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74 unusual facts about Sorbonne


Abdel Rahman Badawi

Badawi described leaving Nasser's Egypt to teach in the Sorbonne in 1967 as escaping "the big jail".

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.

Amnon Barzel

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

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.

Andrea Meyer

She went to college at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and spent her junior year studying at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Annaclara Cataldi Palau

Annaclara Cataldi was born in Genoa and studied Classics in the University of Genoa, then she lived several years in Paris and studied Greek palaeography at the Sorbonne.

Antonio Cuauhtémoc García Amor

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

Behnam Afas

He completed his higher studies in the University of Sorbonne – France and was awarded the D.E.A. on his studies about the role of Iraqi Christians in the renaissance of Iraq during the 19th Century.

Bernadette Allen

She studied abroad for a year in 1977, earning a Certificate in French Civilization from the Sorbonne in Paris.

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.

Christopher Bagshaw

On leaving Rome he returned to Paris, where he became a doctor of divinity at the Sorbonne.

Clarisse Albrecht

While studying Cinema at La Sorbonne Nouvelle, in Paris, she joined, as a background vocalist, a band performing Soul-Funk covers.

Conseil du Roi

Over the centuries, the number of jurists (or "légistes"), generally educated by the université de Paris, steadily increased as the technical aspects of the matters studied in the council mandated specialized counsellers.

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.

Drepung Monastery

It can be a somewhat useful analogy to think of Drepung as a university along the lines of Oxford or the Sorbonne in the Middle Ages, the various colleges having different emphases, teaching lineages, or traditional geographical affiliations.

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.

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.

Fariborz Lachini

After the Islamic Revolution he moved to Europe to study Musicology in the Universite de Paris - Sorbonne.

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 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.

Henri Delavallée

A brilliant student at school, in 1879 Delavallée enrolled simultaneously at the Sorbonne and at the École des Beaux-Arts where he studied under the finest art teachers of the period: Carolus-Duran, Luc-Olivier Merson, Henri Lehmann and Ernest Hébert.

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.

Hervé Fischer

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

Hige Danshaku

His official profile states that he was born on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, and attended 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.

Jana Boková

Boková was born in Prague, but left Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to attend a conference of art students in Austria, then emigrated to Paris, France to study at the Sorbonne.

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-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-Julien Chervier

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

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.

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.

Kurt Maetzig

He also studied sociology, psychology and law for a year at the Sorbonne in Paris.

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.

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 Radlmeier

Several years later she returned briefly to Europe where she received a graduate degree at the Sorbonne before returning to Africa to teach Religious Studies.

Marc Arcis

In Paris, he took part in the interior decoration of the église de la Sorbonne and produced works for Versailles.

Mario Prassinos

He attended the Sorbonne in Paris beginning in 1932 and briefly trained in the studio of the French painter Clement Serveau (1886-1972).

Martha Baillie

She studied history, French and Russian at the University of Edinburgh, and completed her studies at the Sorbonne, Paris and the University of Toronto.

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.

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.

Miroslav Nenadović

In 1936 he passed the state PhD exam in aerospace sciences, while in 1937, he was promoted to the title of PhD in Sorbonne.

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.

Nathaniel Foy

Crowds assembled at St. Bride's every alternate Sunday to hear his replies to the sermons delivered at Christ Church on the preceding Sundays by a doctor of the Sorbonne in the presence of the king.

Nikola Petkov

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

Olivier Weber

Olivier Weber, born in 1958 in Montluçon, studied economics and anthropology at the University of San Francisco, University of Paris Sorbonne, University of Nice (Ph.D.) and at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, INALCO).

Patrick Gagnon

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

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.

René Zazzo

After obtaining a Doctorate of Letters in the Sorbonne (1933-1933), on the advice of Meyerson and of Henri Wallon, he obtained a grant to study in the laboratory of Gesell at Yale University, where he specialized in child psychology.

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).

Rosi Braidotti

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

Sacro Convento

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

Serge Gilles

Gilles earned a degree in psychology in 1965 from the Sorbonne.

Stephen Desberg

Stephen Desberg was born in Brussels in 1954 as the third child of an American lawyer from Cleveland and a French mother who taught him French at the Sorbonne after the Liberation of Paris.

Sumana Sinha

Sumana SINHA or Shumona SINHA studied a master in modern literature at the Sorbonne.

Sylvia Constantinidis

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

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).

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)".

X. J. Kennedy

After serving for four years as an enlisted journalist with the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet, he studied at the Sorbonne from 1955 to 56.

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.


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.

Alfredo Bryce

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

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.

Božidar Kantušer

He attended aesthetics courses by Étienne Souriau at the Sorbonne, the courses of Olivier Messiaen at the Paris conservatory, and appeared at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.

Christian Jacq

Jacq has a doctorate in Egyptian Studies from 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.

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.

Daniel Yankelovich

After attending Boston Latin School, Yankelovich graduated from Harvard University in 1946 and 1950 before completing postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne in France.

Emmanuel Mounier

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

Ferdinand Brunetière

In 1886 Brunetière was appointed professor of French language and literature at the École Normale, a singular honour for one who had not passed through the academic mill; and later he presided with distinction over various conferences at the Sorbonne and elsewhere.

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.

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.

Guy-Marie Bagnard

He studied at the little seminary of Rimont, at the academic Seminary of Lyon (with the Catholic University of Lyon), at the Catholic Institut of Paris, and finally, at the Sorbonne University.

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.

Henri Maspero

During the following years he replaced Marcel Granet for the chair of Chinese civilisation at the Sorbonne, directed the department of Chinese religions at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, and was selected to be a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.

Henri-Emmanuel de Roquette

A doctor at the Sorbonne and a preacher, he became abbot of the abbey of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys in 1681 and attended the Paris salon of the marquise de Lambert.

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

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.

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).

Jorie Graham

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

Jowan Le Besco

A former pupil of Lycée Charlemagne and Lycée Victor Hugo in Paris, two secondary schools renowned for their academic excellence, Jowan started cinema studies at the Paris Sorbonne University of Jussieu, during which he directed a large number of short films.

Lotta Hitschmanova

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

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.

Mr. John

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

Nahapet Rusinian

While in Paris, Rusinian audited courses on literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne, and was influenced by the ideas of Lamartine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, Victor Hugo, and other political philosophers.

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.

Patriarch German of Serbia

Hranislav Đorić received a broad education and was among most educated members of the Serbian clergy, attending primary school in Velika Drenova and Kruševac, seminary in Belgrade and Sremski Karlovci (graduating in 1921), studying law in Paris' Sorbonne and finally graduating from the University of Belgrade's Orthodox Theology Faculty in 1942.

Philippe Le Corbeiller

He was trained as an engineer at the École Polytechnique (entering class of 1910), served in the French Signal Corps during World War I, worked on telegraph and radio systems, and in 1926 received a doctorate in mathematics from the Sorbonne, having written a thesis on indefinite quadratic forms under the supervision of Charles Émile Picard.

Samuel Avital

In 1958, he traveled to Paris, France, to study dance and drama at the Sorbonne, as well as to study mime with the French masters, Etienne Decroux, Jean-Louis Barrault, and Marcel Marceau.

Scott Symons

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

Sorbon

It was the birthplace of Robert de Sorbon, (1201–1274), who was a chaplain and Confessor to King Louis IX of France, as well as the founder of the Sorbonne, the University of Paris.

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.

Thomas Strickland

Thomas John Francis Strickland known as Abbe Strickland (1679?–1740), bishop of Namur and doctor of the Sorbonne

Yunnan University

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