University of Seville

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University of Seville
Universidad de Sevilla
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founding 1505
Sponsorship state
place Seville
country SpainSpain Spain
Rector Miguel Ángel Castro
Students over 70,000 (2016)
Employee 6,804 (Dec 2017)
including professors 4,201 (Dec 2017)
Networks CGU
Website www.us.es
main building

The University of Seville ( Spanish : Universidad de Sevilla ) is one of the largest public universities in Spain with 73,350 students (2004) and is based in the city of Seville in Andalusia .

history

In the mid-13th century, the Dominicans organized schools to teach Arabic, Hebrew, and Greek for missions. Alfonso the Wise founded escuelas generales in 1254 . Pope Alexander IV recognized them as generale litterarum studium in the bull of June 21, 1260. Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella began building a building for a university in 1472, which was founded in 1502 by the Catholic monarchs and confirmed in 1505 by Pope Julius II . As is usually the case, degrees were in theology , philosophy , law and medicine .

Since March 2002 the university has provided the entire data storage for the Spanish-language Enciclopedia Libre .

Teaching company

There are five institutes with a total of 122 departments. The university has exchanges with the US University of Virginia's College at Wise in Virginia (since 2000).

See also

Web links

Commons : University of Seville  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.us.es/acerca/organizacion/equipo/rector#disd
  2. ↑ Welcome. In: www.us.es. Universidad de Sevilla, February 12, 2016, accessed on September 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b La US en Cifras. Efectivos de Personal - Diciembre 2017. In: www.us.es. Universidad de Sevilla, June 25, 2019, accessed September 16, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Member universities. In: web.gcompostela.org. Compostela Group of Universities, 2019, accessed on September 16, 2019 .

Coordinates: 37 ° 22 ′ 48.4 "  N , 5 ° 59 ′ 29.8"  W.