The University of Orléans (French: Université d'Orléans) is a French university, in the Academy of Orléans and Tours. As of July 2015 it is a member of the regional university association Leonardo da Vinci consolidated University.
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History
In 1230, when for a time the doctors of the University of Paris were scattered, a number of the teachers and disciples took refuge in Orléans; when pope Boniface VIII, in 1298, promulgated the sixth book of the Decretals, he appointed the doctors of Bologna and the doctors of Orléans to comment upon it.
St. Yves (1253–1303) studied civil law at Orléans, and Pope Clement V also studied there law and letters; by a papal bull published at Lyon, 27 January 1306, he endowed the Orléans institutes with the title and privileges of a university.
Twelve later popes granted the new university many privileges. In the 14th century it had as many as five thousand students from France, Germany, Lorraine, Burgundy, Champagne, Picardy, Normandy, Touraine, Guyenne and Scotland .
The current university was founded in 1960, after its medieval predecessor was closed down in 1793 and merged into the University of France in 1808.
Organisation
The university is organised into three Teaching and Research divisions (UFR):
Law, Economics and Management
Literature, Languages and Human Sciences
Science and Technology
In addition, it has:
4 University Institutes of Technology
1 Science of the Universe Observatory
1 National Higher Institute of Teaching and Education
1 School of Engineering
1 School of Kinesiology
Notable people
Faculty
Robert Joseph Pothier (1699–1722), lawyer.
Daniel Jousse (1704–1781), lawyer.
Pierre Roubertoux (born 1937) - behavioural geneticist.
Jeanne Henriette Louis (born 1938) - professor emeritus of North American civilization
Michel Cullin (1944 – 2020) - political scientist
Morinobu Endo (born 1946) - Japanese physicist and chemist
Christian Renoux (born 1960) - historian and an activist for nonviolence
Nikolay Nenovsky (born 1963) - Bulgarian economist, working in the fields of monetary theory and policy
Emmanuel Trélat (born 1974) - mathematician
Alumni
Emo of Friesland (c.1175–1237) - Frisian scholar and abbot
Eustache Deschamps (1346 – 1406 or 1407) - poet
Walter de Coventre (died 1371 or 1372) - Scottish ecclesiastic
Walter Forrester (died 1425 or 1426) - Bishop of Brechin, Scotland
Henry de Lichton (died 1440) - Scottish prelate and diplomat, Bishop of Moray and Bishop of Aberdeen
Oliver King (c.1432 – 1503) - Bishop of Exeter and Bishop of Bath and Wells
Michel Bucy (1484 – 1511) - Archbishop of Bourges
John Calvin (1509–1564), influential French theologian, pastor and reformer during the Protestant Reformation
Anne du Bourg (1521, Riom – 1559) - magistrate, Protestant martyr
William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579) - English Puritan, translator of the Geneva Bible
Claude Fauchet (1530 – 1602) - historian, antiquary, and pioneering romance philologist
Anselmus de Boodt (Bruges, 1550 - 1632) - humanist, mineralogist, physician and naturalist
François de Joyeuse (1562 – 1615) - churchman and politician
Jørgen Bjelke (1621 – 1696) - Norwegian officer and nobleman
Molière (1622–1673), French playwright and actor, considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature
Recipients of honorary degree
Isaac Ehrlich (born 1938, in Israel) - economist
Horst Möller (born 1943, in Breslau) - German contemporary historian
Józef Dulak (born 1962 in Nowy Sącz) - Polish scientist and professor of biological sciences