The history of Lyon University can be traced back to it having once been a provincial study center in the thirteenth century. When it really took off, however, was when a surgical academy was set up during the Renaissance.
里昂大學的歷史則可遠溯到十三世紀地方上的學習中心，但真正的「開山鼻祖」是文藝復興時代成立的外科學院。