University of Ingolstadt
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The University of Ingolstadt was a private university in the city of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany. Founded in 1472 by Louis the Rich, serving as the Duke of Bavaria at the time, its first Chancellor
Garden façade of the Alte Anatomie at the University of Ingolstadt
Adam Weishaupt
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Johann Adam Weishaupt was a German philosopher, professor of civil law and later canon law, and founder of the Bavarian Illuminati.
University of Ingolstadt
…Thurmair (also known as "Johannes Aventinus"). The Illuminati movement was founded on 1 May 1776, in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt (d. 1830), who was the first lay professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt. The movement was made up of freethinkers, as an offshoot of…
1799 portrait of Weishaupt
Death mask of Adam Weishaupt