University of Strasbourg

The University of Strasbourg (French: Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. Founded in the 16th century by Johannes Sturm, it was a center of intellectual life during the Age of Enlightenment.

The old university was split into three separate entities in the 1970s before merging back together in 2009. Today, the University of Strasbourg comprises 35 academic faculties, schools, and institutes, as well as 71 research laboratories spread across six campuses, including the historic site in the Neustadt.

Throughout its existence, Unistra alumni, faculty, or researchers have included 18 Nobel laureates, two Fields Medalists and a wide range of notable individuals in their respective fields. Among them are Goethe, statesman Robert Schuman, historian Marc Bloch and several chemists such as Louis Pasteur.

The university emerged from a Lutheran humanist German Gymnasium, founded in 1538 by Johannes Sturm in the Free Imperial City of Strassburg. It was transformed to a university in 1621 (German: Universität Straßburg) and elevated to the ranks of a royal university in 1631. Among its earliest university students was Johann Scheffler who studied medicine and later converted to Catholicism and became the mystic and poet Angelus Silesius.^[3]

The Lutheran German university still persisted even after the annexation of the city by King Louis XIV in 1681 (one famous student was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1770/71), but mainly turned into a French speaking university during the French Revolution.

The university was refounded as the German Kaiser-Wilhelm-Universität in 1872, after the Franco-Prussian war and the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany provoked a westwards exodus of Francophone teachers. During the German Empire the university was greatly expanded and numerous new buildings were erected because the university was intended to be a showcase of German against French culture in Alsace. In 1918, Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France, so a reverse exodus of Germanophone teachers took place.

During the Second World War, when France was occupied, personnel and equipment of the University of Strasbourg were transferred to Clermont-Ferrand. In its place, the short-lived German Reichsuniversität Straßburg was created.

In 1971, the university was subdivided into three separate institutions:

• Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg I)
• Marc Bloch University (Strasbourg II)
• Robert Schuman University (Strasbourg III)

Following a national reform of higher education, these universities merged on 1 January 2009, and the new institution became one of the first French universities to benefit from greater autonomy.^[4]

The university campus covers a vast part near the center of the city, located between the "Cité Administrative", "Esplanade" and "Gallia" bus-tram stations.

Modern architectural buildings include: Escarpe, the Doctoral College of Strasbourg, Supramolecular Science and Engineering Institute (ISIS), Atrium, Pangloss, PEGE (Pôle européen de gestion et d'économie) and others. The student residence building for the Doctoral College of Strasbourg was designed by London-based Nicholas Hare Architects in 2007. The structures are depicted on the main inner wall of the Esplanade university restaurant, accompanied by the names of their architects and years of establishment.

The administrative organisms, attached to the university (Prefecture; CAF, LMDE, MGEL—health insurance; SNCF—national French railway company; CTS—Strasbourg urban transportation company), are located in the "Agora" building.

• The Gallia building, formerly Germania, seat of the Regional Student's Service Centre
  The Gallia building, formerly Germania, seat of the Regional Student's Service Centre
• Main Law faculty building of the former Robert Schuman University
  Main Law faculty building of the former Robert Schuman University
• Main building of the university for economic and management studies (AKA : PEGE - Pôle Européen de gestion et d'économie)
  Main building of the university for economic and management studies (AKA : PEGE - Pôle Européen de gestion et d'économie)
• The National and University Library on Place de la République, former Kaiserplatz
  The National and University Library on Place de la République, former Kaiserplatz

• Adolf von Baeyer
• Karl Ferdinand Braun
• Paul Ehrlich
• Hermann Emil Fischer
• Jules Hoffmann
• Albrecht Kossel
• Martin Karplus
• Max von Laue
• Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
• Jean-Marie Lehn
• Otto Loewi
• Otto Fritz Meyerhof
• Louis Néel
• Wilhelm Röntgen
• Jean-Pierre Sauvage
• Albert Schweitzer
• Hermann Staudinger
• Pieter Zeeman

• Reichsuniversität Straßburg
• Jardin botanique de l'Université de Strasbourg
• List of early modern universities in Europe
• On the Poverty of Student Life
• Musée de minéralogie
• Musée zoologique de la ville de Strasbourg

• University of Strasbourg
• The Art and Science collections of the University of Strasbourg
• Scholars and Literati at the University of Strasbourg (1621–1795), in Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae/RETE.

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