The
College of Sorbonne was a theological college of the
University of Paris, founded in 1253 by
Robert de Sorbon (1201–1274), after whom it was named. With the rest of the Paris colleges, it was suppressed during the
French Revolution. It was restored in 1808 but finally closed in 1882. In recent times it came to refer to the group of academic faculties of the
University of Paris, as opposed to the professional faculties of law and medicine. It is also used to refer to the main building of the
University of Paris in the
5th arrondissement of Paris, which houses several faculties created when the University was divided up into thirteen autonomous universities in 1970.