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College of Sorbonne

See also: Sorbonne (building) and Sorbonne (disambiguation)
The College of Sorbonne in 1550
The chapel of the Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th-century engraving
The chapel of the Sorbonne today, from a similar view point as above
Facade of the new Sorbonne building (1889)

The College of Sorbonne (French: Collège de Sorbonne) was a theological college of the University of Paris, founded in 1253 (confirmed in 1257) by Robert de Sorbon (1201–1274), after whom it was named.[1]

The Sorbonne was disestablished by decree of 5 April 1792, after the French Revolution, along with the other Paris colleges. It was restored in 1808, then closed finally in 1882.

In recent times the name "Sorbonne" came to refer to the group of liberal arts faculties of the University of Paris, in contrast to the vocational faculties of law and medicine.[2] "Sorbonne" is also used to refer to the main building of the University of Paris in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, which houses several faculties created when the University was divided into thirteen autonomous universities in 1970.[2]

  1. ^ De Ridder-Symoens, Hilde. [1] A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Middle Ages. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003: 80. ISBN 0-521-54113-1
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Dictionnaire 2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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