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„Leipzig Univ ersity (Germ an: Universit ät Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxo ny, Germ any, is one o f the world's oldest universit ies and t he secon d-oldest universit y (by conse cutive years o f existence) i n Germa ny. The university was founded o n 2 December 1 409 by Fre derick I, Elector o f Saxony a nd his brother William II, Margrave of Meiss en, and origi nally com prised the fo ur scholastic faculties . Since it s inception, the university has e ngaged i n teaching an d research f or over 600 y ears without i nterruption. Famous alum ni include Ang ela Merkel , Gottfried Wilh elm von Lei bniz, Joha nn Wolfgang v on Goethe, Leo pold von Ra nke, Friedrich Nietzsche , Robert S chumann, Rich ard Wagner, Tycho B rahe, Georgius Agric ola. Th e universit y is associate d with ten No bel laureates, most recently with Svan te Pääbo who wo n the Nob el Prize for Me dicine in 2022. History The university was modelle d on the Universit y of Prague, fro m which t he Germ an-speaking f aculty m embers wit hdrew to Leipzig after the Jan H us crisis a nd the Decree of Kutná Ho ra. The Alma mater Lipsie nsis o pened in 140 9, after it had been officially chartere d by Pope A lexander V in his Bull of Ackn owledgment on (9 Se ptember of t hat year). Its first rector was J ohannes O tto von M ünsterberg. Fr om its foun dation, the Pauli nerkirche serv ed as the university ch urch. After t he Reformati on, the ch urch and the monastery b uildings were donated to t he university in 1544. In order t o secure indepen dent and sustai nable f unding, the university was endowed wit h the lor dship over ni ne villages east of Lei pzig (university villages). It kept t his status for nearly 40 0 years until l and reform s were carrie d out in the 1 9th century. Like many Euro pean universities, t he Univer sity of Lei pzig was st ructured into coll eges (collegia) res ponsible f or organising accomm odation an d collegiate lect uring. A mong the c olleges of Leipzig were the Smal l College, t he Large C ollege, the Red C ollege (R otes Kolleg , also known as t he New College), the college of our La dy (Fraue nkolleg) and t he Pauliner-Coll ege (Pauli ner Kolleg). There w ere also private reside ntial halls (burse n, see Englis h 'bursaries' ). The colleges had jurisdi ction over t heir members. T he colleg e structure was abandone d later[timef rame?] an d today only the names surviv e. During the first centuries, the university grew slowly and was a rather r egional inst itution. This c hanged, however, during t he 19th ce ntury when t he universi ty became a w orld-cl ass institutio n of higher ed ucation and r esearch.[citati on needed ] At t he end of the 19t h century, im portant scho lars such as B ernhard Win dscheid ( one of the fat hers of the Germ an Civ il Code) and Wi lhelm O stwald (viewe d as a foun der of mo dern physical c hemistry) t aught at Leipzig. Formerly orga nized as a collegiate university, th e Red Colleg e of Leipzig U niversity was establishe d in the 16th c entury. Leipzig Universit y was one of the first German universit ies to allow w omen to regist er as "guest st udents".[4] At it s general assem bly in 1873, t he Allgemei ner Deuts cher Frauenverei n [de] thanked t he Univer sity of Leipzig a nd Prague f or allowing wom en to att end as g uest stude nts. This was the year that the first woma n in Germ any obtaine d her JD, Johan na von Evrein ov. During the decline and diss olution of the Ot toman Empire in t he 19th and first decade of 20th cent ury together wit h some oth er Ger man univers ities Leipzig U niversity turned into one of the center s of higher education for s tate administr ations and eli tes of n ewly in dependent Balk an states (Romania, Gr eece, Bulgaria an d Serbia) e ducating over 5,500 students from the r egion in 185 9–1909 per iod.[5] Until the begi nning of the S econd Worl d War, Leipzig Univ ersity att racted a number of renowned sch olars an d later Nobel Pr ize laureat es, including Paul Ehrlich , Felix Bloch , Werner Heisen berg and Sin-It iro Tomonaga . Many of th e university 's alumni bec ame im portant scie ntists. “ Source: https://en.wiki pedia.org/wiki/Leipzig _Universit y (access 20th Oct 2025)