University of Vilnius

The University of Vilnius in Lithuania (Lithuanian: Vilniaus universitetas; Polish: Uniwersytet Wileński; Russian: Виленскийуниверситет) was founded in 1579.

History

the University of Vilnius (Wilna) was rested by the Jesuits. A decisive part in the foundation of the university of Vilnius was played by the bishop of Vilnius, Valerijonas Protasevičius (Protasewicz, 1504-1579), which died the year of its opening. The Jesuits were charged during two centuries with the University of Wilna.
In 1803, the act of confirmation of the imperial dated April 4th, signed by Alexandre Empereur of Russia, precise university that old the " University of Wilna" founded in 1578, and reorganized in 1781, will take the denomination of imperial University of Wilna.

In, 1823, repression at the University of Vilnius, the students are stopped, in 1824 professors of the University are relieved, in particular the historian Joachim Lelewel.

1832 - the severe repression which follows the Polish insurrection of 1830 caused the closing of the University of Vilnius, symbol of Polish and Lithuanian nationalism. In 1832, the University of Vilnius was closed, as well as the universities, measures which obliged the students to continue their studies in Estonian establishments, Ukrainian or Russian.
in 1919 the university was reopened

Library

The college library was founded in 1570, it was indicated in 1965 like library of deposit of the United Nations and its components; it collects also the documents of UNESCO. It currently preserves 5.300.000 publications.

The Mémoire program of the world of UNESCO aims at the conservation and the diffusion of the collections of files and library everywhere in the world

Organization

Center for the cultures without State

the University of Vilna has, since the year 1999, a particular and single institute in its kind, the “Center for Stateless Cultures”, the Center for the cultures without State nor territorial claim. This center is the first academic institute dedicated exclusively to the cultures of populations neither not having armed, neither marine, neither political power, nor no independent statute in the world. Its goal is to establish high level programs, of research and formation.

Figures related to the University

Pupils

Adam Mickiewicz, poet; Pulpit languages and Slavic literatures of the Collège de France
Ignacy Domeyko (1801-1889), geologist and engineer; Vice-chancellor of the University of Santiago
Czesław Miłosz, Nobel Prize of literature in 1980
Justas Vincas Paleckis, member of the European Parliament
Joseph Chodzko, topographer and geographer
Thomas Zan, poet
Karl Eduard von Eichwald, doctor
Juliusz Slowacki, poet
Alexandre Chodzko, Philologist and orientalist; Pulpit Slavic languages and literature of the Collège de France
Antoni Edward Odyniec, poet
Divided into volumes Venclova, poet, professor of languages and Slavic literatures to the Université of Yale

Professors

Joachim Lelewel historian
Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus veterinary medicine
Joseph Frank (1771-1842), doctor
Józef Goluchowski honorary doctor in philosophy; Professor of philosophy at the University of Vilnius
Vilenas Vadapalas
Leon Borowski
Errazu Seweryn Galzowski (1801-1878), doctor as a chief of the Polish Army in 1831
Eusèbe Slowacki, professor of Polish literature

Vice-chancellors or members of the Council of the University

Jan Sniadecki (Polish: Jan Śniadecki) mathematician, philosopher and astronomer
Martin Odlanicki Poczobutt, (1728-1810), Astronomer and Recteur of the University of Vilnius

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