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