Projects for the creation of a University in Navarre in the context of the forality crisis and autonomism (1816-1931)

Abstract

Throughout the nineteenth century, first the Kingdom of Navarre and the Provincial Council of Navarre from 1839 onwards, promoted various projects to create a university in Navarre. None of them came to fruition, in a period marked both by the crisis of the Basque-Navarrese forality and by the crisis of the university institution in Spain. Specifically, the following projects are analysed: the project of the Cortes to create the University of the Kingdom of Navarre (1816-1818 and 1828), that of the Pamplona City Council to create the University of Pamplona in 1821, those of the Provincial Council of the Basque-Navarre University and the University of Navarre in 1866, and those of the Basque-Navarre University in 1917-1931. Each project and its corresponding failures are analysed in the legal-institutional context of each historical moment.