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6 unusual facts about University of Altdorf


Arnoldus Clapmarius

He was appointed successor to Christoph Coler at Altdorf by Moritz of Hesse-Kassel, as professor of history and politics; he died four years later.

Michael Adelbulner

In 1742 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Altdorf.

University of Altdorf

The polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), perhaps most famous for co-discovering calculus, received his Ph.D. from the University of Altdorf for his habilitation thesis in philosophy, On the Art of Combinations.

Among the notable Socinian students was the 26-year old Samuel Przypkowski.

This recantation was answered by Valentin Schmalz, one the German professors of the Academy in Poland.

Wolfgang Carl Briegel

He later studied at the University of Altdorf and became the organist at St Johannis church and a grammar school teacher in Schweinfurt.


Konrad Mannert

In 1796 he became professor of history at the University of Altdorf, in 1805 at the University of Würzburg, in 1807 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (then in Landshut), and from 1826 at the same university in its new location in Munich.

Lorenz Heister

In 1711 he was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery at the University of Altdorf, and from 1720, was a professor of anatomy and surgery at Helmstädt, where he remained for rest of his life.


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Yom-Tov Lipmann-Muhlhausen

The Nizzahon was long inaccessible to Christian Hebraists, and a copy was only obtained in 1644 by a deceitful ruse, involving outright theft, by the professor of Hebrew aat the University of Altdorf, Theodor Hackspan who learning that a rabbi in Schnattach possessed a copy, obtained an interview with him for a debate, and when the rabbi took down his copy to consult, had it snatched from his hands, to be then copied and printed.