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The
University of Montpellier was a
French university in
Montpellier in the
Languedoc-Roussillon région of the south of France. Its present-day successor universities are the
University of Montpellier 1,
Montpellier 2 University and
Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III.
History
The university is considerably older than its formal founding date, associated with a
bull issued by
Pope Nicholas IV in
1289, combining all the long-existing schools into a university.
It isn't known exactly when the schools of liberal arts were founded that developed into the Montpellier faculty of arts; it may be that they were a direct continuation of the
Gallo-Roman schools that gathered around masters of rhetoric. The school of law was founded by
Placentinus, from the school of law at
Bologna, who came to Montpellier in
1160, taught there during two different periods, and died there in
1192. The faculty of law has had a long career. Professors from Montpellier were prominent in the drafting of the
Napoleonic Code, the civil code by which France is still guided and a foundation for modern law codes wherever Napoleonic influence extended. The faculty of law was reorganized in
1998.
The famous school of medicine was founded perhaps by Jews trained in the Spanish medical schools; it's certain that, as early as
1137, there were excellent physicians at Montpellier. The school of medicine owed its success to a policy of the Guilhem
lords of Montpellier, by which any licensed physician might lecture there: with no fixed limit to the number of teachers, lectures multiplied, and there was a great choice of teachers. The statutes given in
1220 by Cardinal
Conrad von Urach, legate of
Pope Honorius III, which were confirmed and extended in
1240, placed this school under the direction of the
Bishop of Maguelonne, but the school enjoyed a great deal of
de facto autonomy.
Rabelais took his medical degree at Montpellier, and his portrait hangs among the gallery of professors. The
botanical garden, founded in
1593, is the oldest in France. It was in this school that the biological theory of
vitalism, elaborated by
Barthez (1734-1806), had its origin. The
French Revolution didn't interrupt the existence of the faculty of medicine. The
Benedictine monastery that had been converted into the bishop's palace, was given to house the medical school in
1795. A gallery devoted to the portraits of professors since 1239 contains one of Rabelais.
The school of theology had its origins in lectures in the convents: St.
Anthony of Padua,
Raymundus Lullus, and the Dominican
Bernard de la Treille all lectured. Two letters of
King John II prove that a faculty of theology existed at Montpellier independently of the convents, in January,
1350. By a Bull of 17 December, 1421,
Pope Martin V granted canonical institution to this faculty and united it closely with the faculty of law.
In the 16th century the local triumph of Calvinism interrupted the somewhat somnolent Catholic school of theology, which was reinstated in 1622; but the rivalries of Dominicans and
Jesuits interfered seriously with the prosperity of the faculty, which disappeared at the Revolution. In better days, among Montpellier's illustrious pupils of law were
Petrarch, who spent four years at Montpellier, and among its lecturers were
William of Nogaret, chancellor to
Philip IV, Guillaume de Grimoard, afterwards
Pope Urban V, and Pedro de Luna, afterwards antipope
Benedict XIII.
Like all other provincial universities of France, that of Montpellier was suppressed at the outbreak of the
French Revolution in 1793. The faculties of science and of letters were re-established in 1810; that of law in 1880. The university of Montpellier was officially refounded in 1969.
The University today
The modern University of Montpellier II concentrates in science and technology. The
Paul-Valéry University "Montpellier III" completes the trio of universities in the old city.
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