University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy
Via Zamboni, 33, 40126 Bologna BO, Italy
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The University of Bologna (Italian: Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna; abbreviated Unibo) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. It is the oldest university in continuous operation in the world, and the first degree-awarding institution of higher learning.[4][5] Teaching began around 1088, with the university becoming organised as universitas scholarium or guilds of students by the late 12th century.[6] The university’s emblem carries the motto Alma Mater Studiorum (Latin for ‘Nourishing mother of studies’) and the date A.D. 1088.[7] With over 90,000 students, the University of Bologna is one of the largest universities in Europe.
The university saw the first woman to earn a university degree and teach at a university (Bettisia Gozzadini), and the first woman to earn both a doctorate in science and a salaried position as a university professor (Laura Bassi). The University of Bologna had a central role in the sciences during the medieval age and the Italian Renaissance, when it housed and educated Nicholas Copernicus in addition to numerous other Renaissance mathematicians.[8] It has educated a wide range of notable alumni, amongst them a large number of Italian scientists, prime ministers, supreme court judges and priests.[9]
Aside from its main campus in Bologna, the university has additional campuses in Cesena, Forlì, Ravenna and Rimini, as well as branches abroad in Buenos Aires, New York, Brussels and Shanghai.[10] It houses the fully funded boarding college Collegio Superiore di Bologna, the Bologna School of Advanced Studies,[11] the botanical gardens of Bologna, a large number of museums, libraries and archeological collections,[12] as well as the Bologna University Press.
The date of the University of Bologna’s founding is uncertain. The university was granted a charter (Authentica habita) by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in 1158, but in the 19th century, a committee of historians led by Giosuè Carducci traced the founding of the university back to 1088, which would make it the oldest continuously operating university in the world.[13][14][15] However, the development of the institution at Bologna into a university was a gradual process. Paul Grendler writes that “it is not likely that enough instruction and organization existed to merit the term university before the 1150s, and it might not have happened before the 1180s.”[16]
The university arose around mutual aid societies (known as universitates scholarium) of foreign students called “nations” (as they were grouped by nationality) for protection against city laws which imposed collective punishment on foreigners for the crimes and debts of their countrymen. These students then hired scholars from the city’s pre-existing lay and ecclesiastical schools to teach them subjects such as liberal arts, notarial law, theology, and ars dictaminis (scrivenery).[17] 8]
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The University of Bologna (Italian: Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna; abbreviated Unibo) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. It is the oldest university in continuous operation in the world, and the first degree-awarding institution of higher learning.[4][5] Teaching began around 1088, with the university becoming organised as universitas scholarium or guilds of students by the late 12th century.[6] The university’s emblem carries the motto Alma Mater Studiorum (Latin for ‘Nourishing mother of studies’) and the date A.D. 1088.[7] With over 90,000 students, the University of Bologna is one of the largest universities in Europe.
The university saw the first woman to earn a university degree and teach at a university (Bettisia Gozzadini), and the first woman to earn both a doctorate in science and a salaried position as a university professor (Laura Bassi). The University of Bologna had a central role in the sciences during the medieval age and the Italian Renaissance, when it housed and educated Nicholas Copernicus in addition to numerous other Renaissance mathematicians.[8] It has educated a wide range of notable alumni, amongst them a large number of Italian scientists, prime ministers, supreme court judges and priests.[9]
Aside from its main campus in Bologna, the university has additional campuses in Cesena, Forlì, Ravenna and Rimini, as well as branches abroad in Buenos Aires, New York, Brussels and Shanghai.[10] It houses the fully funded boarding college Collegio Superiore di Bologna, the Bologna School of Advanced Studies,[11] the botanical gardens of Bologna, a large number of museums, libraries and archeological collections,[12] as well as the Bologna University Press.
The date of the University of Bologna’s founding is uncertain. The university was granted a charter (Authentica habita) by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in 1158, but in the 19th century, a committee of historians led by Giosuè Carducci traced the founding of the university back to 1088, which would make it the oldest continuously operating university in the world.[13][14][15] However, the development of the institution at Bologna into a university was a gradual process. Paul Grendler writes that “it is not likely that enough instruction and organization existed to merit the term university before the 1150s, and it might not have happened before the 1180s.”[16]
The university arose around mutual aid societies (known as universitates scholarium) of foreign students called “nations” (as they were grouped by nationality) for protection against city laws which imposed collective punishment on foreigners for the crimes and debts of their countrymen. These students then hired scholars from the city’s pre-existing lay and ecclesiastical schools to teach them subjects such as liberal arts, notarial law, theology, and ars dictaminis (scrivenery).[17] 8]