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Jagiellonian University

The Jagiellonian University (Polish: Uniwersytet Jagielloński, UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in continuous operation in the world. It is regarded as Poland's most prestigious academic institution.[3][4] The university has been viewed as a guardian of Polish culture as well as a significant contributor to the intellectual heritage of Europe.[5]

Jagiellonian University
Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Latin: Universitas Iagellonica Cracoviensis
Former names
Studium Generale (1364–1397)
Collegium Regium (1397–1400)
Collegium Maius (1400–c. late 1500s)
Kraków Academy (c. late 1500s–1777)
Principal School of the Realm (1777–1795)
Principal School of Kraków (1795–1817)
Motto
Plus ratio quam vis
Motto in English
Let reason prevail over force
TypePublic
Established1364; 659 years ago (1364)
RectorJacek Popiel
Academic staff
3,942 (2021)
Students35,517 (2021)[1]
Undergraduates16,222 (2021)[2]
Postgraduates11,014 (2021)
2,153 (2021)
Location,
Poland

Coordinates: 50°3′39″N 19°55′58″E / 50.06083°N 19.93278°E / 50.06083; 19.93278
CampusUrban/college town
AffiliationsCoimbra Group
EAIE
Europaeum
EUA
Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities
IRUN
Una Europa
Utrecht Network
Websitehttps://en.uj.edu.pl/en
Jagiellonian University
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Location of Jagiellonian University in Kraków within Poland

The campus of the Jagiellonian University is centrally located within the city of Kraków. The university consists of thirteen main faculties, in addition to three faculties composing the Collegium Medicum. It employs roughly 4,000 academics and provides education to more than 35,000 students who study in 166 fields.[5] The main language of instruction is Polish, although around 30 degrees are offered in English and some in German.[6] The university library is among the largest of its kind and houses a number of medieval manuscripts, including the landmark De Revolutionibus by alumnus Nicolaus Copernicus.

In addition to Copernicus, the university's notable alumni include heads of state King John III Sobieski, Pope John Paul II, and Andrzej Duda; Polish prime ministers Beata Szydło and Józef Cyrankiewicz; renowned cultural figures Jan Kochanowski, Stanisław Lem, and Krzysztof Penderecki; and leading intellectuals and researchers such as Hugo Kołłątaj, Bronisław Malinowski, Carl Menger, Leo Sternbach, and Norman Davies. Four Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the university, all in literature: Ivo Andrić and Wisława Szymborska, who studied there, and Czesław Miłosz and Olga Tokarczuk, who taught there.[7] Faculty and graduates of the university have been elected to the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society, the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and other honorary societies.

The Jagiellonian University is consistently ranked among the top universities in the world. The CWTS Leiden Ranking, which reviews the scientific performance of more than 1,200 global universities, has placed the university at #1 in Poland, #74 regionally, and #250 globally.[8]

History

Founding the university

 
The founding of the university in 1364, painted by Jan Matejko (1838–1893)

In the mid-14th century, King Casimir III the Great realised that the nation needed a class of educated people, especially lawyers, who could arrange a better set of the country's laws and administer the courts and offices. His efforts to found an institution of higher learning in Poland were rewarded when Pope Urban V granted him permission to set up a university in Kraków. A royal charter of foundation was issued on 12 May 1364, and a simultaneous document was issued by the city council granting privileges to the Studium Generale.

Development of the University of Kraków stalled upon the death of Casimir III, and lectures were held in various places across the city, including, amongst others, in professors' houses, churches and in the cathedral school on the Wawel Hill. It is believed that the construction of a building to house the Studium Generale began on Plac Wolnica in what is today the district of Kazimierz.

After a period of low interest and lack of funds, the institution was restored in the 1390s by Jadwiga, king of Poland, the daughter of Louis the Great. The royal couple, Jadwiga and her husband Władysław II Jagiełło decided that, instead of building new premises for the university, it would be better to buy an existing edifice; it was thus that a building on Żydowska Street, which had previously been the property of the Pęcherz family, was acquired in 1399. The Queen donated all of her personal jewellery to the university, allowing it to enroll 203 students. The faculties of astronomy, law and theology attracted eminent scholars: for example, John Cantius, Stanisław of Skarbimierz, Paweł Włodkowic, Jan of Głogów, and Albert Brudzewski, who from 1491 to 1495 was one of Nicolaus Copernicus' teachers.[9] The university was the first university in Europe to establish independent chairs in Mathematics and Astronomy. This rapid expansion in the university's faculty necessitated the purchase of larger premises in which to house them; it was thus that the building known today as the Collegium Maius, with its quadrangle and beautiful arcade, came into being towards the beginning of the 15th century. The Collegium Maius' qualities, many of which directly contributed to the sheltered, academic atmosphere at the university, became widely respected, helping the university establish its reputation as a place of learning in Central Europe.

Golden age of the Renaissance

 
The main assembly hall of the university's Collegium Maius

For several centuries, almost the entire intellectual elite of Poland was educated at the university,[citation needed] where they enjoyed particular royal favors. While it was, and largely remains, Polish students who make up the majority of the university's students, it has, over its long history, educated thousands of foreign students from countries such as Lithuania, Russia, Hungary, Bohemia, Germany, and Spain. During the second half of the 15th century, over 40 percent of students came from the outside of the Kingdom of Poland.

 
The main baroque entrance to the university's Collegium Iuridicum

The first chancellor of the university was Piotr Wysz, and the first professors were Czechs, Germans and Poles, most of them trained at the Charles University in Prague. By 1520 Greek philology was introduced by Constanzo Claretti and Wenzel von Hirschberg; Hebrew was also taught. At this time, the Collegium Maius consisted of seven reading rooms, six of which were named for the great ancient scholars: Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Galen, Ptolemy, and Pythagoras. Furthermore, it was during this period that the faculties of Law, Medicine, Theology, and Philosophy were established in their own premises; two of these buildings, the Collegium Iuridicum and Collegium Minus, survive to this day. The golden era of the University of Kraków took place during the Polish Renaissance, between 1500 and 1535, when it was attended by 3,215 students in the first decade of the 16th century, and it was in these years that the foundations for the Jagiellonian Library were set, which allowed for the addition of a library floor to the Collegium Maius. The library's original rooms in which all books were chained to their cases in order to prevent theft are no longer used as such. However, they are still occasionally open to hosting visiting lecturers' talks.

As the university's popularity, along with that of the ever more provincial Kraków's, declined in later centuries, the number of students attending the university also fell and, as such, the attendance record set in the early 16th-century wasn't surpassed until the late 18th century. This phenomenon was recorded as part of a more general economic and political decline seen in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which was suffering from the effects of poor governance and the policies of hostile neighbors at the time. In fact, despite a number of expansion projects during the late 18th century, many of the university's buildings had fallen into disrepair and were being used for a range of other purposes; in the university's archives, there is one entry which reads: 'Nobody lives in the building, nothing happens there. If the lecture halls underwent refurbishment they could be rented out to accommodate a laundry'. This period thus represents one of the darkest periods in the university's history and is almost certainly the one during which the closure of the institution seemed most imminent.

Turmoil and near closure after the partitions

After the third partition of Poland in 1795 and the ensuing Napoleonic Wars, Kraków became a free city under the protection of the Austrian Empire; this, however, was not to last long. In 1846, after the Kraków Uprising, the city and its university became part of the Austrian Empire.[10] The Austrians were in many ways hostile to the institution and, soon after their arrival, removed many of the furnishings from the Collegium Maius' Auditorium Maximum in order to convert it into a grain store. However, the threat of closure of the University was ultimately dissipated by Ferdinand I of Austria's decree to maintain it. By the 1870s the fortunes of the university had improved so greatly that many scholars had returned. The liquefaction of nitrogen and oxygen was successfully demonstrated by professors Zygmunt Wróblewski and Karol Olszewski in 1883. Thereafter the Austrian authorities took on a new role in the development of the university and provided funds for the construction of a number of new buildings, including the neo-gothic Collegium Novum, which opened in 1887.[10] It was, conversely, from this building that in 1918 a large painting of Kaiser Franz Joseph was removed and destroyed by Polish students advocating the reestablishment of an independent Polish state.[11]

 
Count Stanisław Tarnowski was, between 1871 and 1909, twice rector of the university.
 
The university around 1930

For the 500th anniversary of the university's foundation, a monument to Copernicus was placed in the quadrangle of the Collegium Maius; this statue is now to be found in the direct vicinity of the Collegium Novum, outside the Collegium Witkowskiego, to where it was moved in 1953.[12] Nevertheless, it was in the Grzegórzecka and the Kopernika areas that much of the university's expansion took place up to 1918; during this time the Collegium Medicum was relocated to a site just east of the centre, and was expanded with the addition of a number of modern teaching hospitals – this 'medical campus' remains to this day. By the late 1930s, the number of students at the university had increased dramatically to almost six thousand. Now a major centre for education in the independent Republic of Poland, the university attained government support for the purchase of building plots for new premises, as a result of which a number of residencies were built for students and professors alike. However, of all the projects begun during this era, the most important would have to be the creation of the Jagiellonian Library. The library's monumental building, construction of which began in 1931, was finally completed towards the end of the interwar period, which allowed the university's many varied literary collections to be relocated to their new home by the outbreak of war in 1939.[13]

Modern era and renovation

On November 6, 1939, following the Nazi invasion of Poland, 184 professors were arrested and deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp during an operation codenamed Sonderaktion Krakau (Special Operation Krakow). The university, along with the rest of Poland's higher and secondary education, was closed for the remainder of World War II.[14] Despite the university's reopening after the cessation of hostilities in 1945, the new government of Poland was hostile to the teachings of the pre-war university and the faculty was suppressed by the Communists in 1954.[14] By 1957 the Polish government decided that it would invest in the establishment of new facilities near Jordan Park and expansion of other smaller existing facilities. Construction work proved slow and many of the stated goals were never achieved; it was this poor management that eventually led a number of scholars to openly criticise the government for its apparent lack of interest in educational development and disregard for the university's future. A number of new buildings, such as the Collegium Paderevianum, were built with funds from the legacy of Ignacy Paderewski.

By 1989 Poland had overthrown its Communist government. In that same year, the Jagiellonian University successfully completed the purchase of its first building plot in Pychowice, Kraków, where, from 2000, construction of a new complex of university buildings, the so-called Third Campus, began. The new campus, officially named the '600th Anniversary Campus', was developed in conjunction with the new LifeScience Park, which is managed by the Jagiellonian Centre for Innovation, the university's research consortium.[15] Public funds earmarked for the project amounted to 946.5 million zlotys, or 240 million euros.[16] Poland's entry into the European Union in 2004 has proved instrumental in improving the fortunes of the Jagiellonian University, which has seen huge increases in funding from both central government and European authorities, allowing it to develop new departments, research centres, and better support the work of its students and academics.

International partnerships

The university's academic advancement in both Poland and abroad is illustrated by its widely recognized research achievements. The scientists and physicians from the Collegium Medicum carry out pioneer studies, e.g. in cardiac surgery, urology and neurology, often leading to the development of novel treatment methods.[17] Their findings have been published in international journals such as European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, and The Lancet. UJ archaeologists lead explorations of ancient sites in various parts of the world, including Egypt, Cyprus, Central America, South Asia and Altay.[18] The astronomers take part in major international projects, including H.E.S.S. and VIPERS. The work of UJ bio-technologists has been published in journals, such as Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, Molecular Ecology Resources, and European Journal of Human Genetics.

In the English-speaking world, the Jagiellonian University has international partnerships with the University of Cambridge, University of Melbourne, University of Chicago, University of California, Los Angeles, London School of Economics, University of Rochester, University of California, Irvine, Case Western Reserve University.[19] In the French-speaking world, partner universities include the Sorbonne, University of Montpellier. UJ also maintains strong academic partnership with Heidelberg University, Germany's oldest university.[20] The Jagiellonian University offers specializations in German law, in conjunction with Heidelberg University and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.[21]

Other cooperation agreements exist with Charles University Prague, University of Vienna, University of Tokyo, Saint Petersburg State University, Technical University of Munich, and Free University of Berlin.[22][23]

Libraries

 
 
The Jagiellonian Library extension

The university's main library, the Jagiellonian Library (Biblioteka Jagiellońska), is one of Poland's largest, with almost 6.5 million volumes; it is a constituent of the Polish National Libraries system.[24] It is home to a world-renowned collection of medieval manuscripts,[25] which includes Copernicus' De Revolutionibus, the Balthasar Behem Codex and the Berlinka. The library also has an extensive collection of underground political literature (so-called drugi obieg or samizdat) from Poland's period of Communist rule between 1945 and 1989.

The beginning of the Jagiellonian Library is traditionally considered the same as that of the entire university – in 1364;[26] however, instead of having one central library it had several smaller branches at buildings of various departments (the largest collection was in Collegium Maius, where works related to theology and liberal arts were kept). After 1775, during the reforms of Komisja Edukacji Narodowej, which established the first Ministry of Education in the world, various small libraries of the university were formally centralised into one public collection in Collegium Maius. During the partitions of Poland, the library continued to grow thanks to the support of such people as Karol Józef Teofil Estreicher and Karol Estreicher. Its collections were made public in 1812. Since 1932, it has been recognised as a legal deposit library, comparable to the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford or Cambridge University Library or Trinity College Library in Dublin, and thus has the right to receive a copy of any book issued by Polish publishers within Poland. In 1940, the library finally obtained a new building of its own, which has subsequently been expanded on two occasions, most recently in 1995–2001. During the Second World War, library workers cooperated with underground universities. Since the 1990s, the library's collection has become increasingly digitised.

In addition to the Jagiellonian Library, the university maintains a large medical library (Biblioteka Medyczna) and many other subject specialised libraries in its various faculties and institutes. Finally, the collections of the university libraries' collections are enriched by the presence of the university's archives, which date back to the university's own foundation and record the entire history of its development up to the present day.

Notable alumni

Faculties and departments

University rankings
Global – Overall
CWTS World[citation needed]250 (2022)
QS World[citation needed]293 (2023)
QS Employability[citation needed]201-250 (2022)
USNWR Global[citation needed]320 (2022)
Regional – Overall
QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[27]5 (2022)
National – Overall
CWTS National[citation needed]1 (2022)
CWUR National[citation needed]1 (2022)

The university is divided into the following faculties, which have different organisational sub-structures partly reflecting their history and partly their operational needs. Teaching and research at UJ are organised by these faculties, including a number of additional institutes:

Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum is affiliated with the following hospitals and clinics:[28]

  • University Hospital in Krakow-Prokocim[29]
  • Children's University Hospital in Krakow[30]
  • University Hospital for Orthopedics and Rehabilitation in Zakopane[31][32]
  • Dental University Clinic in Krakow[33]
  • John Paul II's Specialist Hospital in Krakow[34]

The new seat of the University Hospital has been recently opened at Prokocim in 2019, as a result of more than 1.2 billion zloty investment projects.[35] As 2022 the University Hospital in Krakow is the biggest supra-regional public hospital in Poland and comprises: 37 clinical departments, 12 diagnostic and research institutes, and 71 out-patient units.[36]

Notable professors

 
Heraldic frieze on the building of Collegium Maius depicting coats of arms of the Kraków bishops, chancellors, cardinals as well as Elizabeth of Austria, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kraków Academy

Student associations

In 1851, the university's first student scientific association was founded. In 2021, over 70 student scientific associations exist at the Jagiellonian University, most of them affiliated with Collegium Medicum. Usually, their purpose is to promote students' scientific achievements by organizing lecture sessions, science excursions, and international student conferences, such as the International Workshop for Young Mathematicians, which is organized by the Zaremba Association of Mathematicians.

The links below provide further information on student activities at the Jagiellonian:

  • University Study Oriented System (USOS)
  • Scientific Circles 2014-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
  • Ensembles

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Jagiellonian University Facts and Figures 2021". en.uj.edu.pl. Jagiellonian University. 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Dane statystyczne Uczelni as of December 31 2020". en.uj.edu.pl. Jagiellonian University. 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Study in Poland". Top Universities. 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
  4. ^ "Jagiellonian University". Times Higher Education (THE). Retrieved 2017-01-04.
  5. ^ a b "Overview - Jagiellonian University - Jagiellonian University". en.uj.edu.pl. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  6. ^ "Welcome to the Jagiellonian University - Programmes". www.en.uj.edu.pl. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  7. ^ "Study of Literature and Art at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków : Kraków Miasto Literatury UNESCO". krakowcityofliterature.com. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  8. ^ Studies (CWTS), Centre for Science and Technology. "CWTS Leiden Ranking". CWTS Leiden Ranking. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  9. ^ For a summary description of all of the set of scholars and literati who intervened in teaching at the University of Parma from its creation until 1800, see David de la Croix and Gaia Spolverini,(2022). Scholars and Literati at the University of Cracow (1364-1800).Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae/RETE. 6: 35– 42.
  10. ^ a b Waltos, Stanisław. "History". Jagiellonian University. Retrieved 2010-09-28. (in Polish)
  11. ^ "Władysła Jan Pochwalski". Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  12. ^ "Kraków - Pomnik Mikołaja Kopernika". Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  13. ^ "Dzieje Biblioteki Jagiellońskiej". Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  14. ^ a b Weigel, George (2001). Witness of Hope – The Biography of Pope John Paul II. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-018793-4.
  15. ^ "Campus of the Sixcentenary". Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  16. ^ "Campus of the Sixcentenary". Retrieved 2010-09-28.
  17. ^ empressia. "Centrum Innowacyjnych Terapii". Szpital Uniwersytecki w Krakowie (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  18. ^ "Wydawnictwa - Institute of Archeology - Faculty of History". archeo.uj.edu.pl. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  19. ^ "New LSE IDEAS-Jagiellonian University Partnership". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 2020-12-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ^ Watzke, Christian. "Partneruniversitäten – International – Universität Heidelberg". www.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
  21. ^ "Schule des Deutschen Rechts —". www.law.uj.edu.pl. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
  22. ^ . Archived from the original on 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2017-01-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  23. ^ "O Dziale – Dział Współpracy Międzynarodowej Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego". Dwm.uj.edu.pl. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
  24. ^ Bętkowska, Teresa (18 May 2008). "Jagiellonian University: Cracow's Alma Mater". Warsaw Voice. Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 2010-09-28.
  25. ^ . Bj.uj.edu.pl. Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2010-09-28.
  26. ^ Visiting the Biblioteka Jagiellonska (Jagiellonian Library) in Cracow 2005-09-08 at the Wayback Machine. Last accessed on 4 May 2007.
  27. ^ "QS World University Rankings-Emerging Europe & Central Asia". Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  28. ^ "Uniwersytet Jagielloński - Collegium Medicum". www.cm-uj.krakow.pl. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  29. ^ "Szpital Uniwersytecki w Krakowie - Szpital Uniwersytecki w Krakowie". www.su.krakow.pl. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  30. ^ "Uniwersytecki Szpital Dziecięcy w Krakowie – Uniwersytecki Szpital Dziecięcy w Krakowie to największa placówka pediatryczna na południu Polski. Celem działalności jest ratowanie życia i zdrowia dzieci od pierwszego dnia życia. Wszelkie działania diagnostyczne i terapeutyczne prowadzone są w poszanowaniu praw i godności osobistej pacjenta oraz zgodnie z aktualną wiedzą medyczną" (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  31. ^ "Home". klinika.net.pl. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  32. ^ "Dział Kliniczny". dk.cm.uj.edu.pl. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  33. ^ "Uniwersytecka Klinika Stomatologiczna w Krakowie". www.uks.com.pl. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  34. ^ "Strona główna". KRAKOWSKI SZPITAL SPECJALISTYCZNY IM. JANA PAWŁA II (in Polish). 2016-02-29. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
  35. ^ "Fundusze europejskie". Szpital Uniwersytecki w Krakowie (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  36. ^ empressia. "O nas". Szpital Uniwersytecki w Krakowie (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  37. ^ "Department of Oral Health & Rehabilitation — School of Dentistry". Louisville.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-30.

External links

  • Official homepage
  • Jagiellonian University panoramic view

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University of Krakow redirects here For other institutes of higher education in Krakow see List of universities and colleges in Krakow The Jagiellonian University Polish Uniwersytet Jagiellonski UJ is a public research university in Krakow Poland Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in continuous operation in the world It is regarded as Poland s most prestigious academic institution 3 4 The university has been viewed as a guardian of Polish culture as well as a significant contributor to the intellectual heritage of Europe 5 Jagiellonian UniversityUniwersytet JagiellonskiLatin Universitas Iagellonica CracoviensisFormer namesStudium Generale 1364 1397 Collegium Regium 1397 1400 Collegium Maius 1400 c late 1500s Krakow Academy c late 1500s 1777 Principal School of the Realm 1777 1795 Principal School of Krakow 1795 1817 MottoPlus ratio quam visMotto in EnglishLet reason prevail over forceTypePublicEstablished1364 659 years ago 1364 RectorJacek PopielAcademic staff3 942 2021 Students35 517 2021 1 Undergraduates16 222 2021 2 Postgraduates11 014 2021 Doctoral students2 153 2021 LocationKrakow PolandCoordinates 50 3 39 N 19 55 58 E 50 06083 N 19 93278 E 50 06083 19 93278CampusUrban college townAffiliationsCoimbra Group EAIE Europaeum EUA Guild of European Research Intensive Universities IRUN Una Europa Utrecht NetworkWebsitehttps en uj edu pl enJagiellonian Universityclass notpageimage Location of Jagiellonian University in Krakow within PolandThe campus of the Jagiellonian University is centrally located within the city of Krakow The university consists of thirteen main faculties in addition to three faculties composing the Collegium Medicum It employs roughly 4 000 academics and provides education to more than 35 000 students who study in 166 fields 5 The main language of instruction is Polish although around 30 degrees are offered in English and some in German 6 The university library is among the largest of its kind and houses a number of medieval manuscripts including the landmark De Revolutionibus by alumnus Nicolaus Copernicus In addition to Copernicus the university s notable alumni include heads of state King John III Sobieski Pope John Paul II and Andrzej Duda Polish prime ministers Beata Szydlo and Jozef Cyrankiewicz renowned cultural figures Jan Kochanowski Stanislaw Lem and Krzysztof Penderecki and leading intellectuals and researchers such as Hugo Kollataj Bronislaw Malinowski Carl Menger Leo Sternbach and Norman Davies Four Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the university all in literature Ivo Andric and Wislawa Szymborska who studied there and Czeslaw Milosz and Olga Tokarczuk who taught there 7 Faculty and graduates of the university have been elected to the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences the Royal Society the British Academy the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and other honorary societies The Jagiellonian University is consistently ranked among the top universities in the world The CWTS Leiden Ranking which reviews the scientific performance of more than 1 200 global universities has placed the university at 1 in Poland 74 regionally and 250 globally 8 Contents 1 History 1 1 Founding the university 1 2 Golden age of the Renaissance 1 3 Turmoil and near closure after the partitions 1 4 Modern era and renovation 1 5 International partnerships 2 Libraries 3 Notable alumni 4 Faculties and departments 5 Notable professors 6 Student associations 7 See also 8 Notes and references 9 External linksHistory EditFounding the university Edit The founding of the university in 1364 painted by Jan Matejko 1838 1893 In the mid 14th century King Casimir III the Great realised that the nation needed a class of educated people especially lawyers who could arrange a better set of the country s laws and administer the courts and offices His efforts to found an institution of higher learning in Poland were rewarded when Pope Urban V granted him permission to set up a university in Krakow A royal charter of foundation was issued on 12 May 1364 and a simultaneous document was issued by the city council granting privileges to the Studium Generale Development of the University of Krakow stalled upon the death of Casimir III and lectures were held in various places across the city including amongst others in professors houses churches and in the cathedral school on the Wawel Hill It is believed that the construction of a building to house the Studium Generale began on Plac Wolnica in what is today the district of Kazimierz After a period of low interest and lack of funds the institution was restored in the 1390s by Jadwiga king of Poland the daughter of Louis the Great The royal couple Jadwiga and her husband Wladyslaw II Jagiello decided that instead of building new premises for the university it would be better to buy an existing edifice it was thus that a building on Zydowska Street which had previously been the property of the Pecherz family was acquired in 1399 The Queen donated all of her personal jewellery to the university allowing it to enroll 203 students The faculties of astronomy law and theology attracted eminent scholars for example John Cantius Stanislaw of Skarbimierz Pawel Wlodkowic Jan of Glogow and Albert Brudzewski who from 1491 to 1495 was one of Nicolaus Copernicus teachers 9 The university was the first university in Europe to establish independent chairs in Mathematics and Astronomy This rapid expansion in the university s faculty necessitated the purchase of larger premises in which to house them it was thus that the building known today as the Collegium Maius with its quadrangle and beautiful arcade came into being towards the beginning of the 15th century The Collegium Maius qualities many of which directly contributed to the sheltered academic atmosphere at the university became widely respected helping the university establish its reputation as a place of learning in Central Europe Golden age of the Renaissance Edit The main assembly hall of the university s Collegium Maius For several centuries almost the entire intellectual elite of Poland was educated at the university citation needed where they enjoyed particular royal favors While it was and largely remains Polish students who make up the majority of the university s students it has over its long history educated thousands of foreign students from countries such as Lithuania Russia Hungary Bohemia Germany and Spain During the second half of the 15th century over 40 percent of students came from the outside of the Kingdom of Poland The main baroque entrance to the university s Collegium Iuridicum The first chancellor of the university was Piotr Wysz and the first professors were Czechs Germans and Poles most of them trained at the Charles University in Prague By 1520 Greek philology was introduced by Constanzo Claretti and Wenzel von Hirschberg Hebrew was also taught At this time the Collegium Maius consisted of seven reading rooms six of which were named for the great ancient scholars Aristotle Socrates Plato Galen Ptolemy and Pythagoras Furthermore it was during this period that the faculties of Law Medicine Theology and Philosophy were established in their own premises two of these buildings the Collegium Iuridicum and Collegium Minus survive to this day The golden era of the University of Krakow took place during the Polish Renaissance between 1500 and 1535 when it was attended by 3 215 students in the first decade of the 16th century and it was in these years that the foundations for the Jagiellonian Library were set which allowed for the addition of a library floor to the Collegium Maius The library s original rooms in which all books were chained to their cases in order to prevent theft are no longer used as such However they are still occasionally open to hosting visiting lecturers talks As the university s popularity along with that of the ever more provincial Krakow s declined in later centuries the number of students attending the university also fell and as such the attendance record set in the early 16th century wasn t surpassed until the late 18th century This phenomenon was recorded as part of a more general economic and political decline seen in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth which was suffering from the effects of poor governance and the policies of hostile neighbors at the time In fact despite a number of expansion projects during the late 18th century many of the university s buildings had fallen into disrepair and were being used for a range of other purposes in the university s archives there is one entry which reads Nobody lives in the building nothing happens there If the lecture halls underwent refurbishment they could be rented out to accommodate a laundry This period thus represents one of the darkest periods in the university s history and is almost certainly the one during which the closure of the institution seemed most imminent Turmoil and near closure after the partitions Edit The Collegium Novum in the Old Town District After the third partition of Poland in 1795 and the ensuing Napoleonic Wars Krakow became a free city under the protection of the Austrian Empire this however was not to last long In 1846 after the Krakow Uprising the city and its university became part of the Austrian Empire 10 The Austrians were in many ways hostile to the institution and soon after their arrival removed many of the furnishings from the Collegium Maius Auditorium Maximum in order to convert it into a grain store However the threat of closure of the University was ultimately dissipated by Ferdinand I of Austria s decree to maintain it By the 1870s the fortunes of the university had improved so greatly that many scholars had returned The liquefaction of nitrogen and oxygen was successfully demonstrated by professors Zygmunt Wroblewski and Karol Olszewski in 1883 Thereafter the Austrian authorities took on a new role in the development of the university and provided funds for the construction of a number of new buildings including the neo gothic Collegium Novum which opened in 1887 10 It was conversely from this building that in 1918 a large painting of Kaiser Franz Joseph was removed and destroyed by Polish students advocating the reestablishment of an independent Polish state 11 Count Stanislaw Tarnowski was between 1871 and 1909 twice rector of the university The university around 1930 For the 500th anniversary of the university s foundation a monument to Copernicus was placed in the quadrangle of the Collegium Maius this statue is now to be found in the direct vicinity of the Collegium Novum outside the Collegium Witkowskiego to where it was moved in 1953 12 Nevertheless it was in the Grzegorzecka and the Kopernika areas that much of the university s expansion took place up to 1918 during this time the Collegium Medicum was relocated to a site just east of the centre and was expanded with the addition of a number of modern teaching hospitals this medical campus remains to this day By the late 1930s the number of students at the university had increased dramatically to almost six thousand Now a major centre for education in the independent Republic of Poland the university attained government support for the purchase of building plots for new premises as a result of which a number of residencies were built for students and professors alike However of all the projects begun during this era the most important would have to be the creation of the Jagiellonian Library The library s monumental building construction of which began in 1931 was finally completed towards the end of the interwar period which allowed the university s many varied literary collections to be relocated to their new home by the outbreak of war in 1939 13 Modern era and renovation Edit On November 6 1939 following the Nazi invasion of Poland 184 professors were arrested and deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp during an operation codenamed Sonderaktion Krakau Special Operation Krakow The university along with the rest of Poland s higher and secondary education was closed for the remainder of World War II 14 Despite the university s reopening after the cessation of hostilities in 1945 the new government of Poland was hostile to the teachings of the pre war university and the faculty was suppressed by the Communists in 1954 14 By 1957 the Polish government decided that it would invest in the establishment of new facilities near Jordan Park and expansion of other smaller existing facilities Construction work proved slow and many of the stated goals were never achieved it was this poor management that eventually led a number of scholars to openly criticise the government for its apparent lack of interest in educational development and disregard for the university s future A number of new buildings such as the Collegium Paderevianum were built with funds from the legacy of Ignacy Paderewski By 1989 Poland had overthrown its Communist government In that same year the Jagiellonian University successfully completed the purchase of its first building plot in Pychowice Krakow where from 2000 construction of a new complex of university buildings the so called Third Campus began The new campus officially named the 600th Anniversary Campus was developed in conjunction with the new LifeScience Park which is managed by the Jagiellonian Centre for Innovation the university s research consortium 15 Public funds earmarked for the project amounted to 946 5 million zlotys or 240 million euros 16 Poland s entry into the European Union in 2004 has proved instrumental in improving the fortunes of the Jagiellonian University which has seen huge increases in funding from both central government and European authorities allowing it to develop new departments research centres and better support the work of its students and academics International partnerships Edit The university s academic advancement in both Poland and abroad is illustrated by its widely recognized research achievements The scientists and physicians from the Collegium Medicum carry out pioneer studies e g in cardiac surgery urology and neurology often leading to the development of novel treatment methods 17 Their findings have been published in international journals such as European Journal of Cardio Thoracic Medicine New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet UJ archaeologists lead explorations of ancient sites in various parts of the world including Egypt Cyprus Central America South Asia and Altay 18 The astronomers take part in major international projects including H E S S and VIPERS The work of UJ bio technologists has been published in journals such as Bioorganic amp Medicinal Chemistry Molecular Ecology Resources and European Journal of Human Genetics In the English speaking world the Jagiellonian University has international partnerships with the University of Cambridge University of Melbourne University of Chicago University of California Los Angeles London School of Economics University of Rochester University of California Irvine Case Western Reserve University 19 In the French speaking world partner universities include the Sorbonne University of Montpellier UJ also maintains strong academic partnership with Heidelberg University Germany s oldest university 20 The Jagiellonian University offers specializations in German law in conjunction with Heidelberg University and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz 21 Other cooperation agreements exist with Charles University Prague University of Vienna University of Tokyo Saint Petersburg State University Technical University of Munich and Free University of Berlin 22 23 Libraries Edit The Jagiellonian Library s main site The Jagiellonian Library extension The university s main library the Jagiellonian Library Biblioteka Jagiellonska is one of Poland s largest with almost 6 5 million volumes it is a constituent of the Polish National Libraries system 24 It is home to a world renowned collection of medieval manuscripts 25 which includes Copernicus De Revolutionibus the Balthasar Behem Codex and the Berlinka The library also has an extensive collection of underground political literature so called drugi obieg or samizdat from Poland s period of Communist rule between 1945 and 1989 The beginning of the Jagiellonian Library is traditionally considered the same as that of the entire university in 1364 26 however instead of having one central library it had several smaller branches at buildings of various departments the largest collection was in Collegium Maius where works related to theology and liberal arts were kept After 1775 during the reforms of Komisja Edukacji Narodowej which established the first Ministry of Education in the world various small libraries of the university were formally centralised into one public collection in Collegium Maius During the partitions of Poland the library continued to grow thanks to the support of such people as Karol Jozef Teofil Estreicher and Karol Estreicher Its collections were made public in 1812 Since 1932 it has been recognised as a legal deposit library comparable to the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford or Cambridge University Library or Trinity College Library in Dublin and thus has the right to receive a copy of any book issued by Polish publishers within Poland In 1940 the library finally obtained a new building of its own which has subsequently been expanded on two occasions most recently in 1995 2001 During the Second World War library workers cooperated with underground universities Since the 1990s the library s collection has become increasingly digitised In addition to the Jagiellonian Library the university maintains a large medical library Biblioteka Medyczna and many other subject specialised libraries in its various faculties and institutes Finally the collections of the university libraries collections are enriched by the presence of the university s archives which date back to the university s own foundation and record the entire history of its development up to the present day Notable alumni EditMain article List of Jagiellonian University people Nicolaus Copernicus Renaissance polymath who formulated the theory of Heliocentrism Jan Dlugosz priest chronicler and diplomat Francysk Skaryna Belarusian humanist physician and translator Jan Kochanowski Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to the Polish literary language John III Sobieski King of Poland Hugo Kollataj constitutional reformer and educationalist one of the most prominent figures of the Polish Enlightenment Carl Menger Austrian economist and the founder of the Austrian School of economics Karol Olszewski chemist who became the first scientist to liquefy oxygen and nitrogen Ignacy Lukasiewicz pharmacist engineer businessman inventor and philanthropist who built the world s first modern oil refinery Waclaw Sierpinski mathematician known for contributions to set theory number theory theory of functions and topology Bronislaw Malinowski one of the founders of social anthropology Ivo Andric Yugoslav novelist poet and short story writer winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature Antoni Kepinski psychiatrist and philosopher Stanislaw Lem writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects including philosophy futurology and literary criticism Krzysztof Penderecki composer and conductor Wislawa Szymborska poet essayist and translator recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature Pope John Paul II head of the Catholic Church from 1978 until 2005 Norman Davies British historian specializing in Central and Eastern Europe Jerzy Vetulani neuroscientist pharmacologist and biochemist Andrzej Duda 6th President of the Republic of PolandFaculties and departments EditUniversity rankingsGlobal OverallCWTS World citation needed 250 2022 QS World citation needed 293 2023 QS Employability citation needed 201 250 2022 USNWR Global citation needed 320 2022 Regional OverallQS Emerging Europe and Central Asia 27 5 2022 National OverallCWTS National citation needed 1 2022 CWUR National citation needed 1 2022 The university is divided into the following faculties which have different organisational sub structures partly reflecting their history and partly their operational needs Teaching and research at UJ are organised by these faculties including a number of additional institutes Law and Administration Medicine Pharmacy and Medical Analysis Health Care Philosophy History Philology Polish Language and Literature Physics Astronomy and Applied Computer Science Mathematics and Computer Science Chemistry Biology Earth Sciences Management and Social Communication International and Political Studies Biochemistry Biophysics and Biotechnology University Center of Veterinary Medicine joint faculty with Agricultural University of Krakow National Center of Synchrotron Radiation SOLARIS off departmental facility Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum is affiliated with the following hospitals and clinics 28 University Hospital in Krakow Prokocim 29 Children s University Hospital in Krakow 30 University Hospital for Orthopedics and Rehabilitation in Zakopane 31 32 Dental University Clinic in Krakow 33 John Paul II s Specialist Hospital in Krakow 34 The new seat of the University Hospital has been recently opened at Prokocim in 2019 as a result of more than 1 2 billion zloty investment projects 35 As 2022 the University Hospital in Krakow is the biggest supra regional public hospital in Poland and comprises 37 clinical departments 12 diagnostic and research institutes and 71 out patient units 36 Notable professors Edit Heraldic frieze on the building of Collegium Maius depicting coats of arms of the Krakow bishops chancellors cardinals as well as Elizabeth of Austria Crown of the Kingdom of Poland Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Krakow Academy Stanislaw of Skarbimierz 1360 1431 rector theologian lawyer Pawel Wlodkowic 1370 1435 lawyer diplomat and politician representative of Poland at the Council of Constance Albert Brudzewski 1445 1497 astronomer and mathematician Maciej Miechowita 1457 1523 historian chronicler geographer medic Marcin Szlachcinski 1511 1512 scholar translator poet and philosopher Jan Brozek 1585 1652 mathematician physician and astronomer Franz Mertens 1840 1927 mathematician Henryk Jordan 1842 1907 professor of obstetrics Walery Jaworski 1849 1924 gastroenterologist Ludwik Rydygier 1850 1920 general surgeon Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz 1850 1921 pathologist discovered the Artery of Adamkiewicz and the Adamkiewicz reaction Napoleon Cybulski 1854 1919 pioneer in endocrinology Edmund Zaleski 1863 1932 agrotechnician and chemist Wladyslaw Natanson 1864 1937 physicist Stanislaw Estreicher 1869 1939 founder of the Jagiellonian University Museum Tadeusz Estreicher 1871 1952 pioneer in cryogenics Marian Smoluchowski 1872 1917 pioneer of statistical physics Bohdan Lepky 1872 1941 literature Franciszek Bujak 1875 1953 historian Stanislaw Kutrzeba 1876 1946 rector General Secretary of the Polish Academy of Learning Andrzej Gawronski 1885 1927 founder of the Polish Oriental Society master of Sanskrit Stanislaw Kot 1885 1975 historian and politician Jan Zawidzki 1886 1928 chemist and historian Tadeusz Sulimirski 1898 1983 historian and archaeologist experts on the ancient Sarmatians Roman Grodecki 1889 1964 economic historian Stanislaw Smreczynski 1899 1975 zoologist Henryk Niewodniczanski 1900 1968 physicist Adam Vetulani 1901 1976 historian of medieval and canon law Maria Ludwika Bernhard 1908 1998 archaeologist Wislawa Szymborska 1923 2012 poet recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature Ryszard Gryglewski born 1932 pharmacologist and physician a discoverer of prostacyclin Andrzej Szczeklik 1932 2012 physician Jan Wolenski born 1940 philosopher Piotr Sztompka born 1944 sociologist Jan Potempa born 1955 biologist recipient of the 2011 Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science 37 Krzysztof Koscielniak born 1965 historianStudent associations EditIn 1851 the university s first student scientific association was founded In 2021 over 70 student scientific associations exist at the Jagiellonian University most of them affiliated with Collegium Medicum Usually their purpose is to promote students scientific achievements by organizing lecture sessions science excursions and international student conferences such as the International Workshop for Young Mathematicians which is organized by the Zaremba Association of Mathematicians The links below provide further information on student activities at the Jagiellonian University Study Oriented System USOS Scientific Circles Archived 2014 03 12 at the Wayback Machine Student Organizations EnsemblesSelected locations around the city Collegium Novum Collegium Maius the oldest building of the university Collegium Broscianum on Grodzka Street Collegium Physicum Larysz Palace Faculty of Law and Administration Faculty of Physics Astronomy and Applied Computer Science Theatrum Anatomicum of the Faculty of Medicine Przegorzaly Castle the seat of the Institute of European Studies Campus of the 600th anniversary of University s Revival Auditorium Maximum with theatre stage seating 1 200See also EditList of medieval universities Nawojka the university s legendary first female student from the 15th century Sonderaktion Krakau a Nazi German operation against professors and academics from the University of Krakow Neuronus IBRO amp IRUN Neuroscience Forum Scholars and Literati at the University of Cracow 1316 1800 Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae RETENotes and references Edit Jagiellonian University Facts and Figures 2021 en uj edu pl Jagiellonian University 2021 Retrieved 14 April 2021 Dane statystyczne Uczelni as of December 31 2020 en uj edu pl Jagiellonian University 2021 Retrieved 14 April 2021 Study in Poland Top Universities 2014 09 03 Retrieved 2017 01 04 Jagiellonian University Times Higher Education THE Retrieved 2017 01 04 a b Overview Jagiellonian University Jagiellonian University en uj edu pl Retrieved 2022 02 15 Welcome to the Jagiellonian University Programmes www en uj edu pl Retrieved 2021 04 14 Study of Literature and Art at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow Krakow Miasto Literatury UNESCO krakowcityofliterature com Retrieved 2022 02 23 Studies CWTS Centre for Science and Technology CWTS Leiden Ranking CWTS Leiden Ranking Retrieved 2022 01 28 For a summary description of all of the set of scholars and literati who intervened in teaching at the University of Parma from its creation until 1800 see David de la Croix and Gaia Spolverini 2022 Scholars and Literati at the University of Cracow 1364 1800 Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae RETE 6 35 42 a b Waltos Stanislaw History Jagiellonian University Retrieved 2010 09 28 in Polish 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