Lviv University

Lviv University
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Ukrainian	Львівський Університет
Latin	Universitas Leopoliensis
Established	1661
Location	Lviv, Ukraine
Enrollment	~12 000
Rector	Ivan Vakarchuk
Address	Universytets'ka 1 79000, L'viv Ukraine
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Website	Lviv University
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Lviv in Ukraine

University of Lviv (full name: Ivan Franko national university of L'viv; Ukrainian: Львівський національний університет імені Івана Франка; Polish: Uniwersytet Lwowski) is the oldest university in Ukraine, founded in 1661 by King Jan II Kazimierz in Lviv.

History

Faculties

• Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics ([1])
• Faculty of International Relations ([2])
• Faculty of Biology ([3])
• Faculty of Journalism ([4])
• Faculty of Chemistry ([5])
• Faculty of Law ([6])
• Faculty of Economics ([7])
• Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics ([8])
• Faculty of Electronics ([9])
• Faculty of Philology ([10])
• Faculty of Foreign Languages ([11])
• Faculty of Philosophy ([12])
• Faculty of Geography ([13])
• Faculty of Physics ([14])
• Faculty of Geology ([15])
• Faculty of Preuniversity Training ([16])
• Faculty of History ([17])
• Department of Pedagogy ([18])

Research divisions and facilities

• Scientific Research Department ([19])
• Zoological museum ([20])
• University Library ([21])
• Journal of Physical Studies ([22])
• The Institute of Archaeology ([23])
• Ukrainian journal of computational linguistics ([24])
• Media Ecology Institute ([25])
• Modern Ukraine ([26])
• Institute for Historical Research ([27])
• Reginal Agency for Sustainable Development ([28])
• Botanical Garden ([29])
• NATO Winter Academy in Lviv ([30])
• Scientific technical & educational center of low temperature studies ([31])

Notable alumni

• Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890–1963), philosopher, mathematician and logician, a pioneer of categorial grammar
• Stefan Banach (1892–1945), eminent mathematician, one of the moving spirits of the Lwów School of Mathematics, father of functional analysis
• Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski (1865–1925), classical scholar and archaeologist, professor of the Jagiellonian University
• Georgiy R. Gongadze (1969–2000), Georgia and Ukrainian journalist kidnapped and murdered in 2000
• Stanisław Kot (1885–1975), scientist and politician, member of the Polish Government in Exile
• Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1881-1941), philosopher, mathematician, logician
• Pinhas Lavon (1904–1976), Israeli politician
• Antoni Łomnicki (1881–1941), mathematician
• Jan Łukasiewicz (1878–1956), mathematician
• Stanisław Maczek (1892–1994), commander of the First Polish Armoured Division, the last Commander of the First Polish Army Corps under Allied Command
• Kazimierz Michałowski (1901–1981), archeologist and Egyptologist
• Jan Parandowski (1895–1978), writer, essayist, and translator, expert on classical antiquity
• Maciej Rataj (1884–1940), Polish politician, president
• Markiyan Shashkevych (1811–1843), poet
• Joseph Cardinal Slipyj (1892–1984), head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
• Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1982), mathematician, educator, and humanist
• Rudolf Weigl (1883–1957), biologist and inventor of the first effective vaccine for epidemic typhus

Notable professors

• Henryk Arctowski (1871–1958), oceanographer, Antarctica explorer
• Szymon Askenazy (1866-1935), historian, diplomat and politician, founder of the Lwów-Warsaw School of History
• Herman Auerbach (1901-1942), mathematician
• Stefan Banach
• Oswald Balzer (1858–1933), historian of law and statehood
• st. Józef Bilczewski (1860–1923), archbishop of the city of Lwów of the Latins
• Leon Chwistek (1884–1944), Avant-garde painter, theoretician of modern art, literary critic, logician, philosopher and mathematician
• Antoni Cieszyński (1882–1941), physician, dentist and surgeon
• Jan Czekanowski (1882–1965), anthropologist, statistician and linguist
• Władysław Dobrzaniecki (1897–1941), physician and surgeon
• Yakiv Holovatsky (1814–1888), poet
• Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866—1934), historian,organizer of scholarship, leader of the pre-revolution Ukrainian national movement, head of Ukraine's parliament, first president of the Ukraine
• Stefan Inglot (1902—1944), historian
• Zygmunt Janiszewski (1888–1920), mathematician,
• Ignacy Krasicki (1735—1801), writer and poet, senator, Bishop of Warmia and Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland
• Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895—1978), linguist
• Jan Łukasiewicz
• Ignác Martinovics (1755-1795) - physicist, Franciscan, Hungarian revolutionary
• Stanisław Mazur (1905—1981), mathematician
• Stanisław Ruziewicz (1881—1941), mathematician
• Wacław Sierpiński (1882—1969), mathematician, known for contributions to set theory, number theory, theory of functions and topology
• Marian Smoluchowski (1872—1917), scientist, pioneer of statistical physics and a mountaineer, creator the basis of the theory of stochastic processes
• Hugo Steinhaus
• Kazimierz Twardowski (1866—1938), philosopher and logician, head of the Lwów-Warsaw School of Logic
• Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874—1941), gynaecologist, writer, poet, art critic, translator of French literary classics and journalist
• Rudolf Weigl

Other

• Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki (1825—1899), landowner, naturalist, political activist, collector and patron of arts
• Stanisław Lem (b. 1921), satirical, philosophical, and science fiction writer
• Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941) virtuoso pianist, composer, diplomat and politician, the third Prime Minister of Poland

See also

• Lwów-Warsaw School
• Massacre of Lwów professors