Wrocław University
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Uniwersytet Wrocławski (called Wrocław University) is one of nine universities in Wrocław, Poland.
History
The town council of Wrocław established the university in the 16th century - Władysław Jagiellończyk, King of Bohemia and Hungary, signed the foundation deed. Due to fierce opposition from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, however, the new academic institution was soon closed. After two hundred years, Emperor Leopold I Habsburg founded a small Jesuit academy on the same premises and named it, after himself, the Leopoldine Academy.
After Silesia was incorporated into Prussia, the Leopoldine Academy was merged with the protestant Viadrina University, previously located in Frankfurt-am-Oder. From the two, the Universitatis Literarum Vratislaviensis was formed and established August 3, 1811. At first it had five faculties - philosophy, medicine, law, protestant theology, and catholic theology.
The university developed very rapidly in the second half of the 19th century, with many new institutes, departments, clinics, laboratories, and exhibits. At that time, numerous internationally renown and historically notable scholars lectured at the university, for example Johann Dirichlet and Gustav Kirchhoff. Before World War II, Wrocław University had an additional Faculty of Natural Science.
