Université Blaise Pascal
A first university existed between the twelfth century and the late fifteenth century Billom , with up to 2,000 students , on par with major universities of Montpellier , Toulouse and Paris. In the early sixteenth century , the bishop of Clermont Thomas Duprat installs a University Issoire. establishes the University in February 1519, but following protests from Charles de Bourbon and the University of Paris, it is closed in 1520 . In 1681 , the King authorized the creation of a medical college at Clermont. The Faculty of Arts was founded in 1808, but it is suppressed at the Restoration in September 1815.
1854 marks the beginning of an academic activity recognized by the state in Clermont - Ferrand. In 1872 , Emile Alluard , Professor of Physics , gets the construction of the meteorological observatory at the top of the Puy de Dome , which is then the first resorts European mountain . 1899 sees the creation, Besse -en - Chandesse , Station Limnological , in order to study the fauna and flora of the lakes of Auvergne. Forerunner of the National School of Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry and Industrial Technologies opened its doors in 1911.
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But this is the second world war which will root deeply academic life Clermont , with the downturn in 1939 , university of Strasbourg fleeing the German occupation. On 25 November 1943, the buildings are surrounded by the Gestapo , with orders to arrest deans, students and those from Alsace -Lorraine could be related to resistance. Nearly 50 students and teachers were arrested, and Paul Collomp , professor of Greek at Strasbourg is murdered.