University of Orléans

The University of Orléans (French: Université d'Orléans) is a French university, in the Academy of Orléans and Tours. As of July 2015 it is a member of the regional university association Leonardo da Vinci consolidated University.

History

In 1230, when for a time the doctors of the University of Paris were scattered, a number of the teachers and disciples took refuge in Orléans; when pope Boniface VIII, in 1298, promulgated the sixth book of the Decretals, he appointed the doctors of Bologna and the doctors of Orléans to comment upon it.

St. Yves (1253–1303) studied civil law at Orléans, and Pope Clement V also studied there law and letters; by a papal bull published at Lyon, 27 January 1306, he endowed the Orléans institutes with the title and privileges of a university.

Twelve later popes granted the new university many privileges. In the 14th century it had as many as five thousand students from France, Germany, Lorraine, Burgundy, Champagne, Picardy, Normandy, Touraine, Guyenne and Scotland .

The current university was founded in 1960, after its medieval predecessor was closed down in 1793 and merged into the University of France in 1808.

Organisation

The university is organised into three Teaching and Research divisions (UFR):

• Law, Economics and Management
• Literature, Languages and Human Sciences
• Science and Technology

In addition, it has:

• 4 University Institutes of Technology
• 1 Science of the Universe Observatory
• 1 National Higher Institute of Teaching and Education
• 1 School of Engineering
• 1 School of Kinesiology

Notable people

Ancient

Robert Joseph Pothier (1699–1722), lawyer.

Daniel Jousse (1704–1781), lawyer.

Modern

Pierre Roubertoux (born 1937) - behavioural geneticist.

• Jeanne Henriette Louis (born 1938) - professor emeritus of North American civilization
• Michel Cullin (1944 – 2020) - political scientist
• Morinobu Endo (born 1946) - Japanese physicist and chemist
• Christian Renoux (born 1960) - historian and an activist for nonviolence
• Nikolay Nenovsky (born 1963) - Bulgarian economist, working in the fields of monetary theory and policy
• Emmanuel Trélat (born 1974) - mathematician

Ancient

• Emo of Friesland (c.1175–1237) - Frisian scholar and abbot
• Eustache Deschamps (1346 – 1406 or 1407) - poet
• Walter de Coventre (died 1371 or 1372) - Scottish ecclesiastic
• Walter Forrester (died 1425 or 1426) - Bishop of Brechin, Scotland
• Henry de Lichton (died 1440) - Scottish prelate and diplomat, Bishop of Moray and Bishop of Aberdeen
• Oliver King (c.1432 – 1503) - Bishop of Exeter and Bishop of Bath and Wells

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