University of Strasbourg, France Germany relations, Higher Education History, Alsace region, Christian Pfister, strategic education policy, WWI aftermath
how France strategically reclaimed the University of Strasbourg after its return from German rule in 1919. Historian Christian Pfister's account reveals the challenges France faced in re-establishing the university as a symbol of prestige and modernization, and how it implemented a counter-reconquest strategy to counter German policies. Learn about the hasty opening of the university, led by Rector Coulet, and the diverse commission that ensured its prestige. Uncover the significance of the University of Strasbourg's resumption for France and its role in the country's education
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[...] II- The implementation of a counter-reconquest strategy in response to German policies A. The establishment of a prefigurative commission of the university Thus, what Christian Pfister mainly describes is the establishment of a prefigurative mission of the University. The Minister of Public Instruction appointed a commission of professors tasked with going to Strasbourg (lg to 21). This commission was chaired by Mr. Apell, a Strasbourg native, dean of the University of Paris and rector of the Paris Academy (lg.22). As the part of the text describing the people involved in this commission highlights (lg.22 to they come from diverse disciplines to ensure the prestige of the University, mostly people from Alsace (so-called Alsatians returning after the end of the annexation) or people from the largest French faculties such as the Sorbonne. [...]
[...] The text deals with the creation of the new University of Strasbourg, the same year. Written by Christian Pfister, medieval historian, at the beginning of the XX century.ème in the 20th century, he was a professor of history within the chair of medieval history of the faculty of history of Strasbourg since its creation; then, he was quickly elected, member of the academy of moral and political sciences in 1920 within the same university (Pfister, 2024). The text belongs to a work in which Christian Pfister reports: on « the ambivalence of a return (of France to Alsace-Lorraine) that inscribes itself at the same time in the rupture and the continuity, the admiration and the rejection, the patriotism against the science, the truth against the politics (Müller, 2018). [...]
[...] An object of the francization of the local populations, the University is also a means for France to reconquer this strategic territory. As Françoise Olivier-Utard, a lecturer in modern history, will write, due to its strategic importance and local political situation, the University will remain in a posture of refusal of contact with Germany and was an original tool - as she designates it - of propaganda. - Bibliography « 1914-1918 : THE GREAT WAR - Alsace Moselle Memorial »Alsace Moselle Memorial, www.memorial-alsace-moselle.com/le-memorial/un-peu-d-histoire/1914-118-grande-guerre. [...]
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