University of Seville
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| University of Seville | |
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| Universidad de Sevilla | |
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| Established | 1551 |
| Type | Public |
| Students | 73,350 |
| Location | Seville, Andalucia, Spain |
| Website | Official Website |
The University of Seville or sometimes Seville University, in Spanish Universidad de Sevilla, is a public university in Seville, Spain.
In 2004 it had 73,350 students scattered around different campuses, being the second Spanish presential university by number of students.
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[edit] History
The University originated in late 15th century as the School of Blessed Mary of Jesus (Colegio de Santa María de Jesús), founded by Archdeacon Maese Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella.
In 1505 a papal bull of Pope Julius II allowed it to teach degrees in Theology, Philosophy, Law, Medicine and Arts. In 1551 the city council granted a General Study Centre (Estudio General) which enabled the School to become officially a university.
[edit] Organization
It comprises
- Governed by the Department Council (Consejo de Departamento): The Departments
- Governed by Centre Council (Junta de Centro): consists of
- Faculties,
- Technical Sciences Schools (Escuelas Técnicas Superiores), and
- University Schools (Escuelas Universitarias).
The main building of University of Seville is known as the "Old Tobacco Factory", because of the building's original use. Built in the 18th century, Seville's tobacco factory was the largest industrial building in the world at that time and it remained a tobacco factory until the 1950s. This beautiful building is also the setting for the very well-known opera by Bizet, Carmen. Carmen was a fictional worker in the tobacco factory, the original story being a novella by Prosper Mérimée Prosper Mérimée. This building houses two of the university's faculties: the School of Literature & Philology and the School of Geography & History.
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Other Faculties are located throughout Seville, including the Health Science schools in La Macarena, the Business School in Nervion, the Engineering School and School of Communications in La Cartuja and its Languages Institute [Instituto de Idiomas] and Science Schools in Reina Mercedes.
[edit] Famous people
- Baltasar Garzón, (born October 26, 1955 in Torres, Jaén, Spain), a respected, sometimes polemical, judge in Spain.
- Felipe González, former Prime Minister of the Spanish Government.
- Alfonso Guerra, former Deputy Prim Minister of the Spanish Government.
- Luis Rojas Marcos
- Luis Cernuda, poet.
- Pedro Salinas, professor and poet.
- Kate Gibbs, fashion model and humanitarian.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official Website, Spanish version.
- Live webcam of Rectorado campus, main entrance.
- University of Seville at Google Maps, Rectorado campus.
"University of Seville". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/University_of_Seville.
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