The University of Poitiers (UP; , ) is a

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located in

Poitiers Poitiers is a city on the river Clain in west-central France. It is a commune in France, commune, the capital of the Vienne (department), Vienne department and the historical center of Poitou, Poitou Province. In 2021, it had a population of 9 ...

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. It is a member of the

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. It is multidisciplinary and contributes to making Poitiers the city with the highest student/inhabitant ratio in France by welcoming nearly 28,000 students in 2017. The University of Poitiers represents a global operating budget of around 150 million euros per year, one-third of which is for operating and investment costs and two-thirds for personnel costs. As of July 2015 it is a member of the regional university association Leonardo da Vinci consolidated University.

History

Founded in 1431 by Pope Eugene IV and

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ed by King Charles VII, the University of Poitiers was originally composed of five faculties: theology, canon law, civil law, medicine, and arts. In the 16th century, the university exerted its influence over the town cultural life, and was ranked second only to Paris. Of the 4,000 students who attended it at the time, some were to become famous: Joachim Du Bellay, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac,

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, and Scévole de Sainte-Marthe, to name but a few. After temporary closure during the French Revolution when provincial universities were abolished, the University of Poitiers reopened in 1796. The reinstated university was merged from several schools and contained new faculties such as the faculty of science and the faculty of letters. They established the École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs de Poitiers, a department which trains engineers, in 1984 after having created the ''Institut de sciences et techniques de Poitiers'', its predecessor. The first Confucius Institute in France was created on the campus in 2005 with the cooperation of Nanchang University and Jiujiang University. After having managed its payroll and budget since January 1, 2010, the University of Poitiers is the third university in France to have its premises. In late 2011 the university changed its logo. They submitted four so that students and the staff were able to decide. The up-to-date logo is based on the original coat of arms while the former was something modern. Over 9,000 people participated in the selection of the new logo. In 2012, the university launched a blogging platform where the teaching staff and researchers deal with topical subjects, each in their area of expertise. The slogan is ''the word of experts''.

Organization

The university covers all major academic fields through its 14 teaching and research departments, institutes and schools: *Teaching and Research Departments **Department of Law and Social Sciences **Department of Economics **Department of Basic and Applied Science **Department of Literature and Languages **Department of Human Sciences and Arts **Department of Sports Sciences **Department of Medicine and Pharmacy *School **Graduate Engineering School - École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs de Poitiers (ENSIP) *Institutes **Polytechnic of Poitiers (IUT) **Polytechnic of Angoulême (IUT) **IAE University Business School ( IAE Poitiers) **Institute of Communication and New Technologies (ICOMTEC) **General Administration Preparatory Institute (IPAG) **Institute of Industrial, Insurance and Financial Risks (IRIAF)

Research

In the scientific domain, it has these laboratories, where ENSIP is part of: * LIAS: automatics * IC2MP: chemistry and materials * Institut Pprime: physics In the legal domain, th
Center for Studies on International Legal Cooperation
(CECOJI) is a joint research unit (UMR) involving the University of Poitiers and the National Center for Scientific Research ( CNRS).

Life on campus

Students can play in athletic teams, or just enjoy all the sports proposed. It is also possible to play golf at the north of the campus of Poitiers and sail in

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.Centre golfique des Chalons
University of Poitiers The Bitards are also known as the university's most famous

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Notable people

Medieval

* Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522) - Greek and Hebrew scholar *

(c.1490-1553) - writer * Hubert Languet (1518-1581) - diplomat * Joachim du Bellay (c.1522-1560) - poet, critic * Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) - poet * François Viète (1540-1603) - mathematician * Robert Hayman (1575-1629) - poet and colonist * Georg Anton von Rodenstein (1579-1652) - bishop *

(1596-1650) -

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* Joseph-François Lafitau (1681-1746) -

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, ethnologist, and

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Modern

Humanities

* Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854-1936) - anthropologist * Alfred Jeanroy (1859-1953) - linguist * José Fernández Montesinos (1897-1972) - historian and literary critic * Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) - philosopher * Edmond-René Labande (1908-1992) - archivist and historian * Mikel Dufrenne (1910-1995) - philosopher * Roger Garaudy (1913-2012) - philosopher * John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) - American journalist and author * Jean Foyer (1921-2008) - lawyer and politician * Pierre Bec (1921-2014) - poet and linguist * Michel Clouscard (1928-2009) - philosopher and sociologist * Jean-Claude Coquet (1928-2023) - linguist and semiotician *

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(1931-2018) - economist * Kweku Etrew Amua-Sekyi (1933-2007) -

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Supreme Court Judge * Claude Hagège (b. 1936) - linguist * Joaquim Chissano (b. 1939) - Mozambican politician * Pascal Salin (b. 1939) - economist * Pascoal Mocumbi (1941-2023) - Mozambican politician * Jean-Pierre Arrignon (1943-2021) - historian * Jean-Luc Marion (b. 1946) - philosopher * François-Bernard Huyghe (1951-2022) - political scientist * Pascale Ballet (b. 1953) - Egyptologist

Science

* Jules Gosselet (1832-1916) - geologist * Édouard Louis Trouessart (1842-1927) - zoologist * Noël Bernard (1874-1911) - botanist * Henri Lebesgue (1875-1941) - mathematician * René Maurice Fréchet (1878-1973) - mathematician * Paul Becquerel (1879-1955) - biologist * Albert Maige (1872-1943) - botanist * Michel Lazard (1924-1987) - mathematician * Michel Brunet (b. 1940) -

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* Mostafa Mir-Salim (b. 1947) - engineer * Abderrazak El Albani - sedimentologist

Points of interest

* Jardin botanique universitaire de Poitiers

Notes and references

External links

Official website
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