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Philosophy' and by a 'Department of History in 1989. These three institutions subsequently combined to form the Lucerne Faculty of Humanities in 1993. Finally, in the year 2000, a referendum on the establishment of a university was approved by the people of Lucerne. With the entry into force of the law on 1 October 2000, the former institution of higher education became a university. In 2001 a new faculty of was founded and in 2005 national recognition of the new university's status was achieved through a decree made by the
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