Charles University of Aschaffenburg

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The Karls-Universität Aschaffenburg is a former university in Aschaffenburg . As part of the Napoleonic reorganization of the areas on the right bank of the Rhine , it was founded in 1808 by Karl Theodor von Dalberg as the Princely Primate and Archbishop of Regensburg University of Aschaffenburg . Already in 1809 the name was changed to Karls-Universität Aschaffenburg .

Even after its university status was withdrawn in 1818, the Charles University continued to exist in a converted form as the Bavarian Lyzeum Aschaffenburg , a university-like institution of the Kingdom of Bavaria until 1873.

Emergence

In 1798, the Aschaffenburg Academy of Science was first established . In 1808 the Charles University was established to replace the University of Mainz , which was liquidated in 1798 , because when Mainz became a French city in 1797 , many professors fled, above all the lawyers, followed by philosophers and theologians. Aschaffenburg, the summer residence of the Archbishop of Mainz , offered itself as a destination. When Dalberg was elected Archbishop and Elector of Mainz in 1802 , he gathered the expelled professors and students around him in his residence in Aschaffenburg and finally founded the Princely Primatic and Archbishop of Regensburg University in Aschaffenburg in 1808 .

reputation

The university enjoyed an excellent reputation thanks to Dalberg. After the end of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Dalberg became Prince Primate (Chairman Prince) of the Rhine Confederation and his territory or university as a result, Prince-Primary State and Prince-Primary University.

The course benefited from the fact that Dalberg, as head of state , political patron and university president, not only had a special interest in high quality teaching but also had the necessary practical experience. At the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg he was already university president and at the Erfurt University Arch Chancellor.,

From the history of its origins with the admission of the professors and students who were expelled from Mainz , it becomes clear that Aschaffenburg University was not a cadre forge for Bonapartism . On the contrary: his university was rock solid and yet enlightened like its creator Dalberg. Dalberg had organized his state on the French model. This earned the law faculty, which trained the state executives, the French reputation, which led to the closure of the law faculty as the first Bavarian measure in 1814.,

Optional design

In 1808, the Charles University was founded with theological , legal and philosophical faculties . At the end of 1808 the theological faculty was transferred to the seminary .

After the reorganization of the education system in the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt based on the French model, Aschaffenburg became a state university in 1812 with partial facilities in several locations. In 1814, after Aschaffenburg became Bavarian, the law faculty was closed. In 1818 the rest of the university was converted into a Bavarian lyceum as a university-equivalent facility. In 1824 the theological faculty was transferred to the Ludwig Maximilian University in Würzburg. In 1873 the university's only remaining philosophical faculty was closed by royal decree of October 1, 1872.

University demotion

As Napoleon's henchman in the destruction of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Dalberg entered public opinion in the 19th and first half of the 20th century. While Dalberg's colleagues in the Rhine Confederation, headed by the new kings by Napoleon's grace in Bavaria and Württemberg , changed fronts in good time, Dalberg alone had to play the role of the scapegoat for the Napoleonic aberrations of the Germans in 1814 , with the aura of traitor to the fatherland. His primatial state, the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , with the Principality of Aschaffenburg , was dissolved. As a result, his Charles University was also converted into a Bavarian lyceum.

University personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dalberg's university town of Aschaffenburg: Aschaffenburg Academy of Charles University (1798–1818) and the Bavarian Lyceum (1818–1873). Theodor J Scherg, Pattloch-Verlag, 1951
  2. ↑ See p. 25ff Dalberg's university town of Aschaffenburg. History of the Charles University and the Bavarian Lyceum, volume: 1 part: 1 p .: 25ff chapters 1–20 and part 2 chapters 21–40 (history of the Charles University 1798–1818 and the Bavarian Lyceum 1818–1873), from Theodor Josef Scherg, Pattloch-Verlag Aschaffenburg, 1954
  3. ^ Dalberg's university town of Aschaffenburg. History of the Charles University and the Bavarian Lyceum, volume: 1 part: 1 chapter 1–20 pp .: 36ff and part 2 chapters 21-40 (history of the Charles University 1798–1818 and the Bavarian Lyceum 1818–1873), from Theodor Josef Scherg, Pattloch-Verlag Aschaffenburg, 1954
  4. ↑ a b The Charles University in Aschaffenburg. Cadre forge of Bonapartism? The historic dessert, by Jürgen Herzog , excerpt: altmod.de , last accessed on January 29, 2013
  5. ↑ Later representations mention 1878 as the year of death, but this must be corrected with the contemporary obituary; see. In memory of Franz Reuter . In: Sheets for the Bavarian high school system . Volume 9 (1873), pp. 328-330