French university in Orléans created in 1966
TheUniversity of Orléans (French :Université d'Orléans ) is a French university, in the Academy of Orléans and Tours. As of July 2015 it is a member of the regional university associationLeonardo da Vinci consolidated University .[ 1]
University of Orleans, Great Hall In 1230, when for a time the doctors of theUniversity of Paris were scattered, a number of the teachers and disciples took refuge inOrléans ; when popeBoniface VIII , in 1298, promulgated the sixth book of the Decretals, he appointed the doctors ofBologna and the doctors of Orléans to comment upon it.
St. Yves (1253–1303) studied civil law at Orléans, andPope Clement V also studied there law and letters; by apapal bull published at Lyon, 27 January 1306, he endowed the Orléans institutes with the title and privileges of a university.
Twelve later popes granted the new university many privileges. In the 14th century it had as many as five thousand students from France, Germany,Lorraine ,Burgundy ,Champagne ,Picardy ,Normandy ,Touraine ,Guyenne and Scotland.
The current university was founded in 1960, after its medieval predecessor was closed down in 1793 and merged into theUniversity of France in 1808.
The university is organised into three Teaching and Research divisions (UFR):
Law, Economics and Management Literature, Languages and Human Sciences Science and Technology In addition, it has:
Emo of Friesland (c.1175–1237) -Frisian scholar and abbotEustache Deschamps (1346 – 1406 or 1407) - poetWalter de Coventre (died 1371 or 1372) - Scottish ecclesiasticWalter Forrester (died 1425 or 1426) -Bishop of Brechin , ScotlandHenry de Lichton (died 1440) - Scottish prelate and diplomat,Bishop of Moray andBishop of Aberdeen Oliver King (c.1432 – 1503) -Bishop of Exeter andBishop of Bath and Wells Michel Bucy (1484 – 1511) -Archbishop of Bourges John Calvin (1509–1564), influential French theologian, pastor andreformer during theProtestant Reformation Anne du Bourg (1521, Riom – 1559) - magistrate, Protestant martyrWilliam Whittingham (c. 1524–1579) - EnglishPuritan , translator of theGeneva Bible Claude Fauchet (1530 – 1602) - historian, antiquary, and pioneering romance philologistAnselmus de Boodt (Bruges, 1550 - 1632) - humanist, mineralogist, physician and naturalistFrançois de Joyeuse (1562 – 1615) - churchman and politicianJørgen Bjelke (1621 – 1696) - Norwegian officer and noblemanMolière (1622–1673), French playwright and actor, considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literaturePierre de Fermat (c. 1601 – 1665), best known for hisFermat's principle for light propagation and hisFermat's Last Theorem innumber theory StIvo of Kermartin (died 1303), patron of lawyers Étienne de Mornay , counsellor ofPhilippe IV le Bel Johannes Reuchlin (1455–1522)Guillaume Budé (1468–1540) - scholar and humanistFrancis Bothwell , Procurator of theScottish Nation at Orléans during 1513–1514, later a member of theParliament of Scotland and a judgeÉtienne de La Boétie (1530–1563) - writer, poet, political theoristThomas Brooke alias Cobham (1533–1578) - English nobleman, privateer, conspiratorAgrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630) - poet, soldier, propagandistMathieu Molé (1584 – 1656) - statesmanThéophraste Renaudot (1586–1653) - physician, philanthropist, journalistCharles Perrault (1628–1703) - authorJohann Christoph Wagenseil (1633 - 1705) - German historian, Orientalist, jurist and Christian HebraistAnthonie Heinsius (1641 – 1720) -Grand Pensionary of Holland Conrad von Reventlow (1644 – 1708) - Grand Chancellor of DenmarkJean de La Bruyère (1645–1696) - philosopherJacques Pierre Brissot (1754 – 1793) - leading member of theGirondins Jacques Paul Migne (1800 – 1875) - theologianJean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805 – 1871) - watchmaker, magician and illusionistAlphonse Magnien (1837 – 1902) - priest, theologian, academic administratorRecipients of honorary degree [ edit ]
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