Lviv National University named after Franko. Lviv National State University named after. Ivan Franko. Notable alumni and professors
Lvovsky National University named after Ivan Franko(in 1918-1939 Jan Casimir University) is one of the oldest in Eastern Europe and the oldest university in Ukraine. One of the most prestigious universities in Ukraine. The Lviv Academy with the rights of a university was created. In 1773, the Jesuit order was banned and the university was closed. Restored in 1784, it was called Josephine University. In 1805-1817 Lyceum. In 1817 it was restored as the University of Franz I.
1. Foundation and early history of the University
The former main building of the university (1851-1923)
1.1. Background
During the Renaissance, Lviv was a famous educational city in Central Europe, where the educational and religious society "Lviv Brotherhood" (1439) and the printing house of Stepan Dropan (1460) operated. If the first university of Central Europe - Charles (Prague, Czech Republic) originates from a secular school (1348), then Lviv University (now named after I. Franko), similarly, begins its chronology with the creation in November 1372 of a monastery school, which it founded Russian Prince Vladislav together with the Franciscan Order, who, along with missionary work, also carried out educational activities.
In the XVI - XVII centuries. Church brotherhoods were the centers of cultural life on Ukrainian lands. Using the support of the townspeople and the clergy, they contributed to the spread of the ideas of humanism, the development of science and schools. The oldest in Ukraine was the Assumption Stavropegian Brotherhood in Lviv, which became an outstanding Ukrainian cultural center. Since then, there has been a fraternal school in Lvov, which was a secondary educational institution. Church Slavonic, Greek, Latin and Polish languages, mathematics, grammar, rhetoric, astronomy, philosophy and other disciplines were studied here. Members of the Lviv Brotherhood even planned to turn their “gymnasium” (as they called this school) into a higher educational institution. Outstanding figures of Ukrainian culture from the late 16th century to the first half of the 17th century worked and were educated at the Lviv fraternal school: Lavrentiy Zizaniy (Kukol) and his brother Stepan, Kirill Stavrovetsky, Ivan Boretsky and others.
By the middle of the 17th century. There was not a single higher educational institution in Ukraine. Noble Poland resisted the creation of a higher school here, which could become a dangerous political and cultural center. Ukrainian youth are forced to receive higher education within the walls of Krakow and other European universities.
1.2. Base
3. Ratings and reputation
| Rating | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compass | 9 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
| Mirror of the week / UNESCO | 41 | 32 | 30 | 28 | |
| Money | 3 | 4 | 5 | - | |
| Webometrics | - | - | - | 3 | 1 (1409th place in the world) |
| 4 International Colleges & Universities | - | - | - | 13 | 11 |
| Scopus | - | - | 3 | 3 | 3 |
4. Structure
4.1. Faculties
4.2. University departments
- Life safety
- General and social pedagogy
- Physical education and sports
4.2.1. Department of General and Social Pedagogy
Higher Teacher Education in Lviv was founded in the year when curriculum a course called “Pedagogy” or “Science of Education” appeared. It was part of theological training and was based on the Austrian textbooks of A. G. Nemaer and E. Ice. The first lectures on pedagogy for students of the faculties of philosophy and theology were given by a graduate of the University of Prague, Vaclav (Wenzel) Michal Voigt, who was the first teacher of this discipline also at the University of Krakow. During the first half of the 19th century. professors of pedagogy were the vice-rector of the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary Jan Frederovich, theologian and religious figure Joseph Yarina, specialist in aesthetics and oratory Ignacy Pollak, the future Greek Catholic Metropolitan Grigory Jachimovich, theologians Franz Amtmann and Ludwig Malinowski, and the same Greek Catholic church leader Franz Kostek.
At the Faculty of Philosophy, pedagogy was taught by: Professor Evsevy Cherkavsky (-), Professor Alexander Skursky (-), Associate Professor Antoni Danish (-), Professor Boleslav Mankovsky. (-), Associate Professor Zygmunt Kukulski (-), Associate Professor Kazimir Sosnitsky (-), Professor Bohdan Sukhodolsky (-), Associate Professor Stefan Truch (). Subjects training courses: “General Pedagogy”, “Practical Pedagogy”, “Pedagogical Exercises”, “Pedagogical Psychology”, “Gymnasium Pedagogy”, “Fundamentals of Didactics”, etc. Academic disciplines of the psychological and pedagogical cycle were taught by Associate Professor Julian Ochorowicz ( - ) and Professor Kazimir Tvardovsky ( - ).
At the Faculty of Theology in the city, students listened to lectures on pedagogy and catechism and methodology, from the year - separately in Ukrainian (Joseph Delkevich and Ivan Bartoshevsky) and Polish (Marcel Palyvoda and Blazej Yashovsky). Seminaries operated with catechism and methodology.
Today the rector of the university is a professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics
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- Humanitarian sciences;
- Natural Sciences;
- Journalism and information;
- Computer Science and Computer Engineering;
- Art;
- Culture;
- International relationships;
- Management and administration;
- Right;
- System Sciences and Cybernetics;
- Social and political sciences;
- Service sector;
- Physical and mathematical sciences;
- Economics and Entrepreneurship;
- Electronics.
SPECIALTIES IN THE DIRECTION "HUMANITIES"
- Story
- Philology
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Foreign language or Russian language (by profile). 3. History of Ukraine*; - Philosophy
SPECIALTIES IN THE DIRECTION "NATURAL SCIENCES"
- Biology
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Biology. 3. Physics or chemistry*; - Geography
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Geography. 3. History of Ukraine or mathematics*; - Geology
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Mathematics. 3. Geography or physics*; - Chemistry
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Chemistry. 3. Physics or mathematics*; - Ecology, environmental protection and balanced use of natural resources
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Mathematics. 3. Chemistry or geography*.
SPECIALTIES IN THE DIRECTION "JOURNALISM AND INFORMATION"
- Journalism
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Foreign language or Russian language. 3. Creative competition*.
SPECIALTIES IN THE DIRECTION "INFORMATICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING"
- Computer science
SPECIALTIES IN THE "ART" DIRECTION
- Musical art
- Theater arts
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. History of Ukraine. 3. Creative competition*; - Choreography
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. History of Ukraine. 3. Creative competition*.
SPECIALTIES IN THE "CULTURE" DIRECTION
- Book science, library science and bibliography
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. History of Ukraine. 3. Foreign language or geography*; - Cultural studies
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. History of Ukraine. 3. Foreign language or geography*.
SPECIALTIES OF THE DIRECTION "INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS"
- International information
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Foreign language. 3. World history or mathematics*; - International law
- International relationships
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Foreign language. 3. World history or geography*; - International economic relations
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Foreign language. 3. Mathematics or geography*; - international Business
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Foreign language. 3. Mathematics or world history*; - Regional studies
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Geography. 3. World history or foreign language*.
SPECIALTIES IN THE DIRECTION "MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION"
- Management
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Mathematics. 3. Geography or foreign language*.
SPECIALTIES OF THE DIRECTION "LAW"
- Jurisprudence
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. History of Ukraine. 3. Foreign language or mathematics*.
SPECIALTIES IN THE DIRECTION "SYSTEM SCIENCES AND CYBERNETICS"
- Computer science
- Applied Mathematics
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Mathematics. 3. Physics or foreign language*; - System analysis
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Mathematics. 3. Physics or foreign language*.
SPECIALTIES OF THE DIRECTION "SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES"
- Political science
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. History of Ukraine. 3. World history or foreign language*; - Psychology
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Biology. 3. History of Ukraine or foreign language*; - Sociology
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. History of Ukraine. 3. Mathematics or foreign language*.
SPECIALTIES IN THE "SERVICE SECTOR" DIRECTION
- Tourism
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Geography. 3. History of Ukraine or foreign language*.
SPECIALTIES IN THE DIRECTION "PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES"
- Astronomy
- Mathematics
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Mathematics. 3. Physics or foreign language*; - Mechanics
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Mathematics. 3. Physics or foreign language*; - applied Physics
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Physics. 3. Mathematics or chemistry*; - Statistics
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Mathematics. 3. Physics or foreign language*; - Physics
SPECIALTIES OF THE DIRECTION "ECONOMICS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP"
- Marketing
- International economics
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Mathematics. 3. Foreign language or geography*; - Applied Statistics
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Mathematics. 3. History of Ukraine or geography*; - Accounting and Auditing
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Mathematics. 3. History of Ukraine or geography*; - Finance and credit
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Mathematics. 3. History of Ukraine or geography*; - Enterprise economy
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Mathematics. 3. History of Ukraine or geography*; - Economic cybernetics
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Mathematics. 3. History of Ukraine or geography*; - Economic theory
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Mathematics. 3. History of Ukraine or geography*.
SPECIALTIES IN THE "ELECTRONICS" DIRECTION
- Micro- and nanoelectronics
Competitive subjects: 1. Ukrainian language and literature. 2. Physics. 3. Mathematics or chemistry*.
Ivan Franko Lviv National University is one of the oldest universities in Ukraine; January 20, 2011 marked 350 years since its founding.
It all started with a fraternal school, which was reorganized into a Jesuit college, to which King John II Casimir on January 20, 1661 granted “the dignity of an academy and the title of a university” with the right to teach all the then university disciplines, awarding academic degrees of bachelor, licentiate, master and doctor.
After the dissolution of the Jesuit Order in 1773, Lviv University was closed. However, soon a number of divisions of the Jesuit academy became the basis of the Josephine University in Lviv, with the entry of Galicia into the Austrian Empire. The highest governing body of the university was the senate (consistory). It consisted of the rector, deans and seniors (the oldest professors in terms of age and experience). The Senate decided on the most important issues relating to the general management of the university. All other matters were decided by the deans, who were also the directors of the faculties. From 1787 to 1806, the studium Ruthenum functioned at the theological faculty - Ukrainian (“Russian”) courses with two-year training in the Ukrainian language.
During the second half of the 19th century. The struggle continued for the right of women to attend university studios. In 1897, women were allowed to study at the Faculty of Philosophy, and in 1900 at the Faculty of Medicine and the Department of Pharmacy. Women repeatedly demanded to be allowed to study at the Faculty of Law, but the government did not meet them halfway.
1917, then Galician Seym 
Education at the university for the vast majority of students was paid. Students of the Faculty of Theology did not pay tuition at all. In secular faculties, only a portion of students enjoyed such benefits (students who submitted a certificate of poverty and successfully completed semester colloquiums). In addition to tuition fees, students paid a fee for immatriculation (ceremonial acceptance as a student), paid for exams, colloquiums, seminars, for the right to use the library, etc. There were also student scholarships. The scholarship fund consisted primarily of donations from individuals. The most famous were scholarship funds named after Karol Ludwik, J. Slovacki, Tsalevich, Gaecki, etc. Students had dormitories, but the number of places in them was limited.
In whose house from 1851 to 1920 there was Lviv University, and also the Faculty of Biology 
After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Galicia was captured by Poland. The Ministry of Religions and Education of Poland already on November 18, 1918, by a special order, announced that it was taking Lviv University under its guardianship, and named it after the Polish king John Casimir. The only language of instruction in the educational institution was Polish; only at the Faculty of Theology were certain disciplines taught in Latin. Departments teaching in Ukrainian were closed. Within two or three years, all professors and associate professors of Ukrainian nationality were fired from their jobs, and Ukrainian youth were limited in their access to university education.
According to the articles of the secret protocol to the agreement between the USSR and Germany of August 23, 1939, Western Ukraine fell into the zone of influence of the Soviet Union. On September 22, Soviet troops entered Lviv. On October 26, 1939, the puppet People's Assembly of Western Ukraine met in Lvov, which proclaimed the introduction of Soviet power. During this period, Lviv University also underwent radical changes. According to the Charter of the USSR Higher School, a radical organizational restructuring of the university was carried out as a higher educational institution with free and open education for all citizens. The theological faculty was liquidated, and the medical department with the pharmaceutical department was reorganized into a medical institute. In October 1939, new departments were created: history of Marxism-Leninism, dialectical and historical materialism, political economy, Ukrainian language, Ukrainian literature, Russian language, Russian literature, history of the USSR, history of Ukraine, physical education. Along with ensuring high professional training of specialists, they were supposed to educate young people on the basis of Marxist-Leninist ideology and a materialist worldview.
By decree of January 8, 1940, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR named Lviv State University after the outstanding Ukrainian writer and thinker Ivan Franko, who studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in the 70s of the 19th century.
The work of the university was stopped with the German attack on the Soviet Union and the June 30, 1941 invasion of Lviv by Nazi troops. In the first days, 70 famous scientists from the university, polytechnic and medical institutes were arrested, and after beatings and abuse they were shot in the area of what is now Sakharov Street. In 1942, the German occupation authorities closed universities in Ukraine. The occupiers robbed and destroyed university property. The equipment of the classrooms and laboratories of the faculties of physics, mathematics and chemistry, as well as the library of the department of folklore and ethnography, which numbered 15 thousand volumes, were exported to Germany. From the university's scientific library, in which the main reading room was destroyed, 20 thousand volumes of the most valuable books, about 5 thousand early printed and incunabula, and 500 valuable manuscripts were taken away.
The restoration of the university's activities began immediately after the liberation of Lvov from Nazi troops. On July 30, 1944, a meeting was held at the university, the participants of which - 127 teachers and technical workers - appealed to the intelligentsia to take an active part in the restoration of the economy, educational, cultural and educational institutions of Lvov. During 1944 - 1945, mainly by students and teachers, the premises on the street were organized. Shcherbakova (now Grushevsky), 4 (biological faculty), on the street. Lomonosov (now Cyril and Methodius), 6 and 8 (chemical and physical buildings), the scientific library and hostel on the street were renovated. Herzen, 7, an astronomical observatory and a botanical garden were partially rebuilt. After a break of more than three years, the University welcomed students again on October 15, 1944.
Declaration of independence of Ukraine - new page in the history of the University. In 1990, the University was headed by Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Ivan Vakarchuk. The opening of new faculties and departments is the implementation of a large-scale program of reforms in the organization of studies at Lviv University. The Faculty of International Relations, the Faculty of Philosophy, the Faculty of Pre-University Training, and the Institute of Historical Research were founded, headed by Doctor of Historical Sciences J. Gritsak. On October 11, 1999, by Decree of the President of Ukraine, Ivan Franko Lviv State University was awarded the status of “national”.
On the pediment of the main building of the Ivan Franko Lviv National University there is a slogan: “Patriae decori civibus educandis” (“Educated citizens are the adornment of the Motherland”). The University team is working hard to realize this idea. 
Reading room of the scientific library named after. M. Dragomanova.
Rector of the University, Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Ivan Vakarchuk welcomes the first-year students.
Graduates
Solemn initiation into students.
Celebrating the 350th anniversary of the University
And these are the teachers of the Ukrainian language department))))))))) I remember you, my dear teachers))))))))
The students presented Ivan Franko with a robe...
Students dancing...
Dear friends! Come study at Ivan Franko Lviv National State University!
Lviv National University named after. I. Franko (LNU) - additional information about the higher education institution
general information
Ivan Franko Lviv National University is one of the leading higher education institutions in Ukraine and Europe.
The structure of Lviv National University includes 18 faculties, an Institute of Postgraduate Education, 3 colleges, 7 research institutes, an Astronomical Observatory, a Botanical Garden, a Scientific Library, and 6 museums. Specialists are trained in accordance with obtained licenses in 16 industries, 52 areas and 91 specialties.
Today, Lviv National University has 130 departments, three of which have been opened in recent years.
Lviv National University named after. Franko (LNU) has the following faculties:
- Biological,
- Geographical,
- Geological,
- Economic,
- Electronics,
- Pre-university training,
- Journalism,
- Foreign languages,
- Historical,
- Culture and arts,
- International relations,
- Mechanical-mathematical,
- Applied mathematics and computer science,
- Physical,
- Philological,
- Philosophical,
- Chemical,
- Legal.
Ivan Franko Lviv National University trains specialists according to educational and qualification levels " Junior Specialist", "bachelor", "specialist" And " master".
Training is carried out at seventeen faculties in the following specialties:
- Microbiology and Virology
- Biology
- Biochemistry
- Biophysics
- Zoology
- Botany
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Geology
- Geochemistry and Mineralogy
- Ecology and environmental protection
- Geography
- Economic and social geography
- Organizational management
- Tourism
- Journalism
- Sociology
- Economic theory
- Economic cybernetics
- International economics
- Finance
- Banking
- Accounting and Auditing
- Enterprise economy
- Economic statistics
- Taxation
- Story
- Ethnology
- Archival studies
- Archeology
- Mathematics
- Statistics
- Mechanics
- International relationships
- International law
- International economic relations
- International information
- Regional studies
- international Business
- Computer science
- Applied Mathematics
- Social informatics
- System analysis and management
- Physics
- Astronomy
- Solid state physics
- Radiophysics and electronics
- applied Physics
- Physical and biomedical electronics
- Folkloristics
- Ukrainian language and literature
- Language and literature with language indication
- Russian language and literature
- Persian language and literature
- Czech language and literature
- Serbian language and literature
- Bulgarian language and literature
- Polish language and literature
- Croatian language and literature
- Slovak language and literature
- English language and literature
- German and literature
- French language and literature
- Spanish language and literature
- Japanese language and literature
- Arabic language and literature
- Latin, Greek and Ancient Greek
- Applied linguistics
- Literary creativity
- Translation
- Book science, library science and bibliography
- Cultural studies
- Theater arts
- Philosophy
- Psychology
- Political science
- Chemistry
- Jurisprudence
- Information Technology design
Ensuring the educational process at Lviv National University
The educational process is provided by 1,708 full-time scientific and pedagogical workers, including 166 doctors of science, professors, and 841 candidates of science, associate professor (quality - 59%).
Today Ivan Franko Lviv National University is a university of leading scientific schools with generally recognized international authority.
More than 20 scientific schools have been formed and are successfully functioning at Lviv National University, in particular in the following areas: physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, geography, economics, philology, law, history.
Along with traditional scientific schools, new ones are being formed, covering all areas of the academic life of Lviv National University. An example of the continuity of scientific traditions is that in 2008, at the World Programming Olympiad in Canada, LNU students won gold medals for the first time in the history of independent Ukraine, ahead of representatives of the famous universities of the world - Oxford and Princeton.
International connections Lviv National University
Students of the geographical, historical and international relations faculties undergo educational practices in Poland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Employees of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Philology, Chemistry, the Faculty of International Relations and Applied Mathematics and Computer Science worked in higher educational institutions in Poland, Colombia, France, Switzerland, and Austria on teaching contracts. Many LNU graduates continue their studies at higher educational institutions in the USA, Poland, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, and France. Every year, with a grant from the American government and with the assistance of the University of Kansas, a Summer School is held for American students who undergo a six-week internship at LNU in the Ukrainian language and history of Ukraine.
