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The University of Liège (ULg), in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium, is a major public university in the French Community of Belgium. Its official language is French.

History

The University was founded in 1817 by William I of the Netherlands, then King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and by his Minister of Education, Anton Reinhard Falck. The foundation of the university was the result of a long intellectual tradition which dates back to the origins of the Bishopric of Liège. Beginning in the 11th century, the influence of the prince-bishops of Liège attracted students and prominent scientists and philosophers, such as Petrarch, to study in its libraries. The reputation of its medieval schools gave the city the reputation as a new Athens.
A 17 March 1808 decree by Napoleon I concerning the organization of an imperial university indicated Liège as the site of a new academy to be composed of a Faculty of Arts and a Faculty of Science - the first university charter for Liège. Ultimately, Liège owes its university to William I of the Netherlands, who remembered the city's prestigious legacy of teaching and culture when he decided to establish a new university on Walloon soil.
Nearly 200 years later, though settled to some extent in the Sart-Tilman district of Liège, the University of Liège depends on the French community of Belgium. The University is located at the edge of the River Meuse, in the center of "the Island," the Latin Quarter of Liège.

Organization

The University of Liège has:

17,000 students
- 3,100 foreign students
3,300 employees
- 2,400 faculty members (both teaching and research)
- 800 administrative and technical support staff The ULg comprises:
7 Faculties
- Philosophy and Letters
- Law and School of Criminology
- Sciences
- Medicine
- Applied Sciences
- Veterinary Medicine
- Psychology and Educational Sciences
3 Schools
- HEC Management School - University of Liege (Economics and Management)
- Social Sciences
- Criminology
45 Departments

Notable alumni

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Joaquín Arderíus, novelist
Philippe Bodson, engineer
Albert Claude, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1974
Marie Delcourt, first female professor at the ULg
Marcel Detienne, philosophy and literature (PhD)
Paul Demaret, rector of the College of Europe
Paul Fredericq (1850–1920), historian
Jean Gol (1942-1995), lawyer, politician
Alexis Jacquemin (1938-2004), economy, 1983 Francqui Prize on Human Sciences
David Keilin, entomologist
Auguste Kerckhoffs, Dutch linguist and cryptographer
Jan Kowalewski, Polish cryptologist
Wincenty Kowalski, Polish military commander
Joseph Lebeau, statesman
Jean-Christophe Marine, biologist
Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, statesman and diplomat
Laurette Onkelinx, law, politician
Paul Pastur, lawyer and politician (1866-1938)
Joseph Plateau (1801-1883), physicist
Georges Poulet, literary critic
Guy Quaden, economist, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium
Jean Rey (1902-1983), second President of the European Commission
Max Rooses, writer
Léon Rosenfeld, physicist
Polidor Swings, 1948 laureate of the Francqui Prize
Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist
André Henri Constant van Hasselt, poet
Notable academia

Zénon-M. Bacq (1903-1983), radiobiologist
Florent-Joseph Bureau (1906-1999), mathematician
Eugène Charles Catalan, mathematician
André Danthine, computer scientist
Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck (1809–1887), palaeontologist and chemist
Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, economist
Marie Delcourt (1891-1979), classical philologist
Philippe Devaux (1902-1979), philosopher
Paul Fourmarier (1877-1970), geologist
Paul Gochet (1932), philosopher
Godefroid Kurth (1847–1916), historian
Pol Swings (1906-1983), astrophysicist
Edouard Van Beneden (1846-1910), biologist
Theodor Schwann (1810-1882), biologistFurther Information
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