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: ''Universitas Studiorum Mickiewicziana Posnaniensis'') is a
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in
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,
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. Due to its history, the university is traditionally considered among Poland's most reputable institutions of higher learning, this standing equally being reflected in national rankings. It traces its origins to 1611, when under the
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granted by King
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, the Jesuit College became the first university in Poznań. The Poznań Society for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences which played an important role in leading Poznań to its reputation as a chief intellectual centre during the Age of Positivism and
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, initiated founding of the university. The inauguration ceremony of the newly founded institution took place on 7 May 1919 that is 308 years after it was formally established by the Polish king and on 400th anniversary of the foundation of the Lubrański Academy which is considered its predecessor. Its original name was
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University (Polish: ''Wszechnica Piastowska''), which later in 1920 was renamed to University of Poznań (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Poznański'').
The history of AMU. Uniwersystet Adama Mickiewicza
During
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staff and students of the university opened an underground Polish University of the Western Lands (Polish: '' Uniwersytet Ziem Zachodnich''). In 1955 University of Poznań adopted a new patron, the 19th-century Polish Romantic poet
Adam Mickiewicz Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. He also largely influenced Ukra ...
, and changed to its current name. The university is organized into six principal academic units—five research schools consisting of twenty faculties and the doctoral school—with campuses throughout the historic
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and Morasko. The university employs roughly 4,000 academics, and has more than 40,000 students who study in some 80 disciplines. More than half of the student body are women. The language of instruction is usually Polish, although several degrees are offered in either
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or English. The university library is one of Poland's largest, and houses one of Europe's largest
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collections, including the 1723 edition of James Anderson's '' The Constitutions of the Free-Masons''. The university is currently publishing over 79 research journals, most of them on Pressto publishing platform based on Open Journal System. Adam Mickiewicz University Repository (AMUR) contains over 23,704 records of research publications and is one of the first research repositories in Poland. Adam Mickiewicz University is a member of the
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,
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, SGroup European Universities' Network, Compostela Group of Universities and EPICUR.


History

From the beginning, the history of the Adam Mickiewicz University has been inextricably linked to the history of
Poznań Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...
itself and in some measure – the history of the entire
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, which, partitioned by the neighboring countries (Prussia, Austria-Hungary and Russia) towards the end of the eighteenth century disappeared from the European map for more than a hundred years. On 28 October 1611, when under the
Royal Charter A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous example being the English Magna Carta (great charter) of 1215, but ...
granted by King
Sigismund III Vasa Sigismund III Vasa (, ; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa. Re ...
, the
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College became the first university in Poznań. These edicts were later affirmed with charters issued by King John II Casimir in 1650, and King
John III Sobieski John III Sobieski ( (); (); () 17 August 1629 – 17 June 1696) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674 until his death in 1696. Born into Polish nobility, Sobieski was educated at the Jagiellonian University and toured Eur ...
in 1678, the university in Poznań lasted until 1773. Based on these charters, the university granted scholar degrees to its members. The inauguration ceremony of the newly founded took place on 7 May 1919, that is 308 years after it was formally established by the Polish king and the 400th anniversary of the foundation of the Lubrański Academy which is considered its spiritual predecessor. Its original name was
Piast The House of Piast was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland. The first documented Polish monarch was Duke Mieszko I (–992). The Piasts' royal rule in Poland ended in 1370 with the death of King Casimir III the Great. Branches of ...
University (Polish: ''Wszechnica Piastowska''), which later in 1920, was renamed to the University of Poznań (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Poznański''). In 1920, sociologist
Florian Znaniecki Florian Witold Znaniecki (; 15 January 1882 – 23 March 1958) was a Polish-born American philosopher and sociologist who taught and wrote in Poland and in the United States. Over the course of his work, he shifted his focus from philosoph ...
founded the first Polish department of
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at the university, one of the first such departments in Europe. In the same period of the university's history, botanist
Józef Paczoski Józef Konrad Paczoski (; 8 December 186414 February 1942), was a distinguished Polish botanist whose significant contributions to the field have left a lasting impact on botanical studies. Born on 8th December 1864, he held the esteemed position ...
founded the world's first institute of
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. After the
invasion of Poland The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Second Polish Republic, Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak R ...
, Poznań was annexed by Germany and the university was closed by the
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in 1939. It was reopened as a German university in 1941, which operated until 1944. Staff and students of the Polish university, some of them expelled by Germans to Warsaw, opened an underground Polish University of the Western Lands (Polish: '' Uniwersytet Ziem Zachodnich''), whose classes met in private apartments (see
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). Many of the professors and staff were imprisoned and executed in Fort VII in Poznań, including professor Stanisław Pawłowski (rector in the years 1932–33). The Polish university reopened, in much smaller form, after the end of
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. In 1950, the Medical Faculty, including the Dentistry section and the Faculty of Pharmacy, were split off to form a separate institution, now the Poznań University of Medical Sciences. In 1955, the University of Poznań adopted a new patron, the 19th-century Polish Romantic poet
Adam Mickiewicz Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. He also largely influenced Ukra ...
, and changed to its current name.


Sites

The university's central administrative building is Collegium Minus, on the west side of Adam Mickiewicz Square at the western end of the street Święty Marcin. (This is one of a group of buildings, including the Imperial Palace, built in the first decade of the 20th century while Poznań was still under German rule; it originally housed a Royal Academy.) Adjoining this is the Aula, which is frequently used for ceremonies and for classical music concerts, and Collegium Iuridicum (accommodating the law faculty). Some teaching takes place in Collegium Maius, another of the aforementioned group of buildings (on ul. Fredry), although this is mainly used by the medical university. Other buildings in the city centre include former communist party headquarters on Święty Marcin, Collegium Novum (used mainly for language teaching) on Al. Niepodległości, and the university library on ul. Ratajczaka. The university also uses a number of other buildings in southern and western districts of Poznań. However, it is strongly developing its site at Morasko in the north of the city. As of 2006, the faculties of physics, mathematics and computer science, biology, geographical and geological science had moved to the new location. In 2015 they were joined by the faculty of history (Collegium Historicum Novum). The university also has external branches in other towns of western Poland, including
Kalisz Kalisz () is a city in central Poland, and the second-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, with 97,905 residents (December 2021). It is the capital city of the Kalisz Region. Situated on the Prosna river in the southeastern part of Gr ...
,
Ostrów Wielkopolski Ostrów Wielkopolski () (often abbreviated ''Ostrów Wlkp.'', formerly called simply ''Ostrów'', , Latin: ''Ostrovia'') is a city in west-central Poland with 70,982 inhabitants (2021), situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship; the seat of Ostr ...
and Słubice. Adam Mickiewicz University maintains close cooperation with
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,
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. The two universities jointly operate the Collegium Polonicum, located just opposite Viadrina on the Polish side of the
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. University owns a seasonal polar research station located in the Petuniabukta (Petunia Bay), in the Northern part of Billefjord, and central part of
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island in the
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archipelago. As of 2024, Adam Mickiewicz University owns and operates retreats in three historical palaces in the Wielkopolska region: the
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Ciążeń Palace (built in 1768), the
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Gułtowy Palace (built in 1786), and the
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Palace in Obrzycko (built in 1862). File:Ciążeń Pałac biskupi P1750796-002.jpg,
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File:SM Gułtowy Pałac 2019 (1).jpg, Gułtowy File:Obrzycko zamek.jpg,
Obrzycko Obrzycko () is a town in Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 2,262 inhabitants (2010). Nearby municipalities include Wronki, Ostroróg, and Szamotuły. History As part of the region of Greater Poland, i.e. the cradle o ...


Staff and student numbers

At the start of the 2008/2009 academic year, the university had 46,817 undergraduates (including about 18,000 on weekend or evening courses), 1308 doctoral students, and 2247 other post-graduate students. The number of undergraduates declined slightly between 2005 and 2008. At the end of 2008, the university had a total of 2892 teaching staff, including 257 full
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s and 490 associate/assistant professors. It also had 2120 other employees.


Reputation

The Adam Mickiewicz University is one of the top Polish universities. It was ranked by ''Perspektywy'' magazine as the third best Polish university. International rankings such as
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and QS University Rankings rank the university as the fourth best Polish higher level institution. On the list of the best Emerging Europe and Central Asia universities compiled by QS University Rankings, the Adam Mickiewicz University was placed as 60th. In 2020, QS World University Ranking by Subject positioned the Adam Mickiewicz University as one of the best higher level institutions among the top 101–150 in
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, 251–300 in
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, 371 in Arts & Humanities and 551–600 in
Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...
&
Astronomy Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and their overall evolution. Objects of interest includ ...
,
Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...
and
Biology Biology is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It is a broad natural science that encompasses a wide range of fields and unifying principles that explain the structure, function, growth, History of life, origin, evolution, and ...
.


Degrees

Like most Polish universities, Adam Mickiewicz University awards the following degrees: * '' licencjat'', normally a three-year course, sometimes considered equivalent to a
Bachelor of Arts A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...
or
Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...
degree * '' magister'', normally a two-year course following the ''licencjat'', considered equivalent to a
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or
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degree *
doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...
s *
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s


Schools and faculties

* School of Natural Sciences ** Faculty of
Biology Biology is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It is a broad natural science that encompasses a wide range of fields and unifying principles that explain the structure, function, growth, History of life, origin, evolution, and ...
** Faculty of Geographic and
Geological Sciences Geology (). is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Earth s ...
* School of Exact Sciences ** Faculty of
Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...
** Faculty of
Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...
** Faculty of
Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...
and
Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...
* School of Social Sciences ** Faculty of Human Geography and Planning ** Faculty of
Political Science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...
and
Journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journ ...
** Faculty of Law and Administration ** Faculty of Psychology and Cognitive Science ** Faculty of Sociology ** Faculty of Educational Studies * School of Humanities ** Faculty of Anthropology and Cultural Studies ** Faculty of Archeology ** Faculty of
Philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...
** Faculty of
History History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...
** Faculty of Arts Studies ** Faculty of Theology * School of Languages and Literatures ** Faculty of English ** Faculty of Polish and Classical
Philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...
** Faculty of
Modern Languages A modern language is any human language that is currently in use as a native language. The term is used in language education to distinguish between languages which are used for day-to-day communication (such as French and German) and dead clas ...
and Literatures * Doctoral School of Adam Mickiewicz University


People


Notable alumni and staff

Adam Mickiewicz University's prestige and large class size have enabled it to graduate a large number of distinguished alumni. Many AMU alumni are leaders and innovators in the business world, as well as prominents in society and the arts. Its graduates include authors ( Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna, Ryszard Krynicki, Stanisław Barańczak), journalists (
Adam Michnik Adam Michnik (; born 17 October 1946) is a Polish historian, essayist, former Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1989), dissident, Intellectual#Public intellectual, public intellectual, as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the P ...
, Max Kolonko), entrepreneurs (
Jan Kulczyk Jan Jerzy Kulczyk (24 June 1950 – 29 July 2015) was a Polish billionaire businessman. He was the founder and owner of Kulczyk Holding (headquartered in Warsaw) and an international investment house Kulczyk Investments (former name: Kulczyk Inve ...
, Grażyna Kulczyk); composer Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, the recipient of the
Academy Award for Best Original Score The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by ...
(2004); theatre practitioner Lech Raczak, film director
Filip Bajon Filip Michał Bajon (born 25 August 1947) is a Polish people, Polish film director and screenwriter. Selected filmography References External links

* 1947 births Living people Film people from Poznań Polish film directors Polish ...
and literary critic and a music aficionado, Jerzy Waldorff. One of the most notable resistance fighters of the
Home Army The Home Army (, ; abbreviated AK) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II. The Home Army was formed in February 1942 from the earlier Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Armed Resistance) established in the ...
during
Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, Jan Nowak-Jeziorański majored in economics in 1936, he worked as an
assistant professor Assistant professor is an academic rank just below the rank of an associate professor used in universities or colleges, mainly in the United States, Canada, Japan, and South Korea. Overview This position is generally taken after earning a doct ...
at the university. Notable academic staff included: * archeologists: Józef Kostrzewski; * biologists: Zygmunt Tobolewski; * historians: Stanisław Kozierowski,
Gerard Labuda Gerard Labuda (; 28 December 1916 – 1 October 2010) was a Polish historian whose main fields of interest were the Middle Ages and the Western Slavs. He was born in Kashubia. He lived and died in Poznań, Poland. Life Labuda was born in N ...
, Henryk Łowmiański, Anna Wolff-Powęska; * legal scholars: Zygmunt Ziembiński, Czesław Znamierowski, Antoni Peretiatkowicz, Michał Sczaniecki, Sławomira Wronkowska-Jaśkiewicz, Witalis Ludwiczak; * philosophers: Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz,
Władysław Tatarkiewicz Władysław Tatarkiewicz (; 3 April 1886 – 4 April 1980) was a Polish philosopher, historian of philosophy, historian of art, esthetician, and ethicist. Early life and education Tatarkiewicz began his higher education at Warsaw University ...
,
Leszek Nowak Leszek Nowak (7 January 1943 – 20 October 2009) was a Polish philosopher and legal theoretician. Biography Education In 1965, he graduated in law from Adam Mickiewicz University's Faculty of Law and Administration, having written Master ...
; * linguists: Wiktor Jassem, Grażyna Vetulani; * literature scholars: Zygmunt Szweykowski, Edward Balcerzan, Stanisław Barańczak; * sociologists:
Florian Znaniecki Florian Witold Znaniecki (; 15 January 1882 – 23 March 1958) was a Polish-born American philosopher and sociologist who taught and wrote in Poland and in the United States. Over the course of his work, he shifted his focus from philosoph ...
. Hanna Suchocka, 5th
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, first woman to hold this post in Poland and the 14th woman to be appointed and serve as prime minister in the world, graduated from university. Additionally, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, the 12th
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and Roman Giertych, the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Minister of National Education between 2006 and 2007, are graduates. Three graduates of the university have served as Marshals of the
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and
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of the Republic of Poland. Józef Zych, Deputy Marshal of the Sejm (1991–1995, 2001–2005),
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(1995–1997), Senior Marshal (2005, 2011); Marek Jurek, Marshal of the Sejm (2005–2007); Rafał Grupiński, Deputy Marshal of the Senate (from 2023). Bohdan Winiarski was one of the longest-serving Judges of the
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(1946–1967) and between 1961 and 1964 its president. Additionally, Krzysztof Skubiszewski,
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(1989–1993), was the Judge sitting ''ad hoc'' on the Court (1993–2004), also Paweł Wiliński, Professor of Jurisprudence, chair in Criminal Procedure, served as the Judge sitting ''ad hoc'' on the
European Court of Human Rights The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The court hears applications alleging that a co ...
for two terms (2010–2012, 2015–2016). Three of the school's graduates, including Alfons Klafkowski (1985–1989), Mieczysław Tyczka (1989–1993) and Julia Przyłębska (since 2016), have served as the Presidents of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland. Three of the current fifteen members of the court graduated from AMU: Julia Przyłębska, Andrzej Zielonacki and Justyn Piskorski. Additionally, the President of Poland,
Andrzej Duda Andrzej Sebastian Duda (born 16 May 1972) is a Polish lawyer and politician who has served as the sixth president of Poland since 2015. Before becoming president, he served as a Member of the Sejm from 2011 to 2014 and before becoming Member of ...
, refused to swear in Roman Hauser, former President of the
Supreme Administrative Court of Poland The Supreme Administrative Court of the Republic of Poland ( , NSA ) is the court of last resort in administrative cases e.g. those betweens private citizens (or corporations) and administrative bodies. This court deals with appeals from lower admi ...
and Krzysztof Ślebzak as the Tribunal's judges. Among the university's notable graduates are also: * Bogumił Brzezinski (b. 1943),
chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field. Chemists study the composition of ...
*
Krzysztof Czyżewski Krzysztof Czyżewski (born 6 July 1958 in Warsaw) is a Polish author, one of the initiators of the Borderland Foundation in Sejny, Poland. Biography He is a graduate in Polish literature from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Initially cl ...
(b. 1958), author * Elżbieta Frąckowiak (b. 1950), electrochemical engineer * Franciszek Gągor (1951–2010), general, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces * Krzysztof Grabowski (b. 1965), poet and singer * Maciej Henneberg (b. 1949), Polish-Australian
anatomist Anatomy () is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old scien ...
and communist-era dissident * Anna Jantar (1950–1980), singer * Tomasz Jasiński (b. 1951), historian *
Paweł Kisielow Paweł Kisielow (Polish: ; born 21 February 1945 in Gorlice, Poland) is a Polish biologist who specializes in immunology. He is best known for his research on T cells. He is a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a membe ...
(born 1945), immunologist *
Włodzimierz Kołos Włodzimierz Kołos (1928 - 1996) was a Polish chemist and physicist who was one of the founders of modern quantum chemistry, and pioneered accurate calculations on the electronic structure of molecules. Life and scientific work Kołos was born ...
(1928–1996), chemist and
physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...
, one of the founders of modern
quantum chemistry Quantum chemistry, also called molecular quantum mechanics, is a branch of physical chemistry focused on the application of quantum mechanics to chemical systems, particularly towards the quantum-mechanical calculation of electronic contributions ...
*
Dominika Kulczyk Dominika Kulczyk (born 30 July 1977) is a Polish billionaire businesswoman, and the daughter of Jan Kulczyk, who was Poland's richest man. She is the co-founder and president of the Kulczyk Foundation, chair of the supervisory board of Kulczyk Ho ...
(b. 1977),
sinologist Sinology, also referred to as China studies, is a subfield of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilizatio ...
, businesswoman and philanthropist * Tomasz Łuczak (b. 1963), mathematician * Crocheted Olek (b. 1978), New York-based Polish- American artist * Halszka Osmólska (1930–2008), paleontologist * Karolina Pawliczak (b. 1976), lawyer and politician * Helena Polaczkówna (1881–1942), historian, archivist, war activist * Jan Sokołowski (1899–1982), zoologist *
Adam Szłapka Adam Stanisław Szłapka (born December 6, 1984, in Kościan) is a Polish politician, political scientist, and local government official. He has been a member of the Sejm (Polish Parliament) for the 8th, 9th, and 10th terms (since 2015). He ha ...
(b. 1984), politician, leader of the Modern political party *
Wanda Wesołowska Wanda Wesołowska (born 11 August 1950) is a Polish zoologist known for her work with jumping spiders. She has described more species of jumping spider than any contemporary writer, and is second only to Eugène Simon in the history of arachnolo ...
(b. 1950), zoologist *
Jan Węglarz Jan Węglarz (born 24 September 1947 in Poznań) is a Polish computer scientist. His current research focuses on operations research. He is the winner of the 2000 Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science. Life and career He studied at the Un ...
(b. 1947),
computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...


The Enigma Codebreakers

In the 1920s the German military began using a 3-rotor Enigma, whose security was increased in 1930 by the addition of a plugboard. The Polish Cipher Bureau sought to break it due to the threat that Poland faced from Germany, but its early attempts did not succeed. Near the beginning of 1929, the Polish Cipher Bureau realized that mathematicians may make good codebreakers; the bureau invited math students at University of Poznań to take a class on cryptology. After the class, the Bureau recruited some students to work part-time at a Bureau branch set up in Poznań for the students. The branch operated for some time. On 1 September 1932, 27-year-old Polish mathematician
Marian Rejewski Marian Adam Rejewski (; 16 August 1905 – 13 February 1980) was a Polish people, Polish mathematician and Cryptography, cryptologist who in late 1932 reconstructed the sight-unseen German military Enigma machine, Enigma cipher machine, aided ...
and two fellow Poznań University mathematics graduates, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki, joined the Bureau full-time and moved to Warsaw. Their first task was to reconstruct a four-letter German naval cipher.


Honorary doctors

Recipients of honorary doctorates from the university include Marshal
Józef Piłsudski Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (Poland), Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920). In the aftermath of World War I, he beca ...
, Marshal
Ferdinand Foch Ferdinand Foch ( , ; 2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French general, Marshal of France and a member of the Académie Française and French Academy of Sciences, Académie des Sciences. He distinguished himself as Supreme Allied Commander ...
,
Marie Curie Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (; ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( ; ), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was List of female ...
, Ignacy Paderewski,
Roman Dmowski Roman Stanisław Dmowski Polish: (9 August 1864 – 2 January 1939) was a Polish right-wing politician, statesman, and co-founder and chief ideologue of the National Democracy (abbreviated "ND": in Polish, "''Endecja''") political movement ...
, Witold Hensel, Ernst Håkon Jahr,
Al Gore Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American former politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He previously served as ...
,
J. M. Coetzee John Maxwell Coetzee Order of Australia, AC Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL Order of Mapungubwe, OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 ...
, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski,
Robert Maxwell Ian Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor, politician and fraudster. After escaping the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, ...
and
Orhan Pamuk Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952; ) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him ...
, the recipient of the 2006
Nobel Prize in Literature The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning ''for'' Literature (), is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in ...
.
Wisława Szymborska Maria Wisława Anna SzymborskaVioletta Szostagazeta.pl, 9 February 2012. ostęp 11 February 2012 (; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish people, Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Liter ...
, recipient of the 1996
Nobel Prize in Literature The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning ''for'' Literature (), is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in ...
, received a degree of Honorary
Doctor of Letters Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., Latin: ' or '), also termed Doctor of Literature in some countries, is a terminal degree in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In the United States, at universities such as Drew University, the degree ...
of Adam Mickiewicz University in 1995, and it's the only
honorary doctorate An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or '' ad hon ...
she has ever accepted.


List of rectors

* 1919–1923: Heliodor Święcicki (1854–1923), doctor and philanthropist * 1923–1924: Zygmunt Lisowski (1880–1955), lawyer * 1924–1925: Stanisław Dobrzycki (1875–1931), Slavic language specialist * 1925–1926: Ludwik Sitowski (1880–1947), zoologist * 1926–1928: Jan Gabriel Grochmalicki (1883–1936), zoologist * 1928–1929:
Edward Lubicz-Niezabitowski Edward Feliks Lubicz-Niezabitowski (May 30, 1875 – November 5, 1946) was a Polish zoologist and physician. He took a special interest in the Pleistocene and Holocene fauna of the region. He served as a professor at the University of Poznań from ...
(1875–1946), doctor and zoologist * 1929–1931: Stanisław Kasznica (1874–1958), lawyer * 1931–1932: Jan Sajdak (1882–1967), classical philologist * 1932–1933: Stanisław Pawłowski (1882–1940), geographer * 1933–1936: Stanisław Runge (1888–1953), veterinarian * 1936–1939: Antoni Peretiatkowicz (1884–1956), lawyer * 1939: Bronisław Niklewski (1879–1961), plant physiologist * 1945–1946: Stefan Tytus Dąbrowski (1877–1947), doctor and physiologist * 1946–1948: Stefan Błachowski (1889–1962), psychologist * 1948–1952: Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890–1963), philosopher and logician * 1952–1956: Jerzy Suszko (1889–1972), chemist * 1956–1962: Alfons Klafkowski (1912–1992), lawyer * 1962–1965:
Gerard Labuda Gerard Labuda (; 28 December 1916 – 1 October 2010) was a Polish historian whose main fields of interest were the Middle Ages and the Western Slavs. He was born in Kashubia. He lived and died in Poznań, Poland. Life Labuda was born in N ...
(1916–2010), historian * 1965–1972:
Czesław Łuczak Czesław Łuczak (born 19 February 1922 in Kruszwica – 10 August 2002 in Poznań) was a Polish historian focusing on World War II. He served as Rector (academia), rector of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań from 1965 to 1972; and, from 19 ...
(1922–2002), historian * 1972–1981: Benon Miśkiewicz (1930–2008), historian * 1981–1982: Janusz Ziółkowski (1924–2000), economist and sociologist * 1982–1984: Zbigniew Radwański (1924–2012), lawyer * 1984–1985: Franciszek Kaczmarek (1928–2015), physicist and mathematician * 1985–1988:
Jacek Fisiak Jacek () is a Polish given name of Greek origin related to Hyacinth, through the archaic form of ''Jacenty''. Its closely related equivalents are: Jacinto ( Spanish and Portuguese), Giacinto (Italian), Jácint ( Hungarian) and Jacint ( Catalan ...
(1936–2019), English philologist * 1988–1990: Bogdan Marciniec (born 1941), chemist * 1990–1996: Jerzy Fedorowski (born 1934), geologist * 1996–2002: Stefan Jurga (1946–2022), physicist * 2002–2008: Stanisław Lorenc (1943–2020), geologist * 2008–2016: Bronisław Marciniak (born 1950), chemist * 2016–2020: Andrzej Lesicki (born 1950), biologist * 2020– : Bogumiła Kaniewska (born 1964), Polish philologist


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International cooperation

* Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany * Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany *
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, Germany * Universität Wien, Austria *
Masaryk University Masaryk University (MU) (; ) is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno, it now consists of ten faculties and 35,115 students. It is named after To ...
, Brno, Czech Republic *
Université Libre de Bruxelles The (French language, French, ; lit. Free University of Brussels; abbreviated ULB) is a French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium. It has three campuses: the ''Solbosch'' campus (in the City of Brussels and Ixelles), the ''Plain ...
, Belgium *
University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany Rennes 2 University (UR2; , officially Université Rennes-II Haute-Bretagne) is a public university located in Upper Brittany, France. It is one of the four universities of the List of public universities in France by academy#Academy of Rennes, A ...
, France *
Universidad Complutense de Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...
, Spain *
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) is a Public university, public research university in Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and Carnegie Classification o ...
, Pennsylvania, US *
Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...
Ithaca, New York, US * Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy * Università degli Studi di Urbino, Italy *
Sabancı University Sabancı University () is a private research university that adopts a liberal arts education approach, established in 1994 and located on a 1.26 million squaremeter campus which is about 40 km from Istanbul's city center. Its first students ...
, Istanbul, Turkey * Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal *
University of Agder The University of Agder (), formerly known as Agder College and Agder University College, is a public university with campuses in Kristiansand and Grimstad, Norway. The institution was established as a university college (Scandinavia), univer ...
, Norway * Doğuş University, Istanbul, Turkey *
Anadolu University Anadolu University () is a public university in Eskişehir, Turkey. Anadolu University Distance Education Faculty (or Anadolu University Global Campus) serves as the national provider of distance education and is a member of the European Associ ...
, Eskişehir, Turkey * Balıkesir University, Balıkesir, Turkey *
Çukurova University Çukurova University () is a public research university located in Adana, Turkey. The university features sixteen faculties, three colleges, seven vocational colleges, three institutes, and twenty-six research and application centers. Its campus i ...
, Adana, Turkey


See also

*
Open access in Poland Open access scholarly communication of Poland can be searched via the "CeON Aggregator" of the University of Warsaw Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling's Centre for Open Science. Repositories As of April 2025, th ...
*
List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945) The list of modern universities in Europe (1801–1940) contains all University, universities that were founded in Europe after the French Revolution and before the end of World War II. Universities are regarded as comprising all institutions ...


References


External links

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