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Free Polish University

Coordinates: 52°12′37″N 20°58′54″E / 52.2103°N 20.9818°E / 52.2103; 20.9818
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Free Polish University
Wolna Wszechnica Polska
Seat of the Free Polish University at 2a Opaczewska Street in Warsaw (1939)
Active1918 (1918)–1952 (1952)
Rector
Academic staff
70–80
Students3000
Location,

Free Polish University (Polish: Wolna Wszechnica Polska), founded in 1918 in Warsaw, was a private university with different departments: mathematics and natural sciences, humanities, political sciences and social pedagogy.

From 1929, its degrees were equivalent to those of university.

In the years 1919–1939 the institution employed 70–80 professors. In the academic year 1938/39 educated about 3000 students. The university conducted clandestine courses during the German occupation, but after the war, its activities were not resumed.[1]

The university was disbanded in 1952.

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52°12′37″N 20°58′54″E / 52.2103°N 20.9818°E / 52.2103; 20.9818