Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?

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Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna? (Polish: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Polish abbreviation UAM) is one of the major Polish universities, located in the city of Pozna?, Greater Poland, in the west of the country. It traces its origins to 1611 and officially opened on May 7, 1919. Since 1955 it has carried the name of the Polish Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz. The university has been frequently listed as a top three university in the country.

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History

The university was ceremonially opened on May 7, 1919 (the 400th anniversary of the foundation of Pozna?'s Lubra?ski Academy). It was originally called Wszechnica Piastowska ("University of the Piasts" - wszechnica being a less common Polish word for "university"), and in 1920 was renamed Uniwersytet Pozna?ski ("Pozna? University"). For the first 20 years it educated students in law, economy, medicine, humanities, mathematics, natural sciences, agriculture and forestry.

In 1920 famous sociologist Florian Znaniecki founded the first Polish department of sociology at the university, one of the first such departments in Europe. In the same period of the university's history, botanist Józef Paczoski founded the world's first institute of phytosociology.

After the invasion of Poland, Pozna? was annexed by Germany and the University was closed by the Nazis in 1939. It was reopened as a German university in 1941, which operated until 1944. Staff and students of the Polish university, some of them expelled by Germans to Warsaw, opened an underground Polish "University of the Western Territories" (Uniwersytet Ziem Zachodnich), whose classes met in private apartments (see Education in Poland during World War II). Many of the professors and staff were imprisoned and executed in Fort VII in Pozna?, including professor Stanis?aw Paw?owski (rector in the years 1932-33). The Polish university reopened, in much smaller form, after the end of World War II. In 1950, the Medical Faculty, including the Dentistry section and the Faculty of Pharmacy, were split off to form a separate institution, now the Pozna? University of Medical Sciences. In 1955 Uniwersytet Pozna?ski adopted a new patron, the 19th-century Polish Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz, and changed to its current name.

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Sites

The university's central administrative building is Collegium Minus, on the west side of Adam Mickiewicz Square at the western end of the street ?wi?ty Marcin. (This is one of a group of buildings, including the Imperial Palace, built in the first decade of the 20th century while Pozna? was still under German rule; it originally housed a Royal Academy.) Adjoining this is the Aula, which is frequently used for ceremonies and for classical music concerts, and Collegium Iuridicum (accommodating the law faculty). Some teaching takes place in Collegium Maius, another of the aforementioned group of buildings (on ul. Fredry), although this is mainly used by the medical university. Other buildings in the city centre include former communist party headquarters on ?wi?ty Marcin, Collegium Novum (used mainly for language teaching) on Al. Niepodleg?o?ci, and the university library on ul. Ratajczaka.

The university also uses a number of other buildings in southern and western districts of Pozna?. However it is strongly developing its site at Morasko in the north of the city. As of 2006, the faculties of physics, mathematics and computer science, biology, geographical and geological science had moved to the new location. In 2015 they were joined by the faculty of history (Collegium Historicum Novum).

The university also has external branches in other towns of western Poland, including Kalisz, Ostrów Wielkopolski and S?ubice.

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Staff and student numbers

At the start of the 2008/2009 academic year, the university had 46,817 undergraduates (including about 18,000 on weekend or evening courses), 1308 doctoral students, and 2247 other post-graduate students. The number of undergraduates declined slightly between 2005 and 2008.

At the end of 2008, the university had a total of 2892 teaching staff, including 257 full professors and 490 associate/assistant professors. It also had 2120 other employees.

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Degrees and faculties

Like most Polish universities, Adam Mickiewicz University awards the following degrees:

licencjat, normally a three-year course, sometimes considered equivalent to a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree
magister, normally a two-year course following the licencjat, considered equivalent to a Master of Arts or Master of Science degree
doctorates
habilitations

The university has the following faculties:

Faculty of English
Faculty of Biology
Faculty of Chemistry
Faculty of Educational Studies
Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences
Faculty of History
Faculty of Law and Administration
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Faculty of Modern Languages and Literature
Faculty of Physics
Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology
Faculty of Political Science and Journalism
Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology
Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, in Kalisz

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Notable alumni and honorary doctors

Among the University's most famous graduates are:

Stanis?aw Bara?czak (1946-2014), poet and translator, Nike Award laureate
Bogumi? Brzezinski (b. 1943), chemist
Franciszek G?gor (1951-2010), general, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces
Krzysztof Grabowski (b. 1965), poet and singer
Maciej Henneberg (b. 1949), Polish-Australian anatomist and communist-era dissident
Kazimiera I??akowiczówna (1892-1983), poet, prose writer, playwright and translator
Anna Jantar (1950-1980), singer
Tomasz Jasi?ski (b. 1951), historian
Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (b. 1953), Academy Award-winning composer
Max Kolonko (b. 1965), Polish-American producer, writer, author and broadcast journalist
W?odzimierz Ko?os (1928-1996), chemist and physicist, one of the founders of modern quantum chemistry
Ryszard Krynicki (b. 1943), poet and translator
Jan Kulczyk (1950-2015), businessman and billionaire
Tomasz ?uczak (b. 1963), mathematician
Crocheted Olek (b. 1978), New York-based Polish-American artist
Halszka Osmólska (1930-2008), paleontologist
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (b. 1959), conservative politician, former Prime Minister of Poland
Adam Michnik (b. 1946), journalist and communist-era dissident
Julia Przy??bska (b. 1959), lawyer, President of the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland
Krzysztof Skubiszewski (1926-2010), politician, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
Hanna Suchocka (b. 1946), politician, the first female Prime Minister of Poland
Marian Rejewski (1905-1980), mathematician involved in breaking the Enigma machine
Jerzy Ró?ycki (1909-1942), mathematician involved in breaking the Enigma machine
Jerzy Waldorff (1910-1999), TV personality, writer, publicist and literary critic
Jan W?glarz (b. 1947), computer scientist
Henryk Zygalski (1908-1978), mathematician involved in breaking the Enigma machine

Recipients of honorary doctorates from the University include Marshal Józef Pi?sudski, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Marie Curie, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Witold Hensel, Wis?awa Szymborska, Ernst Håkon Jahr, Al Gore and John Maxwell Coetzee.