Ferrara University
| University of Ferrara Università degli Studi di Ferrara |
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| founding | 1391 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Ferrara |
| country |
 Italy
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| Rector | Pasquale Nappi |
| Students | 20,823 (2006) |
| Employee | 600 |
| Networks | AARC |
| Website | www.unife.it |
The University of Ferrara ( Università degli Studi di Ferrara ) is a state comprehensive university in Ferrara, northern Italy . It was founded in 1391 by the then ruler of the city, Duke Alberto from the House of Este , making it one of the oldest universities in Italy. There are faculties for architecture, economics, pharmacy, engineering, humanities, law, medicine, natural sciences and mathematics.
history
After Niccolò II d'Este , his brother Marquis Alberto I d'Este was in power for a few years. He promoted art and science and received from Pope Boniface IX. the privilege of opening a university. The foundation on March 4, 1391 was the first cultural event in Ferrara.
Alberto's grandson, Leonello d'Este (1407–1450) was an art lover and initiated a humanistic circle. a. with Guarino da Verona , Angelo Decembrio and Leon Battista Alberti .
Adolph Occo (1447–1503), who later resided in Augsburg and Innsbruck , received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Ferrara in 1474 and taught here from 1476 to 1478.
At the beginning of the 16th century, many students from other universities came to the smaller and cheaper University of Ferrara in order to obtain a cheaper degree there, such as Paracelsus and Nicolaus Copernicus . The Warmian canon, who became famous as an astronomer, obtained a doctorate in canon law on May 31, 1503 in the episcopal palace, after studying in Bologna and Padua , as his certificate says. Similarly, Michael Beuther v. Carlstadt, humanist , university teacher and political advisor to the Würzburg prince-bishops a. a. at the Augsburg Imperial and Religious Peace , which after studies in Marburg, Wittenberg, Padua, Bologna and Rome in Ferrara with Renatus Catus as Dr. iur. utr. PhD.
literature
- Alessandro Viscontri: La storia dell'università di Ferrara (1391–1950). Zanichelli, Bologna 1950.
- Ladislao Münster: The University of Ferrara and the heyday of its medical school in the 15th and 16th centuries. In: The Grünenthal balance. Volume 7, Issue 2, Stolberg / Rhineland 1968.
Web links
- Official website
- Katalin Tözsér: ERASMUS study visit to Ferrara / Italy. In: JuS (Legal Training), July 2001.
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of AARC. In: alps-adriatic.net. Rector's Conference of the Universities of the Alpes Adriatic Region, accessed on September 14, 2019 .
- ^ History of the University of Ferrara. Unife international (English)
- ↑ Lothar Mundt (Ed.): Rudolf Agricola. De inventione dialectica libri tres. Three books about the Inventio dialectica. Based on the edition by Alardus of Amsterdam (1539). In: Early modern times. Volume 11, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1992, also Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1992, ISBN 3-11-094256-9 , p. 568, (digital scan) .
- ^ "Nicolaus Copernich de Prusia ... qui studuit Bononie et Padue" In: Andreas Kühne (Ed.): Documenta Copernicana: Documents, files and news. Texts and translations (= Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition Volume VI / 2), pp. 62–63 (Google Books) .