University of Turin
| University of Turin | |
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| founding | 1404 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Turin , Italy |
| Rector | Gianmaria Ajani |
| Students | approx. 67,000 (2006) |
| Employee | approx. 1,800 (2006) |
| Website | www.unito.it |
The University of Turin ( Italian : Università degli Studi di Torino ; Latin : Alma Universitas Taurinensis , formerly also: Academia Turicensis ) is a state university in the northern Italian city of Turin with around 67,000 students and almost 2,000 academic employees. It was founded in 1404, teaching was temporarily interrupted in 1536, and the university now has extensive facilities for foreign students.
Faculties
There are twelve faculties :
- Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
- Faculty of Mathematics , Physics and Science
- Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
- Faculty of Modern Languages and Literature
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Literature and Philosophy
- Faculty of Psychology
- Faculty of Political Science
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Faculty of Economics
In 2009 the university founded the Scuola di studi superiori “Ferdinando Rossi” to promote particularly talented students .
Well-known graduates and lecturers
- Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), Italian physicist and chemist
- Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004), Italian legal philosopher and journalist (also lecturer)
- Anna Bravo (1938–2019), Italian historian
- Cesare Burali-Forti (1861–1931), Italian mathematician (lecturer)
- Italo Calvino (1923–1985), Italian writer
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857), French mathematician (lecturer)
- Andrea De Felip (* 1970), Italian diplomat
- Umberto Eco (1932-2016), Italian writer
- Laura Mancinelli (1933-2016), Italian writer (also lecturer)
- Joseph Müller (1825–1895), Austrian philologist and historian, professor of Greek studies
- Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), Italian philosopher and politician
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736–1813), Italian mathematician and astronomer
- Primo Levi (1919–1987), Italian writer and chemist
- Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909), Italian doctor (also lecturer)
- Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), Italian mathematician (also lecturer)
- Tullio Regge (1931–2014), Italian physicist (also lecturer)
- Eugenio Giuseppe Togliatti (1890–1977), Italian mathematician and university professor
- Gianni Vattimo (* 1936), Italian philosopher (also lecturer)
- Renzo Videsott (1904–1974), Italian veterinarian, alpinist and conservationist (also lecturer)
See also
- Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino
- University of Eastern Piedmont
- Consorzio ICoN , University Consortium for Italian Philology
Web links
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