The doctorate ( Latin: doceō, I teach ) appeared in medieval Europe as a license to teach ( Latin: licentia docendi ) at a medieval university.

Throughout much of the academic world, the term " doctor " refers to an individual who has earned a degree of Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. D. ( an abbreviation for the Latin Philosophiæ Doctor ; or alternatively Doctor philosophiæ, D. Phil., meaning Teacher of Philosophy ), or other research doctorate such as the Doctor of Science, or Sc. D.

In the United States, the professional doctorate in law may be conferred in Latin or in English, as Juris Doctor, and at some law schools " Doctor of Law " ( JD or J. D.

The term doctorate comes from the Latin docere, meaning " to teach.

The doctorate ( Latin: doctor, " teacher ," from doctum, " which is taught ," past participle of docere, " to teach ") appeared in medieval Europe as a license to teach ( Latin: licentia docendi ) at a medieval university.

Again his lack of fluency in Latin rendered him unable to hold the required public disputation of his thesis ; after much discussion, the University decided to bypass the problem by awarding him a honorary doctorate in February 1827.

UTFSM was the first Chilean university to confer a doctorate in engineering in 1962 and the first higher-education institution in Latin America to confer this degree.

In 1962 the university became the first higher-education institution in Latin America to confer a doctorate in engineering, in cooperation with the University of Pittsburg.

He received a doctorate in Tübingen in 1877 ( with a Latin thesis on the ancient Siwa Oasis ).

International students at the masters and doctorate levels are mostly coming from Latin America, Europe, North Africa and Eastern Europe.

After his father had obtained his doctorate the family first moved to Alabama, and later in 1939 to Dallas, Texas, where his father became a professor of Latin and Greek at Southern Methodist University.

In South Africa, following a convention of using Latin in academic designations, the doctorate in education is called Doctor Educationis ( D. Ed.

In Austria the only Latin honor in use is sub auspiciis Praesidentis rei publicae ( under the auspices of the president of the republic ) for doctorate degrees.

Recently, in 2008, he was awarded a Honorary Doctorate in Divinity among other 17 beneficiaries at the Charter hall in Nairobi, Kenya. This was one the " honorary professorships and doctorate degrees " that were issued by Prof. Clyde Rivers who is the International Commissioner of the Latin University of Theology which is based in Inglewood, California.

He had studied Greek, Latin, and English literature for his doctorate.

In some countries of Latin America and the United States, the engineer's degree can be studied after the completion of a master's degree and is usually considered higher than the master's degree but below the doctorate in engineering ( abbreviated Dr.

He attended Harvard College, graduating as both the class poet and Latin salutatorian in 1958, after which he obtained his master's degree ( in 1959 ) and a doctorate ( in 1965 ) in comparative literature, from Harvard University.

His doctorate ( Classics ) was concerned with ghost stories, adultery tales and the construction of identity in the Latin novel the Golden Ass by Apuleius.

Thomas Fleming was awarded a doctorate in Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, completing his dissertation on Attic lyric poetry, and until joining a series of conservative groups, taught Latin at a small, private middle school in South Carolina.

He was awarded a doctorate in history without having to defend a thesis and worked as an expert on Latin America and the Catholic Church.

After the war, he completed a Master's degree in French at the University of Wales in Bangor, and received a doctorate in Latin and French from the Sorbonne in 1926.

< p > I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of post-graduate studies in Naples, Italy.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

He graduated first in his class of seven million at ' Caltech ' — Calcutta Technical Institute — going on to earn his doctorate at the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology ( S. H. I. T .).

Despite taking a year off to serve in World War I, he received his doctorate in 1917.

After a year they managed to convince the King of Portugal, Joseph I, to send them to Rome for Faria Sr. to earn a doctorate in theology, and the son to pursue his studies for the priesthood.

Eventually, the son too earned his doctorate, dedicating his doctoral thesis to the Portuguese Queen, Mary I of Portugal, and another study, on the Holy Spirit to the Pope.

Clifford represents Gillian McKeith, saying of her doctorate in nutrition potentially being misconstrued as a medical degree by viewers of her advertisements: " personally, I wish it had never been mentioned.

He spent most of the World War I years in Germany, France, and Switzerland, taking his doctorate at the Berlin University in 1918.

In 1950, he received his doctorate, submitting ( as is customary in France ) two theses: a " minor " thesis translating Husserl's Ideas I into French for the first time, with commentary, and a " major " thesis that he would later publish as Le Volontaire et l ' Involontaire.

Afterward, Bean commented, " I did get a doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University about 11 or 12 years ago so now I'm a double doctor.

Upon graduating with honours in 1900 from the Carol I High School in Craiova, he studied law in Paris, obtaining his doctorate with the thesis Essai sur une théorie des droits éventuels.

I knew I would have to abandon my hopes of studying for a doctorate in History.

I can only come to the conclusion that Sven received his doctorate when he was 27 years old after studying for a grand total of only eight months and collecting primary material for one-and-a-half days on the snow-clad peak of Mount Damavand.

During his period as a doctoral student, he had also worked for some time for the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service (" MUST "), and the year before receiving his doctorate he had published the bestselling Poltava, a detailed description of the Battle of Poltava, where the troops of Swedish king Charles XII were defeated by the Russian army of Tsar Peter I in 1709.

On the day of the opening of the Holy Cross Seminary, he received the rank of Dzayrakuyn Vartabed, supreme doctorate of Christian dogma, from Patriarch Karekin I.

From 1961 to 1962, while studying for his doctorate at M. I. T., he joined the Applied Science Division of Melpar, Inc., Watertown, MA, where he was a Senior Research Engineer doing research in communication theory.

He received a bachelor's degree in law from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, a master's degree in public administration from the French Public Administration International Institute ( nowadays École nationale d ' administration, 1973 ) and a doctorate in political sciences from the University of Paris I ( Panthéon-Sorbonne ).

Tugendhat's father, Dr Georg Tugendhat was born in Vienna, but came to United Kingdom after World War I to pursue his doctorate at the London School of Economics ( LSE ), where he married Christopher's mother, Maire ( Littledale ).

He served in World War I in the Austro-Hungarian Army, and then studied and attained a doctorate from the University of Würzburg.

The name survived despite the fact that nowadays a doctorate is typically needed in order to teach at a university.

As she neared the end of her doctorate in 1924 she was asked to teach the precise laboratory techniques required for radiochemical research to the young chemical engineer Frédéric Joliot whom she would later come to wed.

A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that, in most countries, qualifies the holder to teach in the specific field of their certificate.

He was trained as a professor of French literature, receiving his agrégation ( license to teach ) in 1956, and his doctorate in 1972.

In the medieval Islamic madrasahs, there was a doctorate in the Islamic law of the Sharia, called the ijazat attadris wa ' l-ifta ' (" license to teach and issue legal opinions ").

Immediately on receiving his doctorate, Singer accepted a position teaching in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he continued to teach until 1994.

He earned a bachelor of arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1907 and a doctorate from Columbia University in 1911 and continued to teach there until 1930.

" The doctorate is the academic degree which enables one to teach in a Faculty and which is therefore required for this purpose, the licentiate is the academic degree which enables one to teach in a major seminary or equivalent school and which is therefore required for this purpose.

One hundred and twenty-seven full-time faculty teach at the college, 92 percent of whom have earned a doctorate or equivalent terminal degree.

In 1955, he earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago, going on to teach there, as well as at other universities in the United States, and on a Fulbright Fellowship at a college in Uganda.

In 1979 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Eastern Michigan University, and until the 1990s she continued to teach at the Theater Game Center.

In order to qualify as a legal scholar, it was required that they obtain a doctorate known as the ijazat attadris wa ' l-ifttd (" license to teach and issue legal opinions ") from a Madrasah.

He reached the doctorate in 1589 and started to teach law at the university of Heidelberg.

The German academic system also knows a form of higher doctorate in law which is awarded after completion of a second dissertation ( Habilitation ) and is a prerequisite to teach law at ( German ) universities.

The first teacher with a doctorate was H L Rasmussen who joined the staff in 1947 to teach history.

He received his doctorate in May 1835 back in Leipzig and began to teach philosophy.

In 1506 he was awarded a doctorate in theology by Paris where he began to teach and progress through the hierarchy, becoming for a brief period Rector.