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Freiburg Im Breisgau, University of
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Founded by Archduke Albrecht VI of Austria, approved by a Bull of Pope Callistus III, 1455, organized and opened, 1460, by Matthreus Hummel of Villingen, the first rector. The revenue of the university was ensured by the foundation of several benefices and the incorporation of the cathedral parish of Freiburg and the parishes of Breisach and Ensisheim. Among the notable professors of this period were the Carthusian Gregorius Reisch, Jacob Locher, Henricus Loriti, and the theologians Geiler of Kaisersberg, Johann Eck, Thomas Murner, and Erasmus of Rotterdam. During the Reformation, the university in general remained true to the ancient Faith and influenced the town to become a bulwark of Catholicism. About 1567 only those who declared on oath their acceptance of the Tridentine Confession of Faith were admitted. In 1520 the Jesuits were entrusted with the faculty of arts and temporarily with two of the theological chairs. They were however excluded from the rectorship and the quaestorship. Their most renowned member was the astronomer Christopher Scheiner. In the 17th century the university deteriorated greatly, and when the town was ceded to France by the Peace of Nijmegen (1679) many professors and students removed to Constance. The Jesuits remained and opened a studium gallicanum under the patronage of Louis XIV, 1684. After the Peace of Ryswick, 1697, the professoriate returned from Constance to Freiburg and the contentions between the university and the Jesuits were settled by the "Viennese Transaction," by which the Jesuits were still excluded from the rectorate but were given the building which they occupied, the "Alte Burse," and received an increased annual stipend. After the Jesuit suppression, 1773, their building and church were annexed to the university by the Empress Maria Theresa, 1777, and the university gradually lost its Catholic spirit. It has at present four faculties; Catholic theology, law and political science, medicine, and philosophy.
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Entry for 'Freiburg Im Breisgau, University of'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/f/freiburg-im-breisgau-university-of.html. 1910.
