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The University Before Humboldt and After

In: The University According to Humboldt

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  • Jürgen Backhaus

    (University of Erfurt)

Abstract

In this article, I want to explore the alternatives to the picture of the university Humboldt presented. Obviously, there was a counter picture, because Humboldt’s reforms needed something that was to be reformed. Take the University of Erfurt, which was founded in 1378 and which Humboldt dissolved in 1816, as there were only half as many students as professors at the time. The University he closed was one of the oldest in Germany, founded in 1378, and it is an experience that is primetime in the early renaissance, with Luther for instance proclaiming, if you want to study well, study in Erfurt. Paracelsus had studied in Perugia, one of the oldest European Universities, and he was appointed a professor at the city of Basel, as no university would tolerate his teachings and his abominable Latin. This gives us a hint to university reform looking back, as teaching was also made possible at the university level outside the university. Note this as point 1.

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  • Jürgen Backhaus, 2015. "The University Before Humboldt and After," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: Jürgen Georg Backhaus (ed.), The University According to Humboldt, edition 127, pages 1-3, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:spbchp:978-3-319-13856-5_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13856-5_1
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