Lviv University
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| Lviv University | |
|---|---|
| Data | |
| Ukrainian | L’vivs’kyy universytet |
| Latin | Universitas Leopoliensis |
| Established | 1661 |
| Location | Lviv, Ukraine |
| Enrollment | ~12 000 |
| Rector | Ivan Vakarchuk |
| Address | Universytets'ka 1 79000, L'viv Ukraine |
| Phone | |
| Website | [Lviv University] |
| Membership | |
| Map | |
 Lviv in Ukraine | |
The Lviv University (official name: Ivan Franko National University of L'viv; Ukrainian: Львівський національний університет імені Івана Франка, L’vivs’kyy natsional’nyy universytet imeni Ivana Franka) is the oldest university in Ukraine. in Lviv.
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History
The University was founded on January 20, 1661 when the King John II Casimir of Poland issued the Diploma granting the city's Jesuit Collegium, founded earlier in 1608, "the honour of the Academy and the title of the University".Faculties
- Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics ([link])
- Faculty of International Relations ([link])
- Faculty of Biology ([link])
- Faculty of Journalism ([link])
- Faculty of Chemistry ([link])
- Faculty of Law ([link])
- Faculty of Economics ([link])
- Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics ([link])
- Faculty of Electronics ([link])
- Faculty of Philology ([link])
- Faculty of Foreign Languages ([link])
- Faculty of Philosophy ([link])
- Faculty of Geography ([link])
- Faculty of Physics ([link])
- Faculty of Geology ([link])
- Faculty of Preuniversity Training ([link])
- Faculty of History ([link])
- Department of Pedagogy ([link])
Research divisions and facilities
- Scientific Research Department ([link])
- Zoological museum ([link])
- University Library ([link])
- Journal of Physical Studies ([link])
- The Institute of Archaeology ([link])
- Ukrainian journal of computational linguistics ([link])
- Media Ecology Institute ([link])
- Modern Ukraine ([link])
- Institute for Historical Research ([link])
- Reginal Agency for Sustainable Development ([link])
- Botanical Garden ([link])
- NATO Winter Academy in Lviv ([link])
- Scientific technical & educational center of low temperature studies ([link])
Notable alumni
- Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890–1963), philosopher, mathematician and logician, a pioneer of categorial grammar
- Stefan Banach (1892–1945), eminent mathematician, one of the moving spirits of the Lwów School of Mathematics, father of functional analysis
- Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski (1865–1925), classical scholar and archaeologist, professor of the Jagiellonian University
- Ivan Franko(1856–1916), poet and linguist, reformer of the Ukrainian language
- Georgiy R. Gongadze (1969–2000), Georgia and Ukrainian journalist kidnapped and murdered in 2000
- Yevhen Konovalets (1891-1938) leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists between 1929 and 1938.
- Stanisław Kot (1885–1975), scientist and politician, member of the Polish Government in Exile
- Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1881-1941), philosopher, mathematician, logician
- Pinhas Lavon (1904–1976), Israeli politician
- Antoni Łomnicki (1881–1941), mathematician
- Jan Łukasiewicz (1878–1956), mathematician
- Stanisław Maczek (1892–1994), commander of the First Polish Armoured Division, the last Commander of the First Polish Army Corps under Allied Command
- Kazimierz Michałowski (1901–1981), archeologist and Egyptologist
- Jan Parandowski (1895–1978), writer, essayist, and translator, expert on classical antiquity
- Maciej Rataj (1884–1940), Polish politician, president
- Jaroslav Rudnyckyj (1910–1995), Ukrainian Canadian linguist, lexicographer, folklorist
- Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), novelist and painter
- Markiyan Shashkevych (1811–1843), poet
- Josyf Cardinal Slipyj (1892–1984), head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
- Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1982), mathematician, educator, and humanist
- Rudolf Weigl (1883–1957), biologist and inventor of the first effective vaccine for epidemic typhus
Notable professors
- Henryk Arctowski (1871–1958), oceanographer, Antarctica explorer
- Szymon Askenazy (1866-1935), historian, diplomat and politician, founder of the Lwów-Warsaw School of History
- Herman Auerbach (1901-1942), mathematician
- Stefan Banach
- Oswald Balzer (1858–1933), historian of law and statehood
- st. Józef Bilczewski (1860–1923), archbishop of the city of Lwów of the Latins
- Leon Chwistek (1884–1944), Avant-garde painter, theoretician of modern art, literary critic, logician, philosopher and mathematician
- Antoni Cieszyński (1882–1941), physician, dentist and surgeon
- Jan Czekanowski (1882–1965), anthropologist, statistician and linguist
- Władysław Dobrzaniecki (1897–1941), physician and surgeon
- Yakiv Holovatsky (1814–1888), poet
- Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866—1934), historian,organizer of scholarship, leader of the pre-revolution Ukrainian national movement, head of Ukraine's parliament, first president of the Ukraine
- Stefan Inglot (1902—1944), historian
- Zygmunt Janiszewski (1888–1920), mathematician,
- Ignacy Krasicki (1735—1801), writer and poet, senator, Bishop of Warmia and Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland
- Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895—1978), linguist
- Jan Łukasiewicz
- Ignác Martinovics (1755-1795) - physicist, Franciscan, Hungarian revolutionary
- Stanisław Mazur (1905—1981), mathematician
- Stanisław Ruziewicz (1881—1941), mathematician
- Wacław Sierpiński (1882—1969), mathematician, known for contributions to set theory, number theory, theory of functions and topology
- Marian Smoluchowski (1872—1917), scientist, pioneer of statistical physics and a mountaineer, creator the basis of the theory of stochastic processes
- Hugo Steinhaus
- Kazimierz Twardowski (1866—1938), philosopher and logician, head of the Lwów-Warsaw School of Logic
- Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874—1941), gynaecologist, writer, poet, art critic, translator of French literary classics and journalist
- Rudolf Weigl
Other
- Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki (1825—1899), landowner, naturalist, political activist, collector and patron of arts
- Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), satirical, philosophical, and science fiction writer
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941) virtuoso pianist, composer, diplomat and politician, the third Prime Minister of Poland
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