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89 unusual facts about Sorbonne


Adamou Idé

A native speaker of the Zarma language, Idé left his home in Niamey to study public administration in France, receiving degrees from The Sorbonne (Université de Paris I) and the Institut international d'administration publique in Paris, serving as an official in the Government of Niger and in international organizations.

Alain Bosquet

In 1925, his family moved to Brussels and he studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, then at the Sorbonne.

Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix

He graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Diplômé de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris) and holds a MA in history and two predoctoral dissertations in history and political science from the Sorbonne.

André Almuró

In 1973, Almuró became a teacher at Paris' Sorbonne University (UFR d’Arts Plastiques, Faculté Paris I Sorbonne).

André Leroi-Gourhan

In 1956 he succeeded Marcel Griaule at the Sorbonne, and from 1969 until 1982 he was a professor at the Collège de France.

Antoine de Margerie

In order to reassure them, de Margerie takes up medical studies, as well as pursuing a humanities degree and taking courses at the École du Louvre and the Intitut d'Art et d'Archéologie at the Sorbonne.

Ataol Behramoğlu

In 1984, he began in Paris to participate in the work of Sorbonne’s National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, at the Center for Comparative Poetry.

Auguste Ménégaux

In 1899 he supported his graduate thesis at the Sorbonne with a dissertation on marine bivalves titled Recherches sur la circulation des Lamellibranches marins.

Bakhtiar Amin

He went to university in Sweden and the Sorbonne in France, where he received a master’s degree in international affairs and a doctorate in political geography.

Bernard Salome

An economist by training, Dr. Salomé received his doctorate in Economic Development from Université Paris Sorbonne in 1984.

Cartesian Meditations

Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology is a book by the philosopher Edmund Husserl, based on two two-hour lectures he gave at the Sorbonne, in the Amphithéatre Descartes on February 23 and 25, 1929.

Cinéma du Panthéon

Opened in 1907 on the site of a gymnasium next to the Sorbonne, the Cinéma du Panthéon's single screen has been in daily service since.

Cuauhtémoc García Amor

Other studies: Include a diploma from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in French Language and French Civilization (1975).

Daniel Thorner

Due to desire to return to a university and partially due to economic reasons, he left India in 1962 after spending ten years, to take up an academic position at Sorbonne.

David S. Wall

He completed a partnership with Transcrime (Università Cattolica del sacro Cuore of Milan and the University of Trento) and the CNRS, (Sorbonne, Paris) looking at "Public and Private Partnerships for Reducing Counterfeiting of Fashion Apparels and Accessories" as part of the EU Aegis Programme Framework 6.

David Seyfort Ruegg

He received a second doctorate in linguistics from the Sorbonne in Paris, where his thesis was "La théorie du tathâgatagarbha et du gotra : études sur la sotériologie et la gnoséologie du bouddhisme" ("The Theory of Gotra and Tathâgatagarbha: A Study of the Soteriology and Gnoseology of Buddhism"), with a second half thesis on Bu Rin chen grub's approach to tathâgatagarbha.

Don Foresta

A graduate of the University of Buffalo, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Foresta also holds a doctorate degree from the Sorbonne in Information Science.

Edmond Aman-Jean

Aman-Jean established his reputation primarily for his portraits, especially of female subjects; he was also noted for his murals in public and official buildings, including the Sorbonne.

Edmond Paris

After he left Sorbonne where he was a student, he completed his studies in various parts of the world, such as Rome, Geneva, Salamanca, and Montreal.

Edward Knott

Another reply to Kellison was published by Father John Floyd, and both these works were censured by the archbishop of Paris 30 January 1631, and by the Sorbonne 15 February 1631.

Eugenio Miccini

Miccini’s work is included in the Italian Treccani Encyclopedia and was object of doctoral research also at University La Sorbonne of Paris and at the University of Belgrade.

Florence Meyer Blumenthal

In 1925, Blumenthal moved to Paris with her husband, later donating to the Children’s Hospital in Paris the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Sorbonne in Paris.

Francis Kirwan

He was consecrated Bishop of Killala in May 1645 at the church of Saint Lazare, Paris; the ceremony was attended by thirteen bishops, fifteen abbots and thirty doctors of the Sorbonne.

François Flameng

He decorated such important civic buildings as the Sorbonne and the Opera Comique, and also produced advertising work.

François Girardon

His Tomb of Richelieu (church of the Sorbonne) was saved from destruction by Alexandre Lenoir, who received a bayonet thrust in protecting the head of the cardinal from mutilation.

Franz Weber

After his studies of philosophy and linguistics at the Sorbonne University in Paris, he worked from his Paris office from 1951 until 1973.

Guillemette Andreu

After studying history, Andreu specialized in Egyptology (hieroglyphs, hieratic, Coptic) and produced a thesis on the law and order in Ancient Egypt at Sorbonne in 1978 under the direction of Professor Jean Leclant.

Henry IV of France's succession

For two years, Henry had been recognised by many in the French church, and French theologians at the Sorbonne had confirmed the Archbishop of Bourges's lifting of Henry's excommunication.

Herbert Southworth

Two years before its publication, and on the advice of the French historian, Pierre Vilar, the manuscript had been successfully presented by Southworth as his doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne.

Hervé Bazin

Leaving his home for Paris, he took a degree in literature at the Sorbonne.

Hervé Fischer

Hervé Fischer taught sociology of communication and culture at the Sorbonne.

Ivar Lissner

He studied languages, history, anthropology, and law at Greifswald, Berlin, Göttingen, Erlangen, Lyon (1931–1932), and at the Sorbonne in Paris.

J. I. Wedgwood

Wedgwood now enrolled as a doctoral candidate at the Sorbonne, combining his studies with experiments at the works of a celebrated organ builder and activities at Russian Orthodox and Old Catholic churches.

Jackie Duffin

Sorbonne, History and Philosophy of Science (PhD)
1985 Diplôme de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IV Section, Paris
1983 D.E.A.Paris-I-Sorbonne, France
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Internal medicine
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Hematology
1979 C.S.P.Q. Hématologie
1974 M.D. University of Toronto

Jaroslav Vanek

He received his diploma in statistics, mathematics and economics at the Sorbonne (1952), and a postgraduate degree in economics at the University of Geneva (1954).

Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant

Prominent examples include the great plafond in the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, entitled Paris Convening the World; his paintings in the New Sorbonne, representing Literature, The Sciences, and the Academy of Paris; and the plafond of the Opéra Comique theatre.

Jessie White Mario

Unlike almost all middle-class girls growing up in Victorian England, Jessie received an excellent education culminating in studying philosophy with Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais at the Sorbonne in Paris between 1852 and 1854.

Jón Þorláksson

One of his sisters, Björg Þorláksdóttir, was for example the first Icelandic woman to receive a doctorate, from the Sorbonne in 1926.

Jonathan Dawson

A remarkable number of his students are now active in Universities from the Sorbonne to UCLA and work in the film industry worldwide.

Julia Danzas

After graduating from high school in 1895, Julia Danzas moved to Paris and came to Sorbonne, where she studied philosophy and psychology.

Julien Joseph Vesque

He held the position of professor from 1880 at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle and from 1883 he was professor at the Paris Agricultural Institute, teaching at the Sorbonne during the same period.

Kenneth E. Tyler

Originally Tyler had planned further studies at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Kenneth J. Gergen

At various intervals he served as visiting professor at the University of Heidelberg, the University of Marburg, the Sorbonne, the University of Rome, Kyoto University, and Adolfo Ibanez University.

Laurent Marqueste

Among his commissions are a large number of allegorical architectural figural sculptures, historical portraits (Victor Hugo, and Geographie for the Sorbonne, 1901) and others for the monumental Gare d'Orsay (now the Musée d'Orsay), the Collège des Beaux-Arts, the Grand Palais for the 1900 Exposition, and the Hôtel Dufayel, Avenue des Champs-Élysées (1906, demolished).

Lawrence Bulger

Lawrence Bulger was an Irish 220-yard sprint champion, and through his connection with athletics was a representative at the Sorbonne in Paris when Pierre de Coubertin suggested the creation of a modern Olympic Games.

Léon Vaudoyer

In 1852 he was given responsibility for reconstructing the Sorbonne (unrealized), and also for designing the polychrome Cathédrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure in Marseilles.

Lin Emery

From there she continued changing schools, attending Syracuse University, the University of Mexico, the University of Chicago, and the Sorbonne.

Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Trained in literature and journalism, Dalembert worked first as a journalist in his homeland before leaving in 1986 for France where he obtained his PhD in comparative literature at the Sorbonne with a dissertation on the Cuban author, Alejo Carpentier.

Lucy May Stanton

She also studied anatomy at the Sorbonne and took classes at two independent art schools in Paris which admitted women, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Académie Colarossi.

Ludovic Debeurme

After studying fine art at the Sorbonne, he was first published in the anthology Comix 2000, followed by the acclaimed graphic novels Céfalus (2002) and Mes ailes d’homme (2003), the autobiographical story collection Ludologie (2003), and youth-oriented illustrated editions of the classics Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2001), The Chancellor (2004), and Gargantua (2004).

Luise Druke

from Brussels University and a M.A. in Economics, Finance and Management from Webster University, St. Louis, a Diploma from Sorbonne, License d'enseignement from Paris VIII University and a M.A. from the European Institute of High International Studies, University of Nice in European Studies.

Manuel Delgado Ruiz

He continued his graduate studies at the Religious Sciences department of the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne.

Margo Glantz

In 1953 she left for Europe, where she earned her doctorate in Hispanic Literature at the Sorbonne.

Marius-Ary Leblond

Their work was rewarded by the Prix Goncourt in 1909 for the novel En France, which narrates the journey of two young Creoles, who came to study at the Sorbonne.

Meda Mládková

By February 1948 she decided not to return to Czechoslovakia – and to Paris, where she studied Art History at the Sorbonne and at L'Ecole du Louvre between 1955 – 1960.

Michel Luc

From 1945, on, he studied biology in Paris at the Sorbonne, where he attended classes delivered by biologists such as Georges Mangenot in Botany and Pierre-Paul Grassé in Zoology.

Michel Suret-Canale

After his secondary education at the Lycée Claude Bernard in Paris, Michel enrolled at the University of Arts and Sciences of Art, Department of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, eventually earning a doctorate in Arts and Sciences of Art with honors by unanimous decision of the jury.

Mikhail Gavrilov

After that he emigrated to Romania, and then moved to France, graduated from the Sorbonne in Paris. Gavrilov taught at the Russian school in Paris and Saint George boarding in Meudon, led the research and education activities at the Institut Catholique de Paris.

Nicolas de Lenfent

He has returned to the village because he is in disgrace: he was sent to Paris to study law at the Sorbonne, but instead fell in love with the violin, abandoned his studies and sold his textbooks to take lessons from Mozart.

Nikola Petkov

He graduated from the 1st Sofia Boys High School in 1910 and after that studied law and politics at the Sorbonne, Paris.

Patrick Gagnon

Gagnon holds a degree in Political Science from McGill University and pursued his studies in literature and international politics at the Sorbonne.

Paul Hallez

He later defended his thesis at the Sorbonne with an award winning treatise on Turbellaria titled Contributions à l'histoire naturelle des turbellariés.

Pierre Goldman

Though he was expelled from various high schools and boarding schools, Goldman obtained his baccalauréat and pursued courses at the Sorbonne as an independent auditor.

Rafael Menjívar Larín

At the same time, he acted as political adviser to the leader of the FMLN, Salvador Cayetano Carpio, whilst in his spare time was active in the university at Sorbonne.

Richard de Fournival

Richard’s library (of which the Biblionomia must be in part a catalogue) passed to Gérard d'Abbeville, an archdeacon at Amiens, who then left many of them to the recently established Collège de Sorbonne.

Richard Greeman

During 1963-64, Greeman returned to Paris with a French Government scholarship, took courses at the Sorbonne, began his research on the life and works of Victor Serge (1890–1947) whom he admired both as a novelist, a revolutionary witness, and a libertarian socialist thinker.

Richelieu, Indre-et-Loire

He engaged the architect Jacques Lemercier, who was already responsible for the Sorbonne and the Cardinal's hôtel in Paris, the Palais Cardinal (now the Palais-Royal).

Roberto Formigoni

Graduated in Philosophy at the Università Cattolica in Milan, he studied political economy at the Sorbonne, in Paris.

Roger Dawson

On leave in Amsterdam Roger ran into Bob Whitlock, the original bassist for the Gerry Mulligan Quartet who had received a scholarship to the Sorbonne in Paris.

Ronald Verlin Cassill

In 1949 he briefly served as an instructor at the University's Writer's Workshop before attending the Sorbonne in 1952 for a year as a Fulbright Fellow, studying comparative literature.

Rosi Braidotti

Braidotti then moved on to do her doctoral work at the Sorbonne, where she received her degree in philosophy in 1981.

Rubén Marshall Tikalova

In France he had the opportunity to study French language and civilization at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Sacro Convento

For the first 200 years of its existence, the library rivaled the Sorbonne and Avignon with a comparable number of manuscripts.

Safety coffin

Count Michel de Karnice-Karnicki, a chamberlain to the Tsar of Russia, patented his own safety coffin, called Le Karnice, in 1897 and demonstrated it at the Sorbonne the following year.

Sheldon Bach

Born in 1925, he served in the European Theatre of Operations during World War II, then lived in Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne.

Suzanne Massie

She was in New York and graduated from Vassar College, but also studied at the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris.

Sylvia Constantinidis

She continued her studies in Paris at the Ecole Martenot and the Sorbonne university in Paris.

Thierry Cassuto

He studied at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris and at Boston University, where he graduated with a Master of Science in Broadcasting.

Thomas Elsaesser

In 1963 Elsaesser left Germany for the United Kingdom, where he studied English literature at the University of Sussex (1963–1966); after receiving his B.A. degree there, he spent a year at the Sorbonne in Paris (1967–68).

Toulouse 1 University Capitole

Toulouse 1 University Capitole was the second university created in France in 1229 after the Sorbonne was founded (around the year 1200).

Trần Văn Khê

He was director of research at CNRS and professor at the Sorbonne, and in 2008 named a Honorary Member of the International Music Council of UNESCO where he is coordinator of the project "The Universe of Music, A History".

Ulli Beier

In 1956, after visiting the First Congress of Negro Artists and Writers in Paris organized by Présence Africaine at the Sorbonne, Ulli Beier returned to Ibadan with more ideas.

Vicar Apostolic of the London District

It was only in 1685 that a successor was appointed by Rome, in the person of John Leyburn, a Doctor of Divinity of the Sorbonne and a former President of the English College at Douai, who was consecrated bishop in Rome on 9 September 1685.

Viktor Bunyakovsky

In 1820, he joined the count's son in traveling to a university in Coburg and subsequently to the Sorbonne in Paris to study mathematics.

Willem Huberts

In 2013 he lectured at the Sorbonne University (Paris, France) about "Fascisme and Nazism in Dutch Litterature (1940-1945)".

Yunnan University

The president of Yunnan University had a PhD from the Sorbonne.

Yves Gérard

From 1955 to 1956 he studied at the Sorbonne under composer, musicologist and theoretician Jacques Chailley.

Zazou

The two most important meeting places of the Zazous were the terrace of the Pam Pam cafe on the Champs-Élysées and the Boul’Mich (the Boulevard Saint-Michel near the Sorbonne).

Zbigniew Bieńkowski

Bieńkowski received a one year scholarship from the Sorbonne and moved to Paris in 1938.


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

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

Albert Spaier

Studying at the Sorbonne, he volunteered to fight for the French at the outset of World War I, and became a French citizen soon afterwards.

Amnon Barzel

Barzel earned his post-graduate degree at the University La Sorbonne in Paris, France, in Art History.

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.

Aymeric Chauprade

Aymeric Chauprade co-organized with Jacques Frémeaux and Philippe Evanno in February 2013 a conference at the Sorbonne (University of Paris IV), entitled Menaces en Afrique du Nord et au Sahel et sécurité globale de l'Europe (Threats in North Africa and in the Sahel and overall security of Europe), the proceedings of which were published in April 2013 Ellipses Editions.

Bartolomeo Gastaldi

He spent the years 1849–52 in Paris taking courses at the Ecole des Mines, the Jardin des Plantes, the Collège de France and the Sorbonne.

Carol Frost

Frost was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and later graduated from the State University of Oneonta and Syracuse University after studying at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Constance Mayer

After the artist Prud'hon had separated from his wife, the Emperor Napoleon gave him an apartment in the Sorbonne.

Cornelius Jakhelln

Cornelius has a master's degree in philosophie/lettres modernes from University of Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne and a master's degree in the philosophy of cognitive science with a minor in aesthetics from the University of Sussex.

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.

Emmanuel Mounier

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

Emmanuelle Jouannet

Jurist and philosopher, Emmanuelle Jouannet followed both program academics law and philosophy respectively at the Panthéon-Assas University and Paris-Sorbonne University.

Françoise Pommaret

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

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.

Guy Quaden

In 1972, he graduated at the Ecole pratique des hautes études of the Sorbonne (Paris, France), in economic and social sciences.

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.

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.

Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume

The Musée du Luxembourg has his Anacreon (1852), Faucheur (1855), and the marble bust of Mgr Darboy; the Versailles Museum the portrait of Thiers; the Sorbonne Library the marble bust of Victor le Clerc, doyen de la faculté des lettres.

Jean-Jacques Ampère

Moving to Paris, he taught at the Sorbonne, and became professor of the history of French literature at the Collège de France.

Jean-Julien Chervier

After studying Art Sciences at the Sorbonne, Jean-Julien Chervier produced a radio program devoted to the cinema on Aligre FM.

John Gunther Dean

He received his doctorate in law from the Sorbonne (1949), and returned to Harvard again to obtain a graduate degree in international relations (M.A., 1950).

Lawrence Taub

Instead he went to the Sorbonne (University of Paris) to earn a certificate to teach French.

Lotta Hitschmanova

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

Louis-Ovide Brunet

His expertise as a botanist developed following field work in Ontario and Quebec, as well as two years spent in visiting European herbaria and a course of lectures at the Sorbonne, the Jardin des Plantes, and the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, France.

Louise Beaudoin

Beaudoin earned a master's degree in history from Université Laval and a master's degree in sociology at the Sorbonne.

Maren Niemeyer

She studied journalism, German philology and film studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and Freien Universität Berlin from 1984 till 1990.

Maxence Caron

He is agrégé in Philosophy (in 1999), docteur ès Lettres (at Sorbonne in 2003 with Rémi Brague as a thesis director.

Morris Jastrow, Jr.

He then spent another year in the study of Semitic languages at the Sorbonne, the Collège de France and the École des Langues Orientales Levant Vivantes.

Mount Velain

It was first charted by the French Antarctic Expedition 1903-05, under Charcot, and named by him for Charles Velain, a French geologist, geographer, and professor of physical geography at the Sorbonne.

Mr. John

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

Raja Rao

He studied French language and literature, and later at the Sorbonne in Paris, he explored the Indian influence on Irish literature.

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.

Schahan Berberian

The first job of the fifteen-year-old young man was to teach literature and natural sciences at his alma mater but in 1908, he left for Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France, taking classes in philosophy and metaphysics with Henri Bergson, psychology with Georges Dumas and sociology with Émile Durkheim, thus receiving a thorough education in the liberal arts and obtaining a diploma to teach philosophy.

Scott Symons

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

Suze Yalof Schwartz

Yalof Schwartz received a BA degree in Fine Arts and French from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts and studied her junior year at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Svetozar Vlajković

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

Tendon, Vosges

Educated at the collège de Saint-Claude, in Toul, he studied philosophy and theology in the Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Catholic seminary, then was sent to the Sorbonne by his bishop, where he received the grade of doctor.

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.