Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

Thanks to the efforts of Heinrich Stroband, city mayor in 1594, academics in Toruń received good working conditions for teaching and research.

Among his professors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were meritorious scholars of Polish and Prussian history, authors of textbooks and papers from various disciplines of humanities, and associates scientific journals.

During the partitions of Poland, the Prussian government planned to create a University of Theology, which was to include faculties of law and economics, but this project did not materialise.

Even before 1920, the Supreme People's Council had considered the proposal to establish higher educational institutions in the Polish territories annexed by Prussia at the University of Gdansk and in Toruń.

that Prof. Karol Górski revealed that there had been an approved plan to open Poznań University long-distance division in Toruń in 1940, which was supposed to teach the humanities and theology.

Mosaic by Stefan Knapp depicting Copernicus, NCU Aula
The Rektorat administrative building at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Astronomical observatory in Piwnice
The Collegium Maximus houses the university's museum collections
The Nicholas Copernicus University's Collegium Maius
The main campus has an artificial pool (pictured in front of the Aula, the main entrance and the Rektorat) as an architectural focal point.
A part of the university's Collegium Medicum which is based in neighbouring Bydgoszcz .