University of Zagreb


The University of Zagreb is a public research university in Zagreb, Croatia. It is the largest Croatian university and one of the oldest continuously operating universities in Europe. The University of Zagreb and the University North are the only public universities operating in Northern and Central Croatia.
The history of the University began on 23 September 1669, when the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I issued a decree granting the establishment of the Jesuit Academy of the Royal Free City of Zagreb. The decree was accepted at the Council of the Croatian Kingdom on 3 November 1671. The Academy was run by the Jesuits for more than a century until the order was dissolved by Pope Clement XIV in 1773. In 1776, Empress Maria Theresa issued a decree founding the Royal Academy of Science which succeeded the previous Jesuit Academy. Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer proposed the founding of a University to the Croatian Parliament in 1861. Emperor Franz Joseph signed the decree on the establishment of the University of Zagreb in 1869. The Act of Founding was passed by the Parliament in 1874, and was ratified by the Emperor on 5 January 1874. On 19 October 1874 the Royal University of Franz Joseph I was officially opened.
The University is composed of 29 faculties, 3 art academies and 1 university center with more than 70,000 students.
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History

Academy

The beginnings of the later university date back to 23 September 1669 when Emperor and King Leopold I Habsburg issued a decree granting the establishment of the Jesuit Academy of the Royal Free City of Zagreb. According to that document the study of philosophy in Zagreb acquired a formal and legal status as Neoacademia Zagrabiensis and officially became a public institution of higher education.
The academy was run by the Jesuits for more than a century until the order was dissolved by Pope Clement XIV in 1773. Under a new leadership in 1772 the academy enrolled a total of 200 students.
In 1776 Empress and Queen Maria Theresa issued a decree founding the Royal Academy of Science. It consisted of three studies or faculties of philosophy, theology, and law. The former political-cameral studies became part of the newly established faculty of law, and thus were integrated into the academy. Each of the faculties of the Royal Academy of Sciences had several chairs teaching one or several courses. During the Austro-Turkish War of 1788–1791 and following the Austrian occupation of Belgrade on 8 October 1789 the Royal Academy requested to be granted the university status with the following argumentation:
The academy in Zagreb remained until 1874, despite numerous organizational changes, the focal institution of higher education in Croatia, educating most of the members of the Croatian intelligentsia.

University

Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer in 1861 proposed to the Croatian Parliament the founding of a university at Zagreb. During his visit in 1869, the Emperor Franz Joseph signed the decree on the establishment of the University of Zagreb. Five years later, the Parliament passed the Act of Founding, which was ratified by the Emperor on 5 January 1874. On 19 October 1874, a ceremony was held in the name of the founding of the Royal University of Franz Joseph I in Zagreb, making it the third university in the Hungarian realm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
In 1874 the University had four faculties:
  • Law
  • Theology
  • Philosophy
  • Medicine
The Faculty of Medicine was not put into function in 1874; it had to wait until 1917. The Faculty of Philosophy served as the general scientific faculty. Since 1876 it had geology, botany, physics, mathematics, and chemistry; since 1877 zoology; since 1882 pharmacy; since 1883 geography.
In 1860, the Royal Agriculture and Forestry College was founded in Križevci. In 1898, the Academy of Forestry was founded as part of the Faculty of Philosophy, which encompassed all technical studies. In 1919, this school became the Faculty of Husbandry and Forestry.
In 1919, the School of Technology was founded, which was transformed into a university faculty in 1926. Also in 1919 the School of Veterinary Medicine was founded; it transformed into a university faculty in 1925. From 1920 to 1924 shortly existed Faculty of Eastern Orthodox Theology.
In the Faculty of Philosophy, major reorganization ensued in the 1920s, as mathematics, pharmacy and other sciences started to split off, first with the creation of separate mathematics and pharmaceutical departments in 1928, when the faculty was renamed into its current name Filozofski fakultet.
In 1926, the university was composed of seven faculties:
  • Theology
  • Law
  • Medicine
  • Philosophy
  • * Philosophy dept.
  • * Pharmacy dept.
  • Husbandry and Forestry
  • Veterinary Medicine
  • Technology
  • * Construction dept.
  • * Engineering dept.
  • * Chemical engineering dept.
On 26 August 1936 a group of Macedonian students belonging to the MANAPO signed the Political Declaration, an illegal document requesting political and social emancipation of Macedonians in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
During the Independent State of Croatia, the university was known as the Croatian University.
The individual departments of the Faculty of Philosophy became separate faculties in 1942, 1946 when the Faculty of Sciences was formed, and finally in 1963.
In 1956, the Faculty of Technology was divided into four faculties:
  • Architecture-Construction-Geodesy
  • Electrical engineering
  • Mechanical engineering-Shipbuilding
  • Chemistry-Food technology-Mining
These eventually split up into the current layout.
In 1999., the University decided to implement European Credit Transfer System – ECTS. When Croatia signed to be a part of The Bologna declaration, all of the universities in Croatia adopted this system of easily readable and comparable degrees.
University offers 160 undergraduate programmes, 22 integrated undergraduate-graduate programmes, 9 vocational undergraduate programmes, 174 graduate programmes, 1 vocational graduate programme, 72 doctoral programmes and 165 specialist postgraduate programmes.

Faculties

Natural sciences
Engineering
Biomedical sciences
Biotechnology
Social sciences
Humanities
The arts

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Sciences is a part of the University of Zagreb, Croatia It remains a work of the Society of Jesus and traces its origins to 1662.
FFRZ in Zagreb began as a Jesuit school of philosophy on 6 November 1662 with the establishment of the Philosophy Department at Zagreb College, which would become the University of Zagreb.
The Faculty of Philosophy of the Society of Jesus closed in 1773 due to the suppression of the Society of Jesus, and the Jesuit philosophy school in Zagreb did not reopen until 1937, when it offered a three-year course leading to the licentiate in philosophy, as it does today.
On 31 July 1989 the Congregation for Catholic Education of the Holy See decreed that the Faculty of Philosophy could confer the baccalaureate, licentiate, and doctorate in philosophy.
With a decision of 7 October 1992, the Ministry of Science and Technology entered FFDI into the register as a Scientific Research Organization in philosophy and it became a part of the Croatian Studies Department of the University of Zagreb.
On 8 December 2016, the Senate of the University of Zagreb determined that FFDI would become a faculty and equal component of the University under the title Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Sciences.
Undergraduates may major in Philosophy and Religious Sciences, Philosophy, or Philosophy and Latin Language. Graduate students may major in Philosophy or Religious Science. FFRZ also offers post-graduate studies.
FFRZ has a formal relationship with Laudato TV to "work together to promote and implement educational, cultural and scientific activities in the Christian and humanistic atmosphere".
File:University of Zagreb.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Palace of the University and the Faculty of Law, Republic of Croatia Square
In 2017 there were two current research studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Sciences:
On 5 May 2017 a symposium was held on "Religions and Migration: Displaced Persons and Refugees".
The faculty is led by a chancellor and his deputy along with a dean and vice-dean. The chancellor is Arturo Sosa, General Superior of the Society of Jesus based in Rome. His deputy is Dalibor Renić, Provincial Superior of the Croatian Province of the Society of Jesus based in Zagreb. The dean is Prof. Ivan Koprek, The Faculty Council is composed of all regular and extraordinary professors and the Faculty Conference includes all current lecturers, student representatives, and faculty officials.

Rectors

  1. Matija Mesić
  2. Stjepan Spevec
  3. Anton Kržan
  4. Konstantin Vojnović
  5. Franjo Maixner
  6. Franjo Iveković
  7. Aleksandar Bresztyenszky
  8. Franjo Marković
  9. Feliks Suk
  10. Blaž Lorković
  11. Đuro Pilar
  12. Gustav Baron
  13. Franjo Vrbanić
  14. Tadija Smičiklas
  15. Antun Franki
  16. Luka Marjanović
  17. Natko Nodilo
  18. Ivan Bujanović
  19. Josip Pliverić
  20. Vinko Dvořák
  21. Antun Maurović
  22. Franjo Spevec
  23. Armin Pavić
  24. Juraj Dočkal
  25. Josip Šilović
  26. Đuro Arnold
  27. Rudolf Vimer
  28. Franjo Vrbanić
  29. Vjekoslav Klaić
  30. Ivan Bujanović
  31. Josip Pliverić
  32. Antun Heinz
  33. Antun Bauer
  34. Milivoj-Klement Maurović
  35. Gustav Janeček
  36. Josip Volović
  37. Julije Rorauer
  38. Julije Domac
  39. Josip Pazman
  40. Edo Lovrić
  41. Đuro Korbler
  42. Fran Barac
  43. Ernest Miler
  44. Julije Golik
  45. Ivan Angelo Ruspini
  46. Ladislav Polić
  47. Karlo Radoničić
  48. Vladimir Varićak
  49. Đuro Nenadić
  50. Stjepan Zimmerman
  51. Ladislav Polić
  52. Drago Perović
  53. Ernest Miler
  54. Josip Belobrk
  55. Albert Bazala
  56. Đuro Stipetić
  57. Stanko Hondl
  58. Edo Lovrić
  59. Andrija Živković
  60. Stjepan Ivšić
  61. Božidar Špišić
  62. Stjepan Horvat
  63. Andrija Štampar
  64. Grga Novak
  65. Andro Mohorovičić
  66. Marko Kostrenčić
  67. Antun Barac
  68. Fran Bošnjaković
  69. Teodor Varićak
  70. Željko Marković
  71. Hrvoje Iveković
  72. Zoran Bujas
  73. Marijan Horvat
  74. Vladimir Serdar
  75. Slavko Macarol
  76. Jakov Sirotković
  77. Ivan Supek
  78. Predrag Vranicki
  79. Drago Grdenić
  80. Ivan Jurković
  81. Zvonimir Krajina
  82. Vladimir Stipetić
  83. Zvonimir Šeparović
  84. Marijan Šunjić
  85. Branko Jeren
  86. Tomislav Ivančić *
  87. Helena Jasna Mencer
  88. Aleksa Bjeliš
  89. Damir Boras
  90. Stjepan Lakušić
* Ivančić was elected rector in 2001, but resigned for health reasons before his term started.
Source: at the University of Zagreb website

Rankings

As of 2020, the university ranked 801–1000 by QS, ranking 575 by U.S. [News & World Report Best Global University Ranking|USN], ranking 512 by CWUR, ranked 401–500 by ARWU, and 1001+ by THE.

Legacy

Since 1874, more than 200,000 students have received a bachelor's degree, more than 18,000 a master's, and more than 8,000 a doctorate from the University of Zagreb.

Sports

The University of Zagreb was a co-organiser of the 2016 European Universities Games.
The university was also awarded by EUSA as the best and the most active European university in sport activities.

Awards

Rector's award

The Rector's award is awarded as part of the University of Zagreb Week in November. The award committee consists of two professors from each of the seven scientific fields covered by the University.