Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem was a German lawyer. His suicide in Wetzlar became the model for that of The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe.
Carl Wilhelm Jerusalem
Jerusalem's note requesting Kestner's travelling pistols - the original is now in the Goethe- und Schillerarchiv in Weimar.
Silhouette of Elisabeth Herd, 1771
Memorial to Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem in Wetzlar
Leipzig University, in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and Germany's second-oldest university. The university was founded on 2 December 1409 by Frederick I, Elect
Memorial stone to the foundation of Leipzig University
Leipzig University main building (1917). It was demolished by the socialist administration in 1968.
Formerly organized as a collegiate university, the Red College of Leipzig University was established in the 16th century.
Main building of Leipzig University since 2012, the Augusteum at Augustusplatz