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The University of Poznan - one of the major Polish universities, opened on May 7th, 1919. For the next 20 years it educated students in law, economy, medicine, humanities, mathematics, natural sciences, agriculture and forestry.
The University was closed by the Nazi Occupation in 1939 and reopened in much smaller form only after the end of WWII. It changed its name to "Adam Mickiewicz University" in 1955.
Among its most famous graduates are mathematicians who broke the Enigma machine: Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski, and Jerzy Rozycki.