Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; French: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Paris. In 2018, it merged with Pierre and Marie Curie University and some smaller entities to form a new university called Sorbonne University and became its Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
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History
Paris-Sorbonne University was one of the inheritors of the Faculty of Humanities (French: Faculté des lettres) of the University of Paris (also known as the Sorbonne), which ceased to exist following student protests in May 1968. The Faculty of Humanities was the main focus of the University of Paris, and subsequently Paris-Sorbonne University was one of its main successors. It was a member of the Sorbonne University Group.
Paris-Sorbonne University enrolled about 24,000 students in 20 departments specialising in arts, humanities and languages, divided in 12 campuses throughout Paris. Seven of the campuses were situated in the historic Latin Quarter, including the historic Sorbonne university building, and three in the Marais, Malesherbes and Clignancourt respectively. In addition, the university also maintained one campus in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, called Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi. Paris-Sorbonne University also comprised France's prestigious communication and journalism school, CELSA, located in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Paris-Sorbonne University maintained about 400 international agreements.
As a successor of the faculty of humanities of the University of Paris, it was a founding member the Sorbonne University group, an alliance with the successor of the faculty of law and economics and of the faculty of science of the University of Paris (respectively, Panthéon-Assas University and Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University). This group allowed Paris-Sorbonne University students to pursue several dual degrees. Two graduate certificates in law from Panthéon-Assas University (Sorbonne Law School) were accessible for all the student members of the Sorbonne University group.
Succession: Sorbonne University
On 1 January 2018, Paris-Sorbonne University merged with Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University to create the Sorbonne University.
Notable people
Notable faculty and staff
Notable Paris-Sorbonne university faculty include:
Dominique Barbéris, novelist, French literature
Yves-Marie Bercé, historian, member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques (2007)
Philippe Contamine, historian, member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
Denis Crouzet, historian, awarded the Madeleine Laurain-Portemer prize by the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques
Marc Fumaroli, member of the Académie française, professor at the Collège de France
Jean Favier (1932–2014), historian, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Nicolas Grimal, egyptologist, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Claude Lecouteux, historian
Jean-Luc Marion, philosopher, member of the Académie française (2008)
Danièle Pistone, musicologist, correspondent member at the Académie des beaux-arts (2014)
Frédéric Regard, littérature britannique, spécialiste des études de genre en France
Jean-Yves Tadié, English Literature
Jean Tulard, historian, member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques (1994)
Notable alumni
Donald Adamson (1939–2024), British historian
Shmuel Agmon (born 1922), Israeli mathematician
Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari (born 1948), Qatari diplomat
Sophia Antoniadis (1895–1972), classical scholar and first female professor at Leiden University
Soheir Bakhoum (1947-2003), curator and numismatist
Philippe Barbarin (born 1950), French Catholic Archbishop of Lyon and cardinal
Charlotte Casiraghi (born 1986), Italian fashion journalist
Karl P. Cohen (1913–2012), American physical chemist
Ioan Petru Culianu (1950–1991), Romanian historian
Abiol Lual Deng (born 1983), South Sudanese-American political scientist
Mamadou Diouf, Senegalese professor of Western African history at Columbia University
Marie Drucker (born 1974), French journalist
Soudabeh Fazaeli (born 1947), Iranian seismologist, researcher, mythologist and writer
Luc Ferry (born 1951), French philosopher
Henri Guaino (born 1957) French politician
William Irigoyen (born 1970), French journalist