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Uniwersytet Wrocławski (''Wrocław University'' in Polish , ''Universität von Breslau'' in German ) is one of nine Universities in Wrocław , Poland . HISTORY The town council established the university in the 16th Century - Ladislaus II Of Bohemia And Hungary signed the foundation deed. Due to fierce opposition from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków , however, the new academic institution was soon closed. After two hundred years, around 1702 , Emperor Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor founded a small Jesuit academy on the same premises and named it, after himself, the Leopoldine Academy. After Silesia was incorporated into Prussia , the Leopoldine Academy was merged with the Protestant Viadrina University , previously located in Frankfurt (Oder) . From the two, the Universitatis Literarum Vratislaviensis was formed and established August 3 , 1811 . At first it had five faculties - philosophy, medicine, law, protestant theology, and catholic theology. The university developed very rapidly in the second half of the 19th Century , then called the University of Breslau (''Universität Breslau''). At that time, numerous internationally renown and historically notable scholars lectured at the university, for example Johann Dirichlet and Gustav Kirchhoff . After The Second World War , the city was occupied by Stalin and given to the People's Republic Of Poland , and in 1945 the current Wrocław University was founded. NOTABLE ALUMNI ( NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS) PRESIDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY (AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR )
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