list of Rectors of the University of Paris.

About list of Rectors of the University of Paris

This is a list of rectors of the University of Paris, a foundation of the middle of the twelfth century with a charter from 1200. The office of rector emerged in the middle of the thirteenth century. Since the rector, initially the "rector of the nations", was elected by the students and faculty, his position was very different from the appointed chancellor of the university. The rector became the representative of the faculty of the arts; it required another century for the recognition of the rector as representing also the other three faculties. From the middle of the fourteenth century the rector had the status of head of the university, but limited powers.