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ON August 5-8 the University of Heidelberg celebrated the centenary of its re-establishment. The university, one of the oldest universities of the modern world, was originally founded in 1386 by the Palsgrave Ruprecht I. of the Palatinate. At that time Heidelberg was the seat of the princely residence and capital of this wealthy State of the middle ages, and the young university did good work from the point of view of those times. The “German Medici,"Otto Hein-rich (1556), delivered the university from the chains of scholastic pedantry and inspired in her the ideas of the Renaissance and of the Reformation. The thirty years' war had a disastrous effect on this town and its university, as, indeed, it had on all Germany; nevertheless, the Elector, Karl Ludwig (1650), again gave it a short period of prosperity. But with the year 1685 commenced for the Palatinate and the university a long period of sorrow and loss.
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W., M. The Centenary of Heidelberg University . Nature 68, 345–346 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068345a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/068345a0