Events Tagged: "university"

University of Bologna founded - Irnerius begins teaching Roman law from newly discovered Digest of Justinian, birth of legal science in Western Europe

Cathedral school of Notre-Dame Paris emerging as intellectual center - will become University of Paris

Authentica Habita - Frederick Barbarossa grants special legal privileges to scholars traveling to study, creating protected status for university members

Philip Augustus charters University of Paris - grants privileges to students and masters, creates greatest medieval university

University of Cambridge founded by scholars fleeing Oxford

University of Toulouse founded to combat Cathar heresy through education

University of Prague founded - first university in Central Europe

Paracelsus begins studies at University of Basel at age 16, later claiming to have received doctorate in medicine

University of Halle Founded by Frederick III - Explicitly designed as Pietist institution - August Hermann Francke appointed professor - Becomes training ground for Prussian bureaucrats and pastors - Francke's principle: 'Der Wille muss gebrochen werden' (The will must be broken)

University of Berlin founded by Wilhelm von Humboldt - model for modern research universities