The University of Tubingen is a public research university in the town of Tubingen in Baden-Wurttemberg, southwestern Germany. It was founded in 1477 by Count Eberhard of Wurttemberg, known as Eberhard im Bart, and is one of the oldest universities in Germany. In the sixteenth century it became a centre of Protestant theology, and its seminary, the Tubinger Stift, trained many famous thinkers, including the philosophers Hegel and Schelling and the poet Holderlin, who shared a room there as students. The astronomer Johannes Kepler also studied at Tubingen. Today the university is known for strengths in medicine, the humanities and the natural sciences.
Before and after
- 1475Construction of Dormition Cathedral
- 6 March 1475Birth of Michelangelo
- 28 June 1476Birth of Paul IV
- from 22 October 1476 to 5 January 1477Battle of Nancy
- 1477Founding of University of Tübingen
- 1477Founding of Uppsala University
- c. 1477Eruption of Bardarbunga
- from 1478 to 1834Spanish Inquisition
- 1478Battle of Guinea
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- c. 970 CEFounding of Al-Azhar University
- 1086William the Conqueror's survey: the Domesday Book
- 1088Founding of University of Bologna
- from c. 1120s to 1390sRise of Guelphs and Ghibellines
- from 1150 to 1971Founding of University of Paris
- 12 March 1365Founding of University of Vienna
The era
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