University of Liège

The University of Liège is a public research university of the French Community of Belgium, founded in 1817 and based in the city of Liège, with its main campus on the Sart Tilman plateau about ten kilometres south of the city centre, and it also operates campuses at Gembloux in the province of Namur and at Arlon in the province of Luxembourg.列日大学是比利时法语区的一所公立研究型大学，创办于 1817 年，校址设于列日市，主校区位于市中心以南约十公里的萨尔提尔曼台地，此外还在纳穆尔省的让布卢与卢森堡省的阿尔隆设有校区。

Its 24,522 students, of whom 4,600 come from abroad, are taught in eleven faculties by about 2,800 academic staff, and the institution employs some 4,300 people in total, having marked its bicentenary in 2017.该校 24,522 名学生中有 4,600 人来自海外，由十一个学院约 2,800 名教师施教，全校教职工总数约 4,300 人，并于 2017 年迎来建校两百周年。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 364th, it stands in the 326-350 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it is 421st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities, and it falls in the 401-500 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, while OpenAlex credits it with 281,300 research works.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 364，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 326 至 350 名区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 421，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 401 至 500 名区间；OpenAlex 统计其研究成果达 281,300 项。

History

• A decree of 17 March 1808 by Napoleon I indicated Liège as the site of a new academy with a Faculty of Arts and a Faculty of Science, the first university charter for the city.1808 年 3 月 17 日拿破仑一世的一道法令指定列日为设立新学园之地，包含文学院与理学院，这是该市获得的第一份大学特许。

• The University of Liège was founded in 1817 by King William I of the Netherlands and his Minister of Education Anton Reinhard Falck, in the period when the southern provinces were part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.列日大学于 1817 年由尼德兰国王威廉一世及其教育大臣安东·莱因哈德·法尔克创办，当时南部诸省尚属尼德兰联合王国。

• From its foundation in 1817 the university has used French as its official language of instruction, and its teaching has always addressed a French-speaking student body.自 1817 年创办起，该校即以法语为正式教学语言，其教学始终面向法语学生群体。

• After the Belgian Revolution of 1830 the university became a Belgian institution, and it continued to develop through the nineteenth century as one of the two state universities of the new kingdom.1830 年比利时革命后，该校成为比利时的高等学府，并在 19 世纪继续发展，成为这个新王国的两所国立大学之一。

• A mining school was established at Liège in 1838, reflecting the industrial character of the region around the Meuse and the Sambre.列日于 1838 年设立了矿业学校，反映出默兹河与桑布尔河一带的工业特质。

• In 1881 the university admitted its first woman student, an early step in the gradual opening of Belgian higher education to women, although the first woman professor was appointed only well into the twentieth century.1881 年，该校录取了首位女学生，这是比利时高等教育逐步向女性开放的早期一步，而首位女性教授直到 20 世纪才获任命。

• Under the rector Louis Trasenster the university built the Trasenster Institutes between 1882 and 1888, a group of research buildings that shaped its scientific reputation.在校长路易·特拉森斯特主持下，该校于 1882 年至 1888 年间建成特拉森斯特研究所群，这组研究建筑奠定了其科研声誉。

• In 1882 the Institute of Astrophysics and the Cointe Observatory were set up, and in 1883 the Institute of Pharmacy, the Botanical Institute and the Montefiore Institute of Electrical Engineering followed.1882 年设立了天体物理研究所与宽特天文台，1883 年又相继设立药学研究所、植物研究所与蒙特菲奥雷电气工程研究所。

• In 1885 the Auguste Swaen Institute of Anatomy was added and in 1888 the Institutes of Physiology, Zoology and Chemistry completed the Trasenster building programme.1885 年增建了奥古斯特·斯瓦恩解剖学研究所，1888 年生理学、动物学与化学等研究所相继建成，特拉森斯特营建计划至此完成。

• In 1955 the State University of Liège founded the University of Lubumbashi in the Belgian Congo, one of the earliest universities in Central Africa.1955 年，国立列日大学在比属刚果创办了卢本巴希大学，这是中非地区最早的大学之一。

• In 1967 the university began its transfer from the city centre to the Sart Tilman campus, which has since become its main site.1967 年，该校开始从市中心迁往萨尔提尔曼校区，该地此后成为其主校区。

• In 1969 the Cureghem University of Veterinary Medicine in Brussels was attached to the university as a new faculty.1969 年，布鲁塞尔的库雷海姆兽医大学并入该校，成为一个新的学院。

• In 1989 the university became a university of the French Community of Belgium, following the federalisation of the Belgian state.1989 年，随着比利时国家结构的联邦化，该校成为比利时法语区的大学。

• In 1991 the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was transferred from Brussels to the Sart Tilman campus, concentrating the university's veterinary teaching in Liège.1991 年，兽医学院从布鲁塞尔迁至萨尔提尔曼校区，使该校的兽医教学集中于列日。

• In 2004 the Fondation universitaire luxembourgeoise was integrated into the university, extending its teaching into the province of Luxembourg.2004 年，卢森堡大学基金会并入该校，把其教学延伸到卢森堡省。

• In 2005 HEC Liège, the university's management school, was created by merging the Management School with the Department of Economics and Business Administration.2005 年，该校的管理学院 HEC Liège 由管理学院与经济及工商管理系合并而成。

• In 2009 the Agronomical University of Gembloux, known as FUSAGx, was integrated into the university as Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech.2009 年，名为 FUSAGx 的让布卢农学大学并入该校，成为让布卢农业生物技术学院。

• In 2010 the Faculty of Architecture was created by merging the ISA Saint-Luc and the ISAI LL institutes, and in 2015 the Faculty of Social Sciences was created.2010 年，建筑学院由圣吕克高等建筑学院与 ISAI LL 两个机构合并而成；2015 年则新设了社会科学学院。

• In 2021 the university opened its Media Campus in the Grand Poste de Liège, to which the student radio station 48FM moved.2021 年，该校在列日大邮局开设了媒体校区，学生电台 48FM 也迁入其中。

• In 1943 the university awarded an honorary doctorate to the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek, an early link in its long relationship with Chinese higher education.1943 年，该校向中国领导人蒋介石授予荣誉博士学位，这是其与中国高等教育长期交往的早期联系。

• In 1978 a delegation led by a Belgian rector visited Peking University, and in later years many academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences received honorary doctorates from the university.1978 年，一个由比利时校长率领的代表团访问了北京大学；此后多年，中国科学院的许多院士获授该校荣誉博士学位。

• In 2022 Anne-Sophie Nyssen became rector, the first woman to lead the university, after Anne Girin had become its Administrator in 2020.2022 年，安娜—索菲·尼森成为该校首位女性校长，此前安娜·吉兰已于 2020 年出任该校行政长官。

Academics

• The university is organised into eleven faculties, covering philosophy and letters, law, political science and criminology, social sciences, science, applied sciences, medicine and veterinary medicine.该校设有十一个学院，涵盖哲学与文学、法学、政治学与犯罪学、社会科学、理学、应用科学、医学与兽医学等。

• Its faculties also include Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, psychology, logopedics and educational sciences, architecture, and HEC Liège, the management school.其学院还包括让布卢农业生物技术学院、心理学与言语治疗及教育科学学院、建筑学院，以及管理学院 HEC Liège。

• The university teaches 24,522 students, of whom 4,600 are foreign students, with about 2,800 academic staff engaged in teaching and research and about 1,300 administrative and technical staff.该校共有 24,522 名学生，其中 4,600 名为外国学生；约 2,800 名教师从事教学与研究，另有约 1,300 名行政与技术人员。

• Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech gives the university a strong base in agronomy, biotechnology and food science from its campus in the province of Namur.让布卢农业生物技术学院以其在纳穆尔省的校区，为该校提供了农学、生物技术与食品科学的坚实基础。

• The Department of Environmental Sciences and Management at Arlon in the province of Luxembourg extends the university's teaching into the far south of Belgium.设在卢森堡省阿尔隆的环境科学与管理系，把该校的教学延伸到比利时最南部。

• The university operates the STARESO oceanography station in Corsica, where students and researchers carry out marine fieldwork in the Mediterranean.该校在科西嘉岛运营 STARESO 海洋学研究站，师生在此开展地中海的海洋实地研究。

• Its research facilities abroad include the Jungfraujoch weather station in Switzerland, the KATABATA stations in Greenland, and the SPECULOOS and TRAPPIST-South telescopes in Chile.其海外研究设施包括瑞士的少女峰气象站、格陵兰的 KATABATA 观测站，以及智利的 SPECULOOS 与 TRAPPIST-South 望远镜。

• Further telescopes at Tenerife in Spain and at TRAPPIST-North in Morocco allow the university's astronomers to observe the sky from several latitudes.设于西班牙特内里费以及摩洛哥 TRAPPIST-North 的其他望远镜，使该校天文学家能够从多个纬度观测天空。

• A Confucius Institute for Chinese language and culture was established at the university, reflecting its growing collaboration with Chinese universities.该校设立了孔子学院，开展中文与中国文化教学，体现出其与中国高校日益密切的合作。

• Albert Claude, who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974, was an alumnus and later a professor of the university.1974 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖得主阿尔贝·克洛德既是该校校友，后来又成为该校教授。

• Several of the university's academics have won the Francqui Prize, among them Michel A. J. Georges in 2008, Alexis Jacquemin in 1983 and Polidor Swings in 1948.该校多位学者曾获弗朗基奖，包括 2008 年的米歇尔·让·乔治、1983 年的亚历克西·雅克曼，以及 1948 年的波利多·斯温斯。

• The university's HEC Liège management school teaches business, economics and management, building on the management school's own origins.该校的管理学院 HEC Liège 在原有管理学校的基础上，教授商学、经济学与管理学。

• The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine operates on the Sart Tilman campus after its 1991 transfer from Brussels, teaching veterinary science and clinical practice.兽医学院自 1991 年从布鲁塞尔迁来后，在萨尔提尔曼校区开展兽医科学与临床教学。

• Its medical and life science faculties conduct research in cell biology, physiology and biomedical science, fields in which the university has long-standing strength.其医学与生命科学各学院在细胞生物学、生理学与生物医学领域开展研究，这些方向是该校长期的优势所在。

• The university's library network serves the faculties in Liège, Gembloux and Arlon with collections, reading rooms and digital resources, supporting both undergraduate teaching and the doctoral research carried out across its campuses.该校图书馆系统以藏书、阅览室与数字资源服务于列日、让布卢与阿尔隆的各学院，为本科教学以及各校区开展的博士研究提供支持。

• Across eleven faculties the university offers one of the most diversified ranges of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Belgium.在十一个学院之下，该校提供的本科与研究生课程为比利时最多样化者之一。

• The university's Faculty of Philosophy and Letters is one of the oldest parts of the institution and teaches history, languages, philosophy, archaeology and the arts, while the Faculty of Law, Political Science and Criminology and the Faculty of Social Sciences are housed together in the B31 building on the Sart Tilman campus at the place des Orateurs.该校的哲学与文学学院是其历史最悠久的组成部分之一，教授历史、语言、哲学、考古学与艺术；法学、政治学与犯罪学学院以及社会科学学院则共同设于萨尔提尔曼校区阿戈拉区演说家广场的 B31 大楼，共用这一集中了多数办公室与教学空间的新建筑。

• Research at the university spans the exact sciences, medicine, veterinary science, engineering and the social sciences, and doctoral training is organised across the eleven faculties, supported by the university's own research institutes and by its observatories and field stations, which operate on several continents and at sea.该校研究覆盖精确科学、医学、兽医科学、工程与社会科学，博士培养在十一个学院中组织，并由校属研究所及其设于多个大陆与海上的天文台、野外观测站提供支撑。

Campus

• The main campus lies on the Sart Tilman plateau about ten kilometres south of central Liège, a wooded site reached from the city by road and by the bus line 48.主校区位于列日市中心以南约十公里的萨尔提尔曼台地，这片林木繁茂的园区可经公路及 48 路公交车抵达。

• Since the transfer begun in 1967 the Sart Tilman campus has grown into the university's principal academic and research site, with the majority of its faculties.自 1967 年启动迁移以来，萨尔提尔曼校区已发展为该校的主要教学与研究基地，容纳其多数学院。

• The university retains its historic headquarters and administrative offices in the city centre of Liège, along with four of its eleven faculties.该校在列日市中心保留历史悠久的校本部与行政办公室，以及十一个学院中的四个。

• Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech is located at Gembloux in the province of Namur, where the university inherited the buildings of the former agronomical university.让布卢农业生物技术学院位于纳穆尔省的让布卢，该校在此继承了原农学大学的校舍。

• The Arlon campus in the province of Luxembourg houses the university's Department of Environmental Sciences and Management.位于卢森堡省的阿尔隆校区设有该校的环境科学与管理系。

• The Media Campus, opened in 2021 in the Grand Poste de Liège, provides premises for the university's media teaching, its journalism students and the student radio station 48FM, which moved there from its earlier premises.2021 年在列日大邮局开设的媒体校区，为该校的传媒教学、新闻专业学生以及学生电台 48FM 提供场所，该电台由原址迁入此地。

• Student residences stand on the Sart Tilman campus, allowing students to live beside their faculties rather than commuting from the city centre.萨尔提尔曼校区内设有学生宿舍，使学生能够住在学院旁，而无须从市中心通勤。

• The university's several sites across Liège, Gembloux and Arlon are linked to the city centres by road and by public transport, including the long-running bus line 48.该校分布在列日、让布卢与阿尔隆的多个校址，均经公路与公共交通与市中心相连，其中包括运营已久的 48 路公交车。

• The B31 building stands in the Agora district of the Sart Tilman campus at the place des Orateurs, and it centralises most of the activities and offices of the Faculty of Law, Political Science and Criminology and of the Faculty of Social Sciences, both of which it serves.B31 大楼位于萨尔提尔曼校区阿戈拉区的演说家广场，集中了法学、政治学与犯罪学学院以及社会科学学院的多数活动与办公室，同时服务这两个学院。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the University of Liège is placed 364th, among the leading universities of Belgium.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，列日大学位列第 364，跻身比利时领先大学之列。

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stands in the 326-350 band, its strongest placing in the major global tables.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 326 至 350 名区间。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities it is placed 421st, and in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it falls in the 401-500 band.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 421；在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中则处于 401 至 500 名区间。

• Albert Claude, a graduate and later a professor, shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 for his work on cell fractionation.该校毕业生兼后来的教授阿尔贝·克洛德因细胞分级分离研究，于 1974 年获诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• Several members of its academic staff have won the Francqui Prize, Belgium's most prestigious scientific award, including Michel A. J. Georges in 2008.该校多位教师曾获比利时最具声望的科学奖项弗朗基奖，其中包括 2008 年的米歇尔·让·乔治。

• OpenAlex credits the university with 281,300 research works, one of the highest totals among Belgian universities.OpenAlex 统计该校研究成果达 281,300 项，在比利时各大学中位居前列。

• The university is noted for space sciences and astrophysics, operating observatories and telescopes in Chile, Morocco, Spain and Switzerland, and hosting the Cointe Observatory since 1882.该校以空间科学与天体物理著称，在智利、摩洛哥、西班牙与瑞士运营天文台与望远镜，并自 1882 年起设宽特天文台。

• With students from about 130 nationalities and a quarter of them international, the university is among the most internationalised in the French-speaking world.该校学生来自约 130 个国家，其中约四分之一为国际学生，是法语世界国际化程度最高的大学之一。

• The university has awarded honorary doctorates to figures such as Salman Rushdie in 1999, Bill Viola in 2010, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Mikhail Gorbachev in 2011.该校曾向萨曼·鲁西迪于 1999 年、比尔·维奥拉于 2010 年、多米尼克·斯特劳斯—卡恩与米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫于 2011 年授予荣誉博士学位。

• Its Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, based on the Sart Tilman campus since its transfer from Brussels in 1991, is one of the few veterinary schools in Belgium, and together with the Faculty of Medicine it supports the university's standing in veterinary and medical science.该校兽医学院自 1991 年由布鲁塞尔迁来后一直设于萨尔提尔曼校区，是比利时为数不多的兽医学院之一，它与医学院一同支撑起该校在兽医与医学科学领域的声望。

Student life

• The university's student radio station, 48FM, was created in 1998 and broadcasts from the Maison de la Fédé and later from the Media Campus in the Grand Poste.该校学生电台 48FM 创办于 1998 年，起初在学生会之家的楼顶播出，其后迁至大邮局的媒体校区。

• The Fédération des étudiants, known as the Fédé, created both 48FM and the Bal ULiège in 1998 as additions to its existing student services.被称为 Fédé 的学生联合会于 1998 年创办 48FM 与列日大学舞会，作为其既有学生服务的新增项目。

• The Saint Nicholas feast in early December marks a high point of student folklore at Liège, when faculty ceremonies and gatherings fill the student quarter.每年 12 月初的圣尼古拉节是列日学生民俗活动的高峰，各学院的仪式与聚会此时挤满学生街区。

• The Carré, the student district in central Liège, is the focus of the university's nightlife and of the traditional student celebrations.位于列日市中心的学生街区卡尔雷，是该校夜生活与传统学生庆典的集中之地。

• The bus line 48 to the Sart Tilman campus has become a symbol of student life at the university, and a farewell trip was organised when its route changed in 2025.开往萨尔提尔曼校区的 48 路公交车已成为该校学生生活的象征，2025 年其线路调整时校方还组织了告别之旅。

• Students come from about 130 nationalities, and roughly a quarter of the student body is international, giving campus life a strongly cosmopolitan character.学生来自约 130 个国家，学生总数约四分之一为国际学生，使校园生活具有鲜明的国际化色彩。

• Student residences on the Sart Tilman campus, such as those in the Village neighbourhood, provide housing close to the faculties and their sports facilities.萨尔提尔曼校区的学生宿舍，例如村区一带的宿舍，为学生在学院与体育设施附近提供住所。

• Student associations and faculty bodies organise cultural, sporting and social events throughout the academic year across the faculties in Liège, Gembloux and Arlon.学生社团与各学院机构在学年中组织文化、体育与社交活动，遍及列日、让布卢与阿尔隆各学院。

• The student body includes many first-generation and international students, and the students' federation, the Fédé, coordinates representation and services for them across the four faculties still located in central Liège and across the campuses at Gembloux and Arlon.该校学生中包括大量家庭第一代大学生与国际学生，学生联合会 Fédé 在仍设于列日市中心的四个学院以及让布卢与阿尔隆两校区，为其协调代表权与服务。

Notable people

• King William I of the Netherlands and his Minister of Education Anton Reinhard Falck founded the university in 1817, and the king remained its formal patron during its early decades.尼德兰国王威廉一世及其教育大臣安东·莱因哈德·法尔克于 1817 年创办该校，国王在其早期数十年间一直担任正式庇护人。

• Albert Claude, an alumnus and later professor, shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 and helped found modern cell biology.校友兼后来的教授阿尔贝·克洛德于 1974 年共同获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖，并参与奠定了现代细胞生物学。

• Theodor Schwann, who studied at Liège, formulated the cell theory and gave his name to the Schwann cells of the nervous system.曾在列日求学的特奥多尔·施旺提出细胞学说，神经系统中的施旺细胞即以他命名。

• Joseph Plateau, a graduate, was a physicist known for research on soap films, optical illusions and the mathematics of surfaces.该校毕业生约瑟夫·普拉托是物理学家，以肥皂膜、视觉错觉与曲面数学方面的研究闻名。

• Philippe-Charles Schmerling, a graduate, was a pioneer of paleontology who discovered fossil human remains in Belgian caves.该校毕业生菲利普—夏尔·施梅尔林是古生物学先驱，在比利时洞穴中发现了古人类化石遗存。

• Auguste Kerckhoffs, a professor at the university, formulated Kerckhoffs's principle, a foundation of modern cryptography.曾任该校教授的奥古斯特·克尔克霍夫斯提出克尔克霍夫斯原则，是现代密码学的基础之一。

• Marie Delcourt became the first woman professor at the university and was a noted classical scholar and historian of religion.玛丽·德勒库尔成为该校首位女性教授，也是著名的古典学者与宗教史家。

• Jean Rey, a graduate, was the second President of the European Commission, and Jean-Baptiste Nothomb was a Belgian statesman and diplomat.该校毕业生让·雷伊是第二任欧洲委员会主席，让—巴普蒂斯特·诺通则是比利时的政治家与外交官。

• Guy Quaden, an alumnus, was Governor of the National Bank of Belgium, and Haroun Tazieff became a celebrated vulcanologist.校友居伊·卡登曾任比利时国家银行行长，哈伦·塔齐耶夫则成为著名的火山学家。

• Eugène Charles Catalan, a mathematician who taught at the university, gave his name to the Catalan numbers and Catalan's conjecture.曾在该校任教的数学家欧仁·夏尔·卡塔兰，卡塔兰数与卡塔兰猜想即以他命名。

• Pol Swings, an astrophysicist at the university, was a pioneer of cometary spectroscopy, and Édouard Van Beneden was a leading biologist of the university.该校天体物理学家波尔·斯温斯是彗星光谱学的先驱，爱德华·范贝内登则是该校的杰出生物学家。

• Salman Rushdie received an honorary doctorate from the university in 1999, and Mikhail Gorbachev received one in 2011, among many honorary graduates.萨曼·鲁西迪于 1999 年获授该校荣誉博士学位，米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫则于 2011 年获授，两人都是众多荣誉毕业生中的代表。

• Jan Kowalewski, the Polish cryptologist who broke Soviet ciphers during the Polish-Soviet War of 1920, studied at the University of Liège, and Joaquín Arderíus, a Spanish novelist of the same generation, was also among its students.在 1920 年波苏战争中破译苏联密码的波兰密码学家扬·科瓦莱夫斯基曾在列日大学求学，同代的西班牙小说家华金·阿德里乌斯也是该校学生之一。