University of Geneva
University of Geneva Université de Genève |
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founding | 1559 as Académie de Genève ; since 1873 Université de Genève |
Sponsorship | state ( cantonal ) |
place | Geneva |
country | Switzerland |
Rector | Yves Flückiger |
Students | 17,271 (2018) |
Employee | 4,200 (2015) |
including professors | 762 |
Annual budget | 750 million CHF |
Networks | Coimbra Group , IAU , LERU , Swissuniversities , Triangle Azur |
Website | www.unige.ch |
The University of Geneva ( French Université de Genève ) is a full university in Geneva , Switzerland . It was founded by Johannes Calvin in 1559 as the theological and humanistic Académie de Genève , but as a university, unlike the first university in Switzerland in Basel , it only received the status and name of a university with the establishment of a medical faculty in 1873. After the University of Zurich, the university is the second largest Swiss university in terms of number of students. Around 40 percent of all students come from abroad.
UNIGE is a member of the League of European Research Universities (including academic institutions such as Amsterdam , Cambridge , Heidelberg , Milan and Oxford ), the Coimbra Group and the European University Association (association of European universities).
history
Under Jean Cauvin (Calvin), theology and humanistic subjects were taught at the Académie de Genève . In the 16th and 17th centuries it had a great international impact; At that time Geneva was known as "Protestant Rome". In the 18th century, new subjects were added, in particular natural sciences, philology and linguistics (Ferdinand de Saussure). In 1873 the academy was formally renamed a university .
organization
The university is organized into nine faculties :
- GSEM - Geneva School Economics and Management (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration)
- Natural Sciences: The Faculty of Natural Sciences has over 2,700 students, 680 of whom are research students. Over 130 professors, 725 teaching and research staff (including 570 doctoral students and post-docs) and 400 technical and administrative staff. Five National Research Centers (NCCR) are managed by the Faculty of Science. At the end of 2013, the Swiss Confederation issued two new NCCRs to the Faculty of Natural Sciences: Swiss maps in mathematics and theoretical physics and planets in astronomy. They connect the Center for Chemical Biology (2010) and two other centers (Frontiers in Genetics and MaNEP - Materials with Novel Electrical Properties), which were granted in 2001.
- Medical Sciences: The Faculty of Medicine was founded in 1876. The faculty is a leading institution in Switzerland in the fields of neuroscience, genetics and transplantation. She is also involved in global health. It conducts basic research and works very closely with the largest hospital complex in Switzerland, the Geneva University Clinics (HUG). The medical faculty is the second largest faculty in the entire university after that of the natural sciences in terms of budget and number of staff.
- Law: The Law Faculty of the University of Geneva has close relationships for students and professors with Harvard Law School . In close proximity to many international organizations, the professors are also involved in the development of the international legal system and maintain relationships with institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO).
- Humanities
- Social Sciences (SDS - Sciences de la Société)
- Psychology and Education ( Institut Jean-Jacques Rousseau )
- Translation Studies
- Protestant theology
Former courses
A section, later an independent institute for architecture, existed from 1942. Finally, after completing the (external) basic course, the main course could be completed there. Until the institute was wound up in 2007, it was - alongside Lausanne, Zurich and Mendrisio - one of four locations for university architecture teaching in Switzerland.
Partner universities
The University of Geneva offers joint master’s courses with the following Swiss universities:
A joint MBA program is also offered with Georgetown University in Washington, DC .
Rankings
In the current international university rankings , the university is usually included in the best 100 or 150 universities in the world:
- Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019: Rank 58
- Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020: Rank 144
- QS World University Rankings 2020: Rank 110
Personalities (selection)
The following is a selection of students and teachers at the university over the past centuries: The actual founder, the German-Roman Emperor Charles IV, is missing.
Researchers and teachers
16th Century
- Théodore de Bèze (reformer, first rector, Protestant theologian)
- Johannes Calvin (reformer, theologian)
- Erich Hedemann (lawyer)
17th century
- Giovanni Diodati (Protestant theologian)
- Bénédict Turrettini (Protestant theologian)
- François Turrettini (Protestant theologian)
18th century
- Johann I Bernoulli (mathematician)
- David Claparède (Protestant theologian)
- Gabriel Cramer (mathematician)
- Jacques Necker (lawyer, economist)
- Marc-Auguste Pictet (natural scientist)
- Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (natural scientist)
- Jean-Alphonse Turrettini (Protestant theologian)
19th century
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (philosopher)
- Augustin Pyrame de Candolle (botanist)
- Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle (Botanist)
- Jean-Daniel Colladon (physicist)
- Moritz Hartmann (Germanist)
- Raoul Pictet (physicist)
- Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (natural scientist)
- Rodolphe Töpffer (rhetoric and literature)
- Carl Vogt (natural scientist)
- François Jules Pictet (zoologist and paleontologist)
20th century
- Werner Arber (biologist)
- Edmond Beaujeon (Philosophy, Greek)
- Jean François Billeter (Sinologist)
- Bernhard Böschenstein (literary scholar)
- Jacques Bouveresse (philosopher)
- Georges Cottier (Catholic theologian)
- Petra von Gemünden (Protestant theologian)
- Jeanne Hersch (philosopher)
- Bärbel Inhelder (psychologist)
- Albert Jacquard (geneticist)
- Werner Jadassohn (dermatologist)
- Erich-Hans Kaden (lawyer)
- Hans Kelsen (lawyer)
- Shafique Keshavjee (Protestant theologian)
- Michel Mayor (astronomer)
- Hans Morgenthau (lawyer and political scientist)
- Edith Alice Müller (astronomer)
- Robert Mundell (Economist)
- Joseph Nye (political scientist)
- Douglass North (Economist)
- Jean Piaget (psychologist)
- Olivier Reverdin (Greek, Hellenistic)
- Gonzague de Reynold
- Georges de Rham (mathematician)
- Denis de Rougemont (philosopher and writer, founder of IUEE today GSI)
- Wilhelm Röpke (economist)
- Ferdinand de Saussure (linguist)
- Klaus Schwab (economist)
- Jean Starobinski (literary scholar and medical historian)
- George Steiner (literary scholar)
- Lina Stern (biochemistry)
- Ernst Carl Gerlach Stückelberg (physicist)
- Chaim Weizmann (biochemist)
- Jean Ziegler (sociologist)
Students
Andreas Ackermann , Johannes Althusius , Jean Pierre Frédéric Ancillon , Kofi Annan , Jacobus Arminius , Fritz Arndt , Gustav Baist , José Manuel Barroso , Olivier de Beaumont, Birgitt Bender , Andreas Benz , Kurt Birrenbach , Klaus Bonhoeffer , Daniel Bovet , Birgit Breuel , Gustav Peter Bucky , Johann Buxtorf the Elder , Micheline Calmy-Rey , Franco-Romano Clara, Michael Georg Conrad , Franco Costa , Hans Daniels , Hernando de Soto , Carla Del Ponte , Arved Deringer , Ruth Dreifuss , Ubbo Emmius , Carl Feer-Herzog , Johannes Fischer , Pierre Frieden , Emanuel Friedli , Friedrich I. von Anhalt , Friedrich II. Von Hessen-Homburg , Riadh Sidaoui , Walter Friedrich , Samuel Frisching (* 1605) , Samuel Frisching (* 1638) , Claire Goll , Claude Goretta , Edvard Hambro , Alexandre Hay , Rudolf Hotzenköcherle , Annemarie Huber-Hotz , Cláudio Hummes , Meinrad Inglin , Urs Jaeggi , Marcel Junod , Sandra Kalniete , Karl III. Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach , Victor Klemperer , Karl Korsch , Otto Kranzbühler , Jean-Georges Lossier , Alexander Lowen , Hubertus Prince zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg , Prince Jan Lubomirski, Hans Luther , Maria Teresa Mestre , Ferenc Molnár , Johann Michael Moscherosch , Alva Myrdal , Claude Nicollier , Jean Frédéric Ostervald , Fabienne Pakleppa , Pericle Patocchi , Charles Poncet , Peter Radtke , Else Reventlow , Jacques Reverdin, Angelo Sala , Jochen Sanio , Simon Schwendener , Adolf von Steiger , Alain Tanner , Savielly Tartakower , Jean-Claude Thoenig , Kurt Tucholsky , Peter Ulmer , Philips van Marnix , Henry Vane , Traugott Vogel , Ernst von Börstel , Georg von der Wense , Christoph von Dohna , Egon Prince von Fürstenberg, Heinrich von Gagern , Hellmut von Gerlach , Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck , Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium , Henri of Luxemburg , Hans von Mangoldt , Ulrich Friedrich von Suhm , Jürgen Warnke , Dieter E. Zimmer
Memberships
literature
- Le Livre du Recteur de l'Académie de Genève 1559-1878 . Librairie Droz. ISBN 978-2-60003194-3
See also
Web links
- University of Geneva website
- University of Geneva on the ETHorama platform
- Université de Genève (Uni Dufour) at ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.unige.ch/rectorat/home/recteur-yves-fluckiger-2/
- ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed August 18, 2019 .
- ^ Members. In: www.swissuniversities.ch. swissuniversities, 2019, accessed on August 31, 2019 .
- ^ University of Geneva. Retrieved December 18, 2017 (American English).
- ^ Martin Boesch, Alain Léveillé: Adieu Institut d'Architecture . In: Hochparterre: magazine for architecture and design . tape 20 , no. 10 , 2007, p. 38 f ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-123273 .
- ↑ ARWU World University Rankings 2019 | Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019 | Top 1000 universities | Shanghai Ranking - 2019. Accessed March 5, 2020 .
- ^ University of Geneva. September 9, 2019, accessed March 5, 2020 .
- ^ University of Geneva. July 16, 2015, accessed March 5, 2020 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 11 ′ 56 " N , 6 ° 8 ′ 40.1" E ; CH1903: 500105 / 117206