University of Padua
Also known as University of Padova, Università di Padova, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD, Universita di Padova, Universita degli Studi di Padova, UPadua
university in Italy
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The University of Padua is one of Italy's oldest and most prestigious universities, located in the northeastern city of Padua. It has played an important role in Italian higher education and intellectual history since its founding.
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Wikidata facts
- Employees
- 2800
- Official website
- www.unipd.it/en
- Image
- Palazzo Bo (Padua).jpg
- Students count
- 75000
- Motto
- Universa universis patavina libertas
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- Commons category
- University of Padua
- IPv6 routing prefix
- 2001:760:2206::/48
- inception
- 1222-09-00
- native label
- Università degli Studi di Padova
- API endpoint URL
- shibidp.cca.unipd.it/idp/shibboleth
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Article
The University of Padua (Italian: Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian public research university in Padua, Italy. It was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from the University of Bologna, who previously settled in Vicenza; thus, it is the second-oldest university in Italy, as well as the world's fifth-oldest surviving university.
The University of Padua was one of the most prominent universities in early modern Europe, known particularly for the rigor of its Aristotelian logic and science. Together with the University of Bologna, Padua had a central role in the Italian Renaissance, housing and educating a number of Italian Renaissance mathematicians, amongst them Nicolaus Copernicus. It is also known for its long-standing tradition in medicine and anatomy, linked to great figures such as Andreas Vesalius, the "father of modern anatomy," and Galileo Galilei, who once taught there. The university also proudly houses the world's oldest anatomical theatre (1594), a symbol of Padua's pioneering role in the development of modern medicine.