Johns Hopkins University is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Incorporated in 1867 and opened in 1876 based on the European research institution model, Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins, the university's namesake whose philanthropic gift in 1873 established the university, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
The university model of Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany, was replicated in the founding of Johns Hopkins University
Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of Johns Hopkins University
Hopkins Hall on the original Downtown Baltimore campus, c. 1885
Johns Hopkins was an American merchant, investor, and philanthropist best known for funding the establishment of Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital, which have since become leading in
Johns Hopkins University
…to be the first research university in the U.S. The university was named for its first benefactor, the American businessman and Quaker philanthropist Johns Hopkins. Hopkins's $7 million bequest (equivalent to $166 million in 2024) to establish the university and the affiliated Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore…
Share of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, issued July 26, 1856, and signed by Johns Hopkins as the company's pro tem president
Johns Hopkins Monument at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
Hopkins' gravestone (center) in Green Mount Cemetery