University of Łódź

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Uniwersytet Łódzki
University of Łódź
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founding May 24, 1945
Sponsorship state
place Łódź
country PolandPoland Poland
Rector Antoni Różalski
Students 38,269 (June 30, 2007)
Networks CGU
Website www.uni.lodz.pl

The University of Łódź ( pl .: Uniwersytet Łódzki ) is a Polish university in Łódź with around 40,000 students.

history

The University of Łódź was established on May 24, 1945 as the successor to the Łódź Scientific Institute, which was active in the 1920s (1921–1928), the University of Economics and Social Sciences (1924–1928) and a department of the “Free University” of Poland (1928 –1939) founded.

In 1955, the medical subjects were outsourced to the independent Medical Academy Łódź . Today over 40,000 students study at the university. The university library houses around 2.8 million volumes, making it one of the largest in Poland.

The university also has student residences with space for over 4,200 students. The dormitories are almost exclusively located near the center in the so-called “Lumumbowo” campus, named after Patrice Lumumba . Students receive a 50% discount on the ticket price for public transport. A monthly ticket is called Migawka in Łódź .

The university has many international collaborations, including with Germany , France , Brazil , the People's Republic of China and Mexico .

Faculties

The management faculty
  • Biology and environmental protection
  • Economics and Social Sciences
  • philology
  • Philosophy and history
  • Physics and chemistry
  • mathematics
  • earth sciences
  • pedagogy
  • Law and administration
  • International and Political Studies
  • management

Student Initiatives

  • AIESEC
  • ELSA
  • Erasmus Student Network University of Łódź (ESN UL)
  • Niezależna Zrzeszenie Studentów (Independent Association of Students)
  • Zrzeszenie Studentów Polskich (Association of Polish Students)
  • University choir
  • Theater group Pstrąg- Grupa 80

Rectors

  1. Tadeusz Kotarbiński, 1945–1949
  2. Józef Chałasiński, 1949–1952
  3. Jan Szczepański, 1952–1956
  4. Adam Szpunar, 1956–1962
  5. Stefan Hrabec, 1962–1965
  6. Józef Stanisław Piątowski, 1965–1968
  7. Witold Janowski, 1968–1968
  8. Andrzej Nadolski, 1968–1969
  9. Zdzisław Skwarczyński, 1969–1972
  10. Janusz Górski, 1972–1975
  11. Romuald Skowroński, 1975–1981
  12. Jerzy Wróblewski, 1981-1984
  13. Leszek Wojtczak, 1984–1990
  14. Michał Seweryński, 1990–1996
  15. Stanisław Liszewski, 1996-2002
  16. Wiesław Puś , 2002-2008
  17. Włodzimierz Nykiel , 2008-2016
  18. Antoni Różalski , 2016–

Honorary doctors

Library

The library of the University of Łódź is one of the largest and most modern academic libraries in Central Europe. In addition to the main university library, there are 106 branch libraries whose collections are adapted to the scientific and didactic activities of the institutions. The number of registered library card holders is now over 20,000.

The holdings of the University of Łódź also contain historical prints, including a large number of Germanica also with provenances from German libraries, for example holdings from the Prussian State Library in Berlin (so-called Berlinka ).

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Główny Urząd Statystyczny, Studenci szkół wyższych według województw i szkół (łącznie z cudzoziemcami). Stan w dniu 30 XI 2007 r. in Szkoły wyższe i ich finanse w 2007 r. ( Memento from November 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Member universities. In: web.gcompostela.org. Compostela Group of Universities, 2019, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  3. International Relations Office
  4. Jakub Gortat: Prints of the 16th century from the Prussian State Library in the University Library of Lodz . In: Cora Dietl and Małgorzata Kubisiak (eds.): Unknown treasures. 16th century Germanica in the University Library of Łódź . Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2018, ISBN 978-83-8142-251-2 , p. 97-107 (Original title: Nieznane skarby. Germanika XVI-wieczne w zbiorach Biblioteki Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego . Translated by Małgorzata Półrola).