University of Buenos Aires

The University of Buenos Aires was officially opened on August 12, 1821, by decree of the Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, General Martin Rodriguez, prepared by Bernardino Rivadavia , the Minister of his Government. ^[4] The opening ceremony, which was held at the Church of San Ignacio, was attended by Rivadavia and the priest Antonio Saens, who was appointed the first rector of the university and who advocated shifting the emphasis in higher education from religion to the natural and exact sciences. ^[5] The existing universities at that time were included in the new university. In 1822, it consisted of the following departments, the predecessors of the current faculties: primary education , preparatory education , exact sciences , medicine , law and theology .

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  Bernardino Rivadavia

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  Antonio Saens

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  UBA administration, approx. 1900

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  First UBA building ( Spanish: Manzana de las Luces ), approx. 1920

During the reign of General Juan Manuel de Rosas, free education was canceled. Nevertheless, the university continued to work, although the number of students dropped significantly. But in 1852 , after the defeat of Rosas at the Battle of Caseros and the fall of his dictatorship, the university received a new impetus. Famous professors from Europe began to be invited, such as Bernardino Speluzzi ( University of Pavia ), Emilio Rosetti ( University of Turin ), Pellegrino Strobel ( University of Parma ). The Department of Exact Sciences in 1869 graduated 12 of the first Argentine engineers.

In 1881 , when Buenos Aires became the federal capital , the university came under state control. At the end of the XIX century (the period of the so-called “eighties generation” , Spanish Generación del '80' ), the importance and prestige of the university in Argentina increased significantly.

The times of economic prosperity of the country as a whole and its capital in particular at the beginning of the 20th century made higher education accessible to the general public. As a reflection of this process, in 1918 a group of students from the National University of Cordoba initiated and spread throughout Latin America (and, to some extent, in Spain) a political and cultural movement called “University Reform” . Among its principles were the autonomy of universities, joint management, democratization, the periodic replacement of departments on a competitive basis.

During a series of military coups and periods of civil rule of the 20th century, the university underwent various reorganizations and interventions from the ruling regimes: autonomy, tuition fees, censorship were canceled and reintroduced, including repressions against students and professors, due to which some students were expelled from the walls of the university, and a number of teachers were forced to emigrate. ^{[6] [7]}

With the establishment of civilian rule in 1983, Argentinean universities returned to a governance model based on the principles of 1918 university reform.

• General Basic Course ( Spanish) Ciclo Básico Común
• Psychology faculty
• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Dentistry
• Faculty of Biochemistry and Pharmaceuticals
• Faculty of Philosophy and Literature
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Sociology
• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
• Faculty of Agronomy
• Department of Economics
• Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences
• Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism

The university does not have a centralized campus . In the 1960s , the construction of the so-called. The “University Campus” ( Spanish: Ciudad Universitaria ) on the banks of the Rio de La Plata , but today it has only two faculties ( exact and natural sciences and architecture, design and urbanism ), the rest are scattered throughout the capital of Argentina .

The system of libraries and information ( Spanish Sistema de Bibliotecas y de Información , SISBI), created in 1985 , includes 18 libraries of faculties and other departments of the university. ^[eight]

The university is associated with the names of five Nobel laureates (four graduates and one teacher), which is a record for Hispanic universities.

• Graduates:
  • Saavedra Lamas, Carlos - Nobel Peace Prize , 1936
  • Usay, Bernardo Alberto - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , 1947
  • Leloire, Louis Federico - Nobel Prize in Chemistry , 1970
  • Milstein, Cesar - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1984
• Teachers:
  • Perez Esquivel, Adolfo - Nobel Peace Prize, 1980

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  Carlos Saavedra Lamas

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  Bernardo Alberto Usay

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  Luis Federico Leloir

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  Cesar Milstein

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  Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Many presidents of Argentina were also graduates of this university (the years of the presidency are given in brackets):

• Pellegrini, Carlos (1890-1892)
• Saens Peña, Louis (1892–1895)
• Quintana, Manuel (1904-1906)
• Saens Peña, Roque (1910-1914)
• Plaza, Victorino de la (1914-1916)
• Yrigoyen, Hipolito (1916-1922, 1928-1930)
• Alvear, Marcelo Torcuato de (1922-1928)
• Justo, Agustin Pedro (1932-1938)
• Ortiz, Roberto Maria (1938-1942)
• Castillo, Ramon (1942-1943)
• Frondisi, Arturo (1958-1962)
• Ilya, Arturo Umberto (1963-1966)
• Alfonsin, Raul (1983-1989)
• Rodriguez Saa, Adolfo (2001)
• Dualde, Eduardo (2002-2003)

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