Back to the overview of "Fachrichtung 4.6"The origins of the University of the Saarland go back to the year 1946 when in Homburg the Medical School was founded as part of the French University of Nancy. It was decided in Paris on April 9, 1948, to establish an independent university with four faculties in the former army barracks located in the forest surrounding Saarbrcken. The Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Arts were the first to open at the beginning of the academic year 1948/49. Two years later, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences assumed academic activities.
Already in the second semester of the university's existence, in December 1948, the Institute of Interpreting (DI) was founded. During the first semesters, French and English were the only languages that were taught. Later, Italian, Russian, Spanish and German for francophones were added to the range of languages.
The Institute of Interpreting which had been independent until 1978, was then integrated into the Faculty of Arts. Just recently (1990), the academic range of classes has been substantially enlarged, because of the founding of four new professorships and an enforced cooperation with the departments of computational linguistics and computer science as well as the 'Europa Institute'.
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