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60 unusual facts about Sorbonne


A Certain Smile

The novel is about Dominique, a bored twenty-year-old law student at the Sorbonne in mid-1950s Paris.

Alain Bosquet

In 1925, his family moved to Brussels and he studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, then at the Sorbonne.

Albert Spaier

Studying at the Sorbonne, he volunteered to fight for the French at the outset of World War I, and became a French citizen soon afterwards.

André Almuró

In 1973, Almuró became a teacher at Paris' Sorbonne University (UFR d’Arts Plastiques, Faculté Paris I Sorbonne).

Antoine de Margerie

In order to reassure them, de Margerie takes up medical studies, as well as pursuing a humanities degree and taking courses at the École du Louvre and the Intitut d'Art et d'Archéologie at the Sorbonne.

Ataol Behramoğlu

In 1984, he began in Paris to participate in the work of Sorbonne’s National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, at the Center for Comparative Poetry.

Bakhtiar Amin

He went to university in Sweden and the Sorbonne in France, where he received a master’s degree in international affairs and a doctorate in political geography.

Bernadette Allen

She studied abroad for a year in 1977, earning a Certificate in French Civilization from the Sorbonne in Paris.

Božidar Kantušer

He attended aesthetics courses by Étienne Souriau at the Sorbonne, the courses of Olivier Messiaen at the Paris conservatory, and appeared at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.

Buddhist studies

Prominent European programs include Oxford University and Cambridge University, School of Oriental and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Hamburg, University of Munich, University of Heidelberg, University of Bonn, University of Vienna, Ghent University, and the Sorbonne.

Cartesian Meditations

Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology is a book by the philosopher Edmund Husserl, based on two two-hour lectures he gave at the Sorbonne, in the Amphithéatre Descartes on February 23 and 25, 1929.

Clarisse Albrecht

While studying Cinema at La Sorbonne Nouvelle, in Paris, she joined, as a background vocalist, a band performing Soul-Funk covers.

Conseil du Roi

Over the centuries, the number of jurists (or "légistes"), generally educated by the université de Paris, steadily increased as the technical aspects of the matters studied in the council mandated specialized counsellers.

Cuauhtémoc García Amor

Other studies: Include a diploma from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in French Language and French Civilization (1975).

Edmond Paris

After he left Sorbonne where he was a student, he completed his studies in various parts of the world, such as Rome, Geneva, Salamanca, and Montreal.

Edward Knott

Another reply to Kellison was published by Father John Floyd, and both these works were censured by the archbishop of Paris 30 January 1631, and by the Sorbonne 15 February 1631.

Fariborz Lachini

After the Islamic Revolution he moved to Europe to study Musicology in the Universite de Paris - Sorbonne.

François Flameng

He decorated such important civic buildings as the Sorbonne and the Opera Comique, and also produced advertising work.

François Girardon

His Tomb of Richelieu (church of the Sorbonne) was saved from destruction by Alexandre Lenoir, who received a bayonet thrust in protecting the head of the cardinal from mutilation.

Guillemette Andreu

After studying history, Andreu specialized in Egyptology (hieroglyphs, hieratic, Coptic) and produced a thesis on the law and order in Ancient Egypt at Sorbonne in 1978 under the direction of Professor Jean Leclant.

Henri Maspero

During the following years he replaced Marcel Granet for the chair of Chinese civilisation at the Sorbonne, directed the department of Chinese religions at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, and was selected to be a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.

Hervé Bazin

Leaving his home for Paris, he took a degree in literature at the Sorbonne.

Hige Danshaku

His official profile states that he was born on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, and attended the Sorbonne.

Huguette Dreyfus

Dreyfus taught at the Schola Cantorum, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at the National conservatory of music and dance of Lyon(CNSMD de Lyon).

Ivar Lissner

He studied languages, history, anthropology, and law at Greifswald, Berlin, Göttingen, Erlangen, Lyon (1931–1932), and at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Jaroslav Vanek

He received his diploma in statistics, mathematics and economics at the Sorbonne (1952), and a postgraduate degree in economics at the University of Geneva (1954).

Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant

Prominent examples include the great plafond in the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, entitled Paris Convening the World; his paintings in the New Sorbonne, representing Literature, The Sciences, and the Academy of Paris; and the plafond of the Opéra Comique theatre.

Jean-Julien Chervier

After studying Art Sciences at the Sorbonne, Jean-Julien Chervier produced a radio program devoted to the cinema on Aligre FM.

Jonathan Dawson

A remarkable number of his students are now active in Universities from the Sorbonne to UCLA and work in the film industry worldwide.

Julia Danzas

After graduating from high school in 1895, Julia Danzas moved to Paris and came to Sorbonne, where she studied philosophy and psychology.

Kurt Maetzig

He also studied sociology, psychology and law for a year at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Lawrence Bulger

Lawrence Bulger was an Irish 220-yard sprint champion, and through his connection with athletics was a representative at the Sorbonne in Paris when Pierre de Coubertin suggested the creation of a modern Olympic Games.

Lin Emery

From there she continued changing schools, attending Syracuse University, the University of Mexico, the University of Chicago, and the Sorbonne.

Louis Rougier

After receiving the agrégation de philosophie degree from the University of Lyon, Rougier taught until 1924 at various lycées and obtained his doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1920.

Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Trained in literature and journalism, Dalembert worked first as a journalist in his homeland before leaving in 1986 for France where he obtained his PhD in comparative literature at the Sorbonne with a dissertation on the Cuban author, Alejo Carpentier.

Lucy May Stanton

She also studied anatomy at the Sorbonne and took classes at two independent art schools in Paris which admitted women, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Académie Colarossi.

Ludovic Debeurme

After studying fine art at the Sorbonne, he was first published in the anthology Comix 2000, followed by the acclaimed graphic novels Céfalus (2002) and Mes ailes d’homme (2003), the autobiographical story collection Ludologie (2003), and youth-oriented illustrated editions of the classics Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2001), The Chancellor (2004), and Gargantua (2004).

Luise Druke

from Brussels University and a M.A. in Economics, Finance and Management from Webster University, St. Louis, a Diploma from Sorbonne, License d'enseignement from Paris VIII University and a M.A. from the European Institute of High International Studies, University of Nice in European Studies.

Marc Arcis

In Paris, he took part in the interior decoration of the église de la Sorbonne and produced works for Versailles.

Maren Niemeyer

She studied journalism, German philology and film studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and Freien Universität Berlin from 1984 till 1990.

Maxence Caron

He is agrégé in Philosophy (in 1999), docteur ès Lettres (at Sorbonne in 2003 with Rémi Brague as a thesis director.

Michel Suret-Canale

After his secondary education at the Lycée Claude Bernard in Paris, Michel enrolled at the University of Arts and Sciences of Art, Department of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, eventually earning a doctorate in Arts and Sciences of Art with honors by unanimous decision of the jury.

Miroslav Nenadović

In 1936 he passed the state PhD exam in aerospace sciences, while in 1937, he was promoted to the title of PhD in Sorbonne.

Nasser Gemayel

In 1977 he obtained a masters in philosophy at the Catholic University of Lyon in 1984 and a doctorate in literature and humanities at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Olivier Weber

Olivier Weber, born in 1958 in Montluçon, studied economics and anthropology at the University of San Francisco, University of Paris Sorbonne, University of Nice (Ph.D.) and at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, INALCO).

Paul Hallez

He later defended his thesis at the Sorbonne with an award winning treatise on Turbellaria titled Contributions à l'histoire naturelle des turbellariés.

Pierre Goldman

Though he was expelled from various high schools and boarding schools, Goldman obtained his baccalauréat and pursued courses at the Sorbonne as an independent auditor.

Richard Greeman

During 1963-64, Greeman returned to Paris with a French Government scholarship, took courses at the Sorbonne, began his research on the life and works of Victor Serge (1890–1947) whom he admired both as a novelist, a revolutionary witness, and a libertarian socialist thinker.

Roger Dawson

On leave in Amsterdam Roger ran into Bob Whitlock, the original bassist for the Gerry Mulligan Quartet who had received a scholarship to the Sorbonne in Paris.

Ronald Verlin Cassill

In 1949 he briefly served as an instructor at the University's Writer's Workshop before attending the Sorbonne in 1952 for a year as a Fulbright Fellow, studying comparative literature.

Sheldon Bach

Born in 1925, he served in the European Theatre of Operations during World War II, then lived in Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne.

Slobodan Pajic

Born August 16, 1943 in the ex-Yugoslavia, Slobodan Pajic arrived in Paris in 1966 to study art history at the Sorbonne, but was soon prompted to reorient himself to his own painting.

Stephen Desberg

Stephen Desberg was born in Brussels in 1954 as the third child of an American lawyer from Cleveland and a French mother who taught him French at the Sorbonne after the Liberation of Paris.

Sumana Sinha

Sumana SINHA or Shumona SINHA studied a master in modern literature at the Sorbonne.

Sylvia Constantinidis

She continued her studies in Paris at the Ecole Martenot and the Sorbonne university in Paris.

The Coronation of Napoleon

Jacques-Louis David started work on 21 December 1805 in the former chapel of the College of Cluny, near the Sorbonne, which served as a workshop.

Viktor Bunyakovsky

In 1820, he joined the count's son in traveling to a university in Coburg and subsequently to the Sorbonne in Paris to study mathematics.

X. J. Kennedy

After serving for four years as an enlisted journalist with the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet, he studied at the Sorbonne from 1955 to 56.

Zazou

The two most important meeting places of the Zazous were the terrace of the Pam Pam cafe on the Champs-Élysées and the Boul’Mich (the Boulevard Saint-Michel near the Sorbonne).

Zbigniew Bieńkowski

Bieńkowski received a one year scholarship from the Sorbonne and moved to Paris in 1938.


Aharon Shabtai

He studied Greek and philosophy in Jerusalem, at the Sorbonne and at Cambridge, and he teaches literature in Tel Aviv University.

Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi

In France he worked as a professor of Arabic poetry at the Paris 8 University and the new Sorbonne University.

Alfredo Bryce

At the Sorbonne he studied classic and modern French literature and then taught at various French schools and universities.

Amnon Barzel

Barzel earned his post-graduate degree at the University La Sorbonne in Paris, France, in Art History.

Anne Desclos

After completing her studies at the Sorbonne, she worked as a journalist until 1946 when she joined Gallimard Publishers as the editorial secretary for one of its imprints where she began using the pen name of Dominique Aury.

Antoine Faivre

Until his retirement, he held a chair in the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, University Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Haute-Normandie, director of the Cahiers del Hermétisme and of Bibliothèque de l'hermétisme, and is with Wouter Hanegraaff and Roland Edighoffer, the editor of the journal Aries.

Avro Manhattan

Born in Milan, Italy on April 6, 1914 to American and Swiss/Dutch parents of Jewish extraction, Manhattan was educated at the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics.

Bernard Salome

An economist by training, Dr. Salomé received his doctorate in Economic Development from Université Paris Sorbonne in 1984.

Carol Frost

Frost was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and later graduated from the State University of Oneonta and Syracuse University after studying at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Christian Jacq

Jacq has a doctorate in Egyptian Studies from the Sorbonne.

Cornelius Jakhelln

Cornelius has a master's degree in philosophie/lettres modernes from University of Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne and a master's degree in the philosophy of cognitive science with a minor in aesthetics from the University of Sussex.

David S. Wall

He completed a partnership with Transcrime (Università Cattolica del sacro Cuore of Milan and the University of Trento) and the CNRS, (Sorbonne, Paris) looking at "Public and Private Partnerships for Reducing Counterfeiting of Fashion Apparels and Accessories" as part of the EU Aegis Programme Framework 6.

Edmond Aman-Jean

Aman-Jean established his reputation primarily for his portraits, especially of female subjects; he was also noted for his murals in public and official buildings, including the Sorbonne.

Emmanuelle Jouannet

Jurist and philosopher, Emmanuelle Jouannet followed both program academics law and philosophy respectively at the Panthéon-Assas University and Paris-Sorbonne University.

Fanta Régina Nacro

She received her first degree in audiovisual science and techniques from INAFEC in 1986 and also earned a Master’s Degree in Film and Audiovisual Studies at the Sorbonne.

Ferdinand Brunetière

In 1886 Brunetière was appointed professor of French language and literature at the École Normale, a singular honour for one who had not passed through the academic mill; and later he presided with distinction over various conferences at the Sorbonne and elsewhere.

Franz Weber

After his studies of philosophy and linguistics at the Sorbonne University in Paris, he worked from his Paris office from 1951 until 1973.

Gaston Bachelard

He was a professor at Dijon from 1930 to 1940 and then became the inaugural chair in history and philosophy of the sciences at the Sorbonne.

Guy Quaden

In 1972, he graduated at the Ecole pratique des hautes études of the Sorbonne (Paris, France), in economic and social sciences.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Enzensberger studied literature and philosophy at the universities of Erlangen, Freiburg and Hamburg, and at the Sorbonne in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1955 for a thesis about Clemens Brentano's poetry.

Harold Lawton

After the war, he completed a Master's degree in French at the University of Wales in Bangor, and received a doctorate in Latin and French from the Sorbonne in 1926.

Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume

The Musée du Luxembourg has his Anacreon (1852), Faucheur (1855), and the marble bust of Mgr Darboy; the Versailles Museum the portrait of Thiers; the Sorbonne Library the marble bust of Victor le Clerc, doyen de la faculté des lettres.

Jemima West

She attended the Sorbonne and graduated in History of Art while taking acting classes in the evening.

John Gunther Dean

He received his doctorate in law from the Sorbonne (1949), and returned to Harvard again to obtain a graduate degree in international relations (M.A., 1950).

Kenneth J. Gergen

At various intervals he served as visiting professor at the University of Heidelberg, the University of Marburg, the Sorbonne, the University of Rome, Kyoto University, and Adolfo Ibanez University.

Lawrence Taub

Instead he went to the Sorbonne (University of Paris) to earn a certificate to teach French.

Lotta Hitschmanova

In 1932 she went to Paris where she studied political science and journalism at the Sorbonne.

Louis-Ovide Brunet

His expertise as a botanist developed following field work in Ontario and Quebec, as well as two years spent in visiting European herbaria and a course of lectures at the Sorbonne, the Jardin des Plantes, and the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, France.

Mario Prassinos

He attended the Sorbonne in Paris beginning in 1932 and briefly trained in the studio of the French painter Clement Serveau (1886-1972).

Michel Luc

From 1945, on, he studied biology in Paris at the Sorbonne, where he attended classes delivered by biologists such as Georges Mangenot in Botany and Pierre-Paul Grassé in Zoology.

Morris Jastrow, Jr.

He then spent another year in the study of Semitic languages at the Sorbonne, the Collège de France and the École des Langues Orientales Levant Vivantes.

Osip Mandelstam

In April 1908, Mandelstam decided to enter the Sorbonne in Paris to study literature and philosophy, but he left the following year to attend the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

Patriarch German of Serbia

Hranislav Đorić received a broad education and was among most educated members of the Serbian clergy, attending primary school in Velika Drenova and Kruševac, seminary in Belgrade and Sremski Karlovci (graduating in 1921), studying law in Paris' Sorbonne and finally graduating from the University of Belgrade's Orthodox Theology Faculty in 1942.

Philippe Le Corbeiller

He was trained as an engineer at the École Polytechnique (entering class of 1910), served in the French Signal Corps during World War I, worked on telegraph and radio systems, and in 1926 received a doctorate in mathematics from the Sorbonne, having written a thesis on indefinite quadratic forms under the supervision of Charles Émile Picard.

Raja Rao

He studied French language and literature, and later at the Sorbonne in Paris, he explored the Indian influence on Irish literature.

Ralph Leigh

Educated at Raine's School for Boys in Bethnal Green, Queen Mary College, London, and the University of Paris (Sorbonne), he served in the British Army during the Second World War from 1941, was commissioned as a Lieutenant in 1942, promoted Major, 1944, and returned to civilian life in 1946, when he was appointed a lecturer in the Department of French at the University of Edinburgh.

Rubén Marshall Tikalova

In France he had the opportunity to study French language and civilization at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Salvador Arango

In 1990 was invited by International Art Connection to represent Colombia in a major exhibition of visual arts International Des Createurs Laura La Chapelle de la Sorbonne in Paris.

Thierry Cassuto

He studied at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris and at Boston University, where he graduated with a Master of Science in Broadcasting.

Thomas Elsaesser

In 1963 Elsaesser left Germany for the United Kingdom, where he studied English literature at the University of Sussex (1963–1966); after receiving his B.A. degree there, he spent a year at the Sorbonne in Paris (1967–68).

Thomas Strickland

Thomas John Francis Strickland known as Abbe Strickland (1679?–1740), bishop of Namur and doctor of the Sorbonne

Toulouse 1 University Capitole

Toulouse 1 University Capitole was the second university created in France in 1229 after the Sorbonne was founded (around the year 1200).

Yunnan University

The president of Yunnan University had a PhD from the Sorbonne.

Yves Gérard

From 1955 to 1956 he studied at the Sorbonne under composer, musicologist and theoretician Jacques Chailley.