University of Liège

Université de Liège University of Liège
founding	1817
Sponsorship	state
place	Liege , Belgium
Recteur (Rector)	Pierre Wolper
Students	24,522 (as of 2018)
Employee	5,464 (2018)
Networks	IAU , TIME
Website	uliege.be

The University of Liège (ULg) ( French : Université de Liège ) is a French-speaking university based in Liège , Belgium . The university is a member of the cross-border university association ALMA.

history

The university was opened under King William I in 1817 , during the time of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands . The academy hall was built according to plans by Jean-Noël Chevron between 1819 and 1824 from recycled stones from the old Jesuit church and was located in an old cloister on the Meuse in the city center of Liège - at today's place du 20-Août (Platz des 20. August). Today the administration as well as the philosophical and literary faculty are housed in this building.

organization

The university is made up of 45 departments, which are spread over 8 faculties. In January 2005, the HEC-Liège University (Hautes Études Commerciales) merged with the University of Liège. In 2005 the university had around 17,000 students and 2,500 professors, lecturers and researchers.

The University of Liège has always been a state university and therefore has no theological faculty. Law, medicine and engineering are taught a few kilometers south of the city on the forest-surrounded Sart-Tilman campus , which was established in 1967. There is also an open-air museum here , where modern works of sculpture can be seen.

Since 1924 the University of Polleur-Venn has had a scientific outstation ( Station Scientifique des Hautes-Fagnes ). The weather station on the edge of the Venn is accessible to visitors.

A campus is also located in Arlon .

Faculties

University of Liège, main building

Fresco Aula ULg

• Philosophy and literary studies
• Law and Criminology
• Natural sciences
• Human medicine
• Veterinary medicine
• Psychology and Education
• Engineering and Applied Sciences
• Economics and Management
• Humanities and Social Sciences

Well-known graduates

• Édouard van Beneden (1846–1910), Belgian developmental biologist and cytologist
• Heinrich Bischoff (1867–1940), Belgian Germanist and literary critic
• Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (* 1951 and 1954 respectively), Belgian film directors, film producers and screenwriters
• Marcel De Corte (1905–1994), Belgian philosopher
• Fernand Dehousse (1906–1976), Belgian politician
• Fernand Dumont
• Michèle Fabien (1945–1999), Belgian writer, translator and dramaturge
• Foumakoye Gado (* 1950), Nigerien politician
• Maurice Grevisse (1895–1980), Belgian grammarian
• Mathieu Grosch (* 1950), Belgian politician, MEP
• Pierre Harmel (1911–2009), Belgian legal scholar and politician
• Dimitri Kosmowicz (1909–1991), Belarusian Nazi collaborator
• Godefroid Kurth (1847-1916), Belgian historian
• Anne-Marie Lizin (1949–2015), Belgian politician
• Jean-Marie Piemme (* 1944), Belgian dramaturge
• Henri Pirenne (1862-1935), Belgian historian
• Didier Reynders (* 1958), Belgian politician
• Léon Rosenfeld (1904–1974), Belgian physicist
• Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869), French poet and critic
• Theodor Schwann (1810–1882), German physiologist
• Polydore swings
• Haroun Tazieff (1914–1998), French volcanologist and geologist
• Jean-François Tielemans (1799–1887), Belgian politician
• Robert Vivier (1894–1989), Belgian poet and writer
• Claude Yserentant

Honorary doctors

In 1990, the Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Liège for his services to Dutch literature . Salman Rushdie followed in 1999 . 2006 received u. a. the American physician Jean-Pierre Kinet , the German physician Gottfried Blaschke and the German physicist Dietrich Stauffer received honorary doctorates.

See also

• List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)
• TRAPPIST-1 Dwarf star 7 planet system discovered in 2016/2017

Web links

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

• Official website of the ULg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Université de Liège: Le Recteur. Retrieved August 4, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Chiffres clés , website uliege.be (last accessed: April 1, 2019)
3. ↑ Key figures. Université de Liège, April 1, 2019, accessed on April 1, 2019 (French). 

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '58.8 "  N , 5 ° 33' 34.5"  E