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4 unusual facts about University of Ingolstadt


Johannes Stöffler

Having received his basic education at the Blaubeuren monastery school, he registered at the newly founded University of Ingolstadt on 21 April 1472, where he was consequently promoted Baccalaureus in September 1473 and Magister in January 1476.

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On November 25, 1799, the elector Maximilian IV announced that the university's depleted finances had become too great a weight for him to bear: the university would be moved to Landshut as a result.

Victor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was a fictional student at the University of Ingolstadt.

Some writers, such as Augustin Barruel and John Robison, even claimed that the Illuminati were behind the French Revolution, a claim that Jean-Joseph Mounier dismissed in his 1801 book On the Influence Attributed to Philosophers, Free-Masons, and to the Illuminati on the Revolution of France.


Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun

After completing secondary school Linbrunn studied law and philosophy at the universities of Prague, Salzburg and Ingolstadt.

Martin Cellarius

In 1520, he moved to the University of Ingolstadt, where he took up the study of Greek and Hebrew, and theology under Johann Eck.

Peter Nigri

In 1465 he taught philosophy and was regent of studies in Cologne; in 1467 taught theology at Ulm; in 1469 or 1470 was elected prior in Eichstätt, on 31 May, 1473, the newly founded University of Ingolstadt conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Theology; in 1474 he taught theology in the convent at Ratisbon and in 1478 became professor of Old Testament exegesis in the University of Ingolstadt.

Philipp Franz von Walther

He studied medicine in Vienna under Georg Joseph Beer (1763–1821), obtaining his medical doctorate in 1803 from the University of Landshut.


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