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Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg in Germany, is one of the oldest universities in Europe. It was founded in 1502 by the Elector Frederick III , who hoped to create a center of learning that would rival those at the universities of his day and provide a solid foundation for national unity.
Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest university and one of the world's oldest surviving universities; it was the third university established in the Holy Roman Empire after Vienna and Prague. Since 1899, it has been a coeducational institution.
- Urban/University town and suburban
- 28,653 (WS2019/20)
- Always open
- Bernhard Eitel
This is a list of the ten oldest universities that have been in continuous operation since their founding in present-day Germany. Some universities were established in the 14th or 15th centuries, but shut down for longer periods and later re-opened (e.g. the universities of Cologne , Erfurt , Ingolstadt , Mainz and Würzburg ).
Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke Ludwig IX of Bavaria-Landshut, it is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operation. [n 1] In 1800, the university was moved from Ingolstadt to Landshut by King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria when the city was threatened by the French, before being relocated to ...
- 1472; 551 years ago
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- Bernd Huber
Heidelberg University – also known as Ruperto Carola – was established in 1386 and is Germany’s oldest university. It is also one of the strongest research universities in all of Europe. In 1386, Ruprecht I, Elector Palatine, received the Pope’s permission to establish the university in his residential city of Heidelberg.
What are the oldest Universities in Germany? uniRank answers this question by publishing a list of 360 German Universities sorted by year of foundation and meeting the following uniRank selection criteria: being chartered, licensed or accredited by the appropriate German higher education-related organization.
The oldest university in Germany is the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, which opened its doors to students in 1386. Only two years later, in 1388, the University of Cologne was founded by the citizens of the city.
