L’université de Strasbourg de 1919 à 1939 : s’ouvrir à l’international mais ignorer l’Allemagne

• Main Author: Françoise Olivier-Utard
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: UMR 5136- France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, Pouvoirs, Acteurs (FRAMESPA) 2010-12-01
• Series: Les Cahiers de Framespa
• Subjects: banishment of Germany; Central Europe student; franco-german competition; international reputation; Victory of 1918; Middle East
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/framespa/515

Following the victory of 1918, the reopening of the French university of Strasbourg set international reputation as one of its main objectives. All the faculties participated in this aim, in different ways. Contacts were sought with all the countries except Germany, which was systematically banished until WW II. Foreign students came from Central Europe and Middle East countries. Professors organised exchanges even with non French speaking universities, attended symposia and published articles in foreign reviews up to September 1939, when the University of Strasbourg had to move to Clermont-Ferrand. The de facto annexion of Alsace-Lorraine by the Third Reich followed in June 1940.