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The University of Liège, known in French as Université de Liège and abbreviated ULiège, is a public research university of the French Community of Belgium. It was founded in 1817 and is based in Liège, Belgium, where it keeps its historic headquarters and four of its eleven faculties in the city center, while its main campus has stood on the Sart-Tilman hill about ten kilometers south of the city since the 1970s. French is its official language. It also has sites in Gembloux and Arlon and elsewhere in Liège Province, and it runs research facilities abroad, among them an oceanography station in Corsica, a weather station on the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland and observatories in Chile, Morocco and Tenerife.

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The University of Liège (French: Université de Liège), or ULiège, is a major public research university of the French Community of Belgium founded in 1817 and based in Liège, Belgium.
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    The University of Liège (French: Université de Liège), or ULiège, is a major public research university of the French Community of Belgium founded in 1817 and based in Liège, Belgium.
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    is a major public research university of the French Community of Belgium founded in 1817 and based in Liège, Belgium
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Paul Fourmarier, Wikipedia
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Fourmarier was born in La Hulpe, Province of Brabant, Belgium and studied at the University of Liège, graduating in 1899. He became a professor of geology at the university in 1920.
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Andre Dumont (geologist), Wikipedia
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A few years later he became a professor of mineralogy and geology and afterwards Rector of the University of Liège.
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Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck - Wikipedia
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In 1856, he was appointed professor of chemistry at the University of Liège, a position he held until his death.
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