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Università degli Studi di Palermo | |
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1806; 219 years ago (1806) |
| Rector | Massimo Midiri |
Administrative staff | 2,000 |
| Students | 48,338 |
| Location | , Italy |
| Campus | Urban |
| Sports teams | CUS Palermo |
| Affiliations | UNIMED |
| Website | Official website |
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TheUniversity of Palermo (Italian:Università degli Studi di Palermo) is apublicresearch university inPalermo, Italy. It was founded in 1806, and is currently organized in 12 faculties.
The University of Palermo was officially founded in 1806, although its earliest roots date back to 1498 whenmedicine andlaw were taught there. Starting from the second half of the 16th century, from their seat at the Collegio Massimo al Cassero, theJesuit Fathers granted degrees inTheology andPhilosophy - subjects in which they had been masters for over 200 years.
In 1767 they were expelled from the kingdom byFerdinand I, until 37 years later, when they returned to take their seat - which in the meantime had been turned into the Regia Accademia.
At this time, Ferdinand I decided to grant a good seat to the Accademia, moving its location to the Convent of the Teatini Fathers next to the Church of St. Giuseppe. In 1806, the university was officially founded.
After theunification of Italy in 1860, the University of Palermo was modernized under the impetus of the chemistStanislao Cannizzaro, and theminister and specialist inArab studies,Michele Amari, more or less assuming its present appearance. Since 1984 the main building of the University, housing the Rector's office, isPalazzo Chiaramonte-Steri, one of the most important historical buildings in Palermo, built in 1307 and formerly the residence of the Chiaramonte. Not far from Palazzo Steri, on land formerly belonging to theChiaramonte, theBotanical Gardens ofPalermo constitute a renowned part of the university.
Today, the university has grown to be an institution of about 2000 lecturers[1] and 50,000 students[1] in which research in various fields of study is carried out. In the past few years, the university has actively taken part in international cooperation programmes.
These are the 12 faculties in which the university is divided into:
University of Palermo has been publishingMythos: Rivista di Storia delle Religioni, an annualpeer-reviewedacademic journal published by Giuseppe Sciascia Editore. It was established in 1989 byGiuseppe Martorana,[2] with a new series started in 2007.[3] It reviews religiousnarrative andmythos in Italian, French, English, German, and Spanish. The current[when?]editors-in-chief areNicola Cusumano (University of Palermo) andCorinne Bonnet (University of Toulouse).
There are some two thousand teaching personnel (mostly assistants or part-time lecturers) for around forty thousand students.
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