Aurora University (french: Université l'Aurore, ) was a Catholic university in

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from 1903 to 1952. The university was founded on 27February 1903 by Joseph

Ma Xiangbo Ma Xiangbo (; April 7, 1840 – November 4, 1939) was a Chinese Society of Jesus, Jesuit Catholic priest, priest, scholar and educator in late-Qing dynasty, Qing and early-Republic of China (1912–49), Republican China. He was one of the foun ...

, S.J. and French Jesuits. In 1905, Ma resigned to establish

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, and Aurora was thereafter run by French Jesuits until the

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. From 1908 onwards, it was located in Shanghai's

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. "By the 1940s, the institution had grown to become one of the largest, if not the largest, among Shanghai’s private universities and included faculties of Law, Medicine, Sciences, Applied Sciences, and Literature, along with a Preparatory Course,Women’s College, nursing program, dental training, a renowned natural sciences museum (Le Musée Heude), and a number of associated collèges and lycées in Shanghai and other cities throughout Jiangnan." In 1952, Aurora University merged into

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and Fudan University, while the chemistry department was absorbed by the newly founded

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and the medical school joined the

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Notable alumni

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, former president of the

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Notable alumni

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