University of Oviedo

University of Oviedo
founding	September 21, 1608
Sponsorship	state
place	Oviedo
country	Spain
Rector	Santiago García Granda
Students	27284
Employee	2154
Networks	CGU
Website	www.uniovi.es

The University of Oviedo ( Spanish Universidad de Oviedo ast. Universidá d'Uviéu ) is a state university that was founded at the end of the 16th century by the Catholic Archbishop Fernando Valdés Salas and began its activities in Oviedo in 1608 . Today, as the State University of Asturias, it has branches in Gijón and Mieres .

history

Historic building of the University of Oviedo

Old entrance of the Colejio de Recoletas

Cloister in the historic building of the University of Oviedo with the statue of the founder, Fernando Valdés Salas , Archbishop of Seville and Grand Inquisitor

The university was inaugurated on September 21, 1608 and the three major faculties of canon law , (secular) law , and theology began teaching. This fulfilled the will of Fernando Valdés Salas in will . The Archbishop of Seville and Grand Inquisitor during the reigns of Charles I and Philip II had previously founded the San Gregorio College for grammar and Latin studies, as well as a school for orphan girls in Recoletas. Today the rectorate has its seat in the former college of Recoletas; the San Gregorio property, opposite the historic university building, is now owned by a bank.

In the first few years, the university's efforts were primarily aimed at improving and consolidating the organization of the subjects it offered, as the financial resources did not allow much more. During this time, the universities were based on the so-called Estatutos Viejos (German: "Old Statutes") and the standards of the University of Salamanca .

The most formative events of the following centuries were the reform of the Spanish universities in 1774 and the occupation of the historic building of the university by the French, which led to the cessation of teaching until they were expelled in 1812.

At the end of the 19th century, a group of liberal university teachers founded the so-called Extensión Universitaria , which aimed to institutionalize public universities. However, this Extensión Universitaria was nothing more than an attempt, which in reality just reached the public at its own university. The proletariat in particular continued to see the university as an institution whose purpose it was to pass on the ideology of the bourgeoisie . This led to the fact that the University of Oviedo was set on fire and destroyed on October 13, 1934, during the uprising of the socialists and communists against the republic. The large library and the no less important art gallery with evidence of Asturian culture also fell victim to the fire .

After the Spanish Civil War , the university was rebuilt, although some voices were in favor of relocating the university to Santander .

Faculties

List of faculties by year of foundation:

• Law (1608)
• Chemistry (1848)
• Philology (1892)
• Geology (1958)
• Biology (1961)
• Geography and History (1965)
• Medicine (1968)
• Economics (1974)
• Education Science (1976)
• Natural Sciences (1990)
• Psychology (1991)
• Philosophy (1993)

Research institutions and special institutes

• Instituto Universitario de la Empresa
• Instituto Universitario de Tecnología Industrial de Asturias (IUTA)
• Instituto Universitario de Oncología
• Instituto Feijoo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII
• Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Ordenación del Territorio (INDUROT)
• Centro de Inteligencia Artificial
• Centro de Cooperación y Desarrollo Territorial (CECODET)
• Instituto Universitario de Biotecnología de Asturia (IUBA)
• Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación
• Instituto de Química Organometálica “Enrique Moles”

Rectors

1860: Diego R. Bahamonde 1865: Jacobo Tomás Olleta 1866: León Salmeán y Mendayo 1867: Domingo A. Arenas Secades 1868: León Salmeán y Mendayo 1884: Juan Rodríguez Arango 1886: León Salmeán y Mendayo 1888: Félix de Aramburu y Zuloaga 1906: Fermín Canella Secades 1914: Aniceto Sela Sampil 1918: Jesús Arias de Velasco 1924: Isaac Galcerán Cifuentes

1931: Leopoldo Alas Argüelles 1936: Sabino Álvarez Gendín 1951: Torcuato Fernández Miranda 1954: Valentín Silva Melero 1961: José Virgili Vinadé 1973: José M. Caso González 1978: Teododo López-Cuesta Egocheaga 1983: Alberto Marcos Vallaure 1988: Juan López Arranz 1992: Santiago Gascón Muñoz 1996: Julio Rodríguez Fernández 2000: Juan Vázquez 2008: Vicente Gotor

campus

Coats of arms carved into the facade of the historic building of the University of Oviedo

• Oviedo :
  • Campus del Cristo
  • Campus de Llamaquique
  • Campus de los Catalanes
  • Oviedo Centro campus
  • Campus de Humanidades (el Milán)

• Gijón :
  • Gijón Centro campus
  • Campus de Viesques

• Mieres :
  • Campus de Mieres

See also

• List of universities in Spain

Web links

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

• Official websites

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uniovi.es/gobiernoservicios/gobierno/rectorado
2. ↑ Member universities. In: web.gcompostela.org. Compostela Group of Universities, 2019, accessed on September 16, 2019 .