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The Jesuit College of Ingolstadt (German: Jesuitenkolleg Ingolstadt) was a Jesuit school in Ingolstadt, in the Duchy and Electorate of Bavaria, founded in 1556, that operated until the suppression of the Jesuit Order in 1773. The college was the headquarters of the Jesuits in Germany, and became a center of the Counter-Reformation.
The Jesuits gradually left the university as it sought to change with the times, until the university finally had become so secular that the greatest influence in Ingolstadt was Adam Weishaupt, founder of the secret society of the Illuminati.
Founded in 1472, LMU developed over the course of time into one of the best universities in Europe. Founded in Ingolstadt in 1472, LMU's history reflects the changing currents that determined the course of European history over the past 550 years.
The Jesuit College in Ingolstadt. | © Stadtarchiv Ingolstadt. Petrus Canisius, Claudius Jajus and Alfons Salmeron were the first Jesuits to arrive in Ingolstadt. They reached the town on 13 November 1549, equipped with instructions issued by the founder of their Order, Ignatius of Loyola.
5 The Jesuits in Central European Universities. The Coimbra story was repeated in central Europe where the Jesuits also be-came part of universities. Civic–Jesuit collegiate universities in central Europe included Cologne, Heidelberg from 1629, Ingolstadt, Innsbruck, Mainz, Prague, Trier, Würzburg, and Vienna.185 Cologne, a collegiate ...
Abstract. This engraving from Michael Wening's four-volume Historico-Topographica Descriptio (1701-26) shows the Jesuit College in Ingolstadt. In 1549, the Bavarian Duke Wilhelm IV appointed members of the Jesuit order as teachers at the University of Ingolstadt, which had been established in 1472.
To the Fathers Departing for Germany | Georgetown University Library. summary | text of letter | footnotes. In early 1549, Wilhelm IV, Duke of Bavaria, sent a request to Pope Paul III asking for three Jesuits to teach at the University of Ingolstadt.
