The Lubrański Academy (
Polish: ''Akademia Lubrańskiego'';
Latin
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: ''Collegium Lubranscianum'') was a
university college
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that was established in 1518 in
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 ...
by Bishop
Jan Lubrański. It was the first school with university aspirations in Poznań (in fact it was not a full university).
History
The academy's first
rector was the Poznań humanist
Tomasz Bederman. Another prominent lecturer was
Grzegorz of Szamotuły.
The Lubrański Academy aimed at independence from the
Kraków Academy but was finally transformed into a faculty of the Kraków Academy. Before that the Lubrański Academy comprised six schools: of philosophy, logic, mathematics, languages (Latin, Greek), law, and rhetoric.
The academy's main building was remodeled in the 17th and 18th centuries.
In 1780 the academy was merged with the
Jesuit
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Collegium Posnaniae.
Today the Lubrański Academy's building holds the museum of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Poznań.
Alumni
*
Józef Struś
Josephus Struthius (Polish language, Polish: Józef Struś; 1510 in Poznań – between 27 July 1568 and 26 January 1569 in Poznań) was a Polish professor of medicine in Padua (1535–1537) and personal physician for Polish kings. He also served ...
– scientist, mayor of Poznań.
*
Klemens Janicki – poet
*
Łukasz Opaliński – poet and writer
*
Jan Śniadecki – astronomer and polymath
See also
*
Zamojski Academy
References
*''
Encyklopedia Polski
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Albanian
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* '' Albanian Encyclopedic Dictionary'' (): published by Academy of Sciences of Albania;
** First Edition (1985; ''FESH'')
** New Edition (2008/09; ''Botim ...
'', p. 12.
* K. Mazurkiewicz, ''Początki Akademji Lubrańskiego w Poznaniu (1519 - 1535). Przyczynek do dziejów rozwoju nauk humanistycznych w Polsce'', Poznań 1921
* J. Nowacki, ''Akademia Lubrańskiego'', Kronika Miasta Poznania 1999, nr 2
* M. Nowicki, ''Profil wychowawczy Akademii Lubrańskiego na tle sporu Krzysztofa Hegendorfera z Grzegorzem Szamotulczykiem'', in ''Ku źródłom wartości'', red. P. Orlik, Poznań 2008, pp. 327–334
* M. Nowicki, ''Vir orator czy vir probus, czyli problem recepcji antycznych wartości wychowawczych w programie wychowawczym Akademii Lubrańskiego'', in ''Ku źródłom wartości'', a cura di P. Orlik, Poznań 2008, pp. 313–326
* M. Nowicki, ''Stan badań nad dziejami Akademii Lubrańskiego'', Biuletyn Historii Wychowania 24 (2008), pp. 107–120
M. Nowicki, The educational activity of Lubrański Academy in 17th and 18th century, Poznań 2011* L. Sieciechowiczowa, ''Życie codzienne w renesansowym Poznaniu 1518-1619'', Warszawa 1974
* D. Żołądź-Strzelczyk, ''Academia Lubransciana'', Kronika Miasta Poznania 1999, nr 2
1518 establishments in Poland
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