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100 unusual facts about university of Paris


Adrien Houngbédji

He earned a Doctorate in Law from the University of Paris in 1967 and graduated the same year from the French National School of Magistrate, first in his class.

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

Bachelor of Arts, Department of Sociology at the University of Sorbonne, France, in 1979.

Al-Ghazali

In addition, Aquinas' interest in Islamic studies could be attributed to the infiltration of ‘Latin Averroism’ in the 13th century, especially at the University of Paris.

Alexandru Odobescu

After attending Saint Sava College and, from 1850, a Paris lycée, he took the baccalauréat in 1853 and studied literature and archaeology at the University of Paris, graduating two years later.

Alfred Binet

A job presented itself for Binet in 1891 at the Laboratory of Physiological Psychology at the Sorbonne.

Alfredo Bryce

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

Alice Parizeau

Following the war Poznańska went to Paris to study at the Sorbonne, earning degrees in literature, law and political science.

Amina Said

Said was born to a Tunisian father and a French mother and has been living in Paris since 1978 where she studied Literature at the Sorbonne.

Arnold of Selenhofen

He studied at the University of Paris and became the treasurer of the archdiocese of Mainz, then provost of the cathedral.

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.

Bailli

The cathedral schools and the University of Paris provided the clerks and lawyers who served as the king's baillis.

Burhan Doğançay

While enrolled at the University of Paris in 1953 from where he obtained a doctorate degree in economics, he attended from 1950 until 1955 art courses at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.

Cambridge University Law Society

The Society also offers students a chance to go on foreign exchange trips each year, currently through the Leiden Exchange (with Leiden University) and the Paris Exchange (with the University of Paris).

Carlos Mendoza Davis

He earned a law degree with honors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1992, for which he wrote the thesis Human rights and their protection in Mexican constitutional law. In 1994 he attended the Institute of International and Comparative Law summer school in France, sponsored by the Cornell Law School and the University of Paris.

Catholic University of the West

1229: During a crisis with the University of Paris, some students and faculty came to the Episcopalian school system of Angers.

Charles Korvin

The Hungarian actor (born Géza Korvin Kárpáthy) moved to the United States in 1940 after studying at the Sorbonne.

Christian Gourieroux

Mr. Gourieroux spends six months from every year teaching at the University of Toronto, and the other half of his year teaching at the Center of Research in Economics and Statistics in France, at the University of Paris and the "Paris Graduate School of Economics, Statistics and Finance" (ENSAE Paris Tech).

Claude Goudimel

Few details of his life are known until he is documented in Paris in 1549, where he was studying at the University of Paris; in that year he also published a book of chansons.

Conrad of Megenberg

He studied at Erfurt and the University of Paris; at the latter university he obtained the degree of Master of Arts, and he taught philosophy and theology at the University of Paris for several years.

Constantino Tsallis

In 1974, he received a Doctorat d'Etat et Sciences Physiques degree from the University of Paris-Orsay.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

After attending the all-girls' Baldwin School and Bryn Mawr College (1918–1919) and studying theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris, she began her career on the stage in 1921.

Council for Maintaining the Occupations

The Council for Maintaining the Occupations (French: Conseil pour le Maintien des Occupations), or CMDO, was a revolutionary committee formed during the May 1968 events in France originating in the Sorbonne.

Cù Huy Hà Vũ

Vu graduated with a doctorate in law from France's University of Paris, though he did not become a licensed lawyer in Vietnam.

Dale Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours

He was educated at Keswick School and at The Sorbonne, Paris, and became Managing Director of a clock and metal component manufacturing company.

Darko Matijašević

He also has a master's degree in modern transatlantic relations from the University of Paris.

Doudou Diène

Diène holds a law degree from the University of Caen (France), a doctorate in public law from the University of Paris, a diploma in political science from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris, and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws degree from the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill, Barbados)

Eric Heinze

After receiving his Licence and Maîtrise from the Université de Paris, Heinze enrolled as a DAAD scholar at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Esther de Pommery

h.c. International Medical Association.She studied Obstetrics at the University of Bern and Archaeology in the University of Paris.

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.

Georges Sagnac

While still a lab assistant at the Sorbonne, he was one of the first people in France to study X-rays, following Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

Gerald Stern

He did post-graduate study at the University of Paris in 1949-50 and spent his twenties living in and traveling between New York City and Europe.

Gianni Rufini

He is lecturer of humanitarian aid at the universities of Paris Sorbonne (DESS), Madrid (Carlos III), Washington (American University), Brussels (ULB), the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, Legon (Ghana), John Cabot University and others.

Giant magnetoresistance

GMR was discovered in 1988 independently by the groups of Albert Fert of the University of Paris-Sud, France, and Peter Grünberg of Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.

Gilbert of Sempringham

Gilbert was born at Sempringham, near Bourne in Lincolnshire, the son of Jocelin, an Anglo-Norman lord of the manor, who unusually for that period, actively prevented his son from becoming a knight, instead sending him to the University of Paris to study theology.

Guy Quaden

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

Hendrik Elias

Elias was a noted academic, holding doctorates in both Law and Philosophy from studies at the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Paris and the University of Bonn before serving in a number of leading roles in both academia and the law.

Henry Fitzsimon

Going to the University of Paris, he became a zealous protagonist of Protestantism, "with the firm intention to have died for it, if need had been".

Henry Hu

He earned a Doctor of Philosophy and a Diploma of High Studies in International Law and International Affairs from the University of Paris.

Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff

Matthews was educated at the University of Paris, graduating in 1844, before going on to study at the University of London, from which he graduated successively BA and LLB.

Herschel Leibowitz

He studied at the Sorbonne after his military service, and then resumed his studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

J. M. A. Hannan

University of Paris, France - Visiting scientist in the Laboratory de Physiopathologie de la Nutrition, University of Paris, CNRS URA 0307, Paris 7, 2 Place Jussieu, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France under a Fellowship Program of International Program in the Chemical Sciences (IPICS) (February 1999 to October 1999).

Jacques Friedel

He graduated from the University of Paris with a Licence ès sciences degree in 1948, then studied at the Metallurgy Laboratory of the School of Mines with Charles Crussard.

Javivi

He worked as a social worker in Madrid Council and he later went back to Paris where he received a Ph.D degree in Sorbonne.

Jean Baptiste Michel Bucquet

Bucquet taught a private course in chemistry in his own laboratory prior to becoming professor of chemistry and natural history in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Paris.

Jean Escarra

Jean Escarra (Paris, 1885- Paris, 1955), French legal scholar, consultant of the Chinese government and professor at the Faculté de Droit de Paris.

Jean Jacques Moreau

Moreau received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Paris, then became a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Jean Moréas

He received a French education, and went to Paris in 1875 to study law at the University of Paris.

Jean Passerat

He studied at the University of Paris, and is said to have had some curious adventures at one time working in a mine.

Jean-Jacques Hublin

After being hired as a researcher with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1981 and working in different departments at the University of Paris, the National Natural History Museum in Paris, and the CNRS, Hublin became Director of Research at the CNRS.

Jeremy Coller

He also took the Diplome Cours de Civilisation at the Sorbonne.

Jil Caplan

She studied modern literature at the Sorbonne and theatre at the Cours Florent, where she met Jay Alanski, producer and composer of the most influential pop songs of the 1980s.

Johann Reuchlin

Reuchlin's career as a scholar appears to have turned almost on an accident; his fine voice gained him a place in the household of Charles I, Margrave of Baden, and soon, having some reputation as a Latinist, he was chosen to accompany Frederick, the third son of the prince, to the University of Paris.

Johann von Aldringen

After travelling as page to a nobleman in France, Italy and the Netherlands, he went to the University of Paris.

John the Fearless

He did not overlook, however, the importance of the middle class of merchants and tradesman or the University of Paris.

Katharina Rapp

After completing her high school education there, she went to Paris to study at the Sorbonne, then moved to London where she met her husband.

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri

Apart from his statesmanship, he had tenured as a professor at the University of Paris and University of Nice in France, and in 2008, he assumed the professorship as a professor of political science as well as the executive directorship of the Beaconhouse National University (BNU).

King's College, Aberdeen

As a former professor at the University of Paris, Elphinstone modelled the university very much on the continental European tradition.

Konstantin Kisimov

Naturally Konstantin followed his example and started studying law in the Sofia University and then in the Sorbonne.

Krzysztof Warlikowski

He studied history, philosphy and Romance languages at Jagiellonian University and also philosophy, French language and literature at at École Pratique Des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne.

Lawrence H. Cohn

He was awarded an honorary Masters of Medicine from Harvard in 1989 and a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Paris in 1992.

Lotta Hitschmanova

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

Maxine Swann

She pursued her graduate studies at the Sorbonne, Université de Paris VII, earning her master's degree in 1997 with a thesis on the style of Marcel Proust.

Midhat J. Gazalé

Midhat Gazalé (born 22 July 1929, Alexandria) is an international telecommunications and space consultant and a visiting Professor of Telecommunications and Computer Management at the University of Paris IX.

Monique Barbut

Barbut obtained her Master of Philosophy in Economics and Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Paris.

Nedim Gürsel

After graduating from Galatasaray High School in 1970, he studied at the Sorbonne.

Newdigate-Reed House

The building was purchased by the Bierbower family in the late 19th century and sold to Stanley Forman Reed in 1910, Reed having just completed his law studies at at a number of Universities including Yale University, the University of Virginia, Columbia University and the University of Paris.

Nicolae Penescu

Admitted to the bar in 1921, he received his legal doctorate from the University of Paris in 1923.

Nigel de Longchamps

He then goes to Paris to study, but makes no progress there, being unable to remember the city's name after eight years of study.

Olivier Père

Born in 1971 in Marseilles, a French national, Olivier Père graduated with a degree in Humanities at the University of Sorbonne (Paris IV).

Osman Nuri Eralp

He—for to continue studying for a post-graduate qualification—attended Sorbonne and Pasteur Institute.

Pascal Le Deunff

Pascal Le Deunff obtained a Master Degree in International Economy and a Doctorate in Economics at the University of Paris (Nanterre).

Pascal Lissouba

He gained his education at the Lycee Felix Faure in Nice (1948–52), the École Supérieure d'Agriculture in Tunis and the University of Paris (1958–61).

Patrick Boyle, 10th Earl of Glasgow

The son of the 9th Earl of Glasgow and Dorothea Lyle, he was educated at Eton College, Berkshire and at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Paul Einzig

He took a degree in Doctor of Political and Economic Sciences at the University of Paris from 1921 to 1923.

Peng Ming-min

After receiving his bachelor’s degree, Peng went on to pursue a Master’s degree at the Institute of International Air Law at the McGill University in Montreal, later a doctoral degree in law at the University of Paris in 1954.

Photinos Panas

He was the first professor of ophthalmology at the University of Paris, and in 1879 established the ophthalmology clinic at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.

Pierre Akendengué

In 1986, he received a doctorate from the University of Paris for his study of religion and education among the Nkomi.

Pierre Mazeaud

Pierre Mazeaud has a doctorate in law from the University of Paris (on marriage and the condition of the married woman in ancient Rome).

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

This commission was followed by works at the Sorbonne, namely the enormous hemicycle, The Sacred Grove or L'Ancienne Sorbonne amongst the muses in the Grand Amphitheater of the Sorbonne.

Pierre Victor Auger

He then joined the physical chemistry laboratory of the faculté des sciences of the University of Paris under the direction of Jean Perrin to work there on the photoelectric effect.

Qubilah Shabazz

She left Princeton after two semesters and moved to Paris, where she studied at the Sorbonne and worked as a translator.

R. Nicholas Burns

He is a 1978 graduate of Boston College where he earned a B.A. in History concentrating on European History and the Certificat Pratique de Langue Française during his junior year at the University of Paris (Sorbonne).

Roger M. Milgrim

He did graduate comparative law studies at NYU and the University of Paris School of Law as a Ford Foundation Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar.

Ruby Cohn

After the war she returned to Europe and competed a doctoral degree at the University of Paris.

Russell T. Osguthorpe

He was previously a visiting faculty member at the University of Toronto, the University of Paris and a member of the faculty of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, New York.

Rutebeuf

His chief topics are the iniquities of the friars, and the defence of the secular clergy of the University of Paris against their encroachments; and he delivered a series of eloquent and insistent poems (1262, 1263, 1268, 1274) exhorting princes and people to take part in the Crusades.

Sarah Biasini

She studied art history at the Sorbonne in Paris and theater at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles and the Actors Studio in New York City.

Serge Weinberg

Serge Weinberg was trained as a Civil Servant after graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Paris and from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Simon Stock

Challenges to the historicity of the scapular vision (and passionate defenses of it) are not a new phenomenon; a notable challenge came in 1653, from a scholar at the University of Paris, Fr.

Stanton Macdonald-Wright

Married at the age of seventeen, Macdonald-Wright moved to Paris with his wife to immerse himself in European art and to study at the Sorbonne, the Académie Julian, the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Colarossi.

Svetozar Vlajković

In 1971, Svetozar got a scholarship to study theatre researches at Sorbonne in Paris.

Théophile Nata

He studied French and literature for two years at the Higher Education Centre of Lomé, Togo, as well as at Abidjan University in Côte d'Ivoire and the Sorbonne.

University of Auvergne

The King established the University in February 1519, but following protests by Charles III of Bourbon and the University of Paris, it was closed in 1520.

Vasile Stoica

From September same year, Vasile Stoica followed the courses of Literature at Budapest University, until 1913; two semesters at University of Paris Faculty of Letters.

Vasily Fesenkov

After graduating from the Kharkov University (1911) he entered the Sorbonne, where he defended a dissertation for the Doctor of Science degree in 1914; in between he interned at the Paris, Meudon, and Nice observatories.

Vedat Dalokay

Later in 1952, he completed his post-graduate studies at the Institute of Urbanism and Urban Development of Sorbonne University in Paris, France.

Vincent A. Hoover

Hoover came to Los Angeles about the age of thirty with his mother and his father, Dr. Leonce Hoover, whose original name was Huber; the elder Huber was born in Switzerland and had studied medicine at the University of Paris.

Wilhelmina Holladay

Holladay, known as "Billie", graduated with a degree in art history from Elmira College in 1944 and also studied art at the University of Paris.

Yizhar Harari

He studied political science and journalism at the University of Paris and then law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and economics and political science in London, and was certified as a lawyer.


Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi

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

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.

Daniel Yankelovich

After attending Boston Latin School, Yankelovich graduated from Harvard University in 1946 and 1950 before completing postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne in France.

Elie Carafoli

He pursued his studies at the University of Paris, while also working at the Institut Aérotechnique in Saint-Cyr-l'École, France.

Florence Delay

The daughter of Marie-Madeleine Carrez and Jean Delay, Delay studied at the Lycée Jean de La Fontaine and then the Sorbonne.

Françoise Pommaret

She received her MA in the history of art and archeology from the Sorbonne and completed her studies in Tibetan at INALCO.

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.

Imanol Ordorika Sacristán

In 2004 Ordorika received the Frank Talbott Jr. Visiting University Chair from the University of Virginia and in 2006 he was awarded the Alfonso Reyes Chaire des Etudes Mexicaines by the University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle).

Jean-Jacques Bachelier

Admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1752, he founded an art school using his own means in Paris in 1765 for the artisans in the historic collège d'Autun (rue de l'école de médecine), which survived until the 19th century.

John of Schoonhoven

After a philosophical education at the University of Paris he entered the convent of the regular canons at Groenendaal near Brussels (circa 1377), where he met John of Ruysbroeck.

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.

Lycée Rochambeau

As of the 2012-2013 school year, students have gone on to attend McGill University, the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Sciences Po Paris, Stanford University, USC, University of Michigan, University College London, various faculties at the University of Paris and elsewhere.

Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature

The chair was endowed by an arms trader, Basil Zaharoff, in Foch's honour; he also endowed a post in English literature at the University of Paris in honour of the British general Earl Haig.

Neagu Djuvara

He attended lycée in Nice, France, and graduated in Letters (1937) and Law (1940) from the University of Paris (his Law thesis dealt with the antisemitic legislation passed by the governments of King Carol II in Romania).

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.

Passi

The group's first album, Pourquoi tant de haine?, was released in 1992, and Passi was forced to end his agronomy studies at the University of Paris (Nanterre) to be able to focus on music.

Peter of Corbeil

Peter of Corbeil (died June 3, 1222), born at Corbeil, was a preacher and canon of Nôtre Dame de Paris, a scholastic philosopher and master of theology at the University of Paris, ca 1189.

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.

Pierre Capretz

A graduate of the University of Paris, he began teaching French in 1949 at the University of Florida and joined the faculty of Yale University in 1956, eventually becoming Director of the Language Laboratory and then Director of the Language Development Studio.

Pierre Juneau

After graduating from the Université de Montréal, he studied at the University of Paris where he met Pierre Trudeau, with whom he co-founded the dissident political magazine Cité Libre upon returning to Montreal.

Schahan Berberian

The first job of the fifteen-year-old young man was to teach literature and natural sciences at his alma mater but in 1908, he left for Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France, taking classes in philosophy and metaphysics with Henri Bergson, psychology with Georges Dumas and sociology with Émile Durkheim, thus receiving a thorough education in the liberal arts and obtaining a diploma to teach philosophy.

Shmuel Merlin

At the break of World War II he made his way to Paris, where he studied social sciences and history at the University of Paris, and from there to the United States, where he was active in creating committees of support for the Irgun and edited the English language weekly Answer for the “Hebrew Committee for the Liberation of the Nation”.

Soo K. Chan

He has taught in several international architectural schools including National University of Singapore, Syracuse University and has also lectured at Tamsui University, Taipei, University of Paris and Notre Dame University.

Sorbon

It was the birthplace of Robert de Sorbon, (1201–1274), who was a chaplain and Confessor to King Louis IX of France, as well as the founder of the Sorbonne, the University of Paris.

STB Le Havre

In 1955, Claude Josephau carried Le Havre all the way to the French Cup semifinals where the club lost to Paris University Club, 55-50, in front of a crowd of 1,200.

Tancred Tancredi

They oversaw his extensive education, sending him first to the University of Bologna and thence to Paris, where he received his doctorate.

Wu Yee-sun

Many of these he donated to public institutions in Europe and North America, including the Seventh University of Paris (France, five trees in c.1982), Montreal Botanical Garden (Canada, thirty trees in 1985, over twenty more in 1987), and the Sun Yat Sen Park in Vancouver (Canada).

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

After mastering Talmudic studies at a young age, Yitzhak went on to attend the Sorbonne and then later the University of London, where he received his doctorate.

Yves Manglou

During this same period Manglou also obtained a maîtrise in Human Sciences at the University of Paris, Val-de-Marne - a foreshadowing of experienced-based learning, which was later formalized in France as Validation des Acquis de l'Experience.