University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Europe

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The main bulding of University Babes-Bolyai The first name is that of a Romanian physician, who discovered the anti-rabic serum, whereas the second is that of a Hungarian mathematician, who anticipated non-Euclidean geometry. In 1581, Istvan Báthory, Governor of Transylvania, took the initiative in founding a college in Cluj-Napoca, which was to be under the control of the Jesuits. This college was later closed down. The Catholics took the initiative and in 1688 established an academy in Cluj-Napoca under the control of the Jesuits. In 1776, Empress Maria Theresa founded a German university in Cluj-Napoca. But this enterprise was not to survive long either; Joseph II replaced the university with the famous Piarist high school, where teaching was done in Latin. In 1872, the authorities established a university in Cluj-Napoca, that in 1881 was renamed Franz Joseph University after the Habsburg Emperor Franz Joseph. On May 12, 1919, after the Union of Transylvania with Romania, the Romanian University of Cluj was set up. In 1940 a Romanian university called Babeş was established. The Hungarian University of Cluj took the name Bolyai once it returned. The two universities, the Romanian Babeş University and the Hungarian Bolyai University, merged in 1959 forming the 'Babeş-Bolyai' University. #clujnapoca #romania #university