Uniwersytet UJ

The Jagiellonian University (often shortened to UJ) originally founded as Akademia Krakowska in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, it is the second oldest universiy in Central Europe after the Charles University in Prague. It was renamed as the Jagiellonian University in 1817 to commemorate the Jagiellonian dynasty of Polish kings.
Casimir III realized that the nation neede a class of edukated people, especially lawyers, who could codify the lows and administer the corts and offices. His effort to found an institution of higher learning in Poland were rewarded in 1364, when Pope Urban V granted him permission to open the Cracow Academy. Its development was stalled by the death of the king, and later the academy was re-established (1400) by King Wladislaus Jagiello and his wife Jadwiga. The queen donated all of her personal jewelry to the academy.
The faculties of astromomy, low and theology attracted eminent scholars: for exsample, Stanislaw of Skalbmierz, Pawel Wlodkowic, Jan of Glogow, and Albert Brudzewski who from 1491 to 1495 was one of Nicolaus Copernicus's teachers.
Throughout the history of the University, thousands of students from all over Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Hungary, Bohemia, Germany and Spain have studied there. For several centuries, virtuall the entire intellctual elite of Poland was educated at the University.