Sophia University

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Sophia University
logo
motto Lux Veritatis
founding 1913
Sponsorship Catholic Church ( SJ )
place Chiyoda , Tokyo
country JapanJapan Japan
Chancellor Tsutomu Sakuma SJ
Students 12,568 (2018)
Employee 1,585 (2018)
including professors 1,271 (2018)
Networks FIUC , IAU
Website www.sophia.ac.jp
The Ichigaya campus

Sophia University ( Japanese 上智 大学 , Jōchi Daigaku ; Latin : Universitas Sedis Sapientiae ) is a Roman Catholic university under ecclesiastical law in Japan . It is located in Kioi-chō, Chiyoda , Tokyo and is considered an elite private university .

history

In the 16th century, the Jesuit missionary Franz Xavier valued the character of the Japanese highly and wrote a letter to Rome hoping for a university in the Japanese capital.

Following a request from Pope Pius X , three Jesuits were called to Japan by the leadership of the order. On October 18, 1908, Joseph Dahlmann SJ arrived in Yokohama with Henri Boucher SJ, former director of a Jesuit academy in Shanghai, and the American James Rockliff SJ, a native of England trained in Austria and a former superior in a Jesuit province in the United States . In 1911 they founded the legal foundation and the school authority "Jōchi Gakuin". In 1913 the college was founded as Jōchi Daigaku , later Sophia-Hochschule, on the basis of the technical school decree by Hermann Hoffmann SJ. In 1928 it also received state recognition of university status based on the university decree. In 2004, female students predominated, but co-education was only introduced in 1957.

The name Sophia was derived in 1926 from the Sedes Sapientiae (seat of wisdom) of the Lauretanian litany (the basic meaning of Sophia is "God's wisdom" in Greek). The first rector was the German philosopher Hermann Hoffmann SJ.

Until 1948, the Sophia University was the responsibility of the Low German Province of the Jesuit Order, since then in the newly founded Japanese Vice Province of the Order. The Archdiocese of Cologne under Joseph Cardinal Frings financed the further expansion of the university in the 1950s, as did the German government under Konrad Adenauer and companies such as Volkswagen , Zeiss and Krupp .

organization

Around 1,500 university lecturers teach over 12,000 students in Bachelor, Master and PhD programs on four campuses (Yotsuya, Mejiro Seibo, Ichigaya, Shakujii). The university has a Japanese-speaking and an English-speaking campus. Foreign language faculties make up the largest proportion on the Japanese campus. There are three faculties for the German language: German language, German literature and German studies. With 148 partner institutes in 35 nations, it is a particularly international university.

Presidents were:

  • 1910–1913: Hermann Hoffmann SJ (1863–1937), German philosopher
  • 1913–1937: Hermann Hoffmann SJ (1863–1937), German philosopher
  • 1937–1940: Hermann Heuvers SJ (1890–1977), German cultural scientist
  • 1940–1946: Paul Yachita Tsuchihashi SJ (1866–1965), Japanese humanities scholar
  • 1946–1953: Naojiroo Murakami, Japanese humanities scholar
  • 1953–1968: Takashi Oizumi SJ, Japanese humanities scholar
  • 1968–1975: Mikao Moriya, Japanese engineer
  • 1975–1981: Giuseppe Pittau SJ (* 1928), Italian legal scholar
  • 1981–1984: Mutsuo Yanase SJ, Japanese engineer
  • 1984–1987: Tomosuke Hashiguchi, Japanese humanities scholar
  • 1987–1993: Masao Tsuchida SJ, Japanese humanities scholar
  • 1993–1999: Keiji Otani, Japanese humanities scholar
  • 1999–2005: William J. Currie SJ (* 1935), American cultural scientist
  • 2005–2017: Yoshiaki Ishizawa (* 1937), Japanese linguist
  • since 2017: Yoshiaki Terumichi (* 1962), Japanese engineering scientist

Faculties

  • Shakuji Campus:
    • theology
  • Yotsuya Campus:
    • philosophy
    • Human sciences
    • law
    • Economics
    • foreign languages
    • Liberal Arts (until 2006 comparative cultural studies)
    • Science and Technology

Publications

The Japanese scientific journal Monumenta Nipponica is published every six months by the university.

Graduate Department

  • Theological Department
  • Philosophical Department
  • Literary department
  • Department of Liberal Arts (founded in 2005)
  • Legal department
  • Economics department
  • Foreign Language Department
  • Department of Science and Technology

Well-known university professors

Well-known graduates

Well-known exchange students

literature

  • Bruno Bitter (ed.): Sophia Universitaet, 1913–1938 , Tokyo 1938
  • Peter Milward: The History of Sophia , In: Yanase, Musuo (ed.): The Future Image of Sophia University: Looking Toward the 21st Century. Tokyo: Sophia University, 1989, pp. 55-75.
  • Theodore Geppert: "The Early Years of Sophia University", Tokyo 1993
  • 100 years of Sophia University Tokyo , special issue of the magazine Weltweit. The magazine of the Jesuit mission 2013 digitized

See also

Web links

Commons : Sophia University  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Message from The Chancellor: Ms. Tsutomu Sakuma, SJ on sophia.ac.jp , accessed on August 11, 2020 (en.)
  2. ↑ Members. In: www.fiuc.org. International Federation of Catholic Universities, accessed October 3, 2019 .
  3. ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed August 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2014, page 1757
  5. ↑ a b c d Harald Fuess: "German Jesuits in Japan" (PDF; 99 kB), accessed on March 3, 2012
  6. ^ Norbert Trippen: Josef Cardinal Frings (1887-1978): His work for the universal church and his last bishop years. F. Schöningh 2005, chap. 5 Funding from Sophia University
  7. ^ "The Sophia University in Tokyo" , TU Berlin , accessed on March 3, 2012
  8. ^ "Born A Japanese Samurai, And Truely Lived As A Jesuit" , accessed March 4, 2012