University of Cervera

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| name = University of Cervera

| native_name = Universitat de Cervera

| native_name_lang = Catalan

| other_name = Real y Pontificia Universidad de Cervera

| image = E04 Universitat, pati del claustre.jpg

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| caption = Main patio of the former building

| latin_name = Academia Cervariensis{{Cite web |title=Search |url=https://archive.org/search?query=%22Academia+Cervariensis%22&sin=TXT |website=Internet Archive}}

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| established = {{Start date|1717}}

| closed = {{End date|1835}}

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| city = Cervera

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| province = Lleida, Catalonia

| country = Spain

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The Royal and Pontifical University of Cervera ({{langx|es|Real y Pontificia Universidad de Cervera}}) was a Spanish university located in Cervera, Province of Lleida, Catalonia.

The institution was founded in 1717 by Philip V of Spain, who sought to compensate Cervera for its supportive stance during the War of the Spanish Succession. Conversely, he also sought to penalize the rest of Catalonia for its support to the Habsburgs. Thus, the six existing universities in the Principality were banned and their faculties disbanded or transferred to Cervera.{{cite book|last1=Feingold|first1=Mordechai|last2=Navarro-Brotons|first2=Víctor|title=Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t4r3G2AYHaAC&pg=PA275|access-date=26 September 2014|date=9 January 2006|publisher=Springer|location=Dordrecht, Netherlands|isbn=978-1-4020-3974-4|page=275|oclc=238734841}}{{cite book|last=Zanazzi|first=Silvia|title=Evaluating and financing university research: A Comparative Case Study: Italy, France, Spain and Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GedvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA42|access-date=26 September 2014|date=1 September 2014|publisher=Edizioni Nuova Cultura|location=Rome, Italy|isbn=978-88-6812-356-7|page=42}}

By 1767, the influence of the university had decayed and it finally closed its doors in 1835.{{cite web|title=1717-1835: The University of Cervera|url=http://www.ub.edu/web/ub/en/universitat/coneix_la_ub/historia/1717-1835/1717-1835.html|website=University of Barcelona|access-date=27 September 2014}}

On 7 November 1947, the former building of the university, designed by Francesc Soriano and constructed from 1718 to 1740, was declared a cultural monument of national significance by the Spanish government.{{cite web|title=Decreto de 7 de noviembre de 1947 por el que se declara monumento histórico-artístico al edificio de la Universidad de Cervera (Lérida)|url=http://redined.mecd.gob.es/xmlui/handle/11162/77063|website=Revista nacional de educación|publisher=Ministerio de Educación Nacional|access-date=27 September 2014|location=Madrid, Spain|pages=87–88|language=es|year=1947}}