Abstract
This paper intends, without pretention of being exhaustive, to present essential historical aspects related to higher chemical education, the significative unrelevant facts mentioned by Taine, discussing characteristical aspects of various evolutive periods which can be considered in chemistry as an academical activity, or as an university discipline, discussing as well decisive factors for structural and institutional changes observed. We will not at this point argue about essential issues related to curricula, practices, texts or programs. A history which, not limited to rankean wie es wirklich gewesen ist , looks for collecting necessary data before a deeper discussion of contents, methods and results of higher chemical education in each one of periods considered could take place, leaving a more profound discussion for future papers. But we do insert chemistry in university context as a whole. From a chronological viewpoint, we will comment period extending from medieval university to beginnings of 19th century, just to consolidation of chemistry as an university discipline: after comments on unformal relations between alchemy and medieval university, we will comment chemistry/chemiatry related to medicine and pharmacy (16th and 17th centuries), a more applied chemistry in connection with metallurgy and other industries/arts (18th century), and an independent chemistry located not at medical but at philosophical faculty, for first time in 1789. At eve of 19th century, chemistry establishes itself as an autonomous activity at universities and institutions of higher learning.
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