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100 unusual facts about University of Paris


A. C. Cuza

Born in Iaşi, Cuza attended secondary school in his native city and in Dresden, then studied law at the University of Paris, the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, and the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

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.

Alexandros Skourletis

In the early 1920s, Alexandros moved to France where he studied Law and Political Science 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.

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.

Arnold of Selenhofen

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

Bailli

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

Barry S. Brook

Brook received his masters’ degree from Columbia University, where he studied with Paul Henry Lang, Erich Hertzmann (1902–1963), Hugh Ross, and Roger Sessions, in 1942; he received the doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1959.

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.

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).

Christian Jacq

Jacq has a doctorate in Egyptian Studies from the Sorbonne.

Clement of Ireland

Though St. Clement is no longer claimed as founder of the University of Paris, the fact remains that this remarkable Scots-Irish scholar planted the seeds of learning at Paris.

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.

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.

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.

David C. Turnley

A fluent speaker of French and Spanish, he is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and has studied at the Sorbonne and Harvard University.

Dominique Senequier

She holds a postgraduate degree in Banking and Monetary Economics from the University of Sorbonne, and is a former director of Hewlett-Packard, having resigned in March 2012.

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.

Ernst Boepple

Then he studied languages and history at several universities: University of Tübingen, University of Paris, University of Oxford, and the

Esther de Pommery

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

Françoise Pommaret

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

Franklin Martins

Martins lived in Cuba, Chile and France, where he graduated at the École de Sciences Sociales of 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 de Rham

He studied at the University of Lausanne and then in Paris for a doctorate, becoming a lecturer in Lausanne in 1931; where he held positions until retirement in 1971; he held positions in Geneva in parallel.

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.

Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers

Nothing is known of his early years or his musical training except that he may have received a degree from the University of Paris.

Habibollah Hedayat

Upon finishing his medical internship in Tehran’s Women’s Hospital, he performed his military service for one year in the Iranian Army Health Services and then departed for France in 1948 to attend medical school at the University of Paris.

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.

Hazel Carby

Carby has lectured at numerous colleges and universities worldwide including Columbia University, Stanford University, the University of Paris, and University of Toronto.

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.

Jacques Brault

He was born to a poor family, but received an excellent education at the Université de Montréal and at the Sorbonne in Paris.

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 Dorst

Dorst was born at Mulhouse and studied biology and paleontology at the Faculty of Sciences of 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 Herly

He studied law at the University of Paris, and stayed at the diplomatic school of the French government.

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.

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 von Aldringen

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

John Curl

He attended CCNY, with a semester at the Sorbonne, and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature.

Karl Rawer

From 1958 to 1964 he was professeur associe at the University of Paris.

Kate Chappell

She also attended the Sorbonne and the University of Southern Maine, where she graduated summa cum laude in 1983 with an A.B. in Communications after an 18-year hiatus from college.

Kate Kretz

Kretz attended the Sorbonne in Paris, and obtained a BFA in drawing and painting from Binghamton University, and was accepted into the Hoffberger School of Painting, but attended and earned an MFA from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA.

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.

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.

Lisandro Otero

Graduating with degrees of Journalism and Philosophy and Letters in 1954 at the Havana University, he also studied at The Sorbonne in Paris.

Lotta Hitschmanova

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

Lucia Ronchetti

In 1991 she received a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (D.E.A.) in aesthetics from the University of Paris I-Sorbonne.

Luis Núñez Astrain

He has a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Sociology from the Sorbonne.

Lynn Rainbow

Lynn Rainbow is an Australian-based theatre and television actor who was educated at Ascham School, The Sorbonne and Dante Alighieri in Italy.

M’Baye Babacar Cissé

He graduated from the University of Paris IX Dauphine, France with a master's degree in finance and a diploma in management.

Maurice Lebel

In 1931, he received a Diplôme d'Études Supérieures in language and classical literature from 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.

Nathan Alterman

When he was 19 years old, he travelled to Paris to study at the University of Paris (a.k.a. La Sorbonne), but a year later he decided to go to Nancy to study agronomy.

Nedim Gürsel

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

Nguyen Xuan Vinh

In 1972, he was awarded a national doctorate in Mathematics by the University of Paris, France.

Nicolae Penescu

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

Niède Guidon

Guidon holds a degree in Natural History from the University of São Paulo and a doctorate in Archaeology from the Sorbonne in Paris, France.

Nigel de Gruchy

He attended the University of Paris during May 1968 to gain a Certificate Pratique de Langue Française.

Noël Mitrani

A graduate of History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne, and for some time a press illustrator, Noël Mitrani entered cinema as a writer.

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).

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).

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.

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.

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 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).

Richard Attias

He completed his studies in civil engineering at the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Toulouse, and earned a masters in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Paris.

Richard Rolle

One theory is that Rolle spent the early 1320s at the renowned Sorbonne, becoming well-trained in theology, and perhaps being ordained there.

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.

Ronald Savin

He holds double bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry and Literature from University of Michigan, with postgraduate studies at Columbia University and the University of Paris (Sorbonne).

Ruby Cohn

In January 1953 while a student at the Sorbonne she attended the first public performance of En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot), by a then obscure Irish-born dramatist, Samuel Beckett.

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.

Scott Symons

Born into a wealthy family, he attended a number of private schools, the University of Toronto, Cambridge University and the Sorbonne.

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”.

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.

Tafsir Malick Ndiaye

After receiving his first diploma from the Institute of Advanced International Studies of the University of Paris (and being first in his year, 1980), he received a postgraduate diploma in Public Law, specializing in public international law, from the Paris X University Nanterre as well (cum laude, first in year, 1980).

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.

Victor Anatolyevich Vassiliev

He has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris VII, and at the Mathematical Science Research Institute (MSRI) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Vladimir Perišić

From 1995 to 97 he studied film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, from 1997-99 Modern Literature at the University of Paris.

Well-formed Petri net

Well-formed Petri nets are a Petri net class jointly elaborated between the University of Paris 6 (Université P. & M. Curie) and the University of Torino in the early 1990s.

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.

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.

Yōichi Masuzoe

He was an academic assistant at the University of Tokyo from 1971, and later spent several years in Europe as a research fellow at the University of Paris (1973-75) and University of Geneva (1976-78).


Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi

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

Ahmed Shawqi

After a year working in the court of the Khedive, Shawqi was sent to continue his studies in Law at the Universities of Montpellier and Paris for three years.

Ahmet Taner Kışlalı

He got his PhD on "Çağdaş Türkiye'de Siyasal Güçler" (Political Powers in Contemporary Turkey) from the University of Paris, Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science.

Alfredo Bryce

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

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.

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.

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.

Emmanuel Mounier

Mounier, who was the child of peasants, was a brilliant scholar 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.

Gilles de Roye

He was afterwards professor of theology in Paris and abbot of the monastery of Royaumont at Asnières-sur-Oise, retiring about 1458 to the convent of Notre Dame des Dunes (Ten Duinen) at Koksijde, near Veurne, and devoting his time to study.

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.

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".

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 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-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.

Jorie Graham

She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, but was expelled for participating in student protests.

Julie Dreyfus

She started learning Japanese in 1985 at the Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilization at the University of Paris, after studying interior design and becoming interested in Japanese architecture.

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).

Mr. John

Born John Pico Harberger in Munich, Germany, Mr. John studied medicine at University of Lucerne, and art at the Sorbonne.

Olivier Long

Besides having studied in London and Harvard, he had a Doctor of Laws from the University of Paris and Doctor of Political Science from the University of Geneva.

Paul Einzig

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.