Scuola Normale Superiore
| Scuola Normale Superiore | |
|---|---|
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| founding | 1810 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place |
Pisa and Florence Italy
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| director | Luigi Ambrosio |
| Students | approx. 270 |
| Employee | approx. 120 |
| Website | www.sns.it |
The Scuola Normale Superiore ( SNS ) is an Italian elite university in Pisa and Florence .
history
The SNS was founded at the behest of Napoleon I in 1810 based on the model of the École normal supérieure (Paris) in Pisa. Admission, employment, fines and clothing for the students as well as remuneration were strictly regulated according to the French model. The original aim of the school was to train civil servants and civil servants in a similar way to its Parisian counterpart, but specifically for all Italian-speaking areas of the former First Empire . After the fall of Napoleon I and the restoration of the grand ducal power, the school was closed and only reopened in 1846 under the aegis of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany , as a “seedbed for teachers and professors in secondary schools”. In 1862 the institution was subordinated to the newly created state of Italy. It developed more and more into a research center and training center for future scientists and lecturers and increasingly put away its formerly cultivated legacy of Catholicism and became more and more secular in the course of the Italian nation-state building. In 1936 the university became finally autonomous and all previous ties with the University of Pisa were abolished. In 1988 the university signed a partnership agreement with the École normal supérieure (Paris), which allows the respective students of the two universities to spend a year in Pisa, Florence or Paris.
Today it covers a wide range of subjects in all areas. In the teaching area, the focus is more on the training of doctoral students , but there are also students , usually in cooperation with the University of Pisa. The main building of the Scuola Normale Superiore, the Palazzo della Carovana , first served as the administrative seat of the Pisan government before the school was founded and after the conquest of Pisa by Florence in 1409 as the seat of a Medici- loyal knight order , from which the name of the square in front of the building ( Piazza dei Cavalieri ) still testifies today. Several laboratories and research facilities belong to the institution.
In 2013 the SNS took over the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane in Florence. For this reason, the SNS now has a second office in the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence.
Study conditions
The students are housed in homes in the city. Only around 10% of the applicants are accepted into the 30 students in the natural sciences or in the 24 students in the humanities. Admission criteria are not so much conceptual knowledge and good memory skills, but originality and intuition. An annual aptitude colloquium is required for admission to the higher level. Furthermore, one must have an average rating of 27 out of 30 points and a minimum of 24 points for each examination for the promotion. In addition to the usual courses planned for the university, two more must be in the curriculum every year. The students of the "normal" receive food and accommodation, reimbursement of tuition fees and a small monthly contribution to the acquisition of didactic materials. You have access to the Internet, photocopies and the library at reduced prices or free of charge. Its own library with a stock of around 800,000 books (in 2005) is divided into several buildings.
Famous alumni (alphabetical)
Some famous former students of the Scuola Normale Superiore:
- Alessandro Barbero (* 1959), Italian historian
- Saverio Cannistrà OCD (* 1958), Superior General of the Teresian Carmel
- Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907), Nobel Prize for Literature (1906)
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (1920–2016), former governor of the Banca d'Italia , former president of the Italian Republic
- Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), Nobel Prize in Physics (1938)
- Alessio Figalli (* 1984), Fields Medal Prize Winner (2018)
- Giovanni Gentile (1875–1944), philosopher and politician
- Carlo Ginzburg (* 1939), historian
- Giovanni Gronchi (1887–1978), politician, former President of the Italian Republic
- Hanno Hahn (1922–1960), art and architecture historian
- Medea Norsa (1877–1952), philologist and papyrologist
- Michela Marzano (* 1970), philosopher, university professor and politician
- Adriano Prosperi (* 1939), historian
- Carlo Rubbia (* 1934), Nobel Prize in Physics (1984)
- Salvatore Settis (* 1941), archaeologist and historian
- Tiziano Terzani (1938–2004), journalist and writer
- Giuseppe Vitali (1875–1932), mathematician
Web links
- Official Pages (Italian)
Footnotes
Coordinates: 43 ° 43 ′ 10.2 ″ N , 10 ° 24 ′ 1.8 ″ E