The University of Warsaw (Uniwersytet Warszawski, Latin: Universitas Varsoviensis) was founded as a Royal University on 19 November 1816, when the partitions of Poland separated Warsaw from the oldest and most influential Jagiellonian University of Kraków.
Czar Alexander I granted permission for the establishment of five faculties – law and political science, medicine, philosophy, theology and the humanities.
Warsaw? Damn, sounds like an intense military school. Where we turn humans into war machines.
Interesting that it’s so young. Heck, the University of Helsinki was founded 1640…
I thought after Napoleon’s fall in 1815 the Duchy of Warsaw fell back into Russian hands. They still promoted university?
Ah yes, 1816 a year without summer.
Frederic Chopin’s alma mater!
It looks good on the outside, but honestly, not so great in the inside. IMO
My Alma mater. It has really troubled history, established in 1816 and closed after failed November Uprising in 1831. It was reactivated in 1857 as Medical Academy, and in 1862 as Main School – in both cases not as university per se. It was closed again in 1869 after failed January Uprising. And in its place Imperial University was established, the whole teaching was conducted in Russian. Russian University was closed in 1915, and German occupational forces reactivated Polish University. Which was closed again in 1939 but the teaching was conducted underground. During the war 60% of buildings was destroyed together with80% of collected books and other materials. Many professors and students was killed. In 1945 the University was reestablished again this time as a center of stalinist “teaching”.
Turnes out they’re so young together with our Kharkiv’s one (1804). Once I’ve checked the oldest Bologna and Oxford were 600 years old at that time.
A beautiful university at a great location. Confession: I once visited for a meeting in a really fancy meeting room, wooden floors, thick carpets, old furnitures and a bust of Chopin right outside the door. Sitting by the massive oak table I leaned against the old chair the wrong way and broke one of its legs. I was too ashamed to mention it so I just sat very still and balanced on three legs for the rest of the meeting. I guess it it not the worst damage a visiting Swede has done in Poland, but still.
Such a beautiful place
My alma mater 💚 So many good and funny memories.
Any idea what the building was used for during ww2?
Good to know
Idk why but I liked Józef Piłsudski University of Warsaw name more.
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The University of Warsaw (Uniwersytet Warszawski, Latin: Universitas Varsoviensis) was founded as a Royal University on 19 November 1816, when the partitions of Poland separated Warsaw from the oldest and most influential Jagiellonian University of Kraków.
Czar Alexander I granted permission for the establishment of five faculties – law and political science, medicine, philosophy, theology and the humanities.
Warsaw? Damn, sounds like an intense military school. Where we turn humans into war machines.
Interesting that it’s so young. Heck, the University of Helsinki was founded 1640…
I thought after Napoleon’s fall in 1815 the Duchy of Warsaw fell back into Russian hands. They still promoted university?
Ah yes, 1816 a year without summer.
Frederic Chopin’s alma mater!
It looks good on the outside, but honestly, not so great in the inside. IMO
My Alma mater. It has really troubled history, established in 1816 and closed after failed November Uprising in 1831. It was reactivated in 1857 as Medical Academy, and in 1862 as Main School – in both cases not as university per se. It was closed again in 1869 after failed January Uprising. And in its place Imperial University was established, the whole teaching was conducted in Russian. Russian University was closed in 1915, and German occupational forces reactivated Polish University. Which was closed again in 1939 but the teaching was conducted underground. During the war 60% of buildings was destroyed together with80% of collected books and other materials. Many professors and students was killed. In 1945 the University was reestablished again this time as a center of stalinist “teaching”.
Turnes out they’re so young together with our Kharkiv’s one (1804). Once I’ve checked the oldest Bologna and Oxford were 600 years old at that time.
A beautiful university at a great location. Confession: I once visited for a meeting in a really fancy meeting room, wooden floors, thick carpets, old furnitures and a bust of Chopin right outside the door. Sitting by the massive oak table I leaned against the old chair the wrong way and broke one of its legs. I was too ashamed to mention it so I just sat very still and balanced on three legs for the rest of the meeting. I guess it it not the worst damage a visiting Swede has done in Poland, but still.
Such a beautiful place
My alma mater 💚 So many good and funny memories.
Any idea what the building was used for during ww2?
Good to know
Idk why but I liked Józef Piłsudski University of Warsaw name more.