University of Wrocław
Uniwersytet Wrocławski | |
| Latin: Universitas Wratislaviensis | |
Former names | German: Leopoldina, Universität Breslau, Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau (before 1945) |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 21 October 1702 (reorganised 1945) |
| President | Robert Olkiewicz |
Administrative staff | 3,569 |
| Students | 20,293 (12.2023) |
| Location | , , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Blue |
| Website | uwr.edu.pl |
The University of Wrocław (Polish: Uniwersytet Wrocławski, UWr; Latin: Universitas Wratislaviensis) is a public research university in Wrocław, Poland. It is the largest institution of higher learning in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, with over 100,000 graduates since 1945, including some 1,900 researchers, among whom many have received the highest awards for their contributions to the development of scientific scholarship.
The university was reconstituted in its current form in 1945, as a direct successor to the previous German University of Breslau. Following the territorial changes of Poland's borders, academics primarily from the Jan Kazimierz University of Lwów restored the university building, which had been heavily damaged in the 1945 Battle of Breslau.