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88 unusual facts about Sorbonne


A Certain Smile

The novel is about Dominique, a bored twenty-year-old law student at the Sorbonne in mid-1950s Paris.

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.

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.

Alfonso Rangel Guerra

From 1958 to 1959, he had a scholarship which enabled him to study French literature at the Instituto Francés de América Latina and the Sorbonne.

Amnon Barzel

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

André Almuró

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bathilde d'Orléans

In 1822, while she was taking part in a march towards the Panthéon, she lost consciousness, and drew her last breath in the home of a law professor who taught at the Sorbonne.

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.

Bernard Salome

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

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.

Buddhist studies

Prominent European programs include Oxford University and Cambridge University, School of Oriental and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Hamburg, University of Munich, University of Heidelberg, University of Bonn, University of Vienna, Ghent University, and the Sorbonne.

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.

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.

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 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.

Fariborz Lachini

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

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.

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.

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.

Huguette Dreyfus

Dreyfus taught at the Schola Cantorum, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at the National conservatory of music and dance of Lyon(CNSMD de Lyon).

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

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-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.

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).

Jón Þorláksson

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

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.

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.

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.

Louise Beaudoin

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

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.

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.

Manuel Delgado Ruiz

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

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).

Mark Freeman

Freeman had a BA from Columbia College, a Bachelor of Architecture from Columbia University, a Master of Architecture from Columbia, and a Diploma of Art and Archaeology from the Sorbonne in Paris.

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.

Mattias Kumm

Kumm holds a JSD from Harvard Law School and has pursued studies in law, philosophy and political sciences at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and Harvard University.

Maxence Caron

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Patrick Gagnon

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sumana Sinha

Sumana SINHA or Shumona SINHA studied a master in modern literature 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.

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.

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.

The Coronation of Napoleon

Jacques-Louis David started work on 21 December 1805 in the former chapel of the College of Cluny, near the Sorbonne, which served as a workshop.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Constance Mayer

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

Emmanuelle Jouannet

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

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.

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.

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.

Herschel Leibowitz

He studied at the Sorbonne after his military service, and then resumed his studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Javivi

He worked as a social worker in Madrid Council and he later went back to Paris where he received a Ph.D degree in Sorbonne.

Jean Marie du Lau

After studies at the Collège de Navarre, Lau gained a Licentiate of Theology at the Sorbonne and then embarked on his ecclesiastical career, aided by his uncle, the Abbé Jean du Lau, parish priest of the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris since 1750.

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.

Jemima West

She attended the Sorbonne and graduated in History of Art while taking acting classes in the evening.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Mr. John

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

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.

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.

Roberto Formigoni

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

Salvador Arango

In 1990 was invited by International Art Connection to represent Colombia in a major exhibition of visual arts International Des Createurs Laura La Chapelle de la Sorbonne in Paris.

Scott Symons

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

Svetozar Vlajković

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

Thomas Strickland

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