"The following particulars as to the present condition of the University of St. Petersburg are taken from the official annual report of that institution: On January 1, 1836, the number of ordinary professors was 41, of extraordinary 20, with 8 lecturers. The total of students amounted to 2282, of whom 638 had just matriculated, and 525 came from the classical gymnasia. There were, moreover, 146 free attendants at lectures. The members are divided as follows, according to the faculties. Two hundred and fifty-two are ascribed to history and philology, 968 to physics and mathematics, 921 to jurisprudence, 79 to Oriental languages. The faculty of medicine appertains, it may be mentioned, to the Medico-Chirugical Academy, and that of theology to the Ecclesiastical Academy. The number of scholarships is 400. Among the various religious sects represented at the University the Oxthodox are in a vast majority, counting, as they do, 1551 members, while the Old Believers are only 6, the Arminians 21, the Catholics 281, the Lutherans 124, the Calvanists 16, the Jews, 268, and the Mohammedans 5." - Transcript.
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