Wittenberg University Growing
1506
Frederick the Wise expanded his new university at Wittenberg, attracting theologians and humanists. Within a decade it would host a friar named Martin Luther and become ground zero of the Reformation. For now it was still a provincial institution struggling for recognition, its lectures attended by a few hundred students.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.