Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UN) | |
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motto | la : Inter-Aulas-Academiæ-Quære-Verum |
founding | September 22, 1867 |
Sponsorship | state |
place | Bogotá |
Rector | Dolly Montoya Castaño |
Students | 53,582 (2016) |
Professors | 3007 (2016) |
Website | www.unal.edu.co |
The National University of Colombia ( Spanish Universidad Nacional de Colombia ) is the largest and most prestigious university in Colombia and, as the country's first public and state university, is one of the leading educational institutions in all of Latin America . The university, founded in 1867, has exemplary equipment and infrastructure. It is located in the heart of Bogotá with a huge, park-like campus .
The main campus ( Ciudad Universitaria de Bogotá ) is located in the Teusaquillo district , in the north-west of Bogotá. With an area of 300 hectares, it is the largest campus in Colombia and is home to the Auditorium León de Greiff and Plaza Francisco de Paula Santander , also known as Plaza Che in honor of Ernesto Che Guevara . It has its own stadium, where matches of the Colombian football leagues were played.
history
The university was founded on September 22, 1867 with six courses. A further 20 courses were added between 1903 and 1940, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México served as a model for the future university campus in Bogotá for the Colombian president at the time . Two German emigrants played an important role in the realization of the project: the architect Leopold Rother and the Berlin school reformer Fritz Karsen .
Fritz Karsen wrote for the new university project
“The curriculum and suggested, among other things, the creation of specialized classrooms. Instead of the traditional faculties, departments should be planned, thereby avoiding the repeated construction of laboratories and special classrooms. As in the platoon system, it is the students who constantly move to the various departments, not the teachers. To explain his educational reforms, Karsen designed a circular scheme with the subject structure. This circular scheme by Karsen was the preliminary stage to the circular campus scheme and the origin of the subsequent proposals by Leopold Rother. In relation to this, Hans Rother writes the following: "It was also the educator Fritz Karsen who suggested that the central area should be circular, with the buildings arranged around a park or central square and surrounded by a main road for vehicle traffic".
This idea was realized by Leopold Rother: an oval or elliptical arrangement, which is now known to all residents of Bogotá. Rother also defined five basic areas for the university: human sciences (law), medical sciences, chemistry, engineering and applied arts and sciences (architecture, fine arts, music). "
The implementation of the joint planning was then the sole responsibility of Leopold Rother, since Fritz Karsen left Colombia in 1938 for health reasons and moved to the USA with his family.
The first master’s degree courses were offered in 1967; In 1986 the university awarded its first doctoral degrees. The headquarters are in Bogotá ; the university also has facilities in Medellín , Palmira , Manizales , Arauca , Leticia and San Andrés and Providencia . The university campus in Bogotá was designed by the German architect Leopold Rother . 11 faculties ensure the teaching of the central campus. There are also seven inter-faculty institutions and seven museums.
The University City of Bogotá has been on a provisional list for inclusion as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012 .
Education
The range of courses includes business administration , anthropology, architecture, humanities, life sciences, political science, physics, industrial design, philology (German, French, English, Spanish), accounting, statistics, mathematics, literary studies, law, industrial design, graphic design, film art, pharmacy, philosophy, Psychology, history, geology, medicine, engineering (mechanical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, chemical engineering); Veterinary medicine and social work.
Book series
In its publishing house Unibiblos, the university publishes an important series of books with contributions from its members on cultural and academic topics. 1500 titles have been added in the last 10 years.
Personalities
- Rogelio Salmona (1927–2007), architect, student and professor
- Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), writer
- Germán Arciniegas (1900–1999), journalist, diplomat
- Camilo Torres Restrepo (1929–1966), priest and liberation theologian
- José Eustasio Rivera (1888–1928), writer
- Edgar Bastidas Urresty (* 1944), writer
- Antanas Mockus Sivickas (* 1952), philosopher and politician
- Fernando Vallejo (* 1942), screenwriter and director
- Alfonso López Pumarejo (1886–1959), politician
- Laureano Gómez (1889–1965), politician
- Carlos Lleras Restrepo (1908-1994), politician
- Fernando Botero (* 1932), painter and sculptor
- Sonja Petra Karsen (1919–2013), linguist and literary scholar
- Salomón Hakim (1922–2011), neurosurgeon and researcher, first to describe normal pressure hydrocephalus
literature
- Ernesto Vendries Bray, Leopold Rother and the modern movement in Colombia , dissertation at the Architecture Faculty of the Technical University of Darmstadt , Darmstadt, 2014. Available on the Internet under Dissertation on Leopold Rother
Web links
- Homepage (English)
- Leopold Rother Ciudad Universitaria de Bogotá . The site contains a lot of images of the university campus (including sketches), but the explanations are in Spanish.
Footnotes
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es : Busca la Verdad en las Aulas de la Academia
de : Find the truth in the classrooms of the academy - ↑ http://lineadetiempoun.unal.edu.co/linea-de-tiempo/
- ↑ http://rectoria.unal.edu.co/
- ↑ About the Universidad Nacional de Colombia . f03.th-koeln.de. Accessed April 25, 2017
- ↑ In his dissertation on Leopold Rother, accessible on the Internet, Ernesto Vendries Bray described the founding history of the university campus (pp. 181–204) and the development of the first institute buildings (pp. 205–258) in detail.
- ↑ Ernesto Vendries Bray, Leopold Rother and the modern movement in Colombia , pp. 188–189. The Hans Rother quoted here is the son of Leopold Rother.
- ^ University City of Bogotá
Coordinates: 4 ° 38 '17.5 " N , 74 ° 5' 2.6" W.