Nancy University
The University of Nancy ( French Université de Nancy , sometimes Nancy-Université ) was the merger of the three universities of Nancy ( Lorraine ), which took place in March 2007:
- University of Nancy I “ Henri Poincaré ” (UHP): Sciences, medicine, pharmacy a. a.
- Nancy II University: Law, Literature and Social Sciences
- Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL): engineering schools
Soon after, in a process started in 2009 and completed in 2012, the university merged with the Paul Verlaine University - Metz (UPVM) to form Université de Lorraine .
History of the university
The University of Nancy was founded as the University of Pont-à-Mousson on December 5, 1572 by the Dukes of Lorraine in Pont-à-Mousson and moved to Nancy in 1769 .
Famous students and teachers
- Pierre-Marie Alexis Millardet (1838–1902), botanist
- Paul Vuillemin (1861-1932), mycologist
- Élie Cartan (1869–1951), mathematician
- Louis Camille Maillard (1878-1936), chemist
- François de Menthon (1900–1984), politician and lawyer
- André-Georges Bontems (1910–1988), Roman Catholic Archbishop
- Robert Marjolin (1911–1986), European politician
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn (* 1949), politician
- Ségolène Royal (* 1953), politician
- Philippe Claudel (* 1962), writer
- Philibert Nang (* 1967), mathematician
Individual evidence
- ↑ 5 ans de construction on www.univ-lorraine.fr, accessed on February 4, 2016