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The University of Zagreb ( Croatian Sveucilište u Zagrebu) is the oldest Croatian university in continuous operation and also the oldest university in southeastern Europe.

The university was officially founded September 23 1669 by Emperor and King Leopold I Habsburg who issued a decree granting the status and privileges of a university to the Jesuit Academy. The Academy in Zagreb remained until 1874, despite numerous organizational changes, the focal institution of higher education in Croatia, educating most of the members of the Croatian intelligentsia.

On October 19 1874 a ceremony was held in the name of the founding of the modern University of Zagreb with four faculties:

In the academicAn academic a member of academia is a person who works as a researcher (and usually teacher) at a university or similar institution. In the United States, the term is approximately synonymous with professor. In the United Kingdom, various titles are used, year 1994/1995 there were 52,592 students. At the University of Zagreb, since 1874, more than 200,000 students got a bachelor's degree, more than 18,000 got a master's degree and more than 8,000 a doctorate.

1 Faculties and Art Academies members of the University of Zagreb

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