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100 unusual facts about University of Paris


A. C. Cuza

Born in Iaşi, Cuza attended secondary school in his native city and in Dresden, then studied law at the University of Paris, the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, and the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Adrien Houngbédji

He earned a Doctorate in Law from the University of Paris in 1967 and graduated the same year from the French National School of Magistrate, first in his class.

Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi

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

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

Alain Chartier

Alain studied, as his elder brother had done, at the University of Paris.

Alexandru Odobescu

After attending Saint Sava College and, from 1850, a Paris lycée, he took the baccalauréat in 1853 and studied literature and archaeology at the University of Paris, graduating two years later.

Alfredo Bryce

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

Alice Parizeau

Following the war Poznańska went to Paris to study at the Sorbonne, earning degrees in literature, law and political science.

Amina Said

Said was born to a Tunisian father and a French mother and has been living in Paris since 1978 where she studied Literature at the Sorbonne.

Andrei Nekrasov

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

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.

Arnold of Selenhofen

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

Barbu Bălcescu

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

Barry S. Brook

Brook received his masters’ degree from Columbia University, where he studied with Paul Henry Lang, Erich Hertzmann (1902–1963), Hugh Ross, and Roger Sessions, in 1942; he received the doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1959.

Burhan Doğançay

While enrolled at the University of Paris in 1953 from where he obtained a doctorate degree in economics, he attended from 1950 until 1955 art courses at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.

Catholic University of the West

1229: During a crisis with the University of Paris, some students and faculty came to the Episcopalian school system of Angers.

Christian Gourieroux

Mr. Gourieroux spends six months from every year teaching at the University of Toronto, and the other half of his year teaching at the Center of Research in Economics and Statistics in France, at the University of Paris and the "Paris Graduate School of Economics, Statistics and Finance" (ENSAE Paris Tech).

Christian Jacq

Jacq has a doctorate in Egyptian Studies from the Sorbonne.

Claude Goudimel

Few details of his life are known until he is documented in Paris in 1549, where he was studying at the University of Paris; in that year he also published a book of chansons.

Conrad of Megenberg

He studied at Erfurt and the University of Paris; at the latter university he obtained the degree of Master of Arts, and he taught philosophy and theology at the University of Paris for several years.

Constantin Argetoianu

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

Constantino Tsallis

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

Cornelius van Zierikzee

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

Council for Maintaining the Occupations

The Council for Maintaining the Occupations (French: Conseil pour le Maintien des Occupations), or CMDO, was a revolutionary committee formed during the May 1968 events in France originating in the Sorbonne.

Cù Huy Hà Vũ

Vu graduated with a doctorate in law from France's University of Paris, though he did not become a licensed lawyer in Vietnam.

Dale Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours

He was educated at Keswick School and at The Sorbonne, Paris, and became Managing Director of a clock and metal component manufacturing company.

Darko Matijašević

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

Fanta Régina Nacro

She received her first degree in audiovisual science and techniques from INAFEC in 1986 and also earned a Master’s Degree in Film and Audiovisual Studies at the Sorbonne.

Françoise Pommaret

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

Franklin Martins

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

Fuad Rouhani

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

Georges de Rham

He studied at the University of Lausanne and then in Paris for a doctorate, becoming a lecturer in Lausanne in 1931; where he held positions until retirement in 1971; he held positions in Geneva in parallel.

Georges Hilaire Bousquet

He was a graduate of the University of Paris and was working as a lawyer for the Court of Appeals in Paris when approached by Samejima Naonobu, a Japanese diplomat recruiting foreign advisors for the government of Meiji period Japan onDecember 24, 1871.

Georges Sagnac

While still a lab assistant at the Sorbonne, he was one of the first people in France to study X-rays, following Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

Gerald Stern

He did post-graduate study at the University of Paris in 1949-50 and spent his twenties living in and traveling between New York City and Europe.

Giant magnetoresistance

GMR was discovered in 1988 independently by the groups of Albert Fert of the University of Paris-Sud, France, and Peter Grünberg of Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.

Godfrey McHugh

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

Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers

Nothing is known of his early years or his musical training except that he may have received a degree from the University of Paris.

Guy Quaden

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

Habibollah Hedayat

Upon finishing his medical internship in Tehran’s Women’s Hospital, he performed his military service for one year in the Iranian Army Health Services and then departed for France in 1948 to attend medical school at the University of Paris.

Hazel Carby

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

Henry Fitzsimon

Going to the University of Paris, he became a zealous protagonist of Protestantism, "with the firm intention to have died for it, if need had been".

Henry Hu

He earned a Doctor of Philosophy and a Diploma of High Studies in International Law and International Affairs from the University of Paris.

Herschel Leibowitz

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

Jacques Friedel

He graduated from the University of Paris with a Licence ès sciences degree in 1948, then studied at the Metallurgy Laboratory of the School of Mines with Charles Crussard.

Jean Escarra

Jean Escarra (Paris, 1885- Paris, 1955), French legal scholar, consultant of the Chinese government and professor at the Faculté de Droit de Paris.

Jean Jacques Moreau

Moreau received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Paris, then became a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Jean Moréas

He received a French education, and went to Paris in 1875 to study law at the University of Paris.

Jean Passerat

He studied at the University of Paris, and is said to have had some curious adventures at one time working in a mine.

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.

Jenny Rosenthal Bramley

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

Jil Caplan

She studied modern literature at the Sorbonne and theatre at the Cours Florent, where she met Jay Alanski, producer and composer of the most influential pop songs of the 1980s.

Johann von Aldringen

After travelling as page to a nobleman in France, Italy and the Netherlands, he went to the University of Paris.

Jorie Graham

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

Jules Baillarger

He studied medicine at the University of Paris under Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772–1840), and while a student worked as an intern at the Charenton mental institution.

Kate Chappell

She also attended the Sorbonne and the University of Southern Maine, where she graduated summa cum laude in 1983 with an A.B. in Communications after an 18-year hiatus from college.

Kate Kretz

Kretz attended the Sorbonne in Paris, and obtained a BFA in drawing and painting from Binghamton University, and was accepted into the Hoffberger School of Painting, but attended and earned an MFA from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA.

Katharina Rapp

After completing her high school education there, she went to Paris to study at the Sorbonne, then moved to London where she met her husband.

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri

Apart from his statesmanship, he had tenured as a professor at the University of Paris and University of Nice in France, and in 2008, he assumed the professorship as a professor of political science as well as the executive directorship of the Beaconhouse National University (BNU).

King's College, Aberdeen

As a former professor at the University of Paris, Elphinstone modelled the university very much on the continental European tradition.

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.

Lucia Ronchetti

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

Lucien Abenhaim

He holds an MD from the University of Paris (1977), an MSc from McGill University and a PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (Information, Risk and Decision, 1986).

M’Baye Babacar Cissé

He graduated from the University of Paris IX Dauphine, France with a master's degree in finance and a diploma in management.

Maurice Lebel

In 1931, he received a Diplôme d'Études Supérieures in language and classical literature from the Sorbonne.

Monique Barbut

Barbut obtained her Master of Philosophy in Economics and Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Paris.

Newdigate-Reed House

The building was purchased by the Bierbower family in the late 19th century and sold to Stanley Forman Reed in 1910, Reed having just completed his law studies at at a number of Universities including Yale University, the University of Virginia, Columbia University and the University of Paris.

Nicolae Penescu

Admitted to the bar in 1921, he received his legal doctorate from the University of Paris in 1923.

Niède Guidon

Guidon holds a degree in Natural History from the University of São Paulo and a doctorate in Archaeology from the Sorbonne in Paris, France.

Nigel de Gruchy

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

Noël Mitrani

A graduate of History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne, and for some time a press illustrator, Noël Mitrani entered cinema as a writer.

Osip Mandelstam

In April 1908, Mandelstam decided to enter the Sorbonne in Paris to study literature and philosophy, but he left the following year to attend the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

Pascal Le Deunff

Pascal Le Deunff obtained a Master Degree in International Economy and a Doctorate in Economics at the University of Paris (Nanterre).

Pascal Lissouba

He gained his education at the Lycee Felix Faure in Nice (1948–52), the École Supérieure d'Agriculture in Tunis and the University of Paris (1958–61).

Passi

The group's first album, Pourquoi tant de haine?, was released in 1992, and Passi was forced to end his agronomy studies at the University of Paris (Nanterre) to be able to focus on music.

Paul Einzig

He took a degree in Doctor of Political and Economic Sciences at the University of Paris from 1921 to 1923.

Photinos Panas

He was the first professor of ophthalmology at the University of Paris, and in 1879 established the ophthalmology clinic at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.

Pierre Juneau

After graduating from the Université de Montréal, he studied at the University of Paris where he met Pierre Trudeau, with whom he co-founded the dissident political magazine Cité Libre upon returning to Montreal.

Pierre Victor Auger

He then joined the physical chemistry laboratory of the faculté des sciences of the University of Paris under the direction of Jean Perrin to work there on the photoelectric effect.

Pierre-Paul Schweitzer

Schweitzer was educated at the University of Strasbourg, the University of Paris, and the Paris School of Political Science and received degrees in Law, Economics and Political Science.

Qubilah Shabazz

She left Princeton after two semesters and moved to Paris, where she studied at the Sorbonne and worked as a translator.

Richard Rolle

One theory is that Rolle spent the early 1320s at the renowned Sorbonne, becoming well-trained in theology, and perhaps being ordained there.

Robert Blackadder

Robert studied at the University of St Andrews (where his name is listed among the students in either 1461 or 1462), and in 1464 he was received as a bachelor in the University of Paris.

Robert of Newminster

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

Romance of Flamenca

The author was probably not a minstrel, but rather a cleric, most likely in the service of the Roquefeuil family at the court of Alga, and may have written the romance at the Benedictine monastery at Nant, Aveyron, and was erudite and may have even studied at the University of Paris.

Ruby Cohn

In January 1953 while a student at the Sorbonne she attended the first public performance of En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot), by a then obscure Irish-born dramatist, Samuel Beckett.

Sarah Biasini

She studied art history at the Sorbonne in Paris and theater at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles and the Actors Studio in New York City.

Stanton Macdonald-Wright

Married at the age of seventeen, Macdonald-Wright moved to Paris with his wife to immerse himself in European art and to study at the Sorbonne, the Académie Julian, the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Colarossi.

STB Le Havre

In 1955, Claude Josephau carried Le Havre all the way to the French Cup semifinals where the club lost to Paris University Club, 55-50, in front of a crowd of 1,200.

Susan Sellers

Sellers gained her PhD from the University of London in 1992, having previously received a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies from the University of Paris (Sorbonne).

Tafsir Malick Ndiaye

After receiving his first diploma from the Institute of Advanced International Studies of the University of Paris (and being first in his year, 1980), he received a postgraduate diploma in Public Law, specializing in public international law, from the Paris X University Nanterre as well (cum laude, first in year, 1980).

Tancred Tancredi

They oversaw his extensive education, sending him first to the University of Bologna and thence to Paris, where he received his doctorate.

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.

Thérèse Bonney

She settled in Paris and studied at the Sorbonne from 1918–19, publishing a thesis on the moral ideas in the theater of Alexandre Dumas, père, receiving a docteur-des-lettres degree in 1921, and thus became the youngest person, the fourth woman, and the tenth American of either sex to receive the degree from the institution.

Tom Lubensky

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

Trương Như Tảng

By 1951, he had completed his studies, having earned a master’s degree in political science and having gone on to take a licentiate in law at the University of Paris.

Vasily Fesenkov

After graduating from the Kharkov University (1911) he entered the Sorbonne, where he defended a dissertation for the Doctor of Science degree in 1914; in between he interned at the Paris, Meudon, and Nice observatories.

Vladimir Perišić

From 1995 to 97 he studied film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, from 1997-99 Modern Literature at the University of Paris.

Well-formed Petri net

Well-formed Petri nets are a Petri net class jointly elaborated between the University of Paris 6 (Université P. & M. Curie) and the University of Torino in the early 1990s.

Yizhar Harari

He studied political science and journalism at the University of Paris and then law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and economics and political science in London, and was certified as a lawyer.


Aharon Shabtai

He studied Greek and philosophy in Jerusalem, at the Sorbonne and at Cambridge, and he teaches literature in Tel Aviv University.

André Chevrillon

Chevrillon was born at Ruelle (Charente), and educated at the University College School (London), the École Alsacienne (Paris), the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and the University of Paris.

Antoine Faivre

Until his retirement, he held a chair in the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, University Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Haute-Normandie, director of the Cahiers del Hermétisme and of Bibliothèque de l'hermétisme, and is with Wouter Hanegraaff and Roland Edighoffer, the editor of the journal Aries.

Dominique Senequier

She holds a postgraduate degree in Banking and Monetary Economics from the University of Sorbonne, and is a former director of Hewlett-Packard, having resigned in March 2012.

Emmanuel Mounier

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

Eric Heinze

After receiving his Licence and Maîtrise from the Université de Paris, Heinze enrolled as a DAAD scholar at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Esther de Pommery

h.c. International Medical Association.She studied Obstetrics at the University of Bern and Archaeology in the University of Paris.

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.

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.

Hendrik Elias

Elias was a noted academic, holding doctorates in both Law and Philosophy from studies at the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Paris and the University of Bonn before serving in a number of leading roles in both academia and the law.

Henry of Gorkum

He was a colleague of John Capreolus at the University of Paris, holding positions there between about 1395 and 1419.

Javivi

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

Jean Baptiste Michel Bucquet

Bucquet taught a private course in chemistry in his own laboratory prior to becoming professor of chemistry and natural history in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Paris.

Jean-Jacques Bachelier

Admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1752, he founded an art school using his own means in Paris in 1765 for the artisans in the historic collège d'Autun (rue de l'école de médecine), which survived until the 19th century.

Johann Reuchlin

Reuchlin's career as a scholar appears to have turned almost on an accident; his fine voice gained him a place in the household of Charles I, Margrave of Baden, and soon, having some reputation as a Latinist, he was chosen to accompany Frederick, the third son of the prince, to the University of Paris.

John of Ireland

John was first at St Andrews University but left in 1459 without a degree and joined the University of Paris as student and teacher.

Julie Dreyfus

She started learning Japanese in 1985 at the Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilization at the University of Paris, after studying interior design and becoming interested in Japanese architecture.

Lisandro Otero

Graduating with degrees of Journalism and Philosophy and Letters in 1954 at the Havana University, he also studied at The Sorbonne in Paris.

Lotta Hitschmanova

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

Lycée Rochambeau

As of the 2012-2013 school year, students have gone on to attend McGill University, the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Sciences Po Paris, Stanford University, USC, University of Michigan, University College London, various faculties at the University of Paris and elsewhere.

Mr. John

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

Neagu Djuvara

He attended lycée in Nice, France, and graduated in Letters (1937) and Law (1940) from the University of Paris (his Law thesis dealt with the antisemitic legislation passed by the governments of King Carol II in Romania).

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.

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.

Shmuel Merlin

At the break of World War II he made his way to Paris, where he studied social sciences and history at the University of Paris, and from there to the United States, where he was active in creating committees of support for the Irgun and edited the English language weekly Answer for the “Hebrew Committee for the Liberation of the Nation”.

Soo K. Chan

He has taught in several international architectural schools including National University of Singapore, Syracuse University and has also lectured at Tamsui University, Taipei, University of Paris and Notre Dame University.

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.

Svetozar Vlajković

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

Victor Anatolyevich Vassiliev

He has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris VII, and at the Mathematical Science Research Institute (MSRI) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

After mastering Talmudic studies at a young age, Yitzhak went on to attend the Sorbonne and then later the University of London, where he received his doctorate.

Yōichi Masuzoe

He was an academic assistant at the University of Tokyo from 1971, and later spent several years in Europe as a research fellow at the University of Paris (1973-75) and University of Geneva (1976-78).

Yves Manglou

During this same period Manglou also obtained a maîtrise in Human Sciences at the University of Paris, Val-de-Marne - a foreshadowing of experienced-based learning, which was later formalized in France as Validation des Acquis de l'Experience.