The Ottomans were quick to fix the university issue of Constantinople.
Hmmm it’s a fun map. But it kinda rubs me a bit wrong that a place like Greece, just from this map seems, to have started high level education and science in the 19th century. Meanwhile every great philosophical school of the old world was somewhere in Greece (Pythagorean, Aristotelian, Stoic, Epicurean…).
Edit: I didn’t see the part about “still operating”, I went just by the post title. My bad.
You think 1000 is old but then look at Northern Africa 🙂 back to 7th century
Cambridge University = 1209.
Jagiellonian University was funded in 1364 by Kazimierz the great
The Kaliningrad State University named after Kant was founded in 1544 as Albertus-Universität Königsberg so this is the oldest university in Russia.
Weird map:
There are at least two Universities that can compete with Lviv one for called oldest:
Ostroh Academy / National University Ostroh Academy was founded in 1576. Yeah, the original Ostroh Academy didn’t make it till our days, but Lviv University also was closed a few times during its lifetime.
The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy was founded in 1632 and got “academy” status in 1658. And again it’s older than Lviv University.
This map doesn’t make sense then.
So, I’m guessing, they mean universities that are still open, otherwise the oldest one in Slovakia would be Universitas Istropolitana founded in 1465.
And Hungary would have two that are even older.
University pf Copenhagen was founded 1479 not 1475. I know this since I have studied at Uppsala which is the oldest university in Scandinavia.
Krakow 1364*
Heidelberg 1386*
Wouldn’t be surprised if not more are incorrect
Weren’t there universities in classical Greece?
Also there must’ve been some kind of higher education in the Roman Empire.
Meanwhile oldest university in the US is only from 1636. Newbies.
What do I have to do to start a university? Is there some international rule when my school is considered a university?
Some history about what is now University of Helsinki:
It was founded in Turku as Royal Academy of Åbo in 1640, offering degrees in Swedish and Latin. After Finland was transferred to Russian rule in 1809 it was first renamed as Imperial Academy of Åbo, and then relocated to Finland’s new capital Helsinki in 1828, and renamed Imperial Alexander University in Finland. It was also under direct authority of the emperor, rather than Finnish senate or General Governor.
In 1858 the university added Finnish as third language of teaching alongside Latin and Swedish, and today it’s the only university in Finland that offers degrees in both Finnish and Swedish (there are also two completely Swedish language unis in Finland). The current name was University of Helsinki was adopted after Finland’s independence.
Turku became a university city again when Åbo Akademi and University of Turku were founded in 1918 and 1920.
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[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation) for most of them.
Updated due to an error.
The Ottomans were quick to fix the university issue of Constantinople.
Hmmm it’s a fun map. But it kinda rubs me a bit wrong that a place like Greece, just from this map seems, to have started high level education and science in the 19th century. Meanwhile every great philosophical school of the old world was somewhere in Greece (Pythagorean, Aristotelian, Stoic, Epicurean…).
Edit: I didn’t see the part about “still operating”, I went just by the post title. My bad.
You think 1000 is old but then look at Northern Africa 🙂 back to 7th century
Cambridge University = 1209.
Jagiellonian University was funded in 1364 by Kazimierz the great
The Kaliningrad State University named after Kant was founded in 1544 as Albertus-Universität Königsberg so this is the oldest university in Russia.
Weird map:
There are at least two Universities that can compete with Lviv one for called oldest:
Ostroh Academy / National University Ostroh Academy was founded in 1576. Yeah, the original Ostroh Academy didn’t make it till our days, but Lviv University also was closed a few times during its lifetime.
The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy was founded in 1632 and got “academy” status in 1658. And again it’s older than Lviv University.
This map doesn’t make sense then.
So, I’m guessing, they mean universities that are still open, otherwise the oldest one in Slovakia would be Universitas Istropolitana founded in 1465.
And Hungary would have two that are even older.
University pf Copenhagen was founded 1479 not 1475. I know this since I have studied at Uppsala which is the oldest university in Scandinavia.
Krakow 1364*
Heidelberg 1386*
Wouldn’t be surprised if not more are incorrect
Weren’t there universities in classical Greece?
Also there must’ve been some kind of higher education in the Roman Empire.
Meanwhile oldest university in the US is only from 1636. Newbies.
What do I have to do to start a university? Is there some international rule when my school is considered a university?
Some history about what is now University of Helsinki:
It was founded in Turku as Royal Academy of Åbo in 1640, offering degrees in Swedish and Latin. After Finland was transferred to Russian rule in 1809 it was first renamed as Imperial Academy of Åbo, and then relocated to Finland’s new capital Helsinki in 1828, and renamed Imperial Alexander University in Finland. It was also under direct authority of the emperor, rather than Finnish senate or General Governor.
In 1858 the university added Finnish as third language of teaching alongside Latin and Swedish, and today it’s the only university in Finland that offers degrees in both Finnish and Swedish (there are also two completely Swedish language unis in Finland). The current name was University of Helsinki was adopted after Finland’s independence.
Turku became a university city again when Åbo Akademi and University of Turku were founded in 1918 and 1920.