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John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin ( pl, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, la, Universitas Catholica Lublinensis Ioannis Pauli II, abbreviation KUL), established in 1918. It is the only private college in Poland with the status of a university.


History

Father Idzi Radziszewski founded the university in 1918.
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allowed the priest to take the library and equipment of the
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to Poland to launch the university just as Poland regained its independence. The aim of the university was to be a modern place of higher education that would conduct research in the spirit of harmony between science and faith. The university sought to produce a new Catholic intelligentsia that would play a leading role in Poland. The number of students increased from 399 in 1918–1919 to 1440 in 1937–1938. This growth was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War and
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's occupation of Poland. Of all the universities located in the German-occupied territory, the University of Lublin was the only one to resume work in October 1939. On 23 November 1939, the
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executed a number of academic workers, among others, professors Michał Niechaj and Czesław Martyniak.Adam Redzik.
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The university was ordered shut down and its buildings were converted into a military hospital. Nevertheless, the university carried on its teaching activities in secret. After the invasion of Lublin in July 1944 by the
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, the university reopened on 21 August 1944. Since then the university has functioned without interruption. The university stayed open during the years Poland was under Communist control between 1944 and 1989, though some of its faculties did not. The faculties of law, social science and education were shut down between 1953 and 1956. It was the only independent, Catholic university in existence in the entire Soviet bloc. Given that the Communist governments all insisted on having a total monopoly of control over educational institutions, the preservation of its independence was a great achievement. The university was often harassed in various ways by the Communist authorities, especially in the 1950s and the 1960s. The university faculty were under frequent surveillance by the secret police. Periodically some faculties were denied by the state the right to grant graduate degrees. The employment prospects of its graduates were limited. Despite the difficulties, the university's independence was maintained and it never adopted Marxist dogmas taught at all the other state universities. It served as a haven for students who were expelled from state universities for political reasons. After the fall of Communism in Poland in 1989, the university has flourished, quadrupling its student population and greatly expanding its campus. In 2010 the university was involved in a scandal concerning the granting of PhDs by departments that were not allowed to grant them, due to not having a sufficient number of academic staff.


Celtic studies

The Institute of English Studies at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin offers courses connected with Celtic cultures and languages as part of BA and MA courses in the Department of Celtic Studies. The department was founded in 1989. A student of Celtic Studies can choose between courses in Old English, Celtic History and Culture, Celtic Linguistics, and Irish and Welsh Literatures. BA students may opt for learning Irish and Welsh. There are also Celtic Days that have been taking place since 2004. The event has two parts, namely the academic (lectures, presentations, language workshops), and the artistic one (dance workshops, concerts).


Rankings

The university has had a steady advance in university rankings. In 2011, it was placed 8th among all Polish universities. Also in 2011, '' Wprost'' magazine ranked it 15th among humanity universities. Before that, in 2006 '' Newsweek Polska'' ranked the university 54th among all Polish universities. In 2011–12, the university's philosophy program was ranked first in Poland by the Polish Accreditation Agency, distinguished twice, receiving 9 million PLN total in grants that year as a result.


Notable alumni and professors

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Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
(Karol Wojtyła), the most famous person associated with the university. Wojtyła earned a licentiate in theology in July 1947, and successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled ''Doctrina de fide apud S. Ioannem a Cruce'' (''Doctrine of Faith in St. John of the Cross'') in philosophy on 19 June 1948 at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, ''Angelicum'' in Rome.''Doctrina de fide apud S. Ioannem a Cruce''
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Although his doctoral work was unanimously approved in June 1948, he was denied the degree because he could not afford to print the text of his dissertation (an ''Angelicum'' rule). In December of that year, a revised text of his dissertation was approved by the theological faculty of
Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University ( Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...
in
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, and Wojtyła was awarded the degree. He became a part-time teacher of philosophy at KUL starting in 1954, sharing his time between teaching in Lublin and doing his pastoral work in
Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula, Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland un ...
. After he became archbishop of Kraków in 1963 and a cardinal in 1967, his duties limited the time he was able to spend teaching in Lublin, and his students often commuted to his lectures in Kraków. His involvement with the university continued until he was elected pope in 1978. All of his philosophical works were published in Lublin. * Andrzej Szostek, a Marian order priest who was a student of the future Pope. Stayed on as a professor until 2020 and served as the University's rector between 1998 and 2004. * Stefan Wyszyński,
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of Poland * Servant of God Jacek Woroniecki (1878–1949),
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,
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, Dominican lecturer at the University of Lublin in moral theology, rector of the
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(1922-1924) *
Michał Heller Michał Kazimierz Heller (born 12 March 1936 in Tarnów) is a Polish professor of philosophy at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland, and an adjunct member of the Vatican Observatory staff. He also serves as a lecture ...
, priest, academic and philosopher, awarded with
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in 2008 * Józef Życiński, priest, Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop, academic *
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, poet and writer *
Janusz Krupski Janusz Krupski (9 May 1951 in Lublin – 10 April 2010) was a Polish historian, member of the democratic opposition to communist rule in Poland during the People's Republic of Poland and a government official. Studies and democratic opposi ...
, historian * Janusz Palikot, politician, activist and businessman * Wojciech Siemion, stage and film actor * Beata Mazurek, politician, Deputy Marshal of the
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* Józef Milik, priest,
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scholar * Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Polish
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priest who became associated with the opposition Solidarity trade union in communist Poland. He has been recognized as a
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by the Roman Catholic Church, and was
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on 6 June 2010. * Jerzy Kłoczowski, one of the greatest Polish historians of the 20th century *
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, politician, senator, communist dissident, Marshal of the Senate * Kazimierz Nycz, priest,
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Cardinal, Archbishop of Warsaw


See also

* List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945) *
Lublin Thomism Thomism is the philosophical and theological school that arose as a legacy of the work and thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), the Dominican philosopher, theologian, and Doctor of the Church. In philosophy, Aquinas' disputed questio ...


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External links


English web page of the Catholic University of Lublin
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