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![[Flag of the Universidad de Buenos Aires]](../images/a/ar_uba.gif)
image by Oscar Villota and Juan David Vargas Osorio, 8 June 2018Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) was established on 9 August 1821 by a
Provincial Decree and inaugurated on 12 August 1821 in the San Ignacio church.
This eventually fulfilled the request made by the inhabitants of Buenos Aires to
the Spanish colonial authorities in the 1770s, which had been turned down under
the pressure of the academics of Córdoba.
The new university incorporated
existing educational institutes, such as the Prodomedicato, founded in 1780 to
control health in the town; the Schools of Design and Navigation, founded in the
late 18th century to increase the technical skills of pilots; the School of
Mathematics, the Academy of Mathematics and Military Art and the Medical
Military Institute, founded during the first decade following the independence;
and the Academy of Jurisprudence, founded in 1814 by local lawyers.
The
first rector of UBA, the respected priest Antonio Saénz (1780-1825), had been in
charge of the preparation of the new university since 1816, as part of the
complete reorganization of the institutional structure of the state promoted by
Bernardino Rivadavia (1780-1845). Saénz organized UBA in the Departments of
Basic Letters, Preparatory Studies, Formal Sciences, Medicine, Jurisprudence,
and Sacred Sciences. This was in strong opposition to the colonial University of
Córdoba, which was organized in Faculties centered on Theology, according to the
medieval scholastic model. The 6th rector of UBA, Francisco Pico (1805-1875),
appointed in 1852, ended the tradition of clerical rectors. His successor, Juan
M. Gutiérrez, appointed in 1861, eventually released UBA from the influence of
the church, inviting three renown Italian scientists to revamp the Department of
Formal Sciences. In March 1874, UBA was transformed into a federation of
Faculties: Humanities and Philosophy, Medical Sciences, Law and Social Sciences,
Mathematics, and Physics and Life Sciences, the two latter being soon merged.
Transferred in the 1880s to the state following the federalization of the
town of Buenos Aires, UBA was part of the emerging national system of higher
education. UBA incorporated in 1909 the Instituto Superior de Agronomía y
Veterinaria and, in 1911, the prestigious Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires.
In
1918, UBA taught 6,000 students representing the small social elite of the time.
Bernardo Houssay (1887-1971) reorganized in 1921 the Institute of Physiology of
the Faculty of Medicine, where he performed most of the experiments that yielded
him the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1947. Other renowned professors of the period
were the Spanish Julio Rey Pastor (Mathematics; 1888-1962) and Amado Alonso
(Philology; 1896-1952).
UBA lost its autonomy in 1947, being placed under
the control of the Executive by Law No. 13,031. The autonomy was re-established
by Decree No. 6,403, enacted after the fall of Perón's government on 16
September 1955. Violence broke out in UBA in 1966 following the military coup
led by General Juan Carlos Onganía and the suppression of the elected
authorities of the university. Rector Hilario Fernández Long (1918-2002)
resigned while professors and students occupied the Faculty of Formal Sciences;
following the assault by the infantry, more than 150 people were jailed, while
1,300 members of the educational community resigned from office.
During
Perón's second rule (1973-1974), the university was renamed to Universidad
Nacional y Popular de Buenos Aires. After Perón's death, UBA entered a period of
political violence, which increased after the military coup of March 1976.
After the return to democracy in 1983, Raúl Alfonsín's government
implemented the normalization of universities. UBA regained the Statutes
cancelled in 1966, while professors expelled for political and ideological
reasons were reincorporated.
http://www.uba.ar, UBA website
Ivan Sache, 8 June 2018
The flag of UBA, unveiled on 13 August 2012 at the Faculty of Law, was
designed by Oscar Villota and Juan David Vargas Osorio, two post-graduate
students at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Town Planning. The flag was
selected by the Rector and the Higher Council of the UBA, among five designs,
which had been previously short-listed among 90 proposals by a jury composed of
Clorindo Testa (architect), Carlos Venancio (graphic designer) and Oscar
Steimberg (semiotician).
http://www.uba.ar/comunicacion/noticia.php?id=3194 UBA website
http://cargocollective.com/oscarvillota/Bandera-Universidad-de-Buenos-Aires
Oscar Villota's page
http://www.apuba.org.ar/2012/08/presentacion-de-la-bandera-de-la-uba/ APUBA
website
The flag is blue with the seal of the university in canton,
featuring an allegory of the Motherland, designed in 1921 by the painter Ernesto
de la Cárcova (1866-1927). The Motherland is represented by a sitting woman with
an open book on her lap. The seal is surrounded by the name of the university
and the Latin motto "Argentina virtus robur et studium", "The Argentine Virtue
is Made of Work and Study". According to the designer, the seal represents "A
great nation dedicated to knowledge and wisdom through work and force".
The
seal is flanked on the right by the white letters "UBA".
The right part of
the flag features a close-up of the allegory.
Blue and white are a
straightforward reference to the national colors.
https://maestriadicom.org/breves/2012/una-nueva-bandera-para-la-uba UBA
website
The former flag of UBA was blue with a shield and two rows of
four red four-pointed stars each.
http://www.uba.ar/noticia/12956,
UBA website
Ivan Sache, 8 June 2018
![[Flag of the Universidad de Buenos Aires]](../images/a/ar_uba.jpg)
image located by Paul Bassinson, 4 June 2023
This photo shows the university flag and another flag of the University of Buenos Aires obtained from https://www.facebook.com/photo. The white flag to be connected to the Faculty of Science.
Paul Bassinson, 4 June 2023