1508 - Education

Education

The Complutensian University of Madrid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) has its beginnings in a papal bull recognizing a school founded by Francisco Jiménez Cardinal de Cisneros, Archbishop of Toledo, at Alcalá de Henares (originally the Roman settlement of Complutum) to teach Thomist, Scotist, and Nominalist theology and Oriental languages as an instrument for the intellectual reform of the Church. Its scholars will complete the Complutensian Polyglot Bible in 1517 (it will be published about 5 years later), the Colegio de Maria de Aragon will be added in 1590, the school will be moved to Madrid in 1836, and it will grow to include other institutions as well.