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Given that the Sorbonne, in all of its permutations and subdivisions, has produced some of the West's greatest thinkers, scientists, authors, and the like, why does one not indicate this in a more forthright manner in the article? After all, the articles on the Oxford and Cambridge institutions use adjectival clauses to indicate their importance and prestige. With Nobel prize winners in faculty and from its student body, surely the Sorbonne deserves a more proactive adjective than the mere, "historic," as in "historic Université de Paris." Please, with a group of students and faculty that range from Mdme Curie to de Beauvoir, Fanon to Trudeau, Durkheim, to Derrida, the Sorbonne deserves something a bit more rousing than "historic."
M.Mason, Columbia University, 1997
It is now distributed in several separate universities.
It was originally created for the use of 20 theology students in 1257 as Collège de Sorbonne by Robert de Sorbon (1201-1274), a chaplain and confessor to King Louis IX of France. It quickly built a prodigious reputation as a center for learning, and by the 13th century there were as many as twenty thousand foreign students resident in the city, making Paris the capital of knowledge of the Western world. Today, foreign students still make up a significant part of its campus.
Since a date midway through the 13th century (1257) is already mentioned in the paragraph, should 'by the 13th century' be changed to 'by the end of the 13th century', or some other date? Ground 11:22, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I have started a rewrite of the University of Paris article and merged the history section of the Sorbonne article with that one. The list of notable people has been broken out as a List of University of Paris people.
It is possible that there should be a separate article on the the college, but it should probably be under the title Collège de Sorbonne to avoid ambiguity. This page (" Sorbonne") could still be on the architectural history of the Sorbonne, but as the university as such is older than the Sorbonne and transcends it in various ways, it is better to place the stuff dealing with the university in general under the title " University of Paris". Most links to the Sorbonne, however, probably refer to the university, so for the time being I make this a redirect. / up◦land 23:16, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The article currently translates "socii" as "associates." In the UK, members of colleges or societies labelled thus are usually called "Fellows." Would that overstate their importance in Robert de Sorbon's institution? NRPanikker ( talk) 16:32, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
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Given that the Sorbonne, in all of its permutations and subdivisions, has produced some of the West's greatest thinkers, scientists, authors, and the like, why does one not indicate this in a more forthright manner in the article? After all, the articles on the Oxford and Cambridge institutions use adjectival clauses to indicate their importance and prestige. With Nobel prize winners in faculty and from its student body, surely the Sorbonne deserves a more proactive adjective than the mere, "historic," as in "historic Université de Paris." Please, with a group of students and faculty that range from Mdme Curie to de Beauvoir, Fanon to Trudeau, Durkheim, to Derrida, the Sorbonne deserves something a bit more rousing than "historic."
M.Mason, Columbia University, 1997
It is now distributed in several separate universities.
It was originally created for the use of 20 theology students in 1257 as Collège de Sorbonne by Robert de Sorbon (1201-1274), a chaplain and confessor to King Louis IX of France. It quickly built a prodigious reputation as a center for learning, and by the 13th century there were as many as twenty thousand foreign students resident in the city, making Paris the capital of knowledge of the Western world. Today, foreign students still make up a significant part of its campus.
Since a date midway through the 13th century (1257) is already mentioned in the paragraph, should 'by the 13th century' be changed to 'by the end of the 13th century', or some other date? Ground 11:22, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I have started a rewrite of the University of Paris article and merged the history section of the Sorbonne article with that one. The list of notable people has been broken out as a List of University of Paris people.
It is possible that there should be a separate article on the the college, but it should probably be under the title Collège de Sorbonne to avoid ambiguity. This page (" Sorbonne") could still be on the architectural history of the Sorbonne, but as the university as such is older than the Sorbonne and transcends it in various ways, it is better to place the stuff dealing with the university in general under the title " University of Paris". Most links to the Sorbonne, however, probably refer to the university, so for the time being I make this a redirect. / up◦land 23:16, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The article currently translates "socii" as "associates." In the UK, members of colleges or societies labelled thus are usually called "Fellows." Would that overstate their importance in Robert de Sorbon's institution? NRPanikker ( talk) 16:32, 11 February 2023 (UTC)