Gondar - Phi Kappa Psi

Wilhelm Vth studied at, and patronized, the
University of Ingoldstadt :
The University of Ingolstadt was
founded in 1472 by Louis the Rich, the
Duke of Bavaria at the time, and its first
Chancellor was the Bishop of Eichstätt. It
consisted of five faculties: humanities,
sciences, theology, law and medicine, all of
which were contained in the Hoheschule
('high school'). The university was modeled
after the University of Vienna, its chief goal
was the propagation of the Christian faith.
The university closed in May 1800, by
order of the Prince-elector Maximilian IV
(later Maximilian I, King of Bavaria). In its
first several decades, the university grew
rapidly, opening colleges not only for
philosophers from the realist and
nominalist schools, but also for poor
students wishing to study the liberal arts.
University of Ingoldstadt
Among its most famous instructors in the late 1400s were the poet Conrad
Celtes, the Hebrew scholar Johannes Reuchlin, and the Bavarian historian
Johannes Thurmair (also known as "Johannes Aventinus").
The Lutheran movement took an early hold in Ingolstadt, but was quickly
put to flight by one of the chief figures of the Counter-Reformation: Johann Eck,
who made the university a bastion for the traditional Catholic faith in southern
Germany. In Eck's wake, many Jesuits were appointed to key positions in the
school, and the university, over most of the 1600s, gradually came fully under the
control of the Jesuit order. Noted scholars of this period include the theologian
Gregory of Valentia, the astronomer Christopher Scheiner (inventor of the
helioscope), Johann Baptist Cysat, and the poet Jacob Balde. The Holy Roman
Emperor Ferdinand II received his education at the university.
The 1700s gave rise to the Enlightenment, a movement that was opposed
to the church-run universities of which Ingolstadt was a prime example. 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. On
November 25, 1799, the elector Maximilian IV announced that the university's
depleted finances had become too great a weight for him to bear: the university
would be moved to Landshut as a result. The university finished that year's
school term, and left Ingolstadt in May 1800, bringing to a quiet end the school