schools
** HEC Management School - University of Liege (Economics and Management)
** Social Sciences
** Criminology
* 45 Departments

Notable alumni

"For full list see
* 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
* Paul Fredericq (1850–1920), historian
* 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
* Joseph Lebeau, statesman
* Jean-Christophe Marine, biologist
* Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, statesman and diplomat
* Laurette Onkelinx, law, politician
* 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 academia

* 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
* Godefroid Kurth (1847–1916), historian
* Pol Swings (1906-1983), astrophysicist
* Edouard Van Beneden (1846-1910), biologist
* Theodor Schwann (1810-1882), biologist

ee also

* Science and technology in Wallonia
* University Foundation
* Francqui Foundation
* Academia Belgica
* Belgian Academy Council of Applied Sciences
* National Fund for Scientific Research
* Top Industrial Managers for Europe (TIME) network for student mobility
* Science Parks of Wallonia
* BioLiège
* GIGA
* Liège Science Park

External links

* [http://www.ulg.ac.be/ University of Liège]