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100 unusual facts about University of Paris


Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi

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

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.

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.

Andrei Nekrasov

He studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Paris, taking a master's degree, and film at Bristol University Film School.

Arnold of Selenhofen

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

Barbu Bălcescu

Born in Bălceşti, Vâlcea County, he attended the Law faculties of the Saint Sava College and of the University of Paris; his thesis was on the inalienability of property gained through dowries.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Constantin Argetoianu

Born in Craiova as the son of Army general Ioan Argetoianu, he trained in Law, Medicine, and Letters at the University of Paris, and later entered the diplomatic service (1897).

Constantino Tsallis

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

Cornelius van Zierikzee

John Richardson, a graduate of the University of Paris, was a Scot; they were received with enthusiasm by all classes.

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.

Darko Matijašević

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

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.

Emmanuel Mounier

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

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.

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.

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.

Franklin Martins

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

Fuad Rouhani

A quarter-century later, in the middle of a career in public service, he entered the University of Paris, receiving a doctorate in law in 1968.

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.

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.

Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi

He received his early education at Rome, and was sent to the University of Paris to pursue higher studies.

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.

Godfrey McHugh

He received a baccalaureate in science and languages from the University of Paris in 1929.

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.

Hazel Carby

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

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 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.

Henryk Arctowski

In 1888 he started studying mathematics, physics and astronomy at the University of Liège, and chemistry and geology at the Sorbonne.

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.

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 Dorst

Dorst was born at Mulhouse and studied biology and paleontology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris.

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.

Jenny Rosenthal Bramley

She attended high school in Berlin and earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Paris in 1926.

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.

Jorie Graham

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

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.

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.

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.

Lucia Ronchetti

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

Maurice-Tièche Comprehensive School

The Maurice-Tièche primary school was founded in 1936 by Maurice Tièche, a graduate from the historic University of Paris (commonly referred to as La Sorbonne).

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).

Nigel de Gruchy

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

Paul-Quentin Desains

His growing reputation won for him in 1853 the chair of physics at the Sorbonne which he held for thirty-two years.

Philip VI of France

The assemblies of the French barons and prelates and the University of Paris decided that males who derive their right to inheritance through their mother should be excluded according to Salic Law.

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 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.

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).

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.

Robert of Newminster

He studied at the University of Paris, where he is said to have composed a commentary - since lost - on the Psalms.

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).

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.

Solange Chaput-Rolland

Born in Montreal, the daughter of Émile Chaput and Rosalie Loranger, she received her education from the Couvent d'Outremont, the Sorbonne and the Institut Catholique de Paris.

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.

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.

Svetozar Vlajković

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

Syndic

Nearly all companies, guilds, and the University of Paris had representative bodies the members of which were termed syndici.

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).

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.

Tom Lubensky

He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Paris in Orsay (1969–70) and a postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University (1970–71).

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.

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.

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.

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).


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.

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.

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.

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)

Elie Carafoli

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

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.

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).

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.

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 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.

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.

Lotta Hitschmanova

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

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.

Mr. John

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

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.

Ruby Cohn

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

Scott Symons

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

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.

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.

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.