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of the university were revised. In 1568 the profession of faith in accordance with
the Council of Trent was required of the rector and professors. In 1688 the
teaching in the faculty of philosophy passed entirely in the hands of the Jesuits.
Though the university after this change, in spite of vexations and conflicts
regarding exemption from taxes and juridical autonomy, enjoyed a high degree of
prosperity, its existence was frequently imperilled during the troubles of the Thirty
Years War. But its fame as a home of earning was enhanced by men such as the
theologian, Gregory of Valentia; the controversialist, Jacob Gretser (1558-1610);
the moralist, Laymann (1603-1609); the mathematician and cartographer, Philip
Apian; the astronomer, Christopher Scheiner (1610-1616), who, with the
helioscope invented by him, discovered the sun spots and calculated the ime of
the sun's rotation; and the poet, Jacob Balde, from Ensisheim in Alsacc,
professor of rhetoric. Prominent among the jurists in the seventeenth century
were Kaspar Manz and Christopher Berold.
During the latter half of that century, and especially in the eighteenth, the
courses of instruction were improved and adapted to the requirements of the
age. After the founding of the Bavarian Academy of Science at Munich in 1759,
an anti-ecclesiastical tendency sprang up at Ingolstadt and found an ardent
supporter in Joseph Adam, Baron of Ickstatt, whom the elector had placed at the
head of the university. Plans, moreover, were set on foot to have the university of
the third centenary the Society of Jesus was suppressed, but some of the ex-
Jesuits retained their professorships for a while longer.
A movement was inaugurated in 1772 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of
canon law, with a view to securing the triumph of the rationalistic "enlightment" in
Church and State by means of the secret society of "Illuminati", which he
founded. But this organization was suppressed in 1786 by the Elector Carl
Theodore, and Weishaupt was dismissed. On 25 November, 1799, the elector
Maximilian IV, later King Maximilian I, decreed that the university, which was
involved in financial difficulties, should be transferred to Landshut; and this was
done in the following May. Among its leading professors towards the close were
Winter the church historian, Schrank the naturalist, and Johann Michael Sailer,
writer on moral philosophy and pedagogy, who later became Bishop of Ratisbon.
Oh yeah, Victor “the Doctor” Frankenstein from Mary Shelley's novel
Frankenstein was a fictional student at the University of Ingolstadt.