University of Vicenza

The University of Vicenza ( Università a Vicenza ) was a medieval university in Italy. It existed from 1204 to 1209 and was the first European university to be created through an independent founding act ( ex privilegio ). Other medieval universities had developed from existing institutions (law school in Bologna , philosophy school in Paris , monk school in Oxford and cathedral schools ).

The University of Vicenza came into being after the departure of a group of two professors and their students from the University of Bologna who did not accept that Pope Innocent III. had forbidden the teaching of some legal doctrines pertaining to the papacy. The group chose a leadership ( rectors ) in Vicenza in order to be able to negotiate. This organizational model was soon adopted by the University of Bologna. The small, independent, university dissolved again in 1209.

Individual evidence

^ Bernd Kleinmann: University organization and presidential management. Leadership Practices in a Multiple Hybrid Organization . Springer, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-11836-5 , p. 119 f.
↑ Monika Estermann and Ursula Rautenberg (eds.): Archive for the history of books , Volume 65, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023352-0 , p. 10.
^ Olaf Pederson: The First Universities. Studium Generale and the Origins of University Education in Europe . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997, ISBN 0-521-59431-6 , p. 161.

[1] Bernd Kleinmann: University organization and presidential management. Leadership Practices in a Multiple Hybrid Organization . Springer, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-11836-5 , p. 119 f.

[2] Monika Estermann and Ursula Rautenberg (eds.): Archive for the history of books , Volume 65, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023352-0 , p. 10.

[3] Olaf Pederson: The First Universities. Studium Generale and the Origins of University Education in Europe . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997, ISBN 0-521-59431-6 , p. 161.