Nancy-Université was a French

federal university A collegiate university is a university where functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges. Historically, the first collegiate university was the University of Paris and its first college was the Col ...

which federated the three principal institutes of higher education in Nancy,

Lorraine Lorraine, also , ; ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; ; ; is a cultural and historical region in Eastern France, now located in the administrative region of Grand Est. Its name stems from the medieval kingdom of ...

before their merger into the

University of Lorraine The University of Lorraine (), abbreviated as UL, is a public research university based in Lorraine, Grand Est region, France. It was created on 1 January 2012, by the merger of Henri Poincaré University, Nancy 2 University, Paul Verlaine Un ...

: *

Henri Poincaré University The Henri Poincaré University, or Nancy 1, nicknamed UHP, was a public research university located in Nancy, France. UHP formed the Nancy-Université federation with two other institutions in 2005. In 2012, Nancy-Université was merged with U ...

(UHP, also known as Nancy 1): natural sciences, wrapping several faculties and engineering schools; **

École Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies de l'Ingénieur de Nancy École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * Éco ...

: general engineering ** Telecom Nancy: Computer science and engineering *

Nancy 2 University Nancy 2 University (''Université Nancy 2'') was a French university located in Nancy, France. It was a member of the Nancy-Université federation, a group of the three higher education institutions in Nancy.

: social sciences * Institut national polytechnique de Lorraine (Lorraine INP): It federates 11 engineering schools. With over 50,000 students, Nancy had the fifth largest student population in France.

Libraries

Nancy-Université has several

academic libraries An academic library is a library that is attached to a higher education institution, which supports the curriculum and the research of the university faculty and students. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are an es ...

. The academic library of Nancy 2 University, opened by French president

Albert Lebrun Albert François Lebrun (; 29 August 1871 – 6 March 1950) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1932 to 1940. He was the last president of the Third Republic. He was a member of the centre-right Democratic Republica ...

, contains around 500 000 documents, among which at least 250 000 are books, in 35 locations.

History

The original

was founded in 1572 in the nearby city of

Pont-à-Mousson Pont-à-Mousson () is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. Its inhabitants are known as ''Mussipontains'' in French. It is an industrial town (mainly steel industry), situated on the river Moselle. Pont-à-Mou ...

Charles III Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. Charles was born at Buckingham Palace during the reign of his maternal grandfather, King George VI, and ...

, duke of Lorraine, and

Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine Charles de Lorraine (17 February 1524 – 26 December 1574), Duke of Chevreuse, was a French Cardinal, a member of the powerful House of Guise. He was known at first as the Cardinal of Guise, and then as the second Cardinal of Lorraine, after t ...

, and was then run by the

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. The University was transferred to Nancy in 1768. The University of Nancy was closed by the revolutionaries in 1793, and reopened in 1864.

Notable personnel

François Gény François Gény (1861–1959) was a French jurist and professor of law at the University of Nancy, who introduced the notion of "free scientific research" to the interpretation of positive law. His advocacy of judicial discretion in the interpr ...

(1861–1959), French professor and jurist who introduced notion of "free scientific research" in

positive law Positive laws () are human-made laws that oblige or specify an action. Positive law also describes the establishment of specific rights for an individual or group. Etymologically, the name derives from the verb ''to posit''. The concept of posit ...

. *

Laurent Schwartz Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (; 5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002) was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of Distribution (mathematics), distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awar ...

(1915-2002) was a researcher and teacher at the university when he received the

Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of Mathematicians, International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place e ...

in 1950. *

Jean-Pierre Serre Jean-Pierre Serre (; born 15 September 1926) is a French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954, the Wolf Prize in 2000 and the inau ...

(1926-alive) was a " ''maître de conférences''" (MCF) at the university when he received the

in 1954.

External links

Nancy-Université official websiteUniversity of Nancy 1University of Nancy 2INPL
Universities and colleges in Nancy, France 1572 establishments in France Educational institutions established in the 1570s University of Lorraine {{France-university-stub

Libraries

History

Notable personnel

See also

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