University of Liège

University of Liège
University of Liège
	Université de Liège
	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 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 meteorologist¹
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

References

^ History of Geopyhysics, Volume 1. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union. 1984. p. 44. ISBN 8755-1217 Check |isbn= value (help).

External links

[HOGv1-1] History of Geopyhysics, Volume 1. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union. 1984. p. 44. ISBN 8755-1217 Check |isbn= value (help).

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