Old University of Kassel
The old University of Kassel (also University of Cassel ) was a university that existed in Kassel for a short time in the 17th century .
history
The university was established during the Thirty Years' War and existed from 1633 to 1653. Following inheritance and denominational disputes between the Landgraviates of Hessen-Darmstadt and Hessen-Kassel , the University of Marburg became a Lutheran university. Then the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel Wilhelm V had a reformed university built in Kassel . Contrary to the initial plans to build the university based on the example of the High School Herborn , it was opened as a university.
The university was officially opened on January 2, 1633 and provided with statutes. The first professors were appointed to Kassel in 1628 and teaching began in the following year 1629. Due to the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War it was not possible to fully expand the university, so no medical faculty was established throughout the history of the university. An average of 36 students were enrolled each year . When the University of Marburg changed back to the Reformed denomination, the University of Kassel was merged with the University of Marburg and the location in Kassel was closed again.
Personalities
Professors
- Georg Cruciger (1575–1637), professor of theology, the Hebrew language and philosophy, rector 1637
- Johannes Combach (1585–1651), professor of theology and philosophy, prorector 1633 and 1634, rector 1646
- Johannes Crocius (1590–1659), professor of theology, 1633, 1640 and 1643 rector and 1637 vice rector
- Erich Graff (1607–1683), professor of law, 1638 and 1650 rector
- Werner Geise († 1658), professor of practical philosophy, 1651 and 1652 rector
- Johannes Kleinschmidt (1607–1663), professor of law, 1641 and 1644 rector
- Gregorius Stannarius (1610–1670), professor of physics, 1647 and 1648 rector
- Sebastian Curtius (1620–1684), professor of the Hebrew language
students
- Ernst von Hattenbach (1617–1694), bailiff
- Adolph Gottfried Volusius (1617–1679), studied theology, auxiliary bishop of Mainz
- Sebastian Curtius (1620–1684), reformed clergyman, theologian and university professor
- Hermann von Vultejus (1634–1723), studied the Seven Liberal Arts, Hessian Vice Chancellor
literature
- Wilhelm Falkenheiner: The annals and registers of the University of Kassel . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies , Neufenue, Volume 18 (1893), pp. 190–326.
- Inge Auerbach: A praiseworthy university that had to dissolve right at the beginning. On the history of the first Kassel University 1633–1653 . In: Die Zeitschrift der Gesamtthochschule Kassel , 32 (1984), pp. 40–51.