Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Universitas Studiorum Mickiewicziana Posnaniensis | |
Former names | University of Poznań University of the Western Lands |
|---|---|
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1919 (100 years ago) |
| Rector | Prof. Andrzej Lesicki |
Administrative staff | 5,286[1] |
| Students | 40,697[1] |
| Location | Poznań ,Greater Poland Voivodeship ,Poland |
| Affiliations | EUA, EUCEN, CGU, SGroup |
| Website | international.amu.edu.pl [13] |
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Polish: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Polish abbreviation UAM) is one of the major Polish universities, located in the city of Poznań, Greater Poland, in the west of the country. It traces its origins to 1611[2] and officially opened on May 7, 1919. Since 1955, it has carried the name of the Polish Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz. The university has been frequently listed as a top three university in the country.[3][4]
In 2018, the Academic Ranking of World Universities placed the university within the 701-800 band globally.[5]
Universitas Studiorum Mickiewicziana Posnaniensis | |
Former names | University of Poznań University of the Western Lands |
|---|---|
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1919 (100 years ago) |
| Rector | Prof. Andrzej Lesicki |
Administrative staff | 5,286[1] |
| Students | 40,697[1] |
| Location | Poznań ,Greater Poland Voivodeship ,Poland |
| Affiliations | EUA, EUCEN, CGU, SGroup |
| Website | international.amu.edu.pl [13] |
History
On October 28, 1611, under the Royal Charter granted by King Sigismund III Vasa, the Jesuit College became the first university in Poznań. These edics were later affirmed with charters issued by King John II Casimir in 1650 and King John III Sobieski in 1678. Based on these charters, the university granted scholar degrees to its members. The inauguration ceremony of the newly founded took place on May 7, 1919 that is 308 years after it was formally established by the Polish king and 400th anniversary of the foundation of the Lubrański Academy which is considered its spiritual predecessor.Its original name was Wszechnica Piastowska ("University of the Piasts" – wszechnica being a less common Polish word for "university"), which later in 1920 was renamed Uniwersytet Poznański ("Poznań University")[6].
In 1920 famous sociologist Florian Znaniecki founded the first Polish department of sociology at the university, one of the first such departments in Europe. In the same period of the university's history, botanist Józef Paczoski founded the world's first institute of phytosociology.
After the invasion of Poland, Poznań was annexed by Germany and the University was closed by the Nazis in 1939. It was reopened as a German university in 1941, which operated until 1944. Staff and students of the Polish university, some of them expelled by Germans to Warsaw, opened an underground Polish "University of the Western Territories" (Uniwersytet Ziem Zachodnich), whose classes met in private apartments (see Education in Poland during World War II). Many of the professors and staff were imprisoned and executed in Fort VII in Poznań, including professor Stanisław Pawłowski (rector in the years 1932-33).[7] The Polish university reopened, in much smaller form, after the end of World War II. In 1950, the Medical Faculty, including the Dentistry section and the Faculty of Pharmacy, were split off to form a separate institution, now the Poznań University of Medical Sciences. In 1955 Uniwersytet Poznański adopted a new patron, the 19th-century Polish Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz, and changed to its current name.
Sites
The university's central administrative building is Collegium Minus, on the west side of Adam Mickiewicz Square at the western end of the street Święty Marcin. (This is one of a group of buildings, including the Imperial Palace, built in the first decade of the 20th century while Poznań was still under German rule; it originally housed a Royal Academy.) Adjoining this is the Aula, which is frequently used for ceremonies and for classical music concerts, and Collegium Iuridicum (accommodating the law faculty). Some teaching takes place in Collegium Maius, another of the aforementioned group of buildings (on ul. Fredry), although this is mainly used by the medical university. Other buildings in the city centre include former communist party headquarters on Święty Marcin, Collegium Novum (used mainly for language teaching) on Al. Niepodległości, and the university library on ul. Ratajczaka.
The university also uses a number of other buildings in southern and western districts of Poznań. However it is strongly developing its site at Morasko in the north of the city. As of 2006, the faculties of physics, mathematics and computer science, biology, geographical and geological science had moved to the new location. In 2015 they were joined by the faculty of history (Collegium Historicum Novum).[8]
The university also has external branches in other towns of western Poland, including Kalisz, Ostrów Wielkopolski and Słubice.
Staff and student numbers
At the start of the 2008/2009 academic year, the university had 46,817 undergraduates (including about 18,000 on weekend or evening courses), 1308 doctoral students, and 2247 other post-graduate students. The number of undergraduates declined slightly between 2005 and 2008.[9]
At the end of 2008, the university had a total of 2892 teaching staff, including 257 full professors and 490 associate/assistant professors. It also had 2120 other employees.[10]
Degrees and faculties
University Library
Collegium Chemicum Novum - Faculty of Chemistry
Like most Polish universities, Adam Mickiewicz University awards the following degrees:
licencjat, normally a three-year course, sometimes considered equivalent to a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree
magister, normally a two-year course following the licencjat, considered equivalent to a Master of Arts or Master of Science degree
habilitations
The university has the following faculties:
Faculty of English
Faculty of Biology
Faculty of Chemistry
Faculty of Educational Studies
Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences
Faculty of History
Faculty of Law and Administration
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Faculty of Modern Languages and Literature
Faculty of Physics
Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology
Faculty of Political Science and Journalism
Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology
Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, in Kalisz
Notable alumni and honorary doctors
Collegium Maius
Faculty of Political Science and Journalism
Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures
Among the University's most famous graduates are:
Stanisław Barańczak (1946-2014), poet and translator, Nike Award laureate
Bogumił Brzezinski (b. 1943), chemist
Franciszek Gągor (1951-2010), general, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces
Krzysztof Grabowski (b. 1965), poet and singer
Maciej Henneberg (b. 1949), Polish-Australian anatomist and communist-era dissident
Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna (1892-1983), poet, prose writer, playwright and translator
Anna Jantar (1950-1980), singer
Tomasz Jasiński (b. 1951), historian
Jacek Jaśkowiak (b. 1964), politician and entrepreneur; the current mayor of Poznań
Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (b. 1953), Academy Award-winning composer
Max Kolonko (b. 1965), Polish-American producer, writer, author and broadcast journalist
Włodzimierz Kołos (1928-1996), chemist and physicist, one of the founders of modern quantum chemistry
Ryszard Krynicki (b. 1943), poet and translator
Jan Kulczyk (1950-2015), businessman and billionaire
Sebastian Kulczyk (b. 1980), businessman and investor
Dominika Kulczyk (b. 1977), Polish sinologist, entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and reporter
Tomasz Łuczak (b. 1963), mathematician
Crocheted Olek (b. 1978), New York-based Polish-American artist
Halszka Osmólska (1930-2008), paleontologist
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (b. 1959), conservative politician, former Prime Minister of Poland
Adam Michnik (b. 1946), journalist and communist-era dissident
Julia Przyłębska (b. 1959), lawyer, President of the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland
Krzysztof Skubiszewski (1926-2010), politician, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
Hanna Suchocka (b. 1946), politician, the first female Prime Minister of Poland
Marian Rejewski (1905-1980), mathematician involved in breaking the Enigma machine
Jerzy Różycki (1909-1942), mathematician involved in breaking the Enigma machine
Jerzy Waldorff (1910-1999), TV personality, writer, publicist and literary critic
Jan Węglarz (b. 1947), computer scientist
Henryk Zygalski (1908-1978), mathematician involved in breaking the Enigma machine
Recipients of honorary doctorates from the University include Marshal Józef Piłsudski, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Marie Curie, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Witold Hensel, Wisława Szymborska, Ernst Håkon Jahr, Al Gore and John Maxwell Coetzee.
List of rectors
1919–1923: Heliodor Święcicki (1854–1923), doctor and philanthropist
1923–1924: Zygmunt Lisowski (1880–1955), lawyer
1924–1925: Stanisław Dobrzycki (1875–1931), Slavic language specialist
1925–1926: Ludwik Sitowski (1880–1947), zoologist
1926–1928: Jan Gabriel Grochmalicki (1883–1936), zoologist
1928–1929: Edward Lubicz-Niezabitowski (1875–1946), doctor and zoologist
1929–1931: Stanisław Kasznica (1874–1958), lawyer
1931–1932: Jan Sajdak (1882–1967), classical philologist
1932–1933: Stanisław Pawłowski (1882–1940), geographer
1933–1936: Stanisław Runge (1888–1953), veterinarian
1936–1939: Antoni Peretiatkowicz (1884–1956), lawyer
1939: Bronisław Niklewski (1879–1961), plant physiologist
1945–1946: Stefan Tytus Dąbrowski (1877–1947), doctor and physiologist
1946–1948: Stefan Błachowski (1889–1962), psychologist
1948–1952: Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890–1963), philosopher and logician
1952–1956: Jerzy Suszko (1889–1972), chemist
1956–1962: Alfons Klafkowski (1912–1992), lawyer
1962–1965: Gerard Labuda (1916–2010), historian
1965–1972: Czesław Łuczak (1922–2002), historian
1972–1981: Benon Miśkiewicz (1930–2008), historian
1981–1982: Janusz Ziółkowski (1924–2000), economist and sociologist
1982–1984: Zbigniew Radwański (born 1924), lawyer
1984–1985: Franciszek Kaczmarek (born 1928), physicist and mathematician
1985–1988: Jacek Fisiak (born 1936), English language specialist
1988–1990: Bogdan Marciniec (born 1941), chemist
1990–1996: Jerzy Fedorowski (born 1934), geologist
1996–2002: Stefan Jurga (born 1946), physicist
2002–2008: Stanisław Lorenc (born 1943), geologist
2008–2016: Bronisław Marciniak (born 1950), chemist
2016– : Andrzej Lesicki (born 1950), biologist
International cooperation
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany
University of Greifswald, Germany
Universität Wien, Austria
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany, France
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, US
Cornell University Ithaca, New York, US
Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Università degli Studi di Urbino, Italy
Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, Portugal
Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Agder University, Norway
Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey
Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey
Balikesir University, Balikesir, Turkey
Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey
See also
Open access in Poland
List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)