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The University of Copenhagen was founded on the 1st of June 1479. Christian I of Denmark issued a royal decree officially establishing it on the 4th of October 1478, after receiving a papal bull from Pope Sixtus IV in 1475. It is the oldest university in Denmark and the second-oldest in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University.
The University of Copenhagen was dissolved around 1531 as a result of the spread of Protestantism. King Christian III re-established it in 1537 after the Lutheran Reformation and brought Johannes Bugenhagen from Wittenberg to draw up a new University Charter, which was issued in 1539.
The University of Copenhagen is governed by a board of 11 members, including 6 recruited from outside the university, 2 appointed by scientific staff, 1 by administrative staff, and 2 by students. The 2003 Danish university law created a top-down structure described as absolute monarchy, with no faculty senate or faculty governance.
As of October 2022-10 Nobel laureates and 1 Turing Award laureate have been affiliated with the University of Copenhagen as students, alumni or faculty. Its alumni also include one president of the United Nations General Assembly and at least 24 prime ministers of Denmark.
Notable University of Copenhagen alumni include astronomer Tycho Brahe, physicist Hans Christian Ørsted who discovered electromagnetism, philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, physicist Niels Bohr, and seismologist Inge Lehmann who discovered the Earth's inner core. Computer scientist Peter Naur, an alumnus, won the Turing Award in 2005.
The University of Copenhagen has four main campus areas in the Capital Region: North Campus, City Campus, South Campus, and Frederiksberg Campus. It also uses the Taastrup Campus on the western outskirts of Copenhagen and has facilities in Helsingør, Hørsholm and Nødebo.
The University of Copenhagen has about 36,500 enrolled students as of 2024, including roughly 21,000 undergraduate and 15,500 graduate students. The university is organized into six faculties and about 100 departments and research centres, and employs about 5,600 academic staff and 4,400 technical and administrative staff.