A History of the University in Europe: Volume 3, Universities the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800-1945) (A History of the University in Europe)

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A H I S T O RY O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y I N E U R O P E general editor

¨ EGG WA LT E R R U

This is the third volume of a four-part History of the University in Europe, written by an international team of authors under the chair¨ manship of Professor Walter Ruegg. The series has been sponsored by the Standing Conference of Rectors, Presidents and Vice-Chancellors of the European Universities (CRE), now European University Association (EUA), and is intended for the general reader as well as the specialist. It covers the development of the university in Europe (east and west) from its origins to the present day, focusing not on the history of individual institutions, nor on the universities in any individual country, but on a number of major themes viewed from a European perspective. The originality of the work lies in its comparative, interdisciplinary, collaborative and transnational nature. It is not a history of ideas, even though each volume has a ‘Learning’ section dealing with the content of what was taught at universities during this time, but rather an appreciation of the role of the universities seen against a backdrop of changing conditions, ideas and values. Volume III, ‘Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’, attempts to situate the universities in their social and political context throughout the one and a half centuries spanning the period from 1800 to 1945.

A H I S T O RY O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y I N E U R O P E ¨ General Editor and Chairman of the Editorial Board: Walter Ruegg (Switzerland) Asa Briggs (United Kingdom) Alison Browning (United Kingdom) Aleksander Gieysztor† (Poland) Notker Hammerstein (Germany) Olaf Pedersen† (Denmark) Hilde de Ridder-Symoens (Belgium) John Roberts† (United Kingdom) Edward Shils† (United States of America) Jacques Verger (France)

This four-volume series, prepared under the guidance of an editorial board, has been directed by the Standing Conference of Rectors, Presidents and ViceChancellors of the European Universities (CRE), now European University Association (EUA). The EUA, which is a non-governmental organization based in Brussels and Geneva, has over 650 member universities in both eastern and western Europe. Its Brussels and Geneva secretariat oversees the administration of the project. The university is the only European institution to have preserved its fundamental patterns and basic social role and function over the course of the last millennium. This History shows how and why the university grew to encompass the whole of knowledge and most of the world, how it developed an intellectual tradition common to all Europeans, and how it trained academic and professional elites whose ethos transcends national boundaries. Volumes in the series I Universities in the Middle Ages Editor: Hilde de Ridder-Symoens II Universities in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800) Editor: Hilde de Ridder-Symoens III Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945) ¨ Editor: Walter Ruegg IV Universities from 1945 to 1992 ¨ Editor: Walter Ruegg

A H I S T O RY O F T H E UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE general editor

¨ walter r uegg VOLUME III

U N I V E RS I T I E S I N T H E N I N E T E E N T H A N D E A R LY T W E N T I E T H C E N T U R I E S (1800–1945)

EDITOR WA LT E R R U¨ E G G

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CONTENTS

Contributors and editors Reader’s guide Bibliographical abbreviations used in notes Foreword

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w a l t e r r u¨ e g g ( g e n e r a l e d i t o r )

Acknowledgements

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PA R T I : T H E M E S A N D PAT T E R N S CHAPTER 1: THEMES

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w a l t e r r u¨ e g g

Introduction The French and German university models Secularization, bureaucratization, specialization The European adoption of the two models The new scientific spirit From the age of philosophy to the age of science ‘The freedom that I believe in is what fills my heart’ David vs. Goliath C H A P T E R 2 : PAT T E R N S

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christophe charle

Introduction University revolutions in Germany, France and Russia Slow development in north-west and southern Europe The growth of nation states and universities in central and eastern Europe vii

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Contents The Napoleonic university model The Prussian university model The European university model: Great Britain French partial reform 1868–1904 The crisis of the German model Changes and attempts at harmonization within the British systems Changes in the influence of the German model The difficult process of renewal for the southern European universities Concluding remarks Select bibliography for chapters 1–4

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PA RT I I : S T R U C T U R E S C H A P T E R 3 : R E L AT I O N S W I T H AUTHORITY

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paul gerbod

Financial dependence Creation of Ministries of Public Education Educational dependence Legal guaranty and actual repression of academic freedom University resistance CHAPTER 4: RESOURCES AND MANAGEMENT

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paul gerbod

Introduction Facilities reconsidered Increasingly heavy and diverse expenditure outlays Sources of finance Increasingly diverse and complex administrative tasks University governance CHAPTER 5: TEACHERS

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matti klinge

General situation The development of new chairs Access to an academic career Appointment procedures Income and lifestyle

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Contents Public image Political role Social status Select bibliography

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CHAPTER 6: THE DIFFUSION OF EUROPEAN MODELS OUTSIDE EUROPE

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e dwa r d s h i l s a n d jo h n ro b e rt s

General remarks North America Latin America Middle East Africa South Asia: India and Ceylon South-East Asia Australasia East Asia Concluding observations Select bibliography

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PA RT I I I : S T U D E N T S CHAPTER 7: ADMISSION

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fritz ringer

The quantitative approach The inclusiveness of university studies Preparation and distribution of students Costs of university studies The development of university access The social origins of university students Select bibliography CHAPTER 8: STUDENT MOVEMENTS

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lieve gevers and louis vos

Students fighting for freedom (1800–1830) Revolution and Restoration (1830–1845) Students in revolt (1845–1850) Integration or insurrection (1850–1870) Consolidation and anti-liberalism (1870–1885) Social and national emancipation (1885–1900) World politics and corporatism (1900–1914) A world safe for democracy? (1919–1939) ix

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Contents ¨ Volkischer Nationalism (1919–1939) The charm of Fascism (1919–1939) Student movements without borders (1919–1939) Select bibliography C H A P T E R 9 : G R A D U AT I O N A N D C A R E E R S

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konrad h. jarausch

Introduction The role of knowledge in the rise of the professions The process of professionalization The numerical expansion of the professions National variations Concluding remarks Select bibliography

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P A R T I V: L E A R N I N G CHAPTER 10: THEOLOGY AND THE ARTS

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Introduction Catholic theology and the influence of ultramontanism The papacy’s pyrrhic victories over modernism Protestant theology as a subject of university research Positive and liberal wings in the study of theology and religion Philology as a Geisteswissenschaft The breakthrough of classical philology The origin of modern philologies The European diffusion of modern philology Oriental studies and comparative linguistics Philosophy Select bibliography C H A P T E R 1 1 : H I S T O RY A N D T H E SOCIAL SCIENCES

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asa briggs

The rise of critical history The search for authenticity French historiography from Michelet to the ‘Annales’ The rise of the social sciences Select bibliography

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Contents C H A P T E R 1 2 : T H E M AT H E M AT I C A L A N D THE EXACT SCIENCES

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paul bockstaele

Mathematics and the exact sciences in France after 1800 The exact sciences at German universities The exact sciences at British universities Higher education in the exact sciences in Russia Professionalization and scientific research 1870–1939 Select bibliography CHAPTER 13: BIOLOGY AND THE EARTH SCIENCES

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anto leikola

The birth of biology Different patterns: France and Germany A new physiology The cell theory Claude Bernard and Louis Pasteur Charles Darwin and Darwinism New fields for the new century Select bibliography CHAPTER 14: MEDICINE

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antonie m. luyendijk-elshout

Introduction The Romantic era (1790–1830): the influence of Enlightenment The Romantic era: organization of medical education The new learning (1830–1870) The expanding medical faculties The growth of medical specialization (1870–1940) The ‘modernization’ of medical education The inter-war period Concluding remarks Select bibliography CHAPTER 15: TECHNOLOGY

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anna guagnini

Introduction Technical education for public servants The influence of the French model The emergence of industrial engineering, 1830–1850 The ferment of initiatives, 1850–1890 xi

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Contents The quest for status Research and diversification The development of research institutions Higher technical education in the inter-war period Select bibliography E P I L O G U E : U N I V E R S I T I E S A N D WA R I N T H E T W E N T I E T H C E N T U RY

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notker hammerstein

Introduction Background: the learned world of the nineteenth century The First World War and its consequences Great Britain from the First to the Second World War The countries occupied by the German army Neutral countries and states aligned with Germany Germany The Soviet Union The United States of America Postscript Select bibliography

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES AND SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS IN EXISTENCE BETWEEN 1812 A N D T H E E N D O F 1944: A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST

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Alphabetical list of towns with important institutions of higher learning Name index Subject index

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CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS

p a u l b o c k s t a e l e (Belgium), born in Melle near Ghent in 1920, is emeritus professor of mathematics and the history of mathematics at the Catholic University of Leuven. He is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for the Sciences and of the International Academy of the History of Science. a s a b r i g g s (United Kingdom), from 1976 Lord Briggs of Lewes, was born in Yorkshire in 1921. He is former provost of Worcester College, Oxford (1976–92), former vice-chancellor of the University of Sussex (1967–92), former chancellor of the Open University (1978–94), former chairman (1974–80) of the European Institute of Education and Social Policy in Paris, and former president of the British Social History Society (1966–71). His writings span economic, social and cultural history and the history of broadcasting. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. a l i s o n b r o w n i n g (United Kingdom/USA) was born in Buckinghamshire in 1951. In her role as Deputy Secretary General of the CRE, the Association of European Universities (1986–94), she had responsibility for a number of the organization’s international and interdisciplinary projects, including the preparation of this History of the University in Europe. She now divides her time between the USA and Europe. c h r i s t o p h e c h a r l e (France) was born in Paris in 1951. He is professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris I Panth´eon (Sorbonne) and director of the Institut d’Histoire moderne et contem´ poraine (CNRS/Ecole normale sup´erieure). He has published several books, some of them translated into several languages, on the history

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Contributors and editors of intellectuals and the comparative history of cultures and societies in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe. p a u l g e r b o d (France) was born in Paris in 1925. Emeritus professor of contemporary history at several French universities, president of the Association des historiens contemporan´eistes des universit´es franc¸aises and of the Comit´e franc¸ais des sciences historiques, he has published a dozen books and more than a hundred review articles on themes related to the history of education and culture. l i e v e g e v e r s (Belgium), born in Turnhout in 1947, is professor of church history in the Faculty of Theology at the Catholic University of Leuven, where she teaches on the history of the church and religion in modern times. A former visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, she has published several books and articles on the European and Belgian history of the Catholic Church, secondary and higher education, religion and nationalism, student movements and youth associations. a n n a g u a g n i n i (Italy), born in Milan in 1952, is a researcher in the department of philosophy at the University of Bologna. Her interests lie in the history of technology in Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; she is the author of several publications on the organization of technological education and research in Britain and Italy. n o t k e r h a m m e r s t e i n (Germany) was born in Offenbach-amMain in 1930. Emeritus professor of early modern history at the University of Frankfurt-am-Main, he has published several works on the history of German universities and the history of learning. He is a member of the editorial board of History of Universities. k o n r a d j a r a u s c h (Germany/USA), born in Magdeburg, Germany, in 1941, is Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of ¨ zeitNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, and co-director of the Zentrum fur historische Forschung at the University of Potsdam in Germany. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books on modern German history, and co-authored recently with Michael Geyer The Shattered Past: Reconstructing German History (Princeton, 2003). m a t t i k l i n g e (Finland), born in Helsinki in 1936, was professeur associ´e at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (1970–72) and professor of history at the University of Helsinki (1975–2001), where he directed its monumental history. He has taught and published extensively on the political and cultural history of the Nordic countries and their relationship to other parts of Europe. Former president of the Soci´et´e d’´etude du XVIIe si`ecle in Finland and President of the Societas Scientiarum Fennica, he has xiv

Contributors and editors an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala and is a member of the Royal Academy of History and Literature in Stockholm. a n t o l e i k o l a (Finland), born in Helsinki in 1937, was professor of history of science at the University of Helsinki from 1988 until his retirement in 1997. He was also a docent in history of science at the University of Oulu from 1980 until 2002 and at the University of Helsinki from 1998 until 2002. He chaired the Finnish Society of the History of Science and Ideas from 1976 to 1997, and is a member of the International Academy of the History of Sciences, of the Finnish Society of Sciences, and of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. a n t o n i e m . l u y e n d i j k - e l s h o u t (The Netherlands), born in Gorinchem in 1921, is emeritus professor of the history of medicine at the University of Leiden. She was actively involved in the work of the Boerhaave Museum in Leiden, and has published on the history of universities in relation to the history of medicine. h i l d e d e r i d d e r - s y m o e n s (Belgium), born in Sint-JansMolenbeek (Brussels) in 1943, is professor of early modern history at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and president of the International Commission for the History of Universities. She has published on European university history and education in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. f r i t z r i n g e r (Germany/USA), born in Ludwigshafen (Germany) in 1934, is visiting adjunct professor of history at the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and Mellon Professor of History emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. He has taught and published extensively on modern European intellectual history, the history of higher education, and the history and philosophy of the cultural and social sciences. j o h n r o b e r t s (United Kingdom) was born in Bath in 1928 and died in the county of Somerset in 2003. Warden of Merton College, Oxford (1984–94), where he was previously fellow and tutor in modern history, he was also vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton (1979– 83). From 1967 to 1976 he was joint editor of the English Historical Review. w a l t e r r u¨ e g g (Switzerland), born in Zurich in 1918, was professor of sociology at the universities of Berne (1973–86) and Frankfurt-am-Main (1961–73), he also served as rector of the latter (1965–70). He was president of the Westdeutschen Rektorenkonferenz (1967–68) and a president of the International Federation of Social Science Associations (1976–78). He is a member of the Academia xv

Contributors and editors scientiarum et artium europea. His numerous publications focus on humanism, historical sociology, and the history of higher education. e d w a r d s h i l s (USA) was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1910, and died in Chicago in 1995. He was professor of social thought and sociology at the University of Chicago, a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and of the London School of Economics. Founder and editor of the journal Minerva, he was the author of many works on sociology, with special reference to the role of science and scholarship in contemporary societies. j a c q u e s v e r g e r (France) was born in Talence near Bordeaux in 1943. He is professor of medieval history at the University of Paris IV´ ´ Sorbonne and Directeur d’´etudes at the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, IVe Section (Paris). He is a leading medievalist whose publications on the intellectual and cultural world, especially on the universities of the Middle Ages, have been translated into several foreign languages. l o u i s v o s (Belgium), born in Mol in 1945, is professor of history in the Faculty of Arts at the Catholic University of Leuven. A former visiting professor at the universities of Pennsylvania and Nijmegen, he teaches on contemporary European history and the history of Poland. He has published several books and articles on the history of student movements, youth associations and nationalism in Belgium.

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R E A D E R ’S G U I D E

This series, although compiled by specialists, is destined for the general reader. The notes and bibliographies accompanying the different chapters have therefore been kept to a minimum. The notes are either bibliographical references to specify sources, generally the most important or recent works relating to the subject, or they have been introduced to justify quantitative data or to explain any significant differences between two interpretations of a particular point. Select bibliographies follow the chapters, designed to stimulate further reading and are not exhaustive. The reader will find more complete bibliographical references in the works indicated. As a number of well-known works for the period are quoted in several chapters, abbreviations of the titles of these works have been used in the notes. A list of bibliographical abbreviations follows this page. Furthermore, the reader will find a more general bibliography at the end of chapter 2 (‘Patterns’), as this chapter locates the presence and nature of universities during the period covered by this volume. In order to avoid unnecessary overlaps between the various chapters, the editors have made cross-references to other chapters in the text as well as in the notes, thereby informing the reader that more ample information on the subject can be found elsewhere in the volume (see also the subject index). The standard English version of proper names has been used throughout; when necessary, a form more commonly used in continental Europe is indicated by means of a cross-reference in the name index.

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL A B B R E V I AT I O N S U S E D IN THE NOTES

¨ Bildungsburgertum ¨ W. Conze and J. Kocka (eds.), Bildungsburgertum im 19. Jahrhundert, vol. I: Bildungssystem und Professionalisierung in internationalen Vergleichen (Stuttgart, 1985). Charle, R´epublique des universitaires C. Charle, La R´epublique des universitaires (1870–1940) (Paris, 1994). Forschung im Spannungsfeld R. Vierhaus and B. vom Brocke (eds.), Forschung im Spannungsfeld von Politik und Gesellschaft. Geschichte und Struktur der Kaiser-Wilhelm-/MaxPlanck-Gesellschaft (Stuttgart, 1990). Gerbod, Condition universitaire P. Gerbod, La Condition universitaire en France au XIXe si`ecle (Paris, 1965). ¨ Frankfurt am Main Hammerstein, Universitat ¨ Frankfurt am N. Hammerstein, Die Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat Main, vol. I: 1914 bis 1950 (Neuwied and Frankfurt-am-Main, 1989). History of Oxford VI M. G. Brock and M. Curthoys (eds.), The History of the University of Oxford, vol. VI: The Nineteenth Century (general editor: T. H. Aston) (Oxford, 1997). History of Oxford VII M. G. Brock and M. Curthoys (eds.), The History of the University of Oxford, vol. VII: Nineteenth-Century Oxford (Oxford, 2000). History of Oxford VIII B. Harrison (ed.), The History of the University of Oxford, vol. VIII: The Twentieth Century (general editor: T. H. Aston) (Oxford, 1994). Jarausch, Students Imperial Germany K. H. Jarausch, Students, Society and Politics in Imperial Germany: The Rise of Academic Illiberalism (Princeton, NJ, 1982). J´ılek, Historical Compendium L. J´ılek (ed.), Historical Compendium of European Universities/R´epertoire historique des universit´es europ´eennes (Geneva, 1984).

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Bibliographical abbreviations used in notes Kassow, Students Tsarist Russia S. D. Kassow, Students, Professors and the State in Tsarist Russia, V. E. Bonnell and L. Hunt (eds.), Studies on the History of Society and Culture 5 (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1989). ¨ Helsinki Klinge, Universitat ¨ Die Universitat ¨ Helsinki 1640–1990 M. Klinge, Eine nordische Universitat. ¨ (Helsinki and Gottingen, 1992). ¨ Nipperdey, Burgerwelt ¨ T. Nipperdey, Deutsche Geschichte 1800–1866. Burgerwelt und starker Staat (Munich, 1983). Paul, Knowledge H. W. Paul, From Knowledge to Power: The Rise of the Science Empire in France 1860–1939 (Cambridge, 1985). ˜ Peset, Universidad Espanola ˜ M. Peset and J. L. Peset, La Universidad Espanola (siglos XVIII y XIX). ´ liberal (Madrid, 1974). Despotismo ilustrado y revolucion Ringer, Education and Society F. K. Ringer, Education and Society in Modern Europe (Bloomington and Londen, 1979). Schwabe, Deutsche Hochschullehrer K. Schwabe (ed.), Deutsche Hochschullehrer als Elite 1815–1945 (Boppard, 1988). Shinn, Savoir scientifique T. Shinn, Savoir scientifique & pouvoir social: L’Ecole polytechnique, 1794– 1914 (Paris, 1980). University of Cambridge IV C. N. L. Brooke, A History of the University of Cambridge, vol. IV: 1870– 1990 (Cambridge, 1993). Verger, Universit´es en France J. Verger (ed.), Histoire des universit´es en France (Toulouse, 1986). Weisz, Emergence G. Weisz, The Emergence of Modern Universities in France (1863–1914) (Princeton, NJ, 1983).

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FOREWORD

¨ EGG WA LT E R R U

Nonumque prematur in annum: ‘let it be kept quiet till the ninth year.’ This famous advice given by Horace in his Ars poetica applied to poetry. When the same time-span occurs in the publication of a history book that was planned and carefully prepared for 1994, the reader may ask for an explanation. As outlined at some length in the Foreword to the first volume, in 1982 the Standing Conference of Rectors, Presidents and Vice-Chancellors of the European Universities (CRE), now the European Association of Universities (EUA), which meets regularly to discuss the contemporary problems and the future requirements of its more than 650 member universities, decided that it needed a better knowledge of the history of universities. Since a modern work of this kind was lacking, it undertook a feasibility study with the help of university historians and sociologists. In March 1983 a conference was held in Berne, Switzerland, which gave a positive evaluation for such an undertaking. In September of the same year the CRE appointed an editorial board entrusted with the task of publishing a History of the University in Europe in four volumes, on the basis of the current state of the art – paying all due attention to a comparative and comprehensive thematic analysis of historical changes and regional differences. The first volume was published in English in 1991, in German in 1992, and the second in 1996 in both languages. Spanish and Portuguese translations followed from 1994 on, while a Russian edition is currently being prepared in Moscow, and a Chinese one in Hebei. The planning for volume III began in July 1985 at the University of Salamanca. In view of the complex development of the history of universities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a ‘brain-storming’ session with specialists was organized in March 1986 at Bad Homburg, near Frankfurt-am-Main. As a result of this meeting, guidelines were drawn xxi

Foreword ˜ Marcos Palace up by the editorial board in September 1986 at the Sao in Portugal, an historic building belonging to the University of Coimbra. Potential authors met with the board for a first workshop in June 1988 at the University of Oxford and then presented their drafts for discussion in May 1990 at the University of Bochum. When, in September 1992 at the University of Ghent, the editorial board examined the draft contributions for volume III, three chapters were still lacking. Owing to previous unfortunate experiences with an author of volume II who, after many delays, delivered an unsatisfactory draft, the editorial board decided to replace the renegade authors by others who promised to finish their chapters by the end of 1993. This solution succeeded only partially. In the case of one chapter, the delivery was postponed from one year to the next. Twice the volume editor travelled hundreds of miles in order to urge the delivery of the text. Eventually, in September 2002, he received the last part of the missing chapter. Even had we received this chapter in 1994, the fatal illness of our colleague Edward Shils, which led to his death in 1995, would have postponed the publication by a few years. With his sociological knowledge of the world-wide expansion and social impact of the modern university and its scientific discoveries, with his acute judgement and friendly and reliable advice, he was not only a most active member of the editorial board; he had also written the first draft of three chapters in volume III. The draft of chapter 1 (Themes) served as a kind of map for the whole volume and would have needed to be adjusted according to the conclusions of the other authors. With his passing this introductory chapter became obsolete, and it was duly rewritten by the volume editor. His preliminary sketch of chapter 6 (‘The Diffusion of European Models outside Europe’) was an impressive testimony of his first-hand knowledge of universities on other continents, but his death interrupted his work on this topic. Our co-editor John Roberts – with the help of specialists for each region – duly revised the whole chapter and supplemented it with references and recent information. The opposite occurred in the case of the sub-chapter on the social sciences. Edward Shils had expanded the draft of this topic – so familiar to him – to the size of a monograph, and his illness prevented him from shortening it. Eventually our co-editor Asa Briggs decided to add to the sub-chapter on history in chapter 11 the most significant developments in the social sciences before World War II. In fact, with the exception of law and the new economics, most social sciences such as sociology, social anthropology and political science were not generally included in university curricula in Europe before the 1950s. These circumstances may explain, although not excuse, the fact that volume III only went to press some nine years later than originally planned. It is parallel in its structure to the first two volumes, but this structure has xxii

Foreword been adapted to reflect three important changes in the history of the universities. First, the traditional university model, common to all European universities until the end of the eighteenth century, was replaced by different models of higher education; second, the modern university focused increasingly on specialized scientific research; and third, student movements began to play an important role in both national and international struggles for individual, social and political freedom. For this reason, the former chapter 8 of the previous two volumes (‘Student Education, Student Life’) concentrates in this volume on ‘Student Movements’. It presents the first comparative survey of the political power that emerged from universities and illustrates it with numerous examples from different European countries. The other facets of student life in colleges, fraternities or private circles remained essentially unchanged throughout this period, with the exception of the two world wars that are treated in the Epilogue. Student mobility, described in a separate chapter in previous volumes, lost its educational and cultural importance for whole generations of students. The most important changes in student education related to innovations in the humanities, sciences, medicine and technology, as these gradually became recognized as parts of the curriculum. These innovations are treated in Part IV (Learning). The huge expansion and specialization of research-orientated studies was related to the replacement of the traditional university, consisting of four faculties, by three different institutional models of higher education, leading to new faculties, schools and departments. These are analyzed in Parts I (Themes and Patterns) and II (Structures). The ‘List of European Universities’ that figured in the first two volumes at the end of the second chapter has been enlarged to a list of ‘European Universities and Similar Institutions of Higher learning in Existence Between 1812 and the End of 1944’ and placed at the end; besides the universities it includes similar institutions of higher education which, from the eighteenth century, were founded in the fields of technology, commerce and teacher training. To comply with multiple requests, the list indicates as far as possible the introduction of new faculties and departments. Following the death of Edward Shils in 1995 the editorial board lost further members: in 1997 the Danish historian of science, Olaf Pedersen, and in 1999 the Polish Historian, Aleksander Gieysztor. With their particular expertise and broad European horizons they were not only instrumental in assuring the success of the first two volumes, but they also enriched them as authors: Gieysztor wrote in the first, Pedersen in the second volume. On 30 May 2003 the editorial board lost one of its most active members, John Roberts. Professor Roberts was distinguished by an unusual combination of talents and accomplishments. A wide-ranging historian, he wrote well-regarded volumes on vast subjects; xxiii

Foreword one of his books has been praised as the ‘best modern presentation of the history of the world’. A practised academic administrator, he served as vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton and as Warden of Merton College, Oxford. A true and always helpful friend, he contributed substantially to the planning and critical review of our project. He edited the chapter in our second and third volumes on the world-wide effects of the European university models. His intention of writing the introductory chapter to the fourth volume was frustrated by his debilitating illness, which he bore with admirable fortitude. In 1995, a new member, Alison Browning, joined the editorial board; as deputy secretary general of the CRE, she had played a major role in bringing about this History, promoting with tireless devotion and alertness the harmonious – indeed friendly – co-operation between so many European scholars, and participating actively in the English edition of the volumes.

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The preparatory work for A History of the University in Europe has been generously supported by Dutch, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish and Swiss foundations and sponsors, the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam, the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung in Cologne, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Sankt Augustin, the Robert Bosch Stiftung ¨ die deutsche Wissenschaft in Essen, in Stuttgart, the Stifterverband fur the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank in Essen, the Volkswagen-Stiftung in Hanover, the Portuguese Secretary of State for Higher Education, the National Institute for Scientific Research as well as the Calouste ´ Ramon ´ Areces in Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Fondacion Madrid, the Antonio de Almeida Foundation in Oporto, the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Fund in Stockholm, the Cr´edit Suisse in Zurich, ¨ Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. in Basle, the Jubilaumsstiftung der Ver¨ sicherungsgesellschaften Zurich/Vita/Alpina in Zurich, the Max und Elsa Beer-Brawand-Fonds of the University of Berne, the Nestl´e Corporation ¨ in Vevey, and the Schweizerische Nationalfonds zur Forderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung in Berne. Among the national correspondents mentioned in volume II, Walter ¨ Hoflechner (Graz), Mariano Peset Reig (Valencia), Ilaria Porciani (Bologna) and Griigori A. Tishkin (St Petersburg), helped especially in giving the volume a ‘European’ dimension. The assistance of other colleagues is recognized in the chapters concerned. We are very grateful for all the financial and scholarly support of the project. We thank the universities at which our conferences and discussions have taken place, notably the universities of Berne, Salamanca, ¨ Oxford, Bochum, Bologna and Ghent. Above all we Coimbra, Eichstatt, thank the CRE and its successor, the EUA, their long-standing Secretary

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CHAPTER 1

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introduction The political upheavals of the French Revolution and Napoleon’s conquests devastated the university landscape in Europe. In 1789 it was filled with 143 universities. In 1815 there were only 83. The 24 French universities had been abolished and in twelve towns these were replaced by special schools and isolated faculties. In Germany, eighteen of the 34 universities had disappeared, and in Spain only ten of the previous 25 had any life in them. After fifteen new foundations, Europe had 98 universities by the middle of the nineteenth century. On the eve of the Second World War, this figure had doubled. In around 200 universities, 600,000 students were taught by 32,000 professors, while during the 1840s when university statistics began to be compiled, there numbered around 80,000 students and 5,000 professors; this means an increase over one hundred years of 500 per cent for professors and 700 per cent for students.1 This extraordinary expansion in number and strength is all the more astonishing because the replacement of the universities by specialized and professional institutions coincided with the dominant trend in the Age of Enlightenment to orientate higher education towards practical knowledge and useful careers for the public good. Indeed, the 200 universities existing in the 1930s were surrounded by some 300 institutions of higher education in the military, technical, polytechnic, commercial, medical, veterinary, agricultural, educational, political and musical fields. But they had not replaced the universities and were attended by a relatively small minority of students. In France, the universities were restored in 1895, and the new nation states in Eastern Europe were eager to set up their own universities, thus 1

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¨ Walter Ruegg allowing the concept of ‘the university as the European institution par excellence’2 to take on its full meaning. With the exception of France, where the grandes e´ coles were placed at the apex of higher education thanks to their rigorous systems of selection and training, the special colleges struggled to obtain university privileges and certification – which they succeeded in doing in Germany and Austria – or to be assimilated into the universities – as was the case in Great Britain and Italy. Most of the special institutions of higher education are today among the 670 members of the European Universities Association. Universities spread beyond Europe, too, where, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, except for Latin America, there were only colleges, academies, seminaries, madrasahs or other schools for the training of the intellectual, political or spiritual elite. How can the upturn in the fortunes of the modern university be explained? This is the basic question asked in the third volume of our History of the University in Europe. I will try to summarize some of the results by starting with the competition between the university models that opened the way to the modern university. Until the French Revolution, European universities, although divided by their dependence on Catholic or Protestant sovereigns, were organized in the same way and taught more or less the same branches of knowledge in four or five classical faculties. The structure and content of higher education converged to such a point that Rousseau complained in 1772: ‘Today there are no longer any French, Germans, Spanish or even English, in spite of what they say: there are only Europeans. They all have the same tastes, the same passions, the same morals, because none of them has received a national moulding from a particular institution.’3 the french and german university models At the beginning of the nineteenth century two new university models appeared which opened the way to a fundamental reform of the traditional university. The first was the French model of special colleges subjected to severe, often military, discipline, strictly organized and controlled by an enlightened despotism that governed to the last detail the curriculum, 2 3

See the Foreword to volume I of this series, p. xix. J.-J. Rousseau, Consid´erations sur le gouvernement de Pologne et sur sa r´eformation projet´ee, ed. Jean Fabre, Œuvres compl`etes, ed. B. Gagnebin and M. Raymond (Paris, 1964), vol. III, 620. The incorrect attribution to Voltaire, e.g. in O. Dann and J. Dinwiddy (eds.), Nationalism in the Age of the French Revolution (London and Ronceverte, 1988), 14, has been corrected thanks to the insight of Charles Wirz, curator of the Voltaire Institute and Museum in Geneva.

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Themes the awarding of degrees, the conformity of views held concerning official doctrines, and even personal habits such as the ban on the wearing of beards in 1852. This model was implemented thanks to the tabula rasa of the Revolution and completed by Napoleon, but some essential traits, such as a centralizing state control, the isolation of the faculties and the establishment of special colleges, had already been evident in the Age of Enlightenment. The French model remained in force under successive regimes, and it was only in the last third of the nineteenth century that it was eroded under the influence of the German model. Some French historians believe that it was not abandoned until 1968 by Edgar Faure’s loi sur l’orientation de l’enseignement sup´erieur,4 which was inspired by the reform programme drawn up on 6 January 1968 by the Rectors of the West German universities. The German model bears the name of the Humboldt University. The credit must indeed go to the scholar and statesman Wilhelm von Humboldt, brother of the great naturalist Alexander, for persuading the King of Prussia, who favoured the French model, to found a university in Berlin in 1810 built on the liberal ideas of the theologian and philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher. According to the latter, the function of the university was not to pass on recognized and directly usable knowledge such as the schools and colleges did, but rather to demonstrate how this knowledge is discovered, ‘to stimulate the idea of science in the minds of the students, to encourage them to take account of the fundamental laws of science in all their thinking’.5 The manner of study, the content of the teaching, and the relations of the university with the authorities were to be characterized by ‘freedom’. According to Humboldt, the state only had two tasks to fulfil with regard to the universities: to protect their freedom and to appoint professors. This idealistic model did not lend itself to implementation as easily as Napoleon’s interventionist model. Humboldt’s plan to provide the new university with a large amount of land in order to ensure its financial independence was abandoned by his successor; freedom of opinion was hampered in 1819 by control and censure measures, following student demonstrations, and was not restored until after 1848. 4 5

Cf. chapter 4, 120; J. G. Passeron, ‘L’explosion institutionnelle de 1968: l´egendes noires et dor´ees’, in Verger (ed.), Universit´es en France, 378–89. ¨ ¨ F. Schleiermacher, Gelegentliche Gedanken uber Universitaten im deutschen Sinn. Nebst ¨ ¨ einem Anhang uber eine neu zu errichtende (Berlin, 1808), 32–3, see W. Ruegg, ‘Der ¨ in M. Krieg and M. Rose (eds.), Universitas Mythos der Humboldtschen Universitat’, ¨ Hans Heinrich Schmid zum 60. in theologia – theologia in universitate, Festschrift fur Geburtstag (Zurich, 1997), 162–6; cf. chapter 2, 48.

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¨ Walter Ruegg Similarly, the introduction of students to scientific research through seminars and laboratories only came about slowly.6 However, liberal reform bore fruit. While, at the beginning of the century, Paris had been a Mecca for scholars and scientists from all over the world, from the 1830s the French Government sent representatives to Germany to enquire about progress in higher education. In the same way, young French people, as well as Americans later on, trained at German universities in the new scientific methods. From the end of the nineteenth century, the German model represented the modern university not only in Europe, but also in the United States and Japan. secularization, bureaucratization, specialization This could not have occurred without the secularization and bureaucratization of nation states. The charts in the second volume of our ‘History of the University in Europe’, which stops at the end of the eighteenth century, distinguish between Catholic and Protestant universities. Although some countries had begun to be secularized during the Enlightenment, most universities remained essentially ecclesiastical institutions, to the extent that they were either directly supervised by the respective churches or strongly connected to them through the importance of religious profession for the appointment of teachers, the admission of students, and the ideological orientation of academic studies and careers. During the nineteenth century, public universities were transformed into lay institutions everywhere. The few faculties of Catholic theology reintroduced into France and Spain could not survive and disappeared from public education. ‘Theology had taken refuge in the seminaries, while the state university continued for a decade with the studies which, for several centuries, had dominated and filled the auditoria.’7 At the same time, the universities became increasingly subjected to state bureaucracy, which managed university affairs as part of a national education policy. At the beginning of the century, the sovereign continued to be directly involved with the help of a trustworthy person and a rudimentary administration. When in 1806 Napoleon set up ‘under the name of the Imperial University, a body exclusively responsible for teaching

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Themes and public education throughout the Empire’,8 the official who ran it reported directly to the emperor and enjoyed great independence. Two years later he was the head of a central administration, and this was maintained, or even expanded, by later political regimes, to become the Ministry of Education in 1828.9 After sixteen months of successful activity, Wilhelm von Humboldt resigned his position as Director of the Section for Ecclesiastical Affairs and Education at the Ministry of the Interior in 1810, just before the opening of the University of Berlin, because the King did not want to upgrade the Division into a Ministry of Education, which would have given it the necessary political clout. Seven years later the upgrade took place. During the nineteenth century, all over the Continent, similar ministries were set up to cope with the growing importance that public education on every scale had assumed in the general policy and budgets of nation states. The ministerial administration decided on the type and composition of the whole higher education of the country, as was the case in Spain or Italy after unification; it governed access to the universities, and controlled their curricula and exams. It provided the universities with modern buildings and laboratories, as the French Government did after the defeat of 1871 – which a large section of public opinion attributed to the superiority of higher education in Germany. In the end, however, the most important consequence of this process was the professionalization of university careers. On the European Continent the professor became a civil servant of the lay and bureaucratic state. The most significant example is the institution intended to train the elite of ´ higher education teachers in France, the Ecole Normale (Sup´erieure). Its students, ‘at least seventeen years of age’, selected ‘from secondary schools by examination and competition’, agreed to serve in public education for at least ten years after graduation.10 Public education was therefore run as a branch of state administration. The academic degrees and the means of selection by competition and examination, which had been established under the old regime, were integrated into a hierarchy: the baccalaureate was essential to obtaining a post in a college, the license allowed for promotion to college chairs and higher offices, the agr´egation, a competitive examination, gave ‘access to careers in administration . . . and chairs in higher education’.11 The proof that this system of merit was linked to 8

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Loi du 10 mai 1806, Art. 1; V. Karady, ‘De Napol´eon a` Duruy: origines et naissance de l’Universit´e contemporaine’, in Verger (ed.), Universit´es en France, 269. Cf. G. Schubring, ‘The Impact of the Napoleonic Reforms on the Educational System in Europe’, in L. Blanco and L. Pepe (eds.), Stato e pubblica istruzione. Giovanni Scopoli e il suo viaggio in Germania (1812), Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento 1995, 21 (Bologna, 1996), 435–43. 10 Ibid., 277. Karady, ‘Napol´eon’ (note 8), 284. Gerbod, Condition universitaire, 57–64; quotation 64.

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¨ Walter Ruegg bureaucratization and secularization is provided by the reactionary elements that regained power in France between 1822 and 1830: they closed ´ the Ecole Normale and entrusted ‘numerous posts . . . to members of the clergy, often without degrees’.12 From the inception of the universities, the doctorate attested that the holder had mastered his academic discipline to such a point that he was qualified to teach it at university level. At the end of the eighteenth century, the examination consisted of the presentation and discussion of a thesis that developed a subject without scientific originality and value over several printed pages. After 1830, the theses defended before the faculties of letters and sciences in Paris began to give way to more extensive research and were often distinguished by having real scientific value.13 The man chiefly responsible for this change of direction was Victor Cousin who, after losing his chair in philosophy because of his liberal ideas inspired by ´ Kant and Fichte, became the head of the re-established Ecole Normale following the revolution of July 1830. He undertook a journey to Germany to study the state of public education there and published a report on his findings.14 Although the reforms which resulted met the combined opposition of the clerics and the leftists, Cousin, because of his key position in the training of professors, was able to introduce scientific criteria into doctoral theses15 as they were applied in Prussia. There scientific education, which had been the founding idea behind the University of Berlin, needed to be reflected in a ‘masterpiece’16 that inaugurated a career characterized by the scientific spirit. The German university professor was also a state functionary. But there were several German states, and he was free to accept the best position offered to him. His career did not unfold, as in France, among a hierarchical body of functionaries who remained subordinate to their superiors. In general, the German professor began his university career as a Privatdozent who, after demonstrating to the faculty his ability to teach his discipline, was entitled to do so at will, but also at his own expense. He thus learned and earned with great difficulty to practise the libertas docendi and, if lucky, persisted in it when he became a professor. The French model, based on scientific merit in the framework of a closed and centralized body, gave as much power and prestige to the professor as the German model, based on competition and freedom. He was entrusted by the state with a public office, the importance of which for the common good continued to grow, and he won increasing 12 14 15 16

13 Ibid., 65. Ibid., 57. V. Cousin, De l’instruction publique dans quelques pays de l’Allemagne, et particuli`erement en Prusse (Paris, 1832), 2 vols. Cf. Gerbod, Condition universitaire, 74–5. U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Reden und Vortrage, 3rd edn (Berlin, 1913), 107.

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L. Daston, ‘Die Akademien und die Einheit der Wissenschaften. Die Disziplinierung der ¨ Wissenschaften’, in J. Kocka et al. (eds.), Die Koniglich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin im Kaiserreich (Berlin, 1999), 73–4. (Comparative table of German, French and British scientific journals; quotation of a work by Hermann Diels, who in 1906 regretted ‘the huge number of excessively specialized scientific associations’ and counted 892 scholarly societies in Germany in 1887, and 1,278 journals in the mathematical and natural sciences in 1900.) According to C. Grau, ‘Profildifferenzen und Profildifferenzierung der Preussischen Akademie und anderer deutscher WissenschaftlerGemeinschaften im 19. Jahrhundert’, in Kocka et al. (eds.), Preussische Akademie, 48, ¨ the Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Arzte, which was divided into seven sections in 1828, numbered 41 in 1894. The Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica, founded in 1821, was one of the first specialized societies in the field of the natural sciences; cf. A. Leikola, ‘The Importance of Scientific Societies for Biological Research in Finland’, Memoranda Soc. Fauna Flora Fennica, 72 (1996), 99–102.

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The Philological Museum 1831–33; The Classical Museum 1845–50. See History of Oxford, VI, Part 1, 528–9. Journal of Hellenic Studies 1880– , Classical Review 1887– , Classical Quarterly 1907– . L. W. B. Brockliss, ‘The European University 1789–1850’, in University of Oxford, VI, Part 1, 131–3. ‘Ces cochonneries, cette invention des Germains’, see W. Hirdt (ed.), Romanistik, Eine ¨ Bonner Erfindung (Bonn, 1994), 1012. Cf. chapter 10, 416, and W. Ruegg, ‘Humboldt in Frankreich’, in R. C. Schwinges (ed.), Humboldt International. Der Export des deutschen ¨ ¨ ¨ Universitatsmodells im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Veroffentlichungen der Gesellschaft fur ¨ und Wissenschaftsgeschichte 3 (Basle, 2001), 247–61. Universitats-

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Themes des Hautes Etudes to allow interested students to become familiar with scientific research as they could in Germany in university seminars and laboratories. Louis Pasteur performed most of his experiments on fermentation in two attic rooms and complained to the Emperor in 1868 that in Germany, England, America and Austria there were some great university laboratories, but not in France.24 In Italy, too, the German model that had influenced the university policy of the Kingdom of Piedmont from the beginning of the century, became – after the unification of Italy and especially after the Franco-Prussian war – the university ideal.25 Towards the end of the century, doctoral theses began to present serious research instead of mere compilations;26 specialist chairs were created, and scientific journals achieved a continuous existence. the new scientific spirit Perhaps this account may help to provide a tentative answer to the question raised at the beginning of the chapter: how can the strengthening of the modern university in the nineteenth century be explained? We have seen that it was the scientific spirit, developed in Germany and above all at the new University of Berlin, which transformed universities beginning in the 1830s in German-speaking countries and also in a few French and English precursors, and that this had worked its way into most European countries by the end of the century. Evidence for this claim lies in the introduction of students to research in university or para-university seminars, laboratories and institutes, the scientific content of doctoral theses, the foundation of specialized scientific journals and societies, as well as the organization of national and international conferences by discipline, and the reaction of colleagues and the public to these novelties. The various chapters of our History of the University in Europe give many examples, but there is still much work to be done in order to arrive at a complete picture. It will also be necessary to study more closely the role that the various actors played in this process: the ministries, often guided or advised by academics, the university institutions themselves, the student and teaching organizations, individual pioneers, the pressures and initiatives of different social groups, etc. 24 25 26

R. Vallery-Rabot, La Vie de Pasteur, 2nd edn (Paris, 1905), 216; see chapter 13, 529. M. Moretti, ‘La commissione reale e la relazione Ceci’, in I. Porciani (ed.), L’Universita` tra Otto e Novecento: i modelli europei e il caso italiano (Naples, 1994), 277ff. M. Isnenghi, ‘Per una storia delle tesi di laurea. Tracce e campioni a Padova fra Ottocento ` L’istruzione e Novecento’, in F. De Vivo and G. Genovesi (eds.), Cento anni di universita. superiore in Italia dall’ Unita` ai nostri giorni (Naples, 1986), 102–5.

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¨ Walter Ruegg What were the reasons for the success of this scientific spirit? Comparison between the French, German and British models leads to a surprising conclusion: the success of the scientific spirit increased insofar as a model adapted the corporate autonomy of the traditional university to the freedom of its members in teaching, study and research. The greatest achievement of Humboldt and his advisor, Schleiermacher, was the rejection of the French model of professional colleges and the modernization of the medieval structure of the university; in the long term, this permitted the removal of the obstacle of the state to academic freedom. The example of the Anglo-American universities demonstrates the fundamental importance of academic freedom and corporate autonomy. But still more impressive is the role of this scientific spirit in the interaction between the growing autonomy of the universities and the public authorities, on which all higher education, even in Great Britain and the United States, came to depend. Our book shows the negative as well as the positive aspects of this interaction in the control and repression that supervisory authorities exercised over universities in the most authoritarian and repressive regimes of modern history: Communism, Fascism and National Socialism. The march of the universities towards corporate autonomy and the freedom of their members cannot be explained only by extrinsic reasons. The true cause of this success must be sought in the scientific spirit itself. This is a task that our book could not undertake in depth, since the rudimentary state of detailed studies on the history of the university in the nineteenth century obliged us first to establish the facts before looking for the reasons. But in re-reading the manuscript, I had the impression that the solution may be found in the following direction. The spiritual fathers of the University of Berlin distanced themselves from the humanist university, which according to them was content with exploring the external phenomena of things and did not penetrate to their essence. The theologian and philosopher Schleiermacher provided in his plan for the University of Berlin for seminars in which ‘the scientific spirit, awakened by philosophical teaching, would penetrate more deeply into the particular, to research, combine, and create something of its own, and to confirm by the correctness of its judgement the insight it has gained into nature and the coherence of all knowledge’.27 Savigny, the great historian of Roman law, gave an example of this ‘scientific spirit’ in the prologue to his masterpiece, ‘The History of Roman Law in the Middle Ages’. It distanced itself from the superficial separation of the history of law and the history of legal literature. To go beyond the descriptive writing of earlier studies, Savigny had to seek a centre, ‘a 27

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Themes specific point, in order to explain how the most recent law results from development pure and simple and from the continuous transformation of Roman law as determined by the circumstances of the Western Empire’.28 Niebuhr, the pioneer of critical history, in his prologue to ‘Roman History’, spoke of the ‘decisive point’ revealed during a conversation with Savigny that allowed him to undertake a critical treatment of history. Earlier works had dealt with Roman history as ‘geographical charts or painted landscapes and had not even tried to bring to light from these rudimentary resources the image of the objects in their minds’.29 Wilhelm von Humboldt, as a philosopher of language, sought the specific point in the ‘faculty of the mind in which depth and abundance influence the course of global events, and which is the founding principle in the hidden and in some way mysterious development of humankind’.30 This recourse of the scientific spirit to the ‘centre’, the ‘specific point’, ‘decisive point’, or ‘founding principle’ could be extended by other examples. It led in the natural sciences to philosophical speculations that only slowly gave way to empirical research. But no one defined this scientific spirit better than the person who, after Schleiermacher, most influenced the development of the University of Berlin, the philologist and histo¨ rian of classical Greece, August Bockh. According to the latter the only appropriate scientific approach is the ‘cyclical method, which consists of linking all phenomena to their centre and of advancing from there step ¨ by step to all points on the circumference’. According to Bockh, this centre is to be found ‘in the innermost nucleus of its coherent whole’ (im innersten Kern seines Gesamtzusammenhanges).31 The new method is therefore worthy of the name ‘nuclear’ because it targets the nucleus, the philosophical essence and the historical or physical origin of natural and spiritual phenomena. This new scientific spirit, whose ‘enthusiasm and joy’ (Begeisterung und Seligkeit) according to Niebuhr, enlivened the first years of the University of Berlin;32 this nuclear method pushed research to the innermost core of all things and opened the way to the surge of the modern university. 28 29 30

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¨ Walter Ruegg from the age of philosophy to the age of science The ‘enthusiasm and joy’ that filled the University of Berlin with its 36 professors and eleven Privatdozenten in its first year33 is very surprising, and all the more so if one compares it with the uneasiness that a stay in Berlin had caused Wilhelm von Humboldt ten years earlier. He complained: ‘I’ve been in Berlin for a few months now, and I’m not pleased. If one must pick a city to stay in, all others except Paris are and will always be awful.’34 In fact, Berlin was a wasteland, scientifically speaking, at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Of course, the royal cabinet had firmed up a plan in 1801 to create a ‘Higher institute of learning in conjunction with the Academy of Sciences’ (Allgemeine Lehranstalt in Berlin in Verbindung mit der Akademie der Wissenschaften). So when the King returned to this plan after the loss of Halle in 1806, authoritative experts – among them the physician Hufeland (a regular member of the Academy since 1800) – were very negative about the scientific level of the Academy of Sciences. They stated that it was only a kind of L´egion d’honneur that satisfied the vanity of its members, a meeting-place for learned veterans, a corpus mysticum et mortuum. To a higher institute of learning, the Academy could contribute hardly anything. However, it would derive something scientifically stimulating from the new foundation.35 In 1809–10, this led Wilhelm von Humboldt to base the foundation of the University of Berlin on the only non-government commissioned paper written by Schleiermacher, and to charge him with its implementation, thereby introducing scientific knowledge as the true mission of the university. Wilhelm von Humboldt visited Paris at the beginning of August 1789, a few weeks after the storming of the Bastille, and settled there with his family in 1797 in order to pursue his anthropological and linguistic studies as a private scholar, as ‘citizen Humboldt’. He was disappointed with the intellectual condition of the French capital, where he ¨ observed a certain ‘exhaustion and weakness’(Mattigkeit und Schwache). But he was favourably impressed by the level of the representatives of the 33 34

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W. von Humboldt, letter to F. H. Jacobi, Paris, 26 October 1798, in Freese (ed.), Wilhelm von Humboldt (note 34), 268–9. ¨ Idem, Tagebuch, 1 April 1798, ibid., 254; cf. Brief an Goethe aus dem Fruhjahr 1798, ibid., 252. J. Ben-David, The Scientist’s Role in Society: A Comparative Study (Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1971), 108–38; L. K. Nyhart, ‘Civic and Economic Zoology in Nineteenth-Century ¨ Germany: The “Living Communities” of Karl Mobius’, Isis 4, 85 (1998), 605–7; the introduction to his case study provides an overview of the state of research for the whole topic.

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¨ Walter Ruegg the surgeon Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1795–1847) was born to a high-school teacher. ¨ At barely 25 years of age, Johannes Muller was professor in Bonn. Eight years later he succeeded his teacher, the famous anatomist Carl Rudolphi (1771–1832), in Berlin. In his application to the Prussian Minister of Edu¨ cation for the post, Muller pointed to his internationally recognized abilities to direct a large scientific institute, a class that Bonn did not possess. Thus, he wrote, his appointment would ‘determine the spirit that for many years may emanate from the splendid institutions of Berlin and that might reasonably be expected from them, given the great activity in the other natural sciences there’.39 This letter is interesting for the self-confidence with which the young professor presented himself to his superior – an attitude that would later ¨ prove to be justified, since, thanks to Muller, Berlin became a European centre for comparative anatomy. Even more interesting is his repeated reference to the importance of a great university institute for the ‘spirit’ in which medical problems could be systematically and collectively investigated in connection with the natural sciences. To obtain funds for such an institute it was necessary to gain the support of the authorities in Berlin – the King, his Ministers, and his private councillors, among whom was Alexander von Humboldt, who had moved back to Berlin from Paris in 1827. In his capacity as ‘the daily table companion, constant travel companion and trusted friend of the unforgettable Lord his Majesty, he was the protective genius of the developing science in the time of Friedrich Wilhelm III and beyond’, who impartially used his influence to promote research and to further the careers of young researchers in the natural sciences.40 In Paris, on the contrary, Claude Bernard (1813–78) had to make his very important physiological discoveries in a cellar. Louis Pasteur (1822– 95) also carried out most of his experiments on fermentation in two attic rooms. Only after the Franco-Prussian war did he obtain a laboratory. Earlier he had unsuccessfully pleaded with the King: ‘It is time to free the experimental sciences from the state of poverty they have been exiled to. 30 years ago in Germany, there were already great laboratories fully equipped with all the necessary tools for research, and each year new ones are emerging; England, America, Austria and Bavaria have 39 40

See chapter 13, 523–4. ¨ ‘[Alexander von Humboldt] der tagliche Tischgenosse, der stete Begleiter auf Reisen, der ¨ vertraute Freund des unvergesslichen Koniglichen Herrn, Schutzgeist der fortschreitenden ¨ Wissenschaft in der Zeit Friedrich Wilhelms III. und noch daruber hinaus’. R. Virchow, ¨ ¨ ¨ und der Ubergang ‘Die Grundung der Berliner Universitat aus dem philosophischen in das naturwissenschaftliche Zeitalter’, Rektoratsrede 3 August 1893 (Berlin, 1893), 20– 29; here 20, 22.

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See chapter 13, 529 (as already mentioned on p. 13). See chapter 10, 415–16. For details see European Universities and Similar Institutions in Existence Between 1812 and the End of 1944. ¨ ‘Starke der mystischen Regungen, welche von einzelnen Abenteurern in die Volksseele getragen werden . . . [Antisemitismus], von dem niemand weiss, was er eigentlich in dieser Zeit der Rechtsgleichheit will, und der trotzdem, vielleicht auch deshalb, fascinirend selbst ¨ auf die gebildete Jugend wirkt.’ See Virchow, ‘Grundung’ (note 40), 27.

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¨ Walter Ruegg acquisition of specialized knowledge, as with the capacity to solve problems, which result in scientifically disciplined analyses of this specialized knowledge. Thus, during the period discussed in this volume and at the universities based on the German university model, with the exception of medicine there were no compulsory lessons with monitored attendance or check-up exams. Only at the end of the course of study was the candidate tested through academic or state exams in his chosen field. However, the way in which the individual acquired this knowledge was left entirely up to him. The student could put a plan of study together as he liked, and this is exactly what scientifically successful candidates for the diploma did, as their autobiographical information shows. They often had lectures and seminars outside their own fields, or certain Privatdozenten might show them the way to new knowledge based on their own research. Freedom to learn and responsibility for oneself were thus not utopian ideals for the founding fathers of Berlin University. Rather, at universities that followed the German university model, the freedom of study bore its imprint until the middle of the twentieth century. Freedom and responsibility for oneself were not just limited to the reform of the university. This was only part of the programme of reforms with which Baron Karl vom und zum Stein (1757–1831) in 1807, and Count Karl August von Hardenberg (1750–1822) in 1810, tackled the problem of modernizing the Prussian authoritarian state. Both recommended independent government administration, the liberation of the peasants, the liberalization of science, and universal military service. From subjects, the Prussians should become free citizens responsible for their own lives and mutually responsible for the common good. The reform of state and society in the spirit of personal freedom and responsibility, as Kant’s followers in Berlin, Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762– 1814) and Friedrich Schleiermacher, proclaimed, called for an extensive reform of education. During his short period in office as Director of the Section for Ecclesiastical Affairs and Education in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior from March 1809 to June 1810, Wilhelm von Humboldt did not just lay the groundwork for the University of Berlin. He also reformed the Prussian primary school along the lines of the scholastic experimentation of the Swiss pedagogue, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746–1827), who united instruction and education. His pupils took responsibility for one another, and did not mechanically repeat prescribed skills but rather thought independently and learned how to act responsibly. ‘Such a clear, definite and spontaneous method of instruction also necessarily had repercussions on clearly known, definite and conclusive business.’ Humboldt did not only want to consolidate the liberation of the peasants through Pestalozzi’s method of elementary education, orientated towards the unity 22

Themes of ‘head, heart and hand’. Above all, he wanted to shape and bind the nation in the spirit of freedom and responsibility from the primary school to the university, and thus implement the idea of scholastic instruction as a general cultural education as a counter-model to the French-inspired concept of professional higher schools.49 This was also the case for the higher, so-called ‘learned’ schools, or Gymnasien. They aimed, as Humboldt said at ‘an overall education’ (allgemeine Menschenbildung) and ‘formation of a well-rounded personality’ ¨ (allseitige Bildung der Personlichkeit), based on the model of an idealized concept of the ancient Greeks, and this found its greatest expression in the shining star of Greek teaching.50 In 1806 and 1807 in Rome, Humboldt had already firmed up his ideas on an inner spiritual relationship between the ancient Greeks and the Germans of his time through his studies on the philosophy of language, and, like Goethe, had given vent to concern with the spirit of the ancient Greeks in the concept of the cosmopolitan citizen. In Germany, however, the ancient Greek wars for independence against superior powers were presented to academic youth as the glaring example of the fight against Napoleon’s conquests, and pedagogues compared the return to the Greek spirit viewed as the clean, immaculate morning of the world to the spiritual liberation of youthful Germany from the hegemony of the old-fashioned Latin-Roman culture that had sullied the pure German spirit over the course of the centuries. Greek, which through humanism had integrated and made the prevalent Latin linguistic culture more profound as the foundation for educating the European elite, often became the basis of a chauvinistic nationalist education in the German Gymnasium.51 Freedom from the arbitrary use of power as well as responsibility for their common causes had united students since the founding of the universitates. Thus their concerns focused on their own freedom and the responsibility that was directly connected with their studies. Around 1800, students began to feel they were also responsible for the freedom of other social layers or for the whole nation. In 1794 Polish students formed their own military units to take part in the unsuccessful 49

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Humboldt, Werke IV (note 30), delegation of young pedagogues to Pestalozzi’s Schu¨ lanstalt in Yverdon: 65, 135; ‘planmassige Verbreitung einer besseren ¨ Unterrichts- Methode uber das ganze Land’, 221, here 225, Landschulwesen, 225–8. For an overall discussion on education see K.-E. Jeismann, ‘Schulpolitik, Schulverwaltung, Schulgesetzgebung’, in K.-E. Jeismann and P. Lundgreen (eds.), Handbuch der deutschen Bildungsgeschichte, vol. III: 1800–1870. Von der Neuordnung Deutschlands ¨ bis zur Grundung des Deutschen Reiches (Munich, 1987), 106–9. Jeismann and Lundgreen (eds.), Handbuch, 108. ¨ ¨ W. Ruegg, ‘Die Antike als Begrundung des deutschen Nationalbewusstseins’, in ¨ und W. Schuller (ed.), Antike in der Moderne, Xenia Konstanzer Althistorische Vortrage Forschungen 15 (Konstanz, 1985), 267–87.

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¨ Walter Ruegg uprising under the leadership of Tadeusz Kos’ciuszko (1746–1817). A similar uprising occurred – successfully – in the German struggle for liberation under Napoleon. After the devastating Prussian defeat in 1806, a true patriotic awakening campaign was promoted by university professors like Fichte with his ‘Reden an die deutsche Nation’, Schleiermacher with his sermons, and Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860) with his poetry; this campaign spread through student groups after 1810, above all, the Burschenschaften founded in Jena in 1813. Student volunteers thus took part in the war in their own formations.52 Student engagement in political freedom and personal responsibility for the country became the model of student movements, when, after 1815, student war veterans tried to implement a liberal democratic constitution for a united Germany, and through this, provoked the reaction of the governments who had defeated Napoleon. In 1819, the Allied Powers approved in Carlsbad measures proposed by the Austrian statesman, Klemens von Metternich (1773–1859), to suppress student gatherings and freedom of opinion. He thus promoted the spread of student movements all across Europe. In the beginning phases, the following essential aspects of this new phenomenon, which was so important in terms of the history of the university, emerge and can be examined through further developments. Student movements cannot be explained by the students’ commitment to greater freedom and more responsibility for their studies and university organization. The highly regulated curricula in the French e´ coles and facult´es did not inspire any sort of student protest. The students of the e´ cole polytechnique ostentatiously took part in their uniforms, which symbolized their military education, in the July Revolution of 1830. At the Finnish ˚ in 1816, the example of the German Burschenschaft was University of Abo imitated, but only in order to ask for greater ‘academic freedom’. When this passed in 1817, the protest was over. An historically effective student movement only came about in Finland when political dependence on the Russian authorities and cultural dependence on the Swedish language challenged Finnish national awareness. Student movements mark student life to the extent that students are concerned about the lack of political or social freedom in their social environment and use their privileged position to fight for it. This was often connected with internal academic demands. Thus Flemish students struggled for years to obtain the right to have lessons in their own language. But these were only avant-garde confrontations in the fight for the cultural and political emancipation of Flanders as a whole. The student movement was not limited to equal language rights in the realm of study, it 52

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Themes also waged a battle to make Flemish the only official language of Flanders and thus bring about political liberation from French Walloon domination. This was also true for the common representation of student interests in education in terms of self-help organizations and federations, especially their more active application towards a general social goal. The Russian agitation of the 1860s for the abolition of serfdom, which set off an emotional reaction in student groups and unions that kept the movement alive, is but one example. The political or social engagement of student groups was thus a necessary, but insufficient, condition for the birth of student movements. Neither the successful student initiatives aiming at the intellectual and material promotion of the rural population (especially in Great Britain and Scandinavia), nor the spread of socialist student groups, led to student movements. Only through responsibility for the political or social liberation of an entire people or a single social class did student commitment become endowed with the dynamics of a movement. d a v i d vs. g o l i a t h This takes us back to the origin of the student movement in the German war for liberation against Napoleon and to the battle for the civil liberties of the people initiated by the French Revolution and the constitution of the United States of America. Until the twentieth century student movements mainly fought for the political freedom of a whole nation from foreign domination; after the German war for liberation, they were active in defeated Poland, then in other nations in northern and southern Europe under foreign domination, as well as in European colonies in Africa and Asia. On the other hand, often in combination with national liberation, they were committed to civil liberties in their own regimes, as in Germany, France, Italy and Russia. In both cases, students had to contend with very powerful adversaries. They felt a strong sense of solidarity with students at other universities in their language area, and later, with foreign students, too. They supported each other physically and psychologically, and so increased their own selfassertion. They formed national federations, followed by international student unions. Above all, they overcame their weaknesses through ideologies that justified and idealized their goals. Student movements were thus from the beginning continually given impetus by spiritual fathers, often by professors, who, like Fichte in his speeches, or Schleiermacher in his sermons, gave student movements the legitimation they needed either in oral and printed form or through their names alone. Older students frequently took leading roles in the movement, roles not only organizational but also programmatic. If they had to pay with their lives, they died 25

¨ Walter Ruegg as martyrs, and the name of the spiritual father – reduced to a battle cry – had a symbolic effect that was just as important for the emotional power of the student movement as the ideological basis was for its legitimation. Concrete objects or people as symbols for common affairs evidently remind human groups of their solidarity and strengthen these emotionally, while separating individual groups from others and challenging adversaries with means that only become contestable if the object, for example the peculiar colour combination in a medal or cloth, can be understood as a sign of identification with a group, or the use of a person’s name as a provocative reminder of its programme. Thus symbolic forms are abundant in situations of collective disorientation.53 This also happens with student movements, which have been marked by an imaginative use of symbolic forms since their origins, to an extent which can only be observed in modern collective sports like football or hockey. The foundation of a pan-German student movement had been planned down to the last detail at the Wartburg in Eisenach in 1817, and it gave rise to repeated commemoration ceremonies. It was full of symbolic, cultural and political forms, beginning with a meeting place recalling the religious liberation of Germany through Luther, and degenerating into the ceremonial burning of reactionary writings.54 The symbolic meaning of the black, red and gold insignia worn by war veterans was national-political ¨ and had an unforeseen effect.55 It recalled the widespread Lutzow student free corps, and it spread in the German student movement as a symbol of the struggle for the freedom and unity of the country. The Weimar Republic replaced the black, white and red flag of the Empire with the black, red and gold that represents Germany today. The theme of ideological and symbolic solidarity in overcoming insecurity in the struggle for freedom and self-responsibility against the all-powerful state is one that runs through the history of the student movement, from its beginning with autonomous freedom fighters to its degeneration into the totalitarian student organizations of Communism, Fascism and Nazism. Three essential tendencies of student movements are very clearly illustrated by the struggle of Italian students for national unity and individual freedom against the Austrian powers, the Papal States, and the small 53

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¨ W. Ruegg, ‘Symbole als politische Ausdrucksformen’, in A. Zweig (ed.), Symbolforschung ¨ ¨ mit politischen, religiosen und asthetischen Ausdrucksformen. Akten des 4. und 5. Sym¨ Symbolforschung Bern 1986, 1987, Schriften zur Symbolposions der Gesellschaft fur forschung 5 (Bern, Frankfurt-am-Main, New York and Paris, 1988), 9–32. For details on the ceremony at the Wartburg and for a bibliography, see J. Bauer, ‘Zur Geschichte einer Festlegende 1817–1848–1867’, in H.-W. Hahn and W. Greilling (eds.), ¨ Die Revolution von 1848/49 in Thuringen (Rudolstadt, 1998), 535–61. W. Klose, Freiheit schreibt auf eure Fahnen. 800 Jahre deutsche Studenten (Oldenburg and Hamburg, 1967), 136–41.

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Themes principalities they protected. Ever since the Renaissance, universities in smaller cities were preferred because student associations could be more easily watched over in them than in larger places. Thus Lorenzo de’ Medici (1449–92) moved the University of Florence to Pisa. The Milanese had their university in Pavia, the Venetians theirs in Padua. On 12 September 1831 the authorities in charge of the remaining universities of the Papal States took away the institutional status of the ‘mother of universities’, Bologna, and allowed it to continue only as an examining institution for academic titles. The departments were spread out over different locations, where the professors taught and supervised resident students under the surveillance of the Church. Thus the Curia hoped to undermine student solidarity, which had put a massive revolutionary movement into action in a large part of Europe since the 1830 July Revolution in Paris. On 4 February 1831 the state officials of Bologna were replaced peacefully by a provisional regime. Only two days later a ‘militant student song’ was in circulation; its first and last verses praised the struggle for freedom. Two documents also show that, in Bologna, the student movements needed a spiritual father. One is the proposal for university reform that the students read to the revolutionary government. Its Minister of Public Education was the mathematics and philosophy professor, Francesco Orioli (1785–1856), who undoubtedly had helped the students in formulating their proposal: it was accepted almost verbatim by the government. The second document, a solidarity address to the Parisian students, published on 9 March, mentioned openly the intellectual assistance of their professor. The Bolognese students recalled the July Revolution, and, when underlining the importance of the French philosophers in the fight for freedom, referred to the shining Italian example by mentioning their teacher by name. This address praised the international solidarity of students fighting for freedom and closed with a diplomatically formulated plea for military help. Two weeks later, Bologna was occupied by Austrian troops. The university was closed by order of Metternich.56 The decree that regulated the dissolution of the university by separating the departments explicitly stated that only youths with irreproachable Christian lifestyles were allowed to study and sit for academic exams. What this meant in practice is shown by new investigations into student life in the medium-sized state university of Austrian-occupied Lombardy in Pavia and in the tiny university of the dukes of Austria-Este 56

A. Sorbelli, ‘L’Universita` di Bologna e la rivoluzione del 1831’, Studi e memorie per la storia dell’Universita` di Bologna IX (Biblioteca de ‘l’Archiginnasio’, Serie I, vol. IX) (Bologna, 1926), 147–86: Dissolution of the University 167; decree of the Sagra Congregazione degli Studj 167–70; Student song 152, proposal for university reform 159; solidarity address to Parisian students 157–8; Intervention by Metternich 164.

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¨ Walter Ruegg in Modena.57 In 1814 the University of Modena had 28 professors in four departments and 200 students. By 1859 this number had tripled, while the body of professors had barely doubled. Its task was to educate graduates needed by the duchy. Foreigners were not allowed; natives had to study in Modena. Half of the applicants were rejected, but nine-tenths of the candidates passed the examinations for their degrees. The strictly regulated daily schedule of the students started with Mass at 7.00 and ended with lights out at 22.30. After morning lectures, precise rules reserved the afternoon and evening for private study. Students had to have permission to leave the college before evening prayers, and then only for a – theoretically – supervised purpose. Government ordinances forbidding student gambling in caf´es in 1815 and restricting attendance at theatrical performances in 1821 show that students exploited their free time more freely than was foreseen by the regulations. The political significance of caf´es as places for leisure time, reading newspapers, and for free, open exchange among students and with the public is being investigated for Italy.58 Where otherwise could students in Modena make contact with the secret societies of the Carbonari? Strolling in the streets enabled imaginative students to bond with politically important symbolic forms. This led the authorities to prohibit – under threat of imprisonment – students from wearing berets or smoking pipes and long cigars in the streets and squares: the latter was reserved for the military and was imitated by students as anti-Austrian provocation, while the former symbolized their solidarity with popular insurrection.59 In fact, the extreme discipline of student life makes it understandable that students in Modena in particular were deeply involved in the popular insurrections and thus had to pay the price. In 1821, 19 per cent of the student body was expelled, and in 1831, 32 per cent. That a leading role in a student movement in a provincial university like Modena could also be good training for an important public career is illustrated by Nicola Fabrizi (1804–85) and Manfredo Fanti (1806–65), 57

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In 1995 Gian Paolo Brizzi complained that student movements – especially in Italy – had not yet received the attention of modern research focusing on external influences and consequences (G. P. Brizzi, ‘Studenti: una storia ancora da scrivere’, in Gaudeamus igitur. Studenti e goliardia 1885–1923 (Bologna, 1995), 10–11). And so I have gratefully used the following sources: S. Polenghi, ‘Studenti e politici nell’Universita` di Pavia durante il Risorgimento (1814–1860)’, Universita` e studenti nell’Italia dell’Ottocento, Storia in Lombardia, 21, 3 (2001), 5–38. A. Magnani, ‘Gli studenti pavesi fra contestazione e impegno politico (1885–1894)’, ibid., 39–58. R. Gambiglioni Zoccoli, ‘Gli studenti nel’ Universita` estense della Restaurazione. Un caso di studio’, ibid., 59–74; on p. 70, note 42, Brizzi’s above-mentioned state of the art). M. Agulhon, Il salotto, il circolo e il caff´e (Rome, 1993). E. Franc¸ois, ‘Il caff´e’, in H. G. Haupt (ed.), Luoghi quotidiani nella storia d’Europa (Rome and Bari, 1993). Zoccoli, ‘Studenti’ (note 57): attendance 59–61; exams 68–9; daily schedule 67; caf´es 71; theatre 72; cigars, berets 71; discipline 66ff.; expulsion 73.

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Themes who, as ringleaders, had to flee the country after 1831. They then joined the banned secret society ‘Young Italy’ founded by Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–72) in Marseille in 1832, and finally arrived by different routes to become successful generals and ministers of war in the national union of 1859–60. Fanti, who graduated from the military academy in Modena and obtained his doctoral degree from the university in mathematics in 1830, pursued a military career in Spain, took part as major-general in a Lombard Brigade in the battle for the liberation of Milan in 1848, was an army general in the war against Austria and the Pope in 1859–60, and was appointed by Cavour (1810–61) in 1860 as minister of war and charged with reorganizing the armed forces. From his posts in exile, the jurist Fabrizi organized secret society actions together with Mazzini, and then with his own ‘Italian Legion’, and took part in battles for the liberation of Sicily with his own troops in 1860. He was promoted by Garibaldi to army general, and as minister of war embarked on a vacillating political career in the new nation state.60 Modena illustrates the hidden development of the student movement in those closed institutions of higher education that, in the first half of the nineteenth century, were still quite frequent in Europe. They were governed either by foreign or absolutist local rulers and had as their only task to train, under strict discipline, the professionals needed for their territory. Another, more open, university type is to be found in Pavia. Its university had not only the task of training professionals for the economically developing Lombardy, it was also sought out by foreign students from time immemorial. Pavia bordered on the more liberal Piedmont governed by the King of Sardinia, and Lombardy had a close relationship with France in ages past. Stendhal noted in 1816 that the anger of students in Pavia against the Germans (that is, German Austrians) was so great, that a person could make himself better liked by frightening off young people of German origin with wooden clubs in dark alleys. Students recited from memory Petrarch’s lines on the hope of a unified Italy. Yet actual models for their hopes were only presented in 1821 by their own teachers, French examples and, above all, by Mazzini after 1831, with his appeals and his secretive, conspiratorial aura. In 1821, 84 of the 893 students in Pavia ran over the nearby border with Piedmont to help rebel fellow students there. However, half of them opportunely turned back, in order to justify their absences as sick leave and thus escape punishment. The ‘rebels’ who were caught were – with the exception of a few who had fled into exile – soon pardoned, while the 60

See G. Monsagrati, ‘Nicola Fabrizi’, Dizionario biografico degli italiani, 43 (Rome, 1993), 803–12; V. Caciulli, ‘Manfredo Fanti’, ibid., 44 (Rome, 1994), 635–8.

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¨ Walter Ruegg teachers who took part in the revolt received severe sanctions. In 1825, the government sharpened its restrictions on student freedom. Foreign students, who mainly came from Piedmont or from the infamous political asylum for exiled freedom fighters in Switzerland, were no longer admitted. The native born were subject to the strict norms of behaviour of the so-called Christian way of life, and the professors had to act as supervisors. Many students tried, sometimes with the help of professors, to break free of the straitjacket of the Church. But it was more difficult for law students than for medical students, who could excuse their absence from obligatory attendance at Mass with the early morning anatomy courses. Above all, students tried to be provocative through their often excessively symbolic appearance. They let their beards grow, despite repeated prohibitions (beards were reserved for the military), but beards were finally allowed by the academic authorities. Or they showed their solidarity with the common people through their clothing, and wore head coverings of different kinds – already by 1821 a beret ‘a` la Sand’ was a message of revolt. In 1848 the wearing of politically suspect Calabrian hats was forbidden by the military authorities; in 1849 students sported straw hats, decorated with red, white and green rosettes. Theatrical events – especially the opera, with Verdi or Bellini’s Norma – gave rise to patriotic manifestations. In short, student movements always found politically harmless objectives that they could use as symbolic manifestations of their desire for personal and political freedom. In 1832 the young priest Tommaso Bianchi (1804–34) began to lecture to his students on Mazzini’s writings at the liberal Collegio Ghislieri. In 1834 he was reported by an assistant, arrested, and died in prison shortly thereafter. But Mazzini’s appeals spread, handwritten, throughout the entire university, and not only through the ‘martyrdom’ of Mazzini’s followers. Somewhat perversely, Mazzini’s lack of success brought him followers from all over Italy throughout the entire century. The more often the conspiracies and popular uprisings he instigated from exile in France, Switzerland or London failed, the stronger the effect on student movements of the message inspired by his radical desire for freedom. This lasted until national unity was achieved – and even beyond. Certainly students in Pavia read other forbidden authors considered subversive before and after 1848, such as Hegel, David Friedrich Strauss (1808–74), and above all, famous French writers, from Saint Simon (1760–1825) and Benjamin Constant (1767–1830) to Jules Michelet (1798–1874) and Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805–81).61 One can hardly find an Italian study on the 61

Polenghi, ‘Studenti e politici’ (note 57), Stendhal 11–12; Revolution of 1821 and measures of 1825, 12–15; clothing, hats, beards as political symbols 16–18, 26, 29–30; work 17; cigars 35; Mazzini 20, 31; subversive readings 21.

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Themes history of the university during the Risorgimento in which Mazzini is not mentioned, often only with a word, reminding the Italian reader of an almost mythically present example of an intellectually radical fight for freedom that continually braved failures. ∗∗∗ This chapter has attempted to point out the new problems that are the main focus of this volume and to question the outcome of their treatment. In this volume, even more than in the preceding ones, the current state of the art gives rise to a series of preliminary theses rather than conclusive results. There is a real need for more in-depth treatment of the salient themes through systematic research into the complex field of the modern history of the university in Europe, despite many recent and promising endeavours. The point of departure of this chapter is the thesis that the Germans opened the way to the modern research university by focusing the idea of the university on the freedom of scientific research, teaching and study. Competing with the Napoleonic model of specialized schools directed by government, it opened the way for the victorious drive of the natural sciences, which led to the second epochal renewal of its institutional structures. The chapter closes with a third, equally important, innovation: student movements, thanks to which the university was cast in the role of an arsenal of political struggle in the fight for freedom. The example of the Italian student movement shows that ‘the freedom that I want’ had soon lost its original ties to the Prussian war for liberation and expanded to encompass a European-wide struggle for liberation, with its model based in Paris in 1820, 1831 and again in 1848. The struggle for liberty differed from country to country. But the underlying idea of freedom was everywhere, represented by those professors and other university graduates who desired to make the university a place in which this freedom could be exercised.

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CHAPTER 2

PAT T E R N S

CHRISTOPHE CHARLE

introduction Over the long period from 1800 to 1945, beginning with the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire, the European university landscape changed in a number of different ways, sometimes gradually, sometimes in revolutionary fashion. Some of the university structures of the early modern period, indeed in many parts of Europe those of the Middle Ages continued to survive into the nineteenth century, particularly in the British Isles and in the peninsulas of the south and north of Europe, while at the same time very different, new models of university organization were emerging in France and Germany. These determined in the medium term a range of reforms in those countries with old universities and the foundation of universities in newly formed nation states. The German, so-called Humboldtian model prevailed across the whole of continental Europe at the end of the nineteenth century and influenced the other two models, the French and the English. Eventually, however, it too found itself in crisis, increasingly unable to adjust to the social and intellectual development of industrial society and the claims that this made on universities as institutions. The establishment of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Society in 1910, one hundred years after the foundation of the University of Berlin, opening up an era of large-scale research and the gradual separation of research from teaching, was a sign of continuing change. u n i v e r s i t y r e v o l u t i o n s i n g e r m a n y, france and russia In 1789, of the 143 universities still functioning in Europe1 35 were in g e r m a n y with 7,900 students, of whom 40 per cent were in the 1

J. Verger, ‘Universit´es, pouvoir et soci´et´e a` l’´epoque moderne (XVIe–XVIIIe si`ecle)’, in C. Charle and J. Verger (eds.), Histoire des universit´es (Paris, 1994), 35.

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Christophe Charle ¨ four biggest, Halle, Gottingen, Jena and Leipzig. Eighteen old universities and a new one in Stuttgart disappeared during the period of the ¨ Revolution; sixteen survived in Erlangen, Freiburg, Giessen, Gottingen, ¨ Greifswald, Halle, Heidelberg, Jena, Kiel, Konigsberg, Landshut (trans¨ ferred to Munich in 1825), Leipzig, Marburg, Rostock, Tubingen and ¨ Wurzburg. In Prussia three new universities were created, the most influential of them, the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Berlin, founded in 1810 in order to compensate for the loss of Halle, which fell to Westphalia after the Peace of Tilsit. The reconstitution both of Breslau in 1811 and Bonn in 1818 was designed to strengthen Prussian rule, which after 1815 had been restored in widely differing areas ranging from parts of conquered Poland to the Catholic and French-influenced Rhineland. In the second half of the nineteenth century the three Prussian foundations were among the most important German universities, incorporating, as they did, the Humboldt model which will be discussed in more detail later.2 In f r a n c e the changes were even more marked. Here the coll`eges and the faculties of theology, medicine, arts and law disappeared during the Revolution in a welter of laws and decrees issued between 22 December 1789 (linking universities to the newly established D´epartements) and the ˆ of the Year III (27 February 1794), when the coll`eges were 7th ventose abolished.3 After a relatively creative phase under the National Convention, following the fall of Robespierre (1758–94) and under the Directory (1795–99), the Napoleonic Consulate and the Empire imposed a straitjacket of bureaucratic administration, which allowed no room for university autonomy. The universities were replaced by professional schools: three for medicine in Paris, Strasburg and Montpellier from 1794; twelve for law in the whole of the Empire around 1804; and academic faculties of arts and sciences, two of them in every school area – such acad´emies were mere appendages of the lyc´ees and of the central administration, founded 2

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¨ For statistical and historical data: H. Titze, with H.-G. Herrlitz, V. Muller-Benedikt and ¨ A. Nash, Wachstum und Differenzierung der deutschen Universitaten 1830–1945, Daten¨ handbuch zur deutschen Bildungsgeschichte 1, Hochschulen 2 (Gottingen, 1995), 71– ¨ 3, 122–3. About the three Prussian universities: M. Lenz, Geschichte der Koniglichen ¨ zu Berlin, 1810–1910, 5 vols. (Halle, 1910–18); M. Friedrich-Wilhelms Universitat ¨ Bonn 1818–1968 (Bonn, 1968); F. Andreae Braubach, Kleine Geschichte der Universitat ¨ Breslau (Berlin, 1928). For a comparison between and A. Grisebach (eds.), Die Universitat the French and the Prussian trends in higher education cf. G. Schubring, ‘Spezialschulmod¨ ell versus Universitatsmodell. Die Institutionalisierung von Forschung’, in G. Schubring ¨ (ed.), Einsamkeit und Freiheit neu besichtigt. Universitatsreformen und Disziplinenbil¨ Wissenschaftspolitik im Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts. dung in Preussen als Modell fur Proceedings of the Symposium of the XVIIIth International Congress of History of Science at Hamburg-Munich, 1–9 August 1989 (Stuttgart, 1991), 276–326. L. Liard, L’Enseignement sup´erieur en France (Paris, 1888), vol. I, 119–20; J. Schriewer, ¨ ¨ Die franzosischen Universitaten 1945–1968 (Bad Heilbronn, 1972), 24–5.

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Patterns in order to award the baccalaureate, formally the lowest academic grade, the leaving certificate from the lyc´ee. Fortunately Napoleon spared the actual centres of academic innovation, the great state institutions of education, which in part dated from the ancien r´egime, such as the Coll`ege de France and the Jardin du Roi (Botanical and Zoological Garden), which had become the Mus´eum. Others had been founded during the Revolution, among them the Conservatoire des arts et m´etiers (Art and Trades Museum), the Institut de France (Central Institute of the five Academies), ´ the Ecole des langues orientales (School of Oriental Languages), and a ´ number of specialist schools, the Ecole polytechnique for military engineers and artillery officers, Saint Cyr for other types of officers, and the ´ Ecole Normale for university professors.4 Such extraordinary fragmentation and specialization explains the rich variety of the French university landscape in contrast particularly with the scene in Germany. Indeed, it remained subject to political and intellectual changes throughout the whole of the nineteenth century. Whereas the Restoration of 1816, reacting to losses of territory and finance, abolished at a stroke the seventeen faculties of arts and the three of sciences, the July Monarchy and the Second Empire created new ones, though with varying degrees of success. The Third Republic was so much under pressure from regional forces that it did not dare to concentrate on a few large university centres, as was the case in Germany. In 1896 sixteen universities were restored, although the reformers had only thought ten necessary in order to counterbalance what seemed to be the stifling predominance of the Paris institutions.5 In RUSSIA change took place in a similarly rapid and dirigiste fashion. In addition to the University of Moscow founded in 1755, a further five appeared in the first decades of the nineteenth century. In 1802 Alexander I (1777–1825) reopened the German-speaking University of Tartu (Dorpat) which had been closed in 1710, before founding new universities in 1803 at Vilnius (Vilna), in 1804 at Charkov and Kazan, and in 1819 he elevated the teaching section of the Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg to the position of Imperial University. The University of Vilnius was 4

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Christophe Charle closed in 1832, the theological and medical faculties being moved to Kiev as independent academies.6 In the second half of the century universities in Odessa (1865), Tomsk (1888) and Saratov (1909) were added together with technical institutes, particularly in the capital city.7 In the rest of Europe the university scene changed much more slowly and consistently. s l ow d e v e l o p m e n t i n n o rt h - w e s t and southern europe Nowhere did people hold fast to traditions more determinedly than in g r e a t b r i t a i n . The university scene in 1800 reveals a single university in Ireland (Trinity College, Dublin), four in Scotland (Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews); two in England (Oxford and Cambridge), and none in Wales. The University of London followed in 1828–36. Without there being any particular national plan these were joined by a few provincial foundations: Durham (1832), Manchester (1851), Aberystwyth (1872), Leeds and Birmingham (1875), Bristol (1876), Sheffield (1879), Liverpool and Nottingham (1881), Cardiff and Bangor (1884), Reading (1902), and Southampton (1902). Following the reforms of Scottish universities in 1858, and those of Oxford and Cambridge after 1870, a national university system began to emerge before the First World War.8 Questioning traditions and adapting them to socio-economic change proved just as difficult on the Italian and Iberian peninsulas as it had in the small countries north of the Alps and in the Scandinavian countries. Governments rarely closed existing institutions and preferred to meet social and political demands with new institutions designed for particular functions. The result of this was an unequal, arbitrary distribution of universities. In i t a l y before unification there were 21 universities varying greatly in size, and corresponding in no way to actual needs. For historical reasons they were concentrated in north and central Italy, whilst the south consisted of a huge educational desert surrounding the one giant 6 7 8

D. Beauvois, Lumi`eres et soci´et´e en Europe de l’Est: l’Universit´e de Vilna et les e´ coles polonaises de l’Empire russe (1803–1832) (Lille, 1977). A. Besanc¸on, Education et soci´et´e en Russie dans le second tiers du XIXe si`ecle (Paris and The Hague, 1974). R. D. Anderson, Universities and Elites in Britain since 1800, Studies in Social and Economic History (Basingstoke and London 1992), 12–23; W. H. G. Armytage, Civic Universities: Aspects of a British Tradition (London, 1990); A. H. Halsey and M. A. Trow, The British Academics (London, 1971); R. Lowe, ‘The Expansion of Higher Education in Britain’, in K. H. Jarausch (ed.), The Transformation of Higher Learning, Expansion, Diversification, Social Opening and Professionalization in England, Germany, Russia and the United States (Stuttgart, 1983), 37–56; G. Sutherland, ‘Education’, in F. M. L. Thompson (ed.), The Cambridge Social History of Britain (Cambridge, 1990), vol. III, 137–40, 154–8.

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Patterns University of Naples. Matteucci’s (1811–68) attempt in 1861 to rationalize the university scene by closing some of the mini institutions ended in failure. Only with Mussolini’s (1883–1945) Riforma Gentile in 1923 did a reorganization take place, which introduced a distinction between efficient, state funded, full universities on the one hand, and on the other hand smaller institutions, only partly supported by the state, and free universities financed by the Catholic Church.9 Meanwhile university-like institutions of higher learning were introduced in large cities, such as Bari, Florence and Milan, which were then converted into universities in 1923. At the beginning of the 1930s, when Italy had 27 universities, not counting the Technical and Commercial Colleges, which for the most part, like the Business University, L. Bocconi in Milan, were financed privately,10 only fifteen of them, that is just a little more than half, had more than 1,000 students.11 Reforms from above on the Jacobin model of France had not proved possible because of local interests in the parliamentary system of the Italian nation state. In s p a i n , by contrast, thanks to a centralizing tradition, the Iberian university scene could be simplified throughout the nineteenth century by the gradual closing of old universities in 1807, 1824 and 1845, with ten universities remaining at the head of school regions, which had been formed on the model of the French acad´emies. These were in Barcelona, Granada, Madrid, Oviedo, Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Zaragoza, Seville, Valencia and Valladolid.12 After the University of Alcala´ was moved to Madrid in 1836, the Spanish university scene, like that of France, suffered from the overwhelming influence of the capital city and the privileges of the ‘Central University’ as it was officially known. Together with Barcelona, it was the only university, which could contain all the faculties. It was also the only one which could award doctorates. In addition, following the French model, the specialized technical colleges for the education of state engineers were also located in the capital. 9

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` in I. Porciani (ed.), I. Porciani, ‘Lo stato unitario di fronte alla questione dell’universita’, L’Universita` tra Otto e Novecento: i modelli europei e il caso italiano (Naples, 1994), 135–84; T. Tomasi and L. Bellatalla, L’Universita` italiana nell’eta` liberale (1861–1923) (Naples, 1988), 22–3, 100–103, 116–18; S. Polenghi, La politica universitaria italiana nell’eta` della Destra storica (1848–1876) (Brescia, 1993) with multiple tables. D. Musiedlak, Universit´e priv´ee et formation de la classe dirigeante. L’exemple de l’Universit´e L. Bocconi de Milan (Rome, 1990). Statistiche sul Mezzogiorno d’Italia 1861–1953 (Rome, 1953), quoted by V. Karady, Relations interuniversitaires et rapports culturels en Europe (1871–1945), rapport de fin d’´etude, d´ecembre 1992, 177–8. P. Melon, L’enseignement sup´erieur en Espagne (Paris, 1898); Peset, Universidad ˜ ˜ ‘L’universit´e espagnole vers 1900’, in J. Schriewer, E. Kleiner Espanola; J.-L. Guerena, ¨ and C. Charle (eds.), Sozialer Raum und akademische Kulturen. Studien zur europaischen Hochschullandschaft im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert / A la recherche de l’espace universitaire europ´een. Etudes sur l’enseignement sup´erieur aux XIXe et XXe si`ecles (Frankfurt-amMain, 1993), 113–331.

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Christophe Charle Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries also had difficulty in organizing their university systems in a rational way. As in the early modern period, confessional traditions and national, or cantonal, rivalries led to the existence of a disproportionately large number of universities in relation to actual needs. Indirectly, however, they contributed to social dynamism and openness, for they were reliant on foreign students, whose fees made up an important part of the university budgets that could hardly have been supported by local or national funding. The most characteristic example is s w i t z e r l a n d with seven universities for 3.75 million inhabitants in 1910, of which four were for the 800,000 French-speaking Swiss. Together they had somewhat more than 8,000 students. For the most part they consisted of older high schools which had been transformed into universities: Geneva in 1872/3 (formerly an acad´emie founded in 1559), Lausanne 1890 (acad´emie 1537), Freiburg 1889 (a legal academy founded in 1763 and then a legal faculty ˆ 1909 (acad´emie 1838). In the German-speaking in 1882), and Neuchatel part of Switzerland the conversion into universities took place half a century earlier under German influence: Zurich in 1833 (formerly a theology school founded in 1525), and Bern 1834 (a theology school founded in 1528). In addition there was the University of Basel which had been in existence since 1459, the Federal Polytechnic in Zurich founded in 1855 and which received the title ‘Federal Technical High School’ in 1911, as well as the Business High School of St Gallen which was formed from a business academy in 1911 (finally becoming a university in 1996).13

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The numbers of students were taken from the Schweizer Hochschulstatistik 1890–1935 (Bern, 1935) by Karady, Relations interuniversitaires (note 11), 23. About the Swiss ¨ Basel von den Anfangen ¨ universities: E. Bonjour, Die Universitat bis zur Gegenwart ¨ Bern 1834–1934 (Bern and Leipzig, 1460–1960 (Basle, 1960); R. Feller, Die Universitat 1935); U. Im Hof et al., Hochschulgeschichte Berns 1528–1984. Zur 150–Jahr Feier ¨ Bern 1984. Erganzungsband: ¨ der Universitat Die Dozenten der bernischen Hochschule (Bern, 1984); R. Ruffieux et al. (eds.), Histoire de l’Universit´e de Fribourg 1889–1989 – ¨ Freiburg 1889–1989. Institutions, enseignement, recherche = Geschichte der Universitat Institutionen, Lehre und Forschung, 3 vols. (Fribourg, 1989–91); M. Marcacci, Histoire de l’Universit´e de Gen`eve 1559–1986 (Geneva, 1987); A. Delessert, L’Universit´e au d´eft. Une histoire sociale de l’Universit´e de Lausanne (Lausanne, 1991); R. Lorusso, D. Nilles, with E. Golay, Histoire de l’Universit´e de Lausanne. Aspects e´ conomiques et financiers (Lausanne, 1996); L. Tissot, Politique, soci´et´e et enseignement sup´erieur dans le canton de Vaud: l’Universit´e de Lausanne 1890–1916 (Lausanne, 1996); Histoire ˆ de l’Universit´e de Neuchatel, vol. I: La premi`ere Acad´emie (Hauterive, 1988); vol. II: ¨ La seconde Acad´emie 1866–1909 (Hauterive, 1994); G. Thurer, Hochschule St Gallen ¨ Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften 1899–1974 (St Gallen, 1974); G. Guggenbuhl ¨ fur ¨ et al., Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule 1855–1955 (Zurich, 1955); J.-F. Berbier and ¨ ¨ H. W. Tobler (eds.), Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich 1955–1980 (Zurich, ¨ Zurich ¨ 1980); E. Gagliardi, H. Nabholz and J. Strohl, Die Universitat 1833 bis 1933 ¨ ¨ Zurich ¨ und ihre Vorlaufer (Zurich, 1938); P. Stadler, Die Universitat 1933–1983 (Zurich, 1983).

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Patterns In h o l l a n d , which like the Belgian Departments was part of the French Empire, Napoleon’s brutal policy had an impact on the universities. By 1815 only Leiden, Utrecht and Groningen remained. There was not time for full absorption into the French university system, but the old splendour of Leiden almost vanished completely – in 1814/15 there were only 328 students.14 King William I (1772–1843) reformed the university system nationally in 1815 when he limited the status of full state university to Leiden, Utrecht and Groningen, permitted the re-establishment of universities without the right to award doctorates (Athenaea) in those provinces without universities, and arranged for financial support for Franeker and Harderwijk, until the latter closed in 1818 and the former in 1843, because of a lack of students. The reform of the constitution in 1848 permitted the foundation of private universities under state supervision, and a law of 1905 granted state recognition (effectus civilis) to the academic qualifications awarded by them. In 1876 the Athenaea were closed and the institutions recognized as universities. The decisive factor in this was no longer the right to award doctorates but possession of the full range of faculties. Thus, the municipal Athenaeum in Amsterdam became the city’s university in 1877. Three years later orthodox Calvinists founded a ‘Free’ University, independent of state and church, which in turn was recognized by the state, as also was the University of Nijmegen founded by Catholics in 1923, and the Catholic School of Commerce in Tilburg, which dated back to 1919 and received university status in 1939, but which, like other part-universities, was called a Hoogeschool. In 1937 after state recognition of its Business Sciences the Business School in Rotterdam, a private foundation from 1913, was also recognized as a Hoogeschool with one faculty to be developed in 1973 into the Erasmus University.15 In the new Kingdom of b e l g i u m there was an oversupply of universities, less because of linguistic considerations – the recognition of Flemish only took place in the north after the First World War – than for political and confessional reasons. In 1816 William I had ordered the foundation of three universities in the southern part of the still United Netherlands, in order to provide a counterweight to the three Dutch universities already referred to. In this way Ghent and Li`ege were refounded, and the University of Louvain, which the French had closed in 1797, was reopened. In the independent Belgian state two private universities were set up in 1834, the Catholic University of Malines and the ‘Free University’ 14 15

W. Frijhoff, La Soci´et´e n´eerlandaise et ses gradu´es 1575–1814 (Amsterdam, 1981), 23. W. Frijhoff, ‘Netherlands’, in B. R. Clark and G. Neave (eds.), The Encyclopaedia of Higher Education, vol. I (Oxford, 1992), 491–504; W. Frijhoff, ‘Netherlands’, in J´ılek, Historical Compendium, 43–6; M. Groen, University Education in the Netherlands, 1815–1980 (Eindhoven, 1988).

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Christophe Charle in Brussels, funded by Free Thinkers and Freemasons. The reorganization of 1835 reduced the numbers to two state universities in Ghent and Li`ege, a Catholic university in Louvain, and the Free University in Brussels. In s c a n d i n a v i a the university scene shows similar changes which can be traced back to political events with ensuing scholarly reforms. Autonomous rights and finally full independence allowed Norway and Finland to develop their own university system in relation to Denmark and Russia respectively. There were old university foundations in Copenhagen (1475), in Uppsala (1477) and in Lund (1668). There then followed in 1811 the University of Oslo (Christiania) in n o r w a y , which, until the achievement of independence in 1905, was a centre of Norwegian nationalism. In f i n l a n d , too, the formation of an independent Grand Duchy within the Russian Empire in 1828 led to the transfer of the University of ˚ Abo (Turku) to the new capital city of Helsingfors (Helsinki).16 In Sweden ¨ the Stockholms Hogskola was founded in 1877 as a private high school enjoying state support, and offering different fare from that of Uppsala and Lund – for those who desired a more modern university education it was orientated towards practical needs. A similar private university was founded in Gothenburg in 1891.17 The rivalry between the two types of university focused on the award of university corporate privileges, which went back to the Middle Ages. The Liberals demanded the concentration of Swedish universities in the capital city in order that links with hospitals and other research institutes would strengthen concentration on practical research. A compromise was found by allowing the Karolinska Institute in 1873 the right to award the Medical Bachelor without undermining the position of the traditional universities. Although Gothenburg from 1893 and Stockholm from 1904 were both allowed to use staterecognized examinations, they were not recognized as universities until after the Second World War.18 t h e g row t h o f n at i o n s tat e s a n d u n i v e rs i t i e s in central and eastern europe In the early modern period the university scene in Central and Eastern Europe was thinly populated. The Thirty Years War, and the Turkish invasions, which had in part led to long periods of occupation, hindered the progress of scholarship. It was only religious and ethnic rivalries, the 16 17 18

M. Klinge et al., Kejserliga Alexanders Universitetet 1808–1917 (Helsinki, 1989); Klinge, ¨ Helsinki, 198–671. Universitat E. Crawford, The Beginning of the Nobel Institution: The Science Prizes 1901–1915 (Paris and Cambridge, 1984). S. Lindroth, A History of Uppsala University, 1477–1977 (Stockholm, 1976), 150. On Gothenburg and Stockholm: J´ılek, Historical Compendium, 158–9, 286.

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¨ T. Vetter, ‘Die Entwicklung des Universitatswesens in der Habsburgermonarchie 1815– 1918’, Etudes danubiennes, 3, 2 (1987), 97–115. ¨ H. Engelbrecht, Geschichte des osterreichischen Bildungswesens, 5 vols. (Vienna, 1982– 88). Z. Magyari, Die Entstehung einer internationalen Wissenschaftspolitik (Leipzig, 1932), 444–50; V. Karady, ‘Une nation de juristes. Des usages sociaux de la formation juridique

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dans la Hongrie d’ancien r´egime’, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 86/87 (1991), 106–24; V. Karady and I. Kem´enyi, ‘Antis´emitisme universitaire et concurrence de classe: la loi du numerus clausus en Hongrie entre les deux guerres’, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 34 (1980), 67–96; V. Karady and I. Kem´enyi, ‘A l’ombre du “numerus clausus”. La restratification du syst`eme universitaire hongrois dans l’entre-deux-guerres’, in Schriewer, Kleiner and Charle (eds.), Sozialer Raum (note 12), 345–51. ¨ N. Koestler, ‘Intelligenzschicht und hohere Bildung im geteilten Polen’, in Bil¨ dungsburgertum, vol. I, 186–206; The University of Warsaw (Warsaw, 1967); J. B. Neveux, ‘Les universit´es de Galicie dans les conflits de nationalit´es 1851–1914’, Etudes danubiennes, 4, 1 (1988), 1–20; J. Buszko, ‘L’Universit´e Jagellonne de Cracovie (1869– ˆ de l’universit´e de Lemberg dans la vie scientifique 1914)’, ibid., 21–8; S. Grodziski, ‘Le role de la monarchie des Habsbourg’, ibid., 29–38.

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Patterns politics, philosophy and a higher school of literature and languages, which had all been founded separately, were amalgamated into a university in 1860 and then augmented in 1869 by a medical faculty and again in 1884 by a faculty of Orthodox theology. The two universities reflected the struggle of the Moldavian and Walachian elites for independence from the neighbouring Austro-Hungarian educational centres. The political significance of the Romanian university system is shown in the very close connection between university study and political office. Nevertheless, Romania as a small country with a Romance language remained orientated towards France. Most of the professors and a considerable percentage of the students, especially those in law and medicine, finished their education in Paris.23 In g r e e c e the new kingdom under King Otto I (1815–67), the son of the King of Bavaria, was from the beginning equally determined to strengthen national consciousness by having its own university. On 3 May 1837 the University of Athens was opened, serving as a bridge during the nineteenth century to the Greek diaspora in the Ottoman Empire. More than 40 per cent of the students were born outside the boundaries of Greece. After returning to their place of birth under Turkish rule they were to keep alive the spirit of Greece until unification with the motherland was finally achieved. The University of Athens was organized on Prussian lines with four faculties of theology, medicine, law and philosophy. The latter was not divided into arts and sciences until 1904. The technical and scientific disciplines developed further with the foundation of the School of Pharmacy in 1840 and the Polytechneion in 1860.24 In b u l g a r i a the University of Sofia was created in 1904. Its origins were in a special advanced pedagogical course in philosophy, didactics, languages and cultural studies introduced in the Lyceum in 1888, which led to the creation of an independent high school in 1889 with the addition of the natural sciences. After the First World War the university was granted medical, theological, agricultural and veterinary faculties. It was joined in 1920 by the Svoboden Universitet, a private college preparing students for diplomatic and administrative service and modelled on the Ecole libre de sciences politiques in Paris. It was taken over by the state as the University of Finance and Administration in 1940. 23

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O. Bozgan, ‘Din istoria Universitatii din Bucuresti in perioada 1864–1940 (I)’, Revista Istorica, serie noua, 2 (1991), 155–70 (with French summary); O. Bozgan, ‘L’Universit´e de Bucarest et la France de 1864 aux ann´ees 1940’, Cahiers d’histoire, 37, 2 (1992), 151– 71; C. Durandin, R´evolution a` la franc¸aise ou a` la russe (Paris, 1989); J. Sadlak, Higher Education in Romania 1860–1990: Between Academic Mission, Economic Demands and Political Control, Special Studies in Comparative Education 27 (Buffalo, NY, 1990). ¨ ¨ 1837 durch die Bayern – nach K. Zormbala, ‘Die Grundung der athener Universitat welchem “deutschen” Modell?’, in Schubring, Einsamkeit und Freiheit (note 2), 268–73.

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J´ılek, Historical Compendium, 20–1, 284; M. M. Chambers (ed.), Universities of the World outside USA (Washington, 1950), 163–6. See vol. I, subject index: ‘Arabic world’. A. Kuran, ‘Turkey’, in J´ılek, Historical Compendium, 59–60, 174–5.

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Patterns opening up of the university system to all, a feature of the radical revolutionary period. There were three primary goals: first, to secure for the post-revolutionary state and its society the officials necessary for political and social stabilization; second, to make sure that their education was carried out in harmony with the new social order and to prevent the emergence of new professional classes; and third, to impose limits on freedom of the intellect if it seemed likely to prove dangerous to the state. Despite a few concessions enlightened despotism made itself felt in a variety of ways: in the predominant model of the school – even in those cases where it was called a faculty; in the tyranny of the state diploma, which opened up access to a narrowly defined career as a civil servant or a particular profession; in the classification of candidates, and competition (concours) between them, even for careers which did not demand it; in detailed regulations for unified plans of study; in the state’s monopoly in the awarding of academic degrees. The Universit´e was the only corporation which was refounded after the Revolution, but it had nothing in common with the university of the ancien r´egime. It took in the teaching bodies of both the lyc´ee and the coll`ege and was a corporation controlled by the state and incorporated into the hierarchy of the civil service. The system encompassed a rigid division of labour between the faculties, and a specialization in career paths. In short it represented a structure of higher education, which, as we shall later see, was the opposite of Humboldt’s vision of the university. The academic faculties of lettres and sciences (arts and sciences), which in the form of the philosophical faculty acted as the stimulus for innovation in the German university, in no way fulfilled this role in France. With the exception of Paris they were restricted to holding examinations for the baccalaureate and putting on lectures for amateur enthusiasts. Research and innovation were limited to the great teaching institutions, to a few lectures in the Sorbonne and the Coll`ege de France, to the Institut de France and to the learned societies. Until 1860 outside Paris the French university landscape comprised scholarly desert; and despite contemporary criticisms and repeated attempts by various governments to change the scene the ultimate goal of the professors themselves was to return to the capital city, where the vast majority of them had studied in one or other of the grandes e´ coles. As a result, until the reforms of the turn of the century, it proved impossible to develop any real scholarly activity alongside the provision of literary lectures for the general public. The education of the higher professions was carried out by the centralist state as though it were a business venture. University fees covered a large part of the costs. Indeed, during the Second Empire the arts and law faculties achieved surpluses. Academic investment in libraries, lecture

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Karady, ‘De Napol´eon a` Duruy’ (note 5), 298. On the social origin of French students only partial studies have been made: J. Burney, Toulouse et son universit´e (Toulouse and Paris, 1988), 165 (statistics of the years 1841– 44); J.-C. Caron, G´en´erations romantiques. Les e´ tudiants de Paris et le Quartier latin (1814–1851) (Paris, 1991), 96 (pharmacy); V. Karady, ‘Scientists and Class Structure: ´ Social Recruitment of Students at the Parisian Ecole Normale sup´erieure in the Nineteenth Century’, History of Education, 8, 2 (1979), 105 (arts and sciences 1830–49).

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Patterns dominated the Spanish universities during the whole of the nineteenth century, and the same system of a central university was introduced into the South American colonies.30 In ITALY too, the Napoleonic university system was the model, though attempts to copy it met with varying degrees of success depending on the region.31 After the Restoration there was a return to earlier conditions. In Lombardy the universities were under the strict control of the government in Vienna; in the ecclesiastical states the bishops were in authority. In both cases this led to numerous student disturbances in pursuit of liberal and anti-clerical aims.32 Following unrest in 1821 the King of Piedmont handed over part of the teaching to the Jesuits, but after his conversion to liberalism he reformed the university system from 1840 onwards, creating new professorial chairs, extending the study of medicine and introducing pedagogy. On the other hand doctoral dissertations retained their purely formal character, and the catchment area of the students remained very local. To counter the flood of lawyers he introduced additional barriers.33 It was not until the following period that the two Mediterranean states made serious efforts to modernize their university systems. the prussian university model The Prussian university system, which was inaugurated by Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) in the foundation of the University of Berlin in 1810, was expressly directed against the Napoleonic system.34 Individual elements had been developed in the reformed universities of the nine¨ teenth century, Gottingen and Halle. These included the importance of research for the teaching of the professor and, as a consequence, the 30 31 32

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S. d’Irsay, Histoire des universit´es franc¸aises et e´ trang`eres des origines a` nos jours (Paris, ˜ 1935), vol. II, 253–6; Peset, Universidad espanola, 401–29. R. Boudard, Exp´eriences franc¸aises de l’Italie napol´eonienne (Rome, 1988). La citta` del sapere. I laboratori storici e i musei dell’Universita` di Bologna (Bologna 1987), 94–6; G. Forni, ‘L’universita` di Bologna dalla Restaurazione all’Unita` nazionale’, Convegno di studi sul Risorgimento a Bologna e nell’Emilia (27–29 febbraio 1960), Parte seconda: Comunicazioni (Bologna, 1960), 490–509; F. Gasnault, ‘La r´eglementation des universit´es pontificales au XIX`eme si`ecle: 1. R´eforme et restaurations: les avatars du grand projet zelante (1815–1834); 2. Pie IX et le monopole universitaire’, M´elanges de ´ l’Ecole franc¸aise de Rome, Moyen Age Temps Modernes, 96 (1984), 177–237, 1105–68; F. Gasnault, La cattedra, l’altare, la nazione. Carriere universitarie nell’Ateneo di Bologna 1803–1859 (Bologna, 2001). F. Traniello (ed.), L’Universita` di Torino (Turin, 1993), 36–44. ¨ G. Schubring, ‘Spezialschulmodell versus Universitatsmodell. Die Institutionalisierung von Forschung’, in Schubring (ed.), Einsamkeit und Freiheit (note 2), 276–326; K. Stierle, ¨ ¨ ‘Zwei Hauptstadte des Wissens: Paris und Berlin’, in O. Poggeler and A. Gethmann-Siefert (eds.), Kunsterfahrung und Kulturpolitik im Berlin Hegels, Hegel-Studien (Bonn, 1983), 83–111; R. vom Bruch, ‘Il modelle tedesco’, in Porciani (ed.), L’Universita` tra Otto e Novecento (note 9), 35–59.

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Christophe Charle supplementation of lectures with seminars encouraging research-based study for students preparing to enter the professions.35 The equal sta` tus, indeed superiority, of the philosophical faculty vis-a-vis other faculties, which was an essential element in the Berlin University model, had become an increasingly prominent theme in the writings of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) and Friedrich E. D. Schleiermacher (1768–1834). The last of these saw the university as a place offering a philosophically founded scholarly education through the ‘togetherness’ of the ‘masters with the journeymen’, an ideal located between the ‘togetherness of the masters with the apprentices’, which was to be found in the school, and the ‘academy as the meeting of the masters with each other’.36 He described the task of the university in the following terms: to awaken the idea of scholarship in noble-minded youths already equipped with knowledge of many kinds, to help them to a mastery of it in the particular field of knowledge to which they wish to devote themselves, so that it becomes second nature for them to view everything from the perspective of scholarship, and to see every individual thing not in isolation, but in its closest scholarly connections, relating it constantly to the unity and entirety of knowledge, so that in all their thought they learn to become aware of the principles of scholarship, and thus themselves acquire the ability to carry out research, to make discoveries, and to present these, gradually working things out in themselves. This is the business of a university.37

Such an ambitious ideal of a scholarly education explains the conscious rejection of the French specialist schools, which failed to fulfil the actual purposes of a university, that is to awaken of a spirit of scholarship, to instil a sense of the connections between the various areas of study and to offer a free choice as to subjects studied. The plans for the University of Berlin were formed by the ideas of German Idealism, but the plans as executed were only an imperfect embodiment of what came to be attributed to the myth of the Humboldtian university. In particular, although the link between teaching and research was at the heart of the Prussian model, initially, at least, research was limited to a subordinate 35 36

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Patterns role and only gradually permeated the seminars and the later institutes of the various faculties.38 That other feature of German universities – which was much admired by foreign observers because it promoted the renewal of scholarship – the institution of the Privatdozenten (private lecturers), from whom the professors were recruited, did not exist in Catholic countries in the first half of the nineteenth century. Except within the medical and scientific faculties, the innovative potential of this institution was limited by the fact that the governments decided on appointments and could reject unwelcome candidates. This happened in a number of famous cases.39 What gave the Berlin model its peculiar dynamism was probably the fact that it was not shaped according to the idealistic rigour of a Fichte, but by the liberalism of Schleiermacher and Humboldt,40 and thus remained more open to the various intellectual and social developments of the nineteenth century than other systems. Political decentralization also favoured the emergence of local variants in the way that the system was adopted or in part, at least, copied. Moreover, the mobility of the student body, which hardly existed in France, played a part in reducing the inertia which is a part of every educational system. It was the impetus to advance scholarship alone which gave the professors a material interest in supplementing the amount of teaching which was usual at other universities with new lectures, in order to attract particularly demanding and motivated students. The competition between the various states gave the professors a measure of freedom and allowed them to negotiate more favourable conditions, in particular with regard to the provision of equipment and assistants. Individual states could increase their prestige by recruiting famous professors, something which was never a possibility in centralized states such as France. These and other factors too are not attributable to a certain ideal of the university, but to the particular nature of German history. The sharp increase in the number of students at university improved the incomes of the professors in the first half of the nineteenth century since they had a share in the fees paid. Whilst the professors in Leipzig at the end of the eighteenth century earned only 225 Taler there is evidence of incomes ranging from 400 to 1,400 Taler at Berlin, ¨ Tubingen, Marburg and Rostock between 1820 and 1830.41 Such material 38 39

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¨ ¨ zu Berlin, vol. III: M. Lenz, Geschichte der koniglichen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Wissenschaftliche Anstalten, Spruchkollegium, Statistik (Halle, 1910), 3–446. A. Busch, Die Geschichte der Privatdozenten. Eine soziologische Studie zur grossbe¨ trieblichen Entwicklung der deutschen Universitaten (Stuttgart, 1959). On the origin and development of the Privatdozentur: chapter 5. ¨ ¨ (note 36), 169–70. Ruegg, ‘Humboldt’sche Universitat’ C. E. McClelland, ‘Die deutschen Hochchullehrer als Elite 1815–1850’, in Schwabe (ed.), Deutsche Hochschullehrer, 37.

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N. Hammerstein, ‘Bildungsdefizit und Bildungschancen der Katholiken im 19. Jahrhun¨ Kirchengeschichte, ¨ dert: Universitaten und Wissenschaften’, Rottenburger Jahrbuch fur ¨ 14 (1995), 131–52; N. Hammerstein, Antisemitismus und deutsche Universitaten (Frankfurt, 1995).

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Engelbrecht, Bildungswesens (note 20), vol. iv, 237; Karady, ‘Nation de juristes’ (note 21), 196. ´ Calculated on the basis of statistics given by Besanc¸on, Education et soci´et´e en Russie (note 7), 82. Other information is taken from this work.

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Sutherland, ‘Education’ (note 8), 138. R. D. Anderson, Education and Opportunity in Victorian Scotland (Oxford, 1983). Ibid., 347.

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Patterns to the graduates of the London colleges. The new university thus introduced a further variant into the British university system, for it did not require its students to be in residence and in contrast to the Scottish universities it did not form an inner unity.53 It awarded external degrees and encouraged the creation of university colleges in the provinces such as at Southampton and Leicester. The third stage in the development of the British university scene consisted in the foundation of the civic universities, some of them formed in this way, others, like Birmingham, the products of local enterprise and with a practical focus. Alongside these there was a range of what was considered sub-university institutions, primarily for education in technical subjects and art. f r e n c h p a r t i a l r e f o r m 1868–190454 The period from 1860 to 1940 has been characterized in educational and social histories as the epoch of the diversification, expansion and professionalization of the university system.55 These three phenomena go hand in hand with the increasing influence of the German model; yet they differ according to national factors and features particular to the various systems. From 1830 onwards the failings of the Napoleonic system of faculties became increasingly evident and it was publicly criticized by professors and politicians alike.56 The double task of developing research in the faculties on German lines and of bringing the over-centralized organization of the education system into some sort of harmony reached its highpoint in the intensive investigation into the reasons for the defeat in war of 1871, which gave new impetus to reformist tendencies. The foundation of the ´ ´ first four sections of the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, which was pushed through by Victor Duruy (1811–94) in 1868, fulfilled the first of these tasks. Research institutes which also carried out teaching and where knowledge was transmitted though specialized seminars, came into being. There was thus a break with the traditional approach in the faculties of offering general lectures aimed at a broad public. The second task could not be realized so quickly. For this, effective local support was needed, and this came with republican liberalization and the involvement of elected 53 54 55 56

S. Rothblatt, ‘London: A Metropolitan University?’, in T. Bender (ed.), The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present (Oxford, 1991), 119–49. See especially the contributions by Karady and Weisz, quoted in note 5. Cf. the subheading of Jarausch (ed.), ‘Transformation’ (note 8). Titze et al., Wachstum und Differenzierung (note 2). Cf. V. Cousin, Rapport sur l’´etat de l’instruction publique dans quelques pays d’Allemagne et particuli`erement en Prusse (Paris, 1832).

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Christophe Charle magistrates, usually of liberal persuasion, in the university towns. There was also a need for the teaching staff to be strengthened and for financial investment. In fact, the number of lecturers tripled between 1865 and 1919, as did expenditure on the faculties between 1875 and 1913. Most of the universities received new or larger buildings. The academic faculties also joined the professional ones and thus came closer to the German norm. Reform of the administrative structure proved the greatest hurdle. As result of a law of 1896, the faculties were once more brought together in universities, which as in Germany were now bodies in law with elected committees who could control part of their budgets, create or abolish professorial chairs and accept donations – in short, could initiate changes themselves. In comparison with the German model this was only a partial reform. Decentralization did indeed take place, but it left overall power still with Paris. In 1876, 55 per cent of all French students were registered in Paris. In 1914 the figure was 43 per cent, and in 1934/5 it had risen again to 54.9 per cent. Furthermore, groups of faculties had been combined everywhere into universities of equal status, whereas in Italy and Spain a distinction was made between first- and second-rank universities. This prevented the formation of regional centres of excellence, which might have competed with Paris. Some steps which were taken after 1900 further strengthened ´ centralization, such as, for example, the decision to integrate the Ecole normale sup´erieure into the University of Paris in 1903. Last but not least the accumulation of wealth in the capital meant that, with the exception of the applied sciences, private donations to provincial universities did not bear comparison with those to the University of Paris. These private funds allowed the creation of new chairs and research institutes and thus increased Paris’s lead over the provincial universities.57 Reform led to a diversification of the subjects taught. The creation of new professorships rejuvenated the teaching body. The latter consisted of various categories: the professeurs titulaires corresponded to the German Ordinarien; the charg´es de cours and professeurs adjoints to the Extraordinarien; and an entry level of maˆıtres de conf´erences was introduced on the model of the Privatdozenten – but they had the status of civil servants and were usually promoted within a short period to regular lecturers. University reform had a particular effect on the arts and science faculties. Those of law, medicine and pharmacy retained the system of concours d’agr´egation despite fierce criticism. As a result, various forms of admission to a university career became established. Arts lecturers came mainly 57

R. Fox and G. Weisz (eds.), The Organization of Science and Technology in France (1808–1914) (Paris and Cambridge, 1980); M.-J. Nye, Science in the Provinces: Scientific Communities and Provincial Leadership in France 1860–1930 (Berkeley, 1985); Paul, Knowledge.

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Patterns from the higher schools, whereas scientists also had the possibility of achieving promotion through their prowess in the laboratory. These variations, together with the other differences between the faculties, hindered the formation of that sense of solidarity between the various elements of the university which was possible in Germany.58 State supervision remained oppressive, for the actual heads of the universities were the recteurs appointed by the state, and they were responsible for the whole education system in their particular administrative area or acad´emie. The concours restricted intellectual innovation. In particular, reform was hindered by the grandes e´ coles, which controlled access to technical and administrative careers.59 Despite all attempts at reform by the Republicans these elite schools not only maintained their dominant position, they extended it and retained most of their privileges. To ´ ´ ´ the older ones – Ecole des mines, Ecole des ponts et chauss´ees, Ecole ´ normale sup´erieure, Ecole centrale (engineering) – were added in 1881 business schools, the HEC, hautes e´ tudes commerciales, new technical ´ schools such as in 1894 the Ecole sup´erieur d’´electricit´e, and in 1909 the ´ Ecole sup´erieure d’a´eronautique, schools of administration like the Ecole ´ coloniale, Ecole sup´erieure des PTT, and in 1871 the private preparatory school for the entrance examinations to higher administrative posts in the ´ civil service, the Ecole libre des sciences politiques. The Catholic faculties, which were founded after 1875, also prepared students for professional careers. The graduates from all these schools came from a much broader range of social classes than is generally assumed, but because of their acceptance through the concours they were distinguished mainly by technical and professional knowledge, by a competitive spirit and by the sense of belonging to a particular elite or corps, qualities which contradicted the university ideal of education. the crisis of the german model At the end of the nineteenth century and in the inter-war period, when the German model was being copied throughout the whole of Europe and beyond, it entered into a crisis in Germany, which brought to light some of the problems neglected by those who framed the original concept. These related to the difficulty of integrating modern technology into the university and the tendency of the teaching body to form a hierarchy. The crisis affected not only the growth but also the aims of the universities. Student numbers, which had scarcely changed between 1830 and 1865, had quintupled by 1914 to a total of 61,000. This growth benefited the 58 59

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Patterns the overproduction of graduates without resorting to compulsion, but the crisis re-emerged in a more acute form in the Weimar Republic.62 Even more severe in its effects than the numbers crisis was the crisis in ideas for the German model, for it led to internal divisions in the universities. The Humboldtian university was set up to educate elites in scholarly methods, particularly those from the educated middle class and the aristocracy. This changed when the universities started to attract a majority of students – and after 1900 there were also female students – who wanted to capitalize on their education. Only some of them had attended a humanist Gymnasium, and in consequence they were less attached to humanist values; their studies focused entirely on practice, on vocational usefulness, and on specialization. The governments of the individual states, which still remained responsible for the universities after the founding of the Empire, encouraged these tendencies by creating, in existing institutions and universities, courses which corresponded to the needs of an industrial society. They also supported the links between research and business and, in order to spread German influence, made it easier for foreign students to attend German universities. These new tasks inevitably raised a question mark over the old ideal of the university. The crisis also affected those who sustained this ideal, the professors, as can be seen in the structural, social and ideological changes in the teaching body. The first change led to a rapid growth in non-professorial staff, who in certain disciplines, such as the sciences and medicine, formed the majority without having any say in the decisions of their faculty. The disparity between the numbers of professors and those of readers or private tutors slowed down and made career advancement more difficult. All of this encouraged a dissatisfaction, which found expression before 1914 in a movement founded by the non-professorial staff.63 The rapid growth of non-professorial staff can only be explained in part by the financial policies of the state, which benefited from teachers with lower salaries or indeed with none at all. It was also a consequence of the greater social status of the professorship, which attracted ever more candidates. A further factor was the growing specialization of scholarship, which usually meant that the emergent fields of study were delegated to non-professorial colleagues, at least initially. This had a positive effect on their innovatory powers, but at the same time it produced frustration, for it was not possible to promote all of them. The difference in status was reflected in the levels of income. Candidates for a professorship either had to have their 62 63

¨ H. Titze, Der Akademikerzyklus. Historische Untersuchungen uber die Wiederkehr von ¨ ¨ ¨ Uberf ullung und Mangel in akademischen Karrieren (Gottingen, 1990), 389–422. ¨ R. vom Bruch, ‘Universitatsreform als soziale Bewegung. Zur Nicht-Ordinarienfrage im ¨ spaten deutschen Kaiserreich’, Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 10 (1984), 72–91.

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M. Weber, Wissenschaft als Beruf (1917/19), ed. W. J. Mommsen and W. Schluchter ¨ (Tubingen, 1992), 71–2. Cf. F. K. Ringer, The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community, 1890–1933 (Cambridge, Mass., 1969); F. K. Ringer, ‘A Sociography of German Academics, 1863–1938’, Central European History, 25, 3 (1993), 251–80. B. vom Brocke, ‘Hochschul- und Wissenschaftspolitik in Preussen und im Deutschen Kaiserreich 1882–1907: Das System Althoff’, in P. Baumgart (ed.), Preussen in der Geschichte, vol. I: Bildungspolitik in Preussen zur Zeit des Kaiserreiches (Stuttgart, 1980), 9–118. McClelland, ‘Die deutschen Hochschullehrer’ (note 41), 280–1. R. Riese, Die Hochschule auf dem Wege zum wissenschaftlichen Grossbetrieb. Die Uni¨ Heidelberg und das badische Hochschulwesen 1860–1914 (Stuttgart, 1977); versitat Forschung im Spannungsfeld; D. Lee Cahan, An Institute for the Empire: The Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (Cambridge, 1988); B. vom Brocke, ‘Forschung und industrieller Fortschritt: Berlin als Wissenschaftszentrum’, in W. Ribbe and J. ¨ Schmadeke (eds.), Berlin im Europa der Neuzeit (Berlin, 1990), 165–97; B. vom Brocke, ‘Im Grossbetrieb der Wissenschaft. Adolf von Harnack als Wissenschaftsorganisator und Wissenschaftspolitiker – zwischen Preussischer Akademie und Kaiser-WilhelmGesellschaft. Auch ein Beitrag zur vergeblichen Reform der deutschen Akademien seit ¨ 45, 2 (2001), 59–144. 1900’, Sitzungsberichte der Leibniz-Sozietat,

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E. Hutchinson, ‘The Origins of the University Grants Committee’, Minerva. A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 13, 4 (1975), 583–620. Ibid., 612, Table IV; cf. Sutherland, ‘Education’ (note 8), 157; Halsey and Trow, British Academics (note 8), 63.

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E. Lamberts and J. Roegiers (eds.), Leuven University 1425–1985 (Louvain, 1990); cf. Chapter 10, p. 427. W. Frijhoff, ‘Netherlands’ (note 15), 492. S. Langholm, ‘Norway’, in J´ılek, Historical Compendium, 42. ¨ Helsinki, 240. Klinge et al., Kejserliga Universitetet (note 16), 48; Klinge, Universitat ¨ Helsinki, Klinge et al., Kejserliga Universitetet (note 16), 906–10; Klinge, Universitat 565–7. Cf. D. R. Brower, ‘Social Stratification in Russian Higher Education’, in Jarausch (ed.), ‘Transformation’ (note 8), 247–8; J. C. McClelland, Autocrats and Academics: Education, Culture and Society in Tsarist Russia (Chicago and London, 1979), 39, 64.

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Marcacci, Universit´e de Gen`eve (note 13), 164–5. Beginning in 1822 with the German theologians: see chapter 10, 429. Marcacci, Universit´e de Gen`eve (note 13), 145. Im Hof, et al., Dozenten der bernischen Hochschule (note 13), 226.

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Christophe Charle Germany, by the professors to ensure that there was no lack of qualified staff to succeed them. But an academic career was by no means secure and geographic mobility remained the best way to gain promotion. In all the cantons the power to appoint professors was in the hands of the government, though this was often done in consultation with the faculties. The spread of the sciences and the construction of modern university buildings underlined the importance which research had assumed. In Geneva ´ in 1878 an Ecole de chimie97 on German lines was built, and Lausanne was able to house the university in the Palais de Rumine, built in 1888 as a result of a donation.98 t h e d i f f i c u lt p ro c e s s o f r e n e wa l f o r t h e southern european universities In ITALY the restructuring of the university system was one of the main tasks of the new national state. It was all the more difficult, as the medieval and modern legacy of the universities was strong and the particular role of the Church in Italian society made every attempt at modernization appear to be an attack on ecclesiastical privileges. The Legge Casati of 1859 tried to centralize the higher education system on French lines. The Church was excluded from university teaching, but it proved impossible to abolish the small but ancient civic universities.99 At the end of the nineteenth century Italy, with seventeen state and four ‘free’ universities and a smaller population and surface area, was over-supplied with universities in comparison with France (fifteen universities) and Germany (twenty universities). What is more, they were very unequally distributed. Eight universities were in the Emilia-Romagna (Bologna, Camerino, Ferrara, Macerata, Modena, Padua, Parma, Urbino), three each were in Tuscany/Umbria (Pisa, Siena, Perugia) and Sicily (Catania, Messina, Palermo), two in Sardinia (Cagliari, Sassari), and one each in Liguria (Genoa), Lombardy (Pavia), Piedmont (Turin), and only one in the whole of southern Italy (Naples). In 1892 ten universities had less than 500 students, of which three had fewer than 100. Naples on the other hand had 4,592.100 Despite numerous projects to simplify the university map, the education ministers and parliamentarians, many of whom were university professors,101 were unable to overcome the resistance of local interest groups. The only notable change was the abolition of the faculties of theology in 1873. 97 98 99 100 101

Marcacci, Universit´e de Gen`eve (note 13), 149–53. Delessert, L’Universit´e au d´efi (note 13), 207. Porciani, L’Universita` tra Otto e Novecento (note 9). Minerva, Jahrbuch der gelehrten Welt, 2 (1892–3) (Strasburg, 1893), 736. Ten university professors out of seventeen ministers of public education 1859– 1876; 159 professors members of parliament 1848–74: Polenghi, Politica universitaria (note 9), Table 4, 509–16.

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Patterns Despite the influence of German scholarship, which increased after 1870, the defects of the old system survived: the dominance of the study of law; the smaller universities’ lack of autonomy; and the obsolete methods of teaching and curricula. It was the last two factors in particular which explained the huge surplus of academics and the orientation towards public service at the expense of modern disciplines directed towards business and commerce.102 That these nevertheless underwent a considerable expansion was due in particular to private initiatives. Public schools of commerce were created in Genoa (1874), Bari (1886) and Rome (1906). In 1902 a private business university was founded in Milan, the Universita` commerciale, ‘Luigi Bocconi’.103 Engineering schools came into being in Turin (1859), Milan (1862) and Naples (1863) in order to educate the workforce for the industries of the newly emerging Italy. The small city universities, such as those in Siena, Ferrara, and Perugia, survived owing to the financial support of the local banks. The university lecturers were so badly paid that they had to secure second jobs, and often used the legal faculty as a springboard for a career in politics. The French model continued to be influential, together with the German one. Professorships were awarded by a concours system and the university system was under the control of the Ministry of Public Education, which allowed the universities only a limited degree of autonomy.104 Before the First World War Italy was thus a country in which elements of the various European university models could be found existing together: that is, the predominance of the professional faculties of law and medicine as in Central Europe, centralized control as in France, an orientation towards research as in Germany, and corporate organization at a local level as in England. It was only in the inter-war period, and in particular under Fascism, that some essential reforms were made. The crisis of the immediate postwar period led to an untenable situation. Because of inflation, professors were so dependent on secondary earnings that teaching began to suffer. Many of the students, whose numbers had almost doubled, were forced to take a job in order to survive and stayed away from lectures. In 1920 the Education Minister, the philosopher Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), introduced academic exercises similar to the German seminar as a prerequisite for the doctorate. It was his philosopher colleague Giovanni Gentile (1875–1944), Education Minister from 1922 to 1925, who in his 102 103 104

M. Barbagli, Disoccupazione intellettuale e sistemo scolastico in Italia (Bologna, 1974). Musiedlak, Universit´e (note 10); L. Lenti, Gli ottant’anni della Bocconi (Crassina/ Firenze, 1984). A. Santoni Rugiu, Chiarissimi e Magnifici. Il professore nell’universita` italiana (dal 1700 al 2000) (Scandicci and Florence, 1991); Tomasi and Bellatella, L’Universita` italiana (note 9).

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Christophe Charle university reforms of 1923 had recourse especially to the Humboldt university ideal. However, he did this in such an authoritarian way that his initial liberal idealism paved the way for the increasingly Fascist control of the universities. The reforms divided the universities into three categories according to their importance, size and number of faculties, which in turn controlled the level of state funding. A tightening of the conditions for the professorial concours reduced the number of applicants. The number of students dropped from 50,000 to 40,000 between 1919 and 1929 and the students were firmly incorporated into the corresponding Fascist organizations. Professors opposed to these developments had either to remain silent or emigrate.105 In SPAIN the university system, in common with those of the other Mediterranean countries in the second half of the nineteenth century, was a long way behind its counterparts in northern Europe. It was only the shock of defeat by the United States in 1898 which led to reforms. Until then the Spanish universities had suffered from the legacy of the Napoleonic model: an excessive centralization, which also found expression in the Central University of Madrid mentioned earlier. In addition the numbers of students had declined, the administration was exceedingly bureaucratic, and the professors with their civil-servant mentality lacked dynamism. Most of the students were registered in the law faculties. Technical schools only existed in Barcelona and Madrid; schools for ´ ´ Madrid, Santiago de Compostela veterinary surgeons in Cordoba, Leon, and Zaragoza; business schools in Barcelona, Madrid, and Palma; and an agricultural school in Madrid.106 In 1900, out of 17,000 registered students 8,000 attended lectures, 2,000 concluded their studies with the licentiate and 166 with the doctorate. Of 466 professors, 99 were teaching in Madrid, that is somewhat more than a fifth. In comparison with the professional faculties, the arts and science faculties with their modern disciplines led a Cinderella existence. Two-thirds of the professors received inadequate salaries of 5,000 pesetas or less and were forced to take second jobs or tried to obtain a post in Madrid. The movement for reform began with a small group of younger university teachers in Oviedo, the smallest of the universities. Their proposals were taken up by the new Education Minister and put into practice from 1900 onwards. New subjects were introduced in the arts and sciences, social studies was incorporated into the law faculty and a scholarship fund created. A chronic lack of funds did, however, limit the reforms. A solution was first introduced in Zaragoza and then taken 105

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Patterns over by other universities: the courses were given by a combination of university professors and outside lecturers, and some were even held outside the university cities.107 After 1917,108 the Spanish universities experienced a sharp growth in student numbers and a division of students and professors into conservatives and reformers, which was closely linked to the political struggles of this period. Under the dictatorship (1923–30) of Primo de Rivera (1870–1930) the universities received autonomous rights as independent legal entities and corporations according to the prevailing corporatist ideology. But the preferential treatment accorded to the Church’s educational institutions provoked fierce student agitation, which the regime countered by closing the University of Madrid. In 1931 the Second Republic gave the universities genuine autonomy especially in the regions. For a few years, in Catalonia lectures could be given in Catalan. After the seizure of power by General Franco (1892–1975), however, the teaching body experienced a harsh purge in which those professors who had supported the defeated Republic were exiled. In 1943 a law brought a compromise between the Phalangists and the supporters of the traditional Catholic university. The new university was supposed to hold in high esteem Catholic teaching on morality and dogma together with Hispanism, authority and hierarchical order. This cementing of traditional values buried all the earlier reforms and only began to break apart in the 1960s. concluding remarks If one compares the university map at the beginning and end of the period covered in this volume, it is noticeable that over the period 1790 to the 1930s the number of universities, if one includes the European section of the Soviet Union, has more than doubled from 143 to 308. Without the Soviet Union, whose university structure was completely changed by the huge increase in numbers of specialized universities, the number of universities at 156 has hardly grown. But this number does not take account of the approximately 240 academic colleges, part or private universities also under the influence of the Prussian model, which had spread everywhere in addition to the universities. Altogether the number of academic university-like bodies had grown threefold. 107 108

˜ ‘L’universit´e espagnole’ (note 12), 113–31. Guerena, ˜ P. Sosa Alonso, ‘Reforma y cambio social de la universidad espanola de principios de siglo’, in Higher Education and Society: Historical Perspectives (Salamanca, 1985), ´ ´ vol. II, 642–51; R. Lopez Martin, ‘Analisis Legislativo de la pol´ıtica universitaria primoriverista’, ibid., 416–26; S. Marqu`es i Sureda, ‘La universidad en Catalunya de la II ´ ´ Republica al actual estado de las autonom´ıa’, ibid., 444–53; J. M. Fernandez Soria and ˜ de la post-guerra A. Mayordomo P´erez, ‘En torno a la idea de universidad en la Espana (1939–1943)’, ibid., 249–61.

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Christophe Charle By 1939 the university had become a widely distributed educational institution in Europe, whilst at the beginning of the nineteenth century, as a relic of a medieval and early modern tradition, it had been restricted to just one part of the Continent, mainly in the west and the south. The vitality of the university was also proved in the many and diverse political, economic, cultural and social crises of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries. As symbols of the new nations, almost all the new universities, especially those of Central Europe, adopted the German model with four or five faculties, and the division of the teaching body into three ranks: full professorships, readers and lecturers. The Napoleonic model with specialist institutes, which was dominant around 1800, gradually lost ground in the course of the nineteenth century. Yet it prevailed in those areas of modern research and teaching which were neglected by the universities, even in the heartland of the German model, where research was beginning to be separated from teaching. This double movement is reflected in the huge increase in student numbers from 80,000 around 1800 to more than 800,000 – or without the Soviet Union 600,000 – in the 1930s, as well as in the expansion of the tasks which were being entrusted to the universities. Whilst in the nineteenth century the classical university had been adaptable enough to meet the new demands, in the inter-war period it began to crack under the burden of its major tasks. Organization moved more and more into the lower units according to the function, financing, prestige, location or extent of the particular university activity. The state had become responsible for university finances and it was increasingly successful in harmonizing university structures with those of other bodies. All of this favoured the setting up of institutes and a tendency to turn universities into giant schools. The authoritarian regimes in Italy, Germany, Spain and Russia took this to extremes. But the same development continued later in the period of the mass university. Yet despite these tendencies one should not ignore a third aspect of the history of universities in the period dealt with by this volume, that is, the emergence of an ‘invisible university’ which transcended national frontiers. It rested on the mobility of professors and students, which began to overcome the political and institutional obstacles inherent in the university policies of the individual nation states.109 In the case of the professors there was a scholarly interchange by means of conferences and international academic organizations.110 Research into the bridging function played by such institutions in Europe has only just begun and as a first step has drawn up an inventory of the ‘invisible 109 110

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Patterns university’.111 Even more than the ‘real’ universities it conformed to the Humboldian idea in that it was based on ‘open’ co-operation of all people interested in scholarly knowledge and, transcending as it did all geographical and institutional barriers, it presupposed a freedom to teach which is not limited by any curriculum. The decision of the students regarding where to study was determined by free competition and thus the degree of innovative or successful work in the various disciplines. The mobility of professors on the other hand was an indication both of the intensity of scholarly links between various linguistic areas and cultures, and also of the attractions of particular scholarly specialities in one or other country. Thus this period of university history, which ended with the most horrendous perversions of nationalism, can be seen to open up possible paths to a restoration of that Europe of Universities universities which was the basis of their medieval origins. s e l e c t b i b l i o g r a p h y f o r c h a p t e r s 1–4 Bibliographies ‘Bibliographie d’histoire de l’´education franc¸aise’, published yearly since 1979 in the review Histoire de l’Education. ¨ Coing, H. (ed.) Handbuch der Quellen und Literatur der neueren europaischen Privatrechtsgeschichte, vol. III, 1–5, Munich, 1982–88. Craigie, J. A Bibliography of Scottish Education Before 1872, London, 1970. De Ridder-Symoens, H. (and J. Paquet, until 1996), ‘Bibliografisch Overzicht Universiteitsgeschiedenis der Nederlanden/Bibliographie de l’histoire des Universit´es aux Pays Bas et en Belgique’, Batavia Academica, 2(1984)–12 (1994), continued since 1995 in Nieuwsbrief Universiteitsgeschiedenis/Lettre d’infomation sur l’histoire des universit´es. ¨ Erman, W. and Horn, E. Bibliographie der deutschen Universitaten. Systematisch ¨ ¨ geordnetes Verzeichnis der bis Ende 1899 gedruckten Bucher und Aufsatze ¨ ¨ uber das deutsche Universitatswesen, 3 vols., Leipzig and Berlin, 1904–5; rpt. 1965. Fletcher, J. M. and Deahl, J. The History of European Universities: Work in Progress and Publications, 5 vols., Birmingham, 1977–81. Fletcher, J. M. and Upton, C. A. ‘Publications on University History Since 1977: A Continuing Bibliography’, History of Universities, 7 (1988)–13 (1994). ˜ Garc´ıa y Garcia, A. ‘Bibliograf´ıa de historia de las universidades espanolas’, Reper´ ˜ 7 (1979), 599–627. torio de historia de las ciencias eclesiasticas en Espana, ¨ Hammerstein, N. ‘Jubilaumsschrift und Alltagsarbeit. Tendenzen bildungsgeschichtlicher Literatur’, Historische Zeitschrift, 236 (1983), 601–33. ¨ historische ¨ ‘Neue Wege der Universitatsgeschichtsschreibung’, Zeitschrift fur Forschung, 5 (1978), 449–63. 111

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Christophe Charle ¨ ¨ ‘Nochmals Universitatsgeschichtsschreibung’, Zeitschrift fur historische Forschung, 7 (1980), 321–36. Lubenow, W. C. ‘University History and the History of Universities in the Nineteenth Century’, Journal of British Studies, 39 (2000), 247–62. Parker, L. (ed.) Institutions of Higher Education: An International Bibliography, New York and Westport, 1990. ¨ Pester, T. Geschichte der Universitaten und Hochschulen im deutschsprachigen ¨ Raum von den Anfangen bis 1945. Auswahlbibliographie der Literatur der Jahre 1945–1968, Jena, 1990. Petry, L. ‘Deutsche Forschungen nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg zur Geschichte der ¨ Sozial und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 46 ¨ Universitaten’, Vierteljahrsschrift fur (1969), 145–203. Porciani, I. (ed.) L’Universita` italiana. Repertorio di atti e provvedimenti ufficiali 1859–1914, Biblioteca di bibliografia italiana, CLXVI, Florence, 2001. Porciani, I. and Moretti, M. (eds.) L’Universita` italiana. Bibliografia 1848–1914, Biblioteca di bibliografia italiana, CLXXII, Florence, 2002. ¨ Stark, E. Bibliographie zur Universitatsgeschichte, Verzeichnis der im Gebiet der ¨ Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1945–1971 veroffentlichten Literatur, ed. E. Hassinger, Freiburg and Munich, 1974. Steiger, G. and Straube, M. ‘Forschungen und Publikationen seit 1945 zur ¨ Geschichte der deutschen Universitaten und Hochschulen auf dem Terri¨ Geschichtswissenschaft, 7 (special issue) torium der DDR’, Zeitschrift fur (1960), 563–99. ¨ ¨ Straube, M. and Flaschendr ager, W. ‘Forschungen zur Geschichte der ¨ Universitaten, Hochschulen und Akademien der DDR’, in Historische Forschungen in der DDR 1960–1970. Analysen und Berichte. Zum XIII. Internat. Historikerkongreβ in Moskau 1970, Berlin, 1970, 187–209 (= ZfG, Sonderbd. 18. Jg.). ¨ ¨ ¨ Straube, M., Flaschendr ager, W., Grau, C., Klaus, W., Kohler, R., and Kraus, A. Forschungen zur Geschichte des Hochschulwesens, der Akademien der DDR ¨ Hochschulbildung sowie der Wissenschaften in den 70er Jahren, Institut fur Berlin, 1981. ˜ Vico Monteoliva, M. ‘Bibliograf´ıa sobre la historia de las universidades espanolas’, ´ 3 (1984), 281–90. Historia de la Educacion, Zanella, G. ‘Bibliografia per la storia dell’universita` di Bologna dalle origini al 1945, aggiornata al 1985’, Studi e memorie per la storia dell’ Universita` di Bologna, new series, 5 (1985).

General works ¨ ¨ Boehm, L. and Muller, R. A. (eds.) Universitaten und Hochschulen in Deutschland, ¨ ¨ Osterreich und der Schweiz. Eine Universitatsgeschichte in Einzeldarstellun¨ gen, Dusseldorf, 1983. Charle, C. and Verger, J. Histoire des universit´es, Paris, 1994. ¨ Conze, W. and Kocka, J. (eds.), Bildungsburgertum im 19. Jahrhundert. Bildungssystem und Professionalisierung in internationalen Vergleichen, Stuttgart, 1985.

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Patterns d’Irsay, S. Histoire des universit´es franc¸aises et e´ trang`eres des origines a` nos jours, 2 vols., Paris, 1933–35. Frijhoff, W. ‘Universities: 1500–1900’, in B. R. Clark and G. R. Neave (eds.), The Encyclopaedia of Higher Education, vol. II, Oxford, New York, Seoul and Tokyo, 1992, 1251–59. Higher Education and Society: Historical Perspectives. 7th International Standing Conference for the History of Education, 2 vols., Salamanca, 1985. Karady, V. ‘La migration internationale d’´etudiants en Europe, 1890–1940’, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 145 (December 2002), 47–60. J´ılek, L. (ed.) Historical Compendium of European Universities/R´epertoire historique des universit´es europ´eennes, Geneva, 1984. ¨ Minerva, Handbuch der gelehrten Welt I, Die Universitaten und Hochschulen usw., ihre Geschichte und Organisation, Strasburg, 1911. Minerva. Jahrbuch der gelehrten Welt, 1 (Strasburg, 1891/2)–33 (Berlin, 1938), ¨ Abt. Universitaten und Fachhochschulen, I. Band: Europe. ¨ Muller, D. K., Ringer, F. and Simon, B. (eds.) The Rise of the Modern Educational System: Structural Change and Social Reproduction, 1879–1920, Cambridge and Paris, 1987; 3rd edn, 1989. Ringer, F. K. Education and Society in Modern Europe, Bloomington and London, 1979. Romano, A. (ed.) Universita` in Europa. Le istituzioni universitarie dal Medio Evo ai nostri giorni. Strutture, organizzazione, funzionamento, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Milazzo 28 Settembre–2 Ottobre 1993, Messina, 1995. Romano, A. and Verger, J. (eds.) I poteri politici e il mondo universitario (XIII– XX secolo), Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Madrid 28–30 Agosto 1990, Messina, 1994. Rothblatt, S. and Wittrock, B. (eds.) The European and American University Since 1800: Historical and Sociological Essays, Cambridge, 1993. Schriewer, J., Keiner, E. and Charle, C. (eds.) Sozialer Raum und akademische ¨ Kulturen. Studien zur europaischen Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert / A la recherche de l’espace universitaire europ´een. ´ Etude sur l’enseignement sup´erieur aux XIXe et XXe si`ecles, Frankfurt-amMain, 1993. ¨ Schubring, G. (ed.) ‘Einsamkeit und Freiheit’ neu besichtigt. Universitatsreformen ¨ Wissenschaftspolitik im und Disziplinenbildung in Preussen als Modell fur Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts. Proceedings of the Symposium of the XVIIIth International Congress of History of Science at Hamburg-Munich, 1–9 August 1989, Stuttgart, 1991.

Individual countries BELGIUM Demoulin, R. ‘L’universit´e en Belgique’, in M. Gresset and F. Lassus (eds.), Institutions et vie universitaire dans l’Europe d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. Actes du Colloque de l’Association interuniversitaire de l’Est, Besanc¸on, 27–28 septembre 1991, Besanc¸on and Paris, 1992, 243–61.

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FRANCE Charle, C. La r´epublique des universitaires (1870–1940), Paris, 1994. Condette, J.-F. La Facult´e des lettres de Lille de 1887 a` 1945. Une Facult´e dans l’histoire, Lille, 1999. Gerbod, P. La Condition universitaire en France au XIXe si`ecle, Paris, 1965. Neveu, B. Les facult´es de th´eologie catholique de l’Universit´e de France (1808– 1885), Paris, 1998. Verger, J. (ed.) Histoire des universit´es en France, Toulouse, 1986. Weisz, G. The Emergence of Modern Universities in France (1863–1914), Princeton, 1983.

GERMANY Espagne, M. Le creuset allemand, histoire interculturelle de la Saxe XVIIIe–XIXe si`ecles, Paris, 2000. Handbuch der deutschen Bildungsgeschichte, vol. III: 1800–1870. Von der ¨ Neuordnung Deutschlands bis zur Grundung des Deutschen Reiches, ed. K. E. Jeismann and P. Lundgreen, Munich, 1982; vol. IV: 1870–1918. Von ¨ der Reichgrundung bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs, ed. C. Berg, Munich, 1991; vol. V: 1918–1945. Die Weimarer Republik und die nationalsozialistische Diktatur, ed. D. Langewiesche and H. E. Tenorth, Munich, 1987. Jarausch, K. H. Students, Society and Politics in Imperial Germany: The Rise of Academic Illiberalism, Princeton, 1982. McClelland, C. E. State, Society and University in Germany, 1700–1914, Cambridge and New York, 1980. ¨ Von der mittelalterlichen Universitat ¨ zur ¨ Muller, R. A. Geschichte der Universitat. deutschen Hochschule, Munich, 1990. Paulsen, F. Geschichte des gelehrten Unterrichts auf den deutschen Schulen und ¨ Universitaten: vom Ausgang des Mittelalters bis zur Gegenwart mit beson¨ derer Rucksicht auf den klassischen Unterricht, 2 vols., 3rd edn, Leipzig and Berlin, 1919–21; rpt. 1985. Ringer, F. K. The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community, 1890–1933, Cambridge, Mass., 1969. Titze, H. ‘Die Evaluierung des Bildungswesens in historischer Sicht’, Zeitschrift ¨ Erziehungswissenschaft, 5 (2002), 552–69. fur ¨ Titze, H., with Herrlitz, H.-G., Muller-Benedict, V. and North, A. Hochschul¨ studium in Preussen und Deutschland, 1820–1944, Gottingen, 1982.

ITALY Fioravanti, G., Moretti, M. and Porciani, I. (eds.) L’Istruzione universitaria (1859–1915) (Pubblicazioni degli Archivi di Stato, Fonti XXXVIII; Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Fonti per la storia della scuola V), Rome, 2000.

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Patterns Gasnault, F. La cattedra, l’altare, la nazione. Carriere universitarie nell’Ateneo di Bologna 1803–1859, Bologna, 2001. Malatesta, M. (ed.) Society and the Professions in Italy, 1860–1914, Cambridge, 1995. Palma, B. L’Universita` fra accentramento ed autonomia, Urbino, 1983. Polenghi, S. La politica universitaria italiana nell’eta` della Destra storica (1848– 1876) (Brescia, 1993) Porciani, I. (ed.) L’Universita` tra Otto e Novecento: i modelli europei e il caso italiano, Naples, 1994. Universita` e scienza nazionale, Naples, 2001. Tomasi, T. and Bellatalla, L. L’universita` italiana nell’eta` liberale (1861–1923), Naples, 1988.

THE NETHERLANDS Frijhoff, W. ‘The Netherlands’, in B. R. Clark and G. R. Neave (eds.), The Encyclopaedia of Higher Education, vol. I, Oxford, New York, Seoul and Tokyo, 1992, 491–504. Groen, M. University Education in the Netherlands, 1815–1980, Eindhoven, 1988.

SPAIN ´ de Rapariegos y Sainz ´ ˜ Ajo Gonzales de Zu´ niga, C. M. Historia de las universidades ´ ´ a nuestras dias, 11 vols., hispanicas. Origenes y desarollo desde su aparicion Madrid, 1957–77. Aulas y Saberes. VI Congreso Internacional de Historia de las Universidades ´ Hispanicas (Valencia, December 1999), 2 vols. Valencia, 2003. Claustros y estudiantes. Congreso internacional de historia de las universidades ˜ americanas y espanolas en la edad moderna, Valencia, noviembre de 1987, 2 vols. Valencia, 1989. ˜ J.-L., Fell, E.-M. and Aymes, J.-R. L’universit´e en Espagne et en Guerena, Am´erique latine du Moyen Age a` nos jours, vol. I: Structure et acteurs, Tours, 1991; vol. II: Enjeu, conditions, images, Tours, 1998. ˜ (siglos XVIII y XIX). Despotismo Peset, M. and J. L. La universidad espanola ´ liberal, Madrid, 1974. ilustrado y revolucion ´ Rodr´ıguez-San Pedro Bezares, L. E. (ed.) Las Universidades Hispanicas de la monarqu´ıa de los Austrias al centralismo liberal. V Congreso Internacional ´ sobre Historia de las Universidades Hispanicas, Salamanca, 1998, 2 vols., vol. II: Siglos XVIII y XIX, Salamanca, 2000. Torres, P. R. (ed.) Doctores y Escolares. II Congreso Internacional de Historia de ´ las Universidades Hispanicas, Valencia, 1995, 2 vols., Valencia, 1998.

UNITED KINGDOM Anderson, R. D. Education and Opportunity in Victorian Scotland, Oxford, 1983. Armytage, W. H. G. Civic Universities: Aspects of a British Tradition, London, 1990.

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Christophe Charle Brock, M. G. and Curthoys, M. C. (eds.) The History of the University of Oxford, vol. VI: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, part 1, Oxford, 1997; NineteenthCentury Oxford, part 2, Oxford, 2000. Brooke, C. N. L. A History of the University of Cambridge, vol. IV: 1870–1990, Cambridge, 1995. Dahrendorf, R., LSE: A History of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, 1895–1995, Oxford, 1995. Searby, P. A History of the University of Cambridge, vol. III: 1750–1870, Cambridge, 1997.

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Since the creation of higher education establishments, relations between them and their supervisory authorities, be these religious, political or constituted by economic interests, have always posed complex questions, some of them circumstantial and others structural. They raise the important, age-old debate on the educational, scientific and administrative independence of university teachers and students. Suffice it to recall, in this respect, the numerous, sometimes tragic, conflicts which broke out in the thirteenth century in the European universities faced with the hegemonic ambitions of episcopal or royal authority.1 Before 1800, though even more so in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these frequently conflictive relations posed a very different problem than they had done in previous centuries, for European political systems were secularized and tended to become independent of the established churches (Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox). Governments often endeavoured to play the role of a ‘teacher-state’, imposing on teaching establishments a uniform educational system in line with their political or ‘philosophical’ aims. France after 1806 saw the establishment of university monopoly, exclusive to the establishment of the Imperial University.2 The universities had to adapt to new pedagogical and scientific 1

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Paul Gerbod tasks, provide courses unknown until then and admit an increasing number of teachers and students. The old independence–subordination dilemma reappeared throughout Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals in a partly new and markedly unstable context, varying geographically and chronologically according to political, economic, social and cultural change. Any definition of the nature of relations between the universities and their supervisory authority must, first of all, include an analysis of the various forms of dependence to which university establishments were subject after 1800, then a description of the types of pressure applied by the external authorities and, finally, the kind of resistance employed by the university bodies against this threat from ‘the outside’. financial dependence First of the possible forms of dependence involving the European universities after 1800 was financial. In less than a century and a half, from the end of the French Revolution to the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, almost all university establishments, some earlier and some more radically than others, reached the stage where they lost their financial independence. On their foundation, the medieval universities had been endowed with assets (land, farm rents, buildings and various benefices) intended to ensure that in the future they would enjoy as complete a material independence as possible. Clear examples of this are the colleges of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The University of Uppsala founded in 1477, was endowed by King Gustavus Adolphus II (1594–1632) with generous income from smallholdings, from ecclesiastical prebends and various properties which were to ensure its total independence.3 On the eve of the Second World War, however, the state had to meet the greatest part of the university’s expenditures. This was also the case with the University of Lund, which on its foundation in 1668 was granted most of the property and revenues of the Catholic chapter and clergy of the town (including 30 prebends and 900 plots of land). In Denmark, the University of Copenhagen, founded in 1479, had been given the possessions of the Catholic clergy (tithes and real estate) in 1539. In Hungary, the revenue at the disposal of the University of Budapest since 1773 ensured its financial independence up to 1869.4 These were not exceptions, and up to the end of the eighteenth century the universities with their endowments and private and municipal donations remained, on the whole, at least partly 3 4

See vol. II, 187. Minerva, Jahrbuch der gelehrten Welt, 1–23 (Strasburg, 1891/2–1914), 24–32 (Berlin and Leipzig, 1920–36), 33/1: Europa (Berlin, 1938).

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Relations with authority self-sufficient; the result was that some of them were the ghosts of their former selves, reduced to a few teachers and very unpretentious premises, particularly in the Kingdom of France. This tradition was still prevalent several centuries later in Napoleonic France, rather paradoxically it would seem, when the Emperor founded the Imperial University and granted it the monopoly of teaching. He endowed it with the property of the pre-1789 universities (or at least what was left of it after the sale of the national assets decided by the Constituent National Assembly) and with the ‘university fees’ paid by secondary school pupils, by students in the faculties and by private secular educational establishments. All of this revenue was managed by the university bursar without any state control. So the faculties of law, medicine, theology, sciences and arts, which in France took the place of universities up to 1896, or even up to the Edgar Faure Law of 1968,5 were from the outset materially autonomous.6 This ‘Golden Age’ was for most universities a more or less mythical memory. It was followed by an ‘Iron Age’ which saw the supervisory authorities, and more particularly governments, rule the establishments’ finances with a rod of iron. But these constraints varied in degree and timing from the British Isles to the Empire of Russia, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean states. The universities of Oxford and Cambridge, for example, managed to retain their financial independence. Most of the Oxford colleges in particular had large revenues, which ensured substantial salaries for their principals and their teachers. Moreover, up to the mid-nineteenth century, Parliament was morally and legally unable to exercise the slightest control over the management of these university revenues or even to be informed as to their precise nature and origins. Even in cases as extreme as these, state control tightened in the 1930s, and British universities on the whole only survived through subsidies from the University Grants Committee, which in 1934–35 totalled some 34 per cent of university income.7 Before the 1930s, British universities founded in the nineteenth century (the ‘redbrick’ universities) such as Birmingham or Manchester had largely benefited from the financial support of the municipal authorities. In Ireland, the Belfast Presbyterian College and the Royal Catholic College of Maynooth benefited from public subsidies from the beginning of the nineteenth century. In the case of the Scottish universities, too, the state started to meet expenditure even before 1900. 5 6

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Paul Gerbod areas via the creation of a state-controlled administration governing education, teacher recruitment, study regulations and control over research. creation of ministries of public education A first sign was the creation in most countries of Ministries of Public Education which, among their administrative tasks, were given responsibility for higher education affairs. Wilhelm von Humboldt was director of the section for public worship and education in the Prussian Ministry for Home Affairs when he succeeded in founding the University of Berlin in spite of the difficulties and the distrust encountered by his patriotic and scientific initiative.12 But he resigned in 1810 after sixteen months of successful work, because he did not succeed in elevating his section into a Ministry. Such a Ministry for Worship, Public Education and Medical Affairs was established in Prussia in 1817.13 In France, the foundation of the Imperial University in 1806 was accompanied two years later by the organization of a central administration directed by the Grand Master of the University in the person of Louis de Fontanes (1757–1821), poet and politician. The administration of the state faculties was thus entrusted to an external authority dependent on the political authorities. Subsequently, this administrative structure was maintained by later political regimes under other names: Commission of Public Education, Secretary of State for Worship and Public Instruction, Ministry of Public Instruction and Worship, Ministry of National Education (from 1932).14 In other states, such as Denmark, Italy, Spain and Russia, similar structures were found, sometimes even earlier. If up to the advent of the National Socialist Third Reich the administration of public education had remained a privilege of ¨ the German states, then of the Lander, 1 May 1934 saw the creation of a Ministry of Public Education of the Reich.15 In the USSR, the university establishment depended on the administrations of the federated republics, 12 13

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Relations with authority but for the USSR as a whole there was a Minister of Public Instruction, who as a member of the USSR Council of Ministers had control over higher education. This administrative hierarchy was further strengthened by the decree of 19 September 1932. In the case of the religious, municipal or private universities which were founded in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,16 we can note the setting-up of external supervisory bodies. The British universities represented a marked exception to the quasi-general rule. It was through these central administrations that the external authorities could influence education and research. The recruitment of teachers, for example, tended to elude the universities themselves. Their deliberative bodies (academic senate, faculty council) or the national qualifications boards as in Spain or in France (Higher Education Consultative Committee) could undoubtedly make appointment proposals, but in the end the final choice was a royal privilege. This was fully exercised in autocratic or totalitarian states. Nor was its use totally absent from democratic states. In England, for example, a few teaching chairs could be filled by the sovereign; in Germany in the nineteenth century, the appointment of tenured professors depended on the princely or royal authorities. In Spain, alongside recruitment by national competition entrusted to boards of five ´ procedure), there was another members, themselves professors (oposicion procedure, called concurso, which allowed the minister to appoint a candidate of his choice.17 If in France, from the outset, the faculty councils retained the right to put forward candidates for a vacant chair, the Minister of Public Education could always reverse the preferential order or even favour an outsider. Throughout the last century we come across ministerial choices which showed little respect for faculty wishes. This dependence lasted beyond the nineteenth century; it apparently tended to become attenuated in democracies such as France. In 1924, the Minister of Public Instruction, against the proposals presented by the council of the faculty of law of Paris, appointed Georges Scelle (1878–1961), then principal private secretary of the Ministry of Labour in the government of Edouard Herriot (1872–1957) after the election victory of the Cartel des Gauches. This appointment, considered to be a political favour and contrary to university tradition, elicited a violent reaction of the Action Franc¸aise students and created a climate of riots in the Latin Quarter.18 The state intervention intensified in Hitler’s Germany, in Mussolini’s Italy and Soviet Russia. It should be noted that, in the case of religious or private universities, the supervisory authorities’ right to inspect was far

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Paul Gerbod from negligible. In Europe as a whole, this was a real form of academic dependence, which intensified rather than diminished over the years. educational dependence Educational dependence stricto sensu in terms of study regulations was also very great in that governments sought to establish national standards, particularly for pre-professional training in medicine19 and law,20 but also for the future arts or science teachers.21 Moreover, the modernization of higher education establishments required the teaching of new subjects and the disappearance of obsolete disciplines. In the various teaching sectors, state intervention from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries became invasive and even imperative. In Spain, after 1845, the state took the place of the former university corporations, which until then had been pedagogically independent but ossified by age-old opposition to change. It then imposed new study curricula and laid down examination regulations.22 This was also the case in Hungary after the creation of the Austro-Hungarian state, through the 1867 compromise. It was the Minister of Public Education who was to define henceforth the number of teaching chairs, the content of the courses and the order of examinations, and to approve the appointment of lecturers. This interventionism was found in most states in Germany and in the Kingdom of Belgium after 1830. In France, after the creation of state faculties in 1808, study and examination regulations were no longer within the jurisdiction of the establishments, but became the object of laws, decrees, orders, edicts and circulars issued by the central administration, which laid down the framework for teaching in all faculties and for each discipline. This enabled the central administration of successive governments to amend the regulations. Between 1852 and 1856, Minister Hippolyte Fortoul (1811–56) even demanded that the teaching body should cover the entire speciality in three years and each year communicate to the Minister the content of their courses.23 After the First World War, the educational relations between states and universities hardly seemed to change. Only a few old universities such as Oxford and Cambridge retained full pedagogical independence. The same was true in certain respects for the redbrick universities which were better 19

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Relations with authority adapted to the needs of the nation. On the Continent, however, we can speak of an increase in state intervention. This could be seen in the fate of the Russian universities subjected to the ideological direction of the Communist Party. The Soviet state imposed the content of the courses, the order of studies, examination regulations, the conditions of access to higher education (with a sociological numerus clausus excluding the children of the bourgeoisie to the advantage of students from the working class).24 In Hitler’s Germany, the state wielded real academic dictatorship over the universities. It should also be noted that in the 1930s, in the Poland of the colonels, in states like Hungary or Antonio de Oliveira Salazar’s (1889– 1970) Portugal, autocratic governments found the temptation to establish a more rigorous control over higher education irresistible. In the course of the nineteenth century, state intervention also left a more insidious, indirect pedagogical mark by the creation of nonuniversity higher education establishments over which state control could be exclusive. After 1800, we see a multiplication of special schools offering advanced technical training for the most varied of professional careers – military, commercial and industrial. These schools may have depended on different ministries but they all had in common the fact that they were state-run.25 The educational dependence was also typical of the religious or private higher education establishments. The Catholic universities in Rome, Belgium, Spain or Poland all depended directly or indirectly (through the local episcopal authority) on the Roman Holy See. This was particularly true in France of the Catholic theology faculties and, from 1875, of the Catholic Institutes in Paris, Lille, Angers, Lyon and Toulouse; the same applied to Strasburg, which had the only Catholic theology faculty dependent on the state since the return of Alsace Lorraine in 1919.26 In a totally different field, scientific research does not seem to have been spared external dependence. In university establishments, the teaching staff’s obligation to contribute to the advancement of knowledge was an ancient tradition in Europe. Alongside an undeniable, positive, scientific amateurism in all the disciplines that they taught, the universities played a major role in advancing the human and natural sciences as well as theology and medicine.27 In the nineteenth century this tradition persisted, but it fell victim to a certain number of restrictions. These were primarily material handicaps: in France and elsewhere, universities 24

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Relations with authority In 1833 Oxford saw the outbreak of the Movement ‘scandal’, involving several scholars such as John Henry Newman (1801–90). The religious authorities reacted vigorously and the leaders of the Oxford Movement had to submit to or break with the established Church.31 A punctilious defence of the dominant or exclusive religious ideology was to be found also outside the strictly denominational universities. In France, in the course of the fierce struggles for the abolition of university monopoly between 1831 and 1857, the arts faculties were virulently criticized by a part of the episcopate because of what they considered to be the irreligious teaching of the professors of philosophy.32 A few years later, the philologist Ernest Renan (1823–92), author of a Life of Jesus, was the victim of an opinion campaign against his teaching and had to abandon his chair at the Coll`ege de France.33 Strictly political dependence, for its part, never ceased to restrict (when it did not abolish) the freedom of higher education, because very soon, and in the nineteenth century in particular, universities appeared to be capable even of overthrowing the ruling governments. In France, from the foundation of the Imperial University, the Grand Master of the University himself had to take an oath of loyalty to the Emperor, and the members of the university – teachers, students and pupils alike – were invited imperatively to denounce to their hierarchical heads all subversive measures endangering the Napoleonic regime. This obligation laid down in the Imperial Decree of 17 March 1808, the constituent charter of the University of France, was apparently not abolished after 1815 by later regimes. The outcome was that governments were able to use the disciplinary code of the university, made more specific in 1811, to take legal action against any political deviance. Hence the legality of the successive purges of the teaching bodies of the faculties following the political fluctuations of 1815, 1830, 1848, 1851 and 1871.34 Sanctions were also taken against student ‘agitation’ in 1820–22 and 1832 and between the two wars when the Camelots du Roi (the young people belonging to Action Franc¸aise) dominated the Latin Quarter and organized violent demonstrations against the government of the Republic. In the Russian Empire there was already under the Tsars a strict system of control over the universities.35 In other European countries constraints were doubtlessly less visible or rather less blatant, but they still existed. 31 32 34

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Paul Gerbod When in 1819–20 revolutionary agitation developed among the students in the German states, the Congress of Carlsbad meeting within the framework of the Holy Alliance of 1815 invited the governments concerned to take repressive measures. In 1837, when the King of Hanover revoked ¨ the liberal constitution seven professors of the University of Gottingen protested publicly against this coup d’´etat and had to abandon their chairs.36 In Austrian Italy, up to the middle of the nineteenth century, the Vienna Government exercised a painstaking supervision over the universities in the peninsula. Subsequently in the Fascist Italy of the 1920s, as in Hitler’s Germany of the 1930s, the political supervision of professors and students became one of the major concerns of the new political regimes and was marked by previously unknown purges and sanctions. When all is said and done, these three main forms of dependence were closely linked and intended to prevent higher education establishments from contributing to political and ideological destabilization or even the overthrow of the ruling political regimes. Their denominational or ideological ‘orthodoxy’ had to be maintained at the price of certain restrictions on the freedom of thought, even though this had always been one of the privileges of higher education. Yet governments still needed the legal means to impose this denominational or ideological ‘orthodoxy’. legal guaranty and actual repression of academic freedom To legitimize prevention and repression, the supervisory authorities, especially governments, first increased legislation, frequently contravening the content of the universities’ founding charters and the traditions of higher education since the Middle Ages. Many a national constitution proclaimed loud and clear the intangible and sacrosanct respect to be granted to freedom of thought and, in particular, to the liberties that higher education should enjoy. This was the case with the 1924 Soviet Constitution, and that of the Weimar Republic in Article 142 (‘art, science and their teaching are free – the State affords them protection and encouragement . . .’);37 the same was stated in the 1933 law which governed relations between the Polish state and the universities (law of 15 March 1933, amended in March and July 1937). This statement on the freedom of teaching was also found in the Hungarian constitution of 1848. In Romania the Jorga Law of 1931 granted total independence to 36 37

See chapter 5, 152. ¨ R. A. Muller, ‘Vom Ideal der “libertas philosophandi” zum Dogma der “Freiheit der ¨ Wissenschaft” (1848–1918/19)’, in C. Friedrich, Die Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat ¨ Erlangen-Nurnberg 1743–1993. Geschichte einer deutschen Hochschule (Erlangen and ¨ Nurnberg, 1993), 65–95, quotation p. 71.

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Relations with authority higher education; in 1937 its liberal scope was restricted by the Angelesco law. In 1933 with the advent of the republic in Spain a liberal university bill was drafted but never voted. In France, the 1806 law which founded the Imperial University granted the state a de facto monopoly of education called the ‘university monopoly’. The recognition of the freedom of higher education only dated from 1875, after the voting by the National Assembly, dominated by the monarchist, liberal right wing, of the 12 July 1875 law, which put an end to the battle waged since 1830 by the Catholic Church for the freedom of education already won in 1850 thanks to the Falloux (1811–86) Law on primary and secondary education. With the arrival in 1877 of a ‘Republican’ majority in the Chamber of Deputies, the law of 1875 was amended; mixed juries (public higher education and private higher education) for the granting of university degrees were abolished and from 1880 private higher education establishments could no longer call themselves universities. Moreover, governments, by the decision of the prince or by the vote of parliamentary assemblies, had always been in a position to restrict and even at times to abolish any liberties that the universities might have enjoyed. Europe therefore stockpiled an ‘exuberant wealth’ of complex legal and legislative weapons: laws, decrees, orders, edicts and circulars. Examples of legislation and regulations were numerous, not to say innumerable.38 In Spain, the privileges of medieval origin which the universities enjoyed were abolished by the laws of 1845 and 1857.39 In Great Britain, where the privileges of old universities such as Oxford and Cambridge had appeared to be untouchable in 1850, the ‘Royal Commission for the purpose of holding an inquiry into the state of discipline, studies and revenues of the university and colleges of Oxford’ was set up. Two years later an identical commission was set up for Cambridge. Following the work of the two commissions, two acts of parliament were voted, the first in 1854, the more important in 1877, and an executive commission was entrusted with the task of ensuring the application of this parliamentary legislation. The Scottish universities were for their part not spared state intervention. The British Parliament in 1858 removed de facto the Edinburgh town council from the management of ‘its’ university. In Russia, on its own initiative, the Tsarist power defined the successive constitutions for the universities between 1755 (for the newly founded University of Moscow) and 1912, before the Communist power imposed its ideological and administrative monopoly by new legislation after 1917. 38

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As examples: A. de Beauchamps, Recueil des lois et r`eglements sur l’enseignement sup´erieur de 1798 a` 1880 (Paris, 1886); E. R. Huber, Dokumente zur deutschen Verfassungsgeschichte, 4 vols. (3rd edn, Stuttgart, 1978–91); I. Porciani (ed.), L’Universita` Italiana. Repertorio di atti e proffedimenti ufficiali 1859–1914 (Florence, 2001). ˜ Peset, Universidad Espanola, 430ff., 461ff.

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Paul Gerbod In the Kingdom of Romania, the laws of 1864, 1898, 1907 and 1912 wrapped the university in a legislation straitjacket.40 In Germany, after the coming to power of the National Socialist party, the decree of 1 April 1935 strengthened state control over education.41 In the Kingdom of Italy, the Casati Law of 13 November 1859 imposed a uniform system and increased the universities’ dependence on the state. This law, amended on a certain number of points of detail, became partly outdated by the implementation of two decrees, one promulgated in 1923 (Decreto Gentile) and the other in 1935 (Decreto-Lesse De Vecchi), within the framework of the new Fascist state.42 In the case of the Catholic universities, authority was in the hands of the Holy See, exercised by the local episcopate or by those responsible for the teaching orders. The extent to which this legislation, which had become complex and luxuriant over the years, was ever really applied within the establishments themselves was another matter. Governments had at their disposal civil servants or intermediaries inside or outside the universities to ensure the application of all this legislation. At the peak of the inquisitorial hierarchy sat the Ministers of Public Education, members of the government in office playing the role of middlemen between the political power (the sovereign or the legislative assemblies) and the teaching establishment. In a state like France, since the foundation of the university (in fact since the Flor´eal Law of the year X (15 May 1802), they had senior civil servants called inspectors general whose mission was to make annual visits to the various establishments (their ‘round’) and inform the ministry about how they were run. Under the Second Empire a general inspectorate of higher education was set up alongside the general inspections of primary and secondary education: this special inspectorate was to survive until 1887.43 Furthermore, within the academic districts (grouping several departments; seventeen in number after 1856 including Algeria, then sixteen after the annexation of Alsace Lorraine in 1871 by Germany), posts of rectors responsible for the supervision of all the scholastic establishments (including the state faculties) in their geographical area were created. Outside of France it seems difficult to find an equivalent for this institution, though to a certain extent the members of the University Grants 40

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J. Sadlak, Higher Education in Romania: Between Academic Mission, Economic Demands, and Political Control, Special Studies in Comparative Education 27 (Buffalo, NY, 1990). Huber, Aufbau des deutschen Hochschulwesens (note 15), 17 T. Tomasi and L. Bellatella, L’Universita` italiana nell’eta` liberale (1861–1923) (Naples, 1988), 94–128. A. Santoni Rugiu, Chiarissimi e Magnifici. Il professore nell’universita` italiana (dal 1700 al 2000) (Scandicci and Florence, 1991), 201ff. P. Gerbod, ‘Inspection g´en´erale et inspecteurs g´en´eraux de l’instruction publique de 1802 a` 1880’, Revue historique, 217 (1966), 79–105.

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Relations with authority Committee in Great Britain since 1919 constituted a permanent body controlling the activities of universities which applied for grants. The role of administrative middlemen between the universities and the political authorities was entrusted to persons whose title differed according to the country concerned. It could be a purely honorary post such as that of the sovereign’s ‘visitor’ in Great Britain, or chancellor for Oxford and Cambridge and the Scottish universities (usually a member of the higher nobility, allied or not to the royal family), when it was not the local bishop (for the University of Durham or that of Uppsala). In some Germanic countries and beyond in Russia, the most current title was that of ‘curator’. He could have extensive internal police and financial powers; appointed by the political authority, he was the obligatory intermediary between the latter and the university establishment. In the absence of these intermediaries, who would sometimes play the role of intercessors and defend the interests of the institutions for which they were responsible, the authorities could impose teachers in whom they had full confidence as managers of the establishment and as rectors. At the Catholic University of Louvain, the rector magnificus was designated by the Belgian episcopate. Faced with opposition from within the universities, the supervisory authorities could take various repressive measures against opponents or alleged opponents (teachers and students). So the teaching body was not immune to disciplinary sanctions. In France, since the foundation of the Imperial University and particularly since the 1811 decree, the university code, which was a compilation of the laws, decrees, edicts and circulars governing the university, provided details of the penalties which could be applied to the members of the university: blame, automatic transfer, striking-off, forced retirement and removal from office.44 Through these legal provisions it was possible, when necessary, to ‘purge’ the teaching corps of opponents to the government in office. A decision on sanctions could be the subject of a prior enquiry by the academic and the university council according to a legal-type procedure, but the political power could always override it in case of crisis or change of regime. So it was that in nineteenth-century France purges were frequent in 1814– 15 against Bonapartist teachers, in 1819–22 against liberal teachers, suspending Franc¸ois Guizot’s (1787–1874) and Victor Cousin’s (1792–1867) classes at the Sorbonne, in 1830 against Carlist university teachers and again in 1848–51. Subsequently during political crises such as the Commune in 1871, Boulangism in 1889, the Dreyfus Affair at the end of the century or in the conflict which opposed Republic and Catholic Church between 1880 and 1909, new, mainly individual, sanctions were imposed. 44

A. Rendu, Code universitaire (Paris 1811, 1827, 1836, 1846, successive editions published); see de Beauchamp, Recueil des lois (note 38), passim, and Bulletin administratif du Minist`ere de l’Instruction Publique (1850–1932), 20.

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C. Singer, Vichy, l’universit´e et les juifs. Les silences et la m´emoire (Paris, 1992). 47 See chapter 4, 117–21. See chapter 8.

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Relations with authority studies, granted academic degrees, could receive legacies, acquire and manage real estate, or present people for ecclesiastical benefices. So, buttressed by privileges of medieval origin, the old universities of England and Scotland were able to resist Parliament’s pressure and attempts at interference for a long time. On the Continent, too, the universities were usually run by councils with different names. Their statutes authorised them to organize their programmes, to define curricula, to grant academic degrees, and to maintain internal order and discipline. But this independence, which in some cases extended to the material and financial sphere, was limited. For important problems (appointments, course curricula, creation or suppression of chairs, finances and equipment) the councils could only make suggestions. Even the right of proposal developed slowly in the nineteenth century. It was the political power represented by the minister responsible for higher education which decided on these matters. It usually followed the opinion of the councils, but in case of conflict the authorities triumphed over the resistance of the councils. In authoritarian regimes, this resistance was purely formal. If university resistance wanted to manifest itself and make itself heard by the political authorities, it had to take ‘illegal’ or rather ‘extra-legal’ paths and arouse more or less violent reactions from the governments in office. The least ‘illegal’ form of opposition was an appeal to public opinion. Thus in Germany, the dismissal of De Wette (1780–1849) from his theological chair in Berlin 1819 for political reasons,48 as well as the dis¨ missal in 1837 of the seven professors from the University of Gottingen, aroused a widespread public protest-movement. In England, in the 1830s, the Dissenters campaigned for the admission of non-Anglicans to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and exhorted public opinion to take their side by way of petitions, but they obtained satisfaction only in 1854. Episodically and, usually, fruitlessly, the opponents looked for outside support in the press and in political assemblies in opposition circles. This was particularly the case in France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. University resistance could also take the form of a teacher’s resignation or even exile. In 1852, following the 2 December 1851 coup d’´etat, Jules Simon (1814–96), replacing Victor Cousin as philosophy professor at the Sorbonne, preferred to give up his professorship rather than swear an oath of allegiance to the new regime resulting from the coup d’´etat. Jules Michelet (1799–1874) and Edgar Quinet (1803–75), professors at the Coll`ege de France, preferred to go into exile rather than continue their classes after 1852. These are but a few examples among others. 48

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Paul Gerbod In the twentieth century, resignation and exile were the indirect forms of resistance for many an opponent of the totalitarian regimes installed throughout Europe. So the advent of the Communist regime in Russia after 1917 was accompanied by the exodus of many Russian university teachers to Western Europe or the United States. This was also true of Mussolini’s Italy after 1925 and – although only in a few cases (e.g. the classical scholar Kurt von Fritz (1900–80) who refused the oath on Hitler) on a strictly voluntary basis – in Germany after 1933. Student resistance could no more seek to evade the pressure of the political power by transferring the whole university to another town as it happened in the Middle Ages. In Germany, some students followed their discharged or resigning teachers to other universities where they had found asylum. More frequently, student resistance was demonstrated in much more active, often illegal ways.45 Between the two wars, the agitation of the Maurras Right (that of the Camelots du Roi, in the Latin Quarter) became permanent, deteriorating into veritable riots during the Scelle Affair in 1925, mentioned above, and in 1936 against the professor of law Gaston J`eze (1869–1953) who in his capacity as French legal advisor to the Soci´et´e des Nations had sustained the economic sanctions against Italy after its conquest of Ethiopia. Thus, for almost a century and a half, relations between the universities and their supervisory authorities were conflictive more often than not. Far from being simply confined to technical and professional matters (curricula, budgets, examinations and teaching appointments), they were often politically and ideologically exacerbated. They continually raised the sempiternal problem of freedom of thought in teaching and scientific research. No political system, no matter how democratic, could really accept the total autonomy of the universities. Though they did retain a certain independence because of traditions often going back to the Middle Ages – that is to an age when universities were organically linked to the Western Christian Church – the universities were compelled to accept under duress more or less severe restrictions on their material and intellectual independence. Furthermore, any compromises that had been negotiated with the political power were always liable to be called into question according to political, ideological and social fluctuations from one state to another throughout the Europe of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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introduction From 1800 to 1939, institutions of higher education and universities in particular had to face the unprecedented, often extremely difficult, problems posed by new and increasingly diverse pedagogical and scientific objectives, by the development of science and technology, and by evergrowing numbers of students (both male and, increasingly, female). In 1789 there were about 12,500 students enrolled in France, twice the number of the 6,000 four hundred years earlier.1 In 1937 the University of Paris alone had 32,144 students, the University of Rome 14,203, more than all the Italian universities together in 1800.2 Rising numbers of students brought new and more acute material and financial problems. Old infrastructures were generally insufficient and inadequate; at the end of the nineteenth century the restoration of old and the construction of new university premises was widespread throughout Europe. Increased student populations accompanied larger teaching staffs which had to be paid, housed and administered, while the diversification of disciplines (above all the unprecedented importance of the exact sciences) required new accommodations better adapted to teaching and research (laboratories, science materials and equipment, libraries). Only the specialized schools of higher education (the grandes e´ coles in France, the Technische Hochschulen in Germany, institutes of agriculture and fine arts academies), to the extent that they maintained their administrative autonomy, generally escaped the problems facing the overgrown universities. Many establishments used competitive admission tests 1 2

C. Charle and J. Verger, Histoire des Universit´es (Paris, 1994), 46. ¨ Minerva, Jahrbuch der gelehrten Welt, 1 (Strasburg, 1891/2), 33, Abt. Universitaten und Fachhochschulen I: Europa (Berlin, 1938), on Paris 33, 754, Rome 870.

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Paul Gerbod to limit intake, but their student bodies represented only a fraction of the total European student population. The subject of this chapter, which deals successively with property structures, financing, student grants, and financial, pedagogical and administrative management is the extent to which universities succeeded in solving these problems in a Europe unsettled by a series of wars and revolutions. facilities reconsidered At the beginning of the nineteenth century most universities still occupied buildings dating from well before 1800. Still in their medieval setting, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge had housed successive generations of fellows, students, bursars or paying lodgers. The University of Coimbra and that of Salamanca continued to use their ornate premises. In France, the faculties of letters and sciences and theology lodged their teachers and students in the gloomy, uncomfortable rooms of the ‘Old Sorbonne’ around the chapel built on the initiative of Cardinal Richelieu (1585– 1642) in the mid-seventeenth century.3 Elsewhere, though (and throughout the nineteenth century) cities also used buildings originally built for other purposes, such as convents, private houses and mansions, to house their universities. The law faculty of Aix-en-Provence was located in a fifteenth-century hospice; the Besanc¸on faculty of letters lurked in an old Benedictine convent. The University of Moscow did not move out of the Repnin princes’ palace until after the 1812 fire. In 1884, the University of Vienna still occupied the buildings built in the early sixteenth century, ‘a vast construction with a portico preceded by a flight of stairs and adorned with sculptures’.4 In a number of university towns in Italy, medieval or modern palaces were used for university teaching; they were dilapidated and inadequate, though their surroundings were impressive. Most historic buildings and edifices drew complaint and indignation from their users. In 1938, the colleges of Oxford were more or less alone in arousing the admiration of the visitor, ‘genuine palaces, both austere and splendid, magnificently designed and constructed’.5 Their interior decoration, some of which had hardly changed over the centuries, was also grandiose and stirring. But in most places the situation was quite different; the buildings, too often inherited from the past, acquired without great discernment, were not suitable for teaching and research. In France, this 3 4

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¨ und Kollegium. Baugeschichte und Bautyp (Darmstadt, 1977), ¨ K. Ruckbrod, Universitat 121–3. A. Wurtz, Les hautes e´ tudes pratiques dans les universit´es allemandes et d’AutricheHongrie (Paris, 1879), gives accurate descriptions of laboratories, institutes and libraries. Travel guides often mention university buildings in their description of university towns. P. Gerbod, Voyageurs franc¸ais a` la d´ecouverte des Iles britanniques (Paris, 1996).

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Resources and management criticism was increasingly virulent in the reports of the general inspectors prior to 1865. In 1868, the first ministerial statistics presented a negative and alarming picture of the material conditions of most faculties.6 In the second half of the nineteenth century, the need for new university premises became apparent and urgent throughout Europe. If, in France, the construction of the ‘New Sorbonne’ begun in 1855 was only completed in 1901, elsewhere the restoration and construction of premises took place at a much more rapid pace. It was a question of building new ‘cathedrals of knowledge’ in the centre of towns or in their immediate outskirts. In Sweden, the universities of Uppsala and Lund were rebuilt in the 1880s.7 In Great Britain, the old universities acquired many new buildings and wholly new universities were built in industrial towns such as Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool. In the German Empire, after 1870, states and municipalities made a major financial effort to endow universities with ‘grandiose buildings’ such as those at Halle, ¨ Heidelberg, Gottingen, Leipzig, Munich and Karlsruhe. The results of this construction were admired in France,8 but very few ‘university palaces’ were built outside Paris. Lyon was an exception. At the beginning of the twentieth century too many faculties of letters, law and sciences were still housed in excessively cramped, insalubrious and uncomfortable premises, as was the case in Grenoble, Caen and Rennes. After the First World War, while the number of students and universities increased, university building started up again, particularly in the new states created by the 1919 treaties. In Hungary, three out of its four universities were built after 1920 with the financial support of the state. This was also the case in Czechoslovakia (the new University of Bratislava), in the Baltic states and in Yugoslavia. Also, there was further construction in Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and Italy. In Spain, only during the period 1920–39 did new construction begin at Madrid’s University City, including new laboratories, libraries and student residences. The Soviet Union’s policy after 1920 was to multiply centres of higher education, particularly in the central Asian and eastern Siberian republics. Between 1800 and 1939, higher education institutions other than universities also benefited from the building boom. If the Ecole Normale 6

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The first ministerial statistics on higher education were drawn up in 1865, when Victor Duruy was minister, and published in 1868; the statistical enquiries in 1878, 1889 and 1900 described the material conditions (buildings, collections, laboratories) obtaining in the state faculties. For the period prior to 1865, see the files in the Archives de France, ˆ rapports d’inspection g´en´erale des facult´es, F17/ 13068 ff.; batiments F17/ 13255ff. C. Hippeau, L’Instruction Publique en Scandinavie (Paris, 1879); P. Ponnelle, Les universit´es scandinaves (Paris, 1882). R. Blanchard, A propos des universit´es allemandes (Paris, 1884); F. Minssen, A propos de l’enseignement sup´erieur en Allemagne (Paris, 1866); Wurtz, Hautes e´ tudes (note 4). See also P. Gerbod, ‘L’enseignement a` l’´etranger vu par les p´edagogues franc¸ais (1800–1914). Approche bibliographique’, Histoire de l’´education, 5 (1979), 19–29.

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Paul Gerbod Sup´erieure de Jeunes Filles (founded in 1882) occupied the old seventeenth-century buildings of the former S`evres factory, most of them were installed in purpose-built buildings. The Ecole Normale Sup´erieure de Jeunes Gens, for example, which had remained in its makeshift premises in the Rue de Postes until 1845, was then transferred to newly completed buildings in the Rue d’Ulm. One could find many examples of this kind throughout Europe, especially as technical and commercial schools developed into university-like institutions. Many nineteenth-century university buildings were given a neo-classical or new-renaissance style,9 for example, in France the ‘New Sorbonne’; in Finland the University of Helsinki with its main building, library, observatory, clinics;10 in Austria and in the German states Greco-Roman temple pediments and colonnades were adorned with innumerable sculptures. In Marburg and Freiburg though, a neo-Gothic style was adopted, as in Great Britain where architects found it difficult to free themselves from neo-Gothic styles. In the ‘redbrick universities’, however, use was occasionally made of new materials such as iron and glass. Leading architects became interested in the construction of what were called ‘Cathedrals of Science’: Gottfried Semper (1803–79) in Zurich, Heinrich Freiherr von Ferstel (1828–82) in Vienna, Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) and Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1835–1924) in Oxford, Henri-Paul N´enot (1845–1934) in Paris. On the whole, the neo-classical or neo-Gothic styles retained ecclesiastical affinities with halls and cloistered quadrangles. In the twentieth century, however, between the First and the Second World Wars, we can see a glimmering, at the new University of Madrid, for instance, of the idea of the university campus composed of dispersed buildings. Similarly, after 1920, Paris University’s halls of residence opened on the southern borders of the capital were composed of buildings more or less distant from each other within an area sown with lawns, planted with trees and crossed by picturesque pedestrian walkways. There also were redbrick residence halls in the suburbs of British cities. As time passed, university construction emphasized the acquisition of scientific apparatus and collections. The increasing importance of the exact sciences among university disciplines demanded in particular the creation of laboratories for teaching and for research. In the first half of the nineteenth century, physics and chemistry laboratories, and mineralogical or zoological collections were of only marginal importance and often 9

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Resources and management relegated to the cellars or attics of university buildings. All this changed in the second half of the century.11 But the results of scientific equipment investment policies were very unequal from one state to another. Once again, Germany set the example. On a mission to the universities across the Rhine, the French professor Adolphe Wurtz (1817–84), in his reports (in 1871 and in 1878), stressed the extent of the work which had made it possible to build ‘grandiose’ modern and well-equipped chemistry, physics, physiology and anatomy institutes such as those at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig. The German model was also found in AustroHungary in Vienna and in Graz, where the buildings were located on vast grounds outside the ramparts, ‘where air and light flooded in’.12 In France there were major delays. At the beginning of the 1880s, a ministerial enquiry revealed the often lamentable state of many science faculty laboratories: aged and uncomfortable premises, obsolete and unusable scientific equipment, extremely primitive and precarious hygiene and safety conditions.13 Yet, thanks to state funds, the devotion of the teaching staff and the help of the municipalities, these shortcomings were partly overcome by 1914. During the inter-war period, the prestige of science was well established and laboratories were installed in university establishments even if, in the 1930s, they were still often cramped and inadequately equipped. Experimentation and research were carried out in the face of difficulties even in major centres of science, like the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. For centuries, the very nature of higher education had also demanded that scholarly works – rightly considered as indispensable tools – be made available to students and teachers. Since their foundation, most universities had continued to enrich their library collections.14 From the nineteenth century, these collections were an essential element of university life. At first often housed in some odd corner of the main buildings, libraries came increasingly to occupy more appropriate premises often separate from the teaching buildings. Some occupied historical buildings, former princely palaces, convents, private mansions. But, after 1850, they were placed mainly in new buildings. In Paris, the Sainte Genevi`eve library was built during the Second Empire, while the university library was transferred to the New Sorbonne in 1901. Beside the university libraries stricto sensu the great public libraries of the European capitals founded and supported by kings, governments or municipalities also contributed to the development of university activity. 11 12 13 14

P. Gerbod, ‘Le financement de l’enseignement sup´erieur et de la recherche en France au XIXe si`ecle’, Revue administrative, 35 (1983). Wurtz, Hautes e´ tudes (note 4). Enquˆetes et documents sur l’enseignement sup´erieur, 9 (1883). See subject index: ‘Library’ in vols. I and II.

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Paul Gerbod Table 4.1 Books available in some university and public librariesa Foundation Athens Belgrade Berlin kgl./pr. Staatsb. Brussels B. royale Budapest Coimbra Copenhagen Royal Library Cracow Ghent ¨ Gottingen Helsinki Leiden London f British Museum Lund Madrid Nacional Moscow Oslo Oxford Paris Sorbonne Sainte-Genevi`eve du Roi/Nationale Rome Nazionale Vaticana St Petersburg Academy Imp./Statet L. Vienna Hof/National

1837 1926 1831 1659 1887 1837 1635 1591 1482 1665 1517 1797 1735 1640, 1827 1587 1838 1753 1671 1822 1711 1756 1811 1602 1765 1624 1518 1661 1815 1450 (c.)

c. 1830b

300

400 112 430


1890c

1910d

1938e

160
30
140
875


314
63
558
1,480
80
600
480
160
350
750
403
350
600
230
520
85
200
289
1,650
414
450 800
902
400
3,500
240
818
445


400
200
987
2,698
100
900
700
500
430
920
620
600
960
800
1,200
310
4,450 500
295
1,400
990
872
1,500
1,000
520
4,000
516
1,129
650


500
1,807
856
1,000


4,520
6,520
1,226
1,313


375
190
95
300
500 205
300
450
170
310
1,600
150
52
450
180
307
550
142
120
2,016
90
491
220
160
1,000
417
500


1728 1814 1775 1526

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Resources and management the college founded by Robert de Sorbon (1201–74) in the Latin Quarter in 1253.15 After 1800 the only ones still existing were the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, which housed fellows, paying lodgers and scholarship students. However, in many higher education institutions, ´ the boarding tradition remained as, for example, in France, in the Ecoles ´ Normales Sup´erieures or the Ecole polytechnique. Generally speaking, students lodged off the university premises. The idea of ‘student houses’ reappeared at the end of the nineteenth century, apparently within the framework of student associations.16 But it was not until the end of the First World War that the idea of university-sponsored residence halls began to take shape. In the 1920s the Paris Cit´e universitaire was established to the south of the capital with the 350-room Deutsch de la Meurthe Hall. In 1935, nineteen other halls of residence built by foreign states or financed by French communities provided accommodation for 2,500 male and female students. Following this Parisian model, halls of residence were built in the 1930s in a certain number of provincial towns. It was also in the 1930s that we have the broad outlines of the Madrid ciudad universitaria built on the outskirts of the capital and comprising teaching and research buildings as well as student accommodation for Spaniards and Latin Americans. Student residences multiplied between the two wars in other countries like Romania and Czechoslovakia, often managed by Catholic or Protestant bodies. Discussions also started on a projected students’ residence under the auspices of the University of Rome. Finally, among the annexes to the university there were new or enlarged botanical gardens, zoological parks, astronomical observatories as well as natural history and archaeological collections essential for the teaching of natural sciences and history. There were also sports grounds, particularly in Britain. University sport became more important in other countries, too, during the inter-war period. i n c r e as i n g ly h e av y a n d d i v e rs e expenditure outlays The building of premises and the acquisition of scientific works and materials implied long-term strategies to increase financial resources. The ‘extraordinary’ budget of the universities became heavier year after year. There was an annual burden of maintenance also, including heating and lighting, calling for the recruitment of a wide range of staff. The administration of ‘ordinary’ expenditure, some of it very specialized, became an increasing burden on institutions. 15

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Paul Gerbod Keeping the accounts for these various types of expenditure also became ever more complex. The various categories and statuses of teaching and research staff grew in number. At the beginning of the century, the service employees were simply a few porters, secretaries and bursars, perhaps also one or two librarians.17 The extension of the scientific disciplines, the introduction of laboratory work for the students, the increase in administrative tasks, required a larger and more diversified service staff, all with different statuses; laboratory assistants, assistant librarians, prosectors, accounting clerks in the secretariats.18 Teaching staffs, too, with the growing specialization of university disciplines and the increase in the number of students in higher education, became more numerous and differentiated. In the 1830s, the French faculties comprised altogether some 200 teachers; the corresponding numbers in 1860 and 1940 were 360 and 1,500. In the Netherlands, the University of Utrecht had nineteen teachers in 1840 and 150 in 1937. Over the same period of time, the University of Edinburgh saw its teaching staff quintuple if assistants and assistant professors are included. In Spain, the ´ number of full professors (catedraticos) rose from 276 in 1847 to 540 in 1935 to cope with increasing student numbers.19 In general, in the space of a century and a half, teaching staff had at least tripled in most institutions and in some cases increased tenfold.20 Salaries differed greatly from country to country and establishment to establishment, especially in Great Britain and Germany. In states influenced by the Napoleon model the central political authorities intervened very early on to define the salary scales according to qualifications, function and seniority. In France this was the case after 1809, in Spain and Italy, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Regulating salaries was much more precise and restrictive in all European countries after World War I. But wide variations still remained between one state and another.21 In several countries ordinary salaries paid from the university budgets or by the state were supplemented by fees for lectures and examinations, by allowances for holding an office, etc., all of which made up a sort of variable ‘bonus’.22 In Oxford and Cambridge, the self-governing colleges paid for the teaching of their own fellows. A second heading of expenditure, assistance to students, comprised essentially the provision of scholarships. The establishment of this form 17 18

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See vol. II, Subject index: ‘university officials’. The draft budgets of the Ministry of Public Instruction since 1835 contain the detailed list of the teaching and service staff posts for each establishment with an indication of the respective salaries. 20 See also, for the salaries, chapter 5, 140–7. Minerva (note 2). Annuaire international d’´education (1934–36). See chapter 2, 46–7, and chapter 5, 140–7.

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Resources and management of assistance dates back to the Middle Ages when, from the thirteenth century in most European universities, colleges were founded to lodge and board poor, deserving students. Though in France the colleges, and with them the scholarships, were abolished during the Revolution, elsewhere scholarships were usually maintained. There were 463 in the four Scottish universities up to 1858, and 458 in the second half of the century.23 At Oxford and Cambridge the fellows had in fact taken the place of the original scholars, but each college continued to provide funds at entrance or later for some needy students.24 In France, study grants reappeared in the 1880s for candidates of the agr´egation. In the German, Austrian and Belgian universities financial assistance for students seemed relatively generous (50,000 francs in Li`ege and Ghent in 1868 and 100,000 francs ¨ in Gottingen). In 1876, the University of Kazan in Russia offered 195 scholarships and that of Kharkov, 170. In the twentieth century, especially in the inter-war period, scholarships multiplied even though the sums spent on them were still relatively small. France, in 1937, granted only 2,911 scholarships. Spain spent a million pesetas on them. This did not amount to much in terms of support. In Great Britain, Germany and Soviet Russia, however, financial assistance was much greater. To the scholarships, stricto sensu, were added other forms of assistance which came from the budgets of the Ministries of Education or Public Instruction. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, some students were exempt from university fees and, in France, over 7,000 students received prˆets d’honneur (honour loans) between 1925 and 1934. In certain higher education establishments the students could be the material responsibility of the establishments themselves. In France, this was the ´ ´ case with the Ecole polytechnique and the Ecoles Normales Sup´erieures, and similar examples could be found in many other European nations. Among the expenditure on student assistance figured, very early in the nineteenth century, subsidies for student residences, travel grants and, subsequently, subsidised university cafeterias. Student associations, which increased in number at the end of the nineteenth century,25 were also given financial support. Thirdly, establishments had to worry even more about material expenditure. This was not just a matter of the maintenance of university buildings, heating and lighting bills, or of administrative expenses (office supplies, mailing costs, the printing of posters for courses and lectures), but also of the acquisition of scientific equipment or library books (for 23 24

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Paul Gerbod instance, the renewal of physics and chemistry apparatus for experiments and laboratory work, and also for its constant up-dating). Expenditure varied from one year to the next but it almost always increased. There remained the so-called ‘extraordinary’ expenses. These mainly concerned university buildings. As we mentioned before, it proved necessary during the second half of last century to start replacing dilapidated, impractical and inadequate premises. It was also necessary to think about building annexes for laboratories and libraries. So national university building policies became more important and a heavier burden on the higher education budgets managed by the institutions. The German states devoted, especially after 1871, large funds to new teaching premises and above all to modern, well-equipped laboratories which French observers noted with envy.26 For the University of Rome in the 1930s, the sums involved totalled 70 million lire. The contribution of municipalities in the form of building land grants were essential for the construction of the new ‘university palaces’ in Germany, Italy, France, for example, in Lyon, Bordeaux and Toulouse. The City of Paris contributed to the costs of the New Sorbonne, which in 1881 totalled 25 million francs.27 Private patronage also contributed to the new buildings and their running costs. Such was the case in many British universities, and in Spain with the Amo foundation for the Ciudad universitaria in Madrid; in France the Deutsch-de-la Meurthe student house and the Ecole libre des Sciences politiques (1872) were privately financed. The same was ¨ ¨ true for the Stockholms (1977) and the Goteborg Hogskola (1891), the ¨ Sozial- und Handelswissenschaften in Frankfurt-am-Main Akademie fur (1901) which was enlarged to a university in 1914, and the private universities of Turku in Finland (1917) and Aarhus in Denmark (1928). The diversification and the global increase in forms of institutional expenditure often increased university budgets tenfold in constant currency between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. In France, higher education expenditure, estimated at almost three million francs in the 1830s and 1840s, rose to over 45 million francs on the eve of World War II. In Italy, between 1870 and 1937, the growth in expenditure was in the region of one to five (from five and a half million lire in 1860 to 146 million lire in 1937). In half a century (from 1850 to 1900), the expenditure of the University of Berlin tripled.28 26 27 28

F. Lot, ‘De la situation faite a` l’enseignement sup´erieur en France’, in Les Cahiers de la Quinzaine (11 Febrary and 14 June 1906); Wurtz, Hautes e´ tudes (note 4). O. Gr´eard, Education et Instruction, Vol. IV: Enseignement sup´erieur (Paris, 1885). The amount in francs is calculated on the basis of 1914 gold francs, passim. Information on establishments’ budgets is sparse for the period before 1890. After this date, Minerva (note 2) and the Index Generalis mention in general the annual total

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Resources and management sources of finance From the nineteenth century onwards, the financial needs of the universities tended to be covered more and more exclusively by the state. In France, after 1800 the Imperial (Royal, after 1815) University had an endowment of 400,000 francs and the right to collect various university fees. It managed its income and its expenditure without interference from the state until 1834, at which time the budgets of school and university establishments were included in the general budget of the state. Thanks to the fees paid by their students, the faculties succeeded in covering their current expenses with the occasional help of the University Fund. The incomes of the faculties of law and medicine even exceeded expenditure. From 1809 to 1819, the accumulated profit of the law faculties rose to 630,454 francs. But during the July Monarchy (1830–48) the balance was upset and the state had to intervene.29 In 1840 the faculties had to accept a subsidy of 516,000 francs from the Ministry of Public Education to balance their respective budgets. At first modest, this state subsidy gradually increased over the years; in 1860 it was 807,000 francs, 1880 4,100,000 francs, in 1898 10,200,000 francs. This annual funding, which figured in the general state budget, represented an ever-higher percentage of the faculties’ income throughout the century. In 1898, it stood at 74 per cent for all of the seventeen French universities. If the University of Paris, which received the university fees paid by its students, obtained a grant of only 57 per cent of its income from the state. the provincial universities received much more. The University of Besanc¸on was granted 93.5 per cent of its income, Dijon, 86 per cent and Aix-en-Provence, 85.5 per cent. Similarly, in Germany, the universities’ own income gradually decreased proportionately against the general increase in current and extraordinary expenditure. By the 1860s, student fees at the University of Berlin represented barely 4 per cent of income. During the same period, the resources of the seven Prussian universities (university fees, gifts and endowment income) constituted only 23 per cent of total receipts. After 1880, the German states took over responsibility for all expenditure on higher education.30 In Hungary, the University of Budapest covered all of its expenses with its own resources up to 1869, when the state intervened, and similarly in Italy, Spain, Russia and the Scandinavian states insufficient incomes to meet growing university expenses had to be supplemented by public means.

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expenditure (scholarships, libraries, in particular) and income (role of the state, own resources, university fees). C. Jourdain, Le Budget de l’Instruction Publique de 1802 a` 1854 (Paris, 1857). Blanchard, Universit´es allemandes (note 8).

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Paul Gerbod The two exceptions were the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, at least in the nineteenth century. Some of the colleges in these two establishments had been richly endowed and their income was considerable. It was estimated in 1860 that the resources of the Oxford colleges were around 200,000 pounds sterling (some six million 1914 gold francs). In 1900 they totalled some 341,360 pounds, enough to pay the heads, more than 400 fellows and 770 scholarships, but at the beginning of the 1930s, Oxford’s income totalled only eight million francs, including state assistance provided through the University Grants Committee, as was the case in other universities. The situation of Cambridge was similar. In the 1860s, the income of its colleges totalled six million francs and the wealthiest of its colleges had almost a million francs. In 1933, Cambridge’s income was around eleven and a half million francs. Taking Europe as a whole, only those universities which were very well endowed and which had lived through the centuries without any major upheaval retained real financial autonomy. In fact, since university fees generally remained relatively low from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, the gap between resources and real expenditure continued to widen. Moreover, after 1800, gifts and legacies became increasingly rare and smaller, with only a few exceptions. The state and occasionally local communities, together with the Catholic or Protestant Churches, therefore intervened. Financial intervention by the state before 1800 had consisted of royal or princely endowments. In the nineteenth century, the role of the state became increasingly important and methodical. Not only the universities, but also specialized military or scientific, literary and pedagogical teaching institutions were founded or reorganized at the expense of the state.31 The local or regional communities’ share in financing the universities is much more difficult to specify. They were closely involved, even obliged to be so by the state, when it was a question of property transactions such as the acquisition or restoration of buildings. The generosity of these communities also extended to financing new or special courses, the granting of scholarships and the purchase of library materials. This form of patronage tended to slacken off virtually everywhere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But there were substitutes. These could be public or private bodies such as chambers of commerce and industry, employers’ associations and even trades-union organizations. In Great Britain during the 1890s, and in Germany after the First World War, the trades unions took part in the setting-up of university extension courses and the foundation

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Resources and management of workers’ colleges.32 Closer relations also began to develop between the university and industry. Especially in Germany, companies encouraged research in university laboratories through grants of money or by donating scientific material. Even in France, the science faculties incorporated applied science institutes in close relation with local industry (for example, industrial and hydraulic electricity and electro-chemistry in the case of the Grenoble faculty of sciences). Nor should the financial role of the European churches be neglected. To the extent that a large number of universities founded in the Middle Ages lived on the income from ecclesiastical benefices, the churches retained a right to oversee the financial aspects of their administration. With the emergence of non-denominational states in the nineteenth century, the links became weaker or ceased to exist.33 Even the faculties of theology escaped the financial control of the ecclesiastical authorities. Under these conditions, the financial input of the churches was marginal. Nevertheless, the reconquest of higher education by the churches (above all the Catholic Church) produced partial though not negligible results. The Church developed a network of great seminaries depending on the papal authority, which contributed in France to the neutralizing of the Catholic faculties of theology. In Rome pontifical institutes were founded or reopened, the most prestigious being the Gregorian University given back to the Jesuits in 1824; Catholic universities were founded in Dublin, Fribourg (Switzerland), Paris, Angers, Lyon, and reopened in Louvain, Camerino and Urbino.34 In the end, the generalization of financial recourse to the state allowed institutions to manage gradual increases in their annual current and extraordinary expenditure. By 1938, state participation in European university finance, depending on the university, ranged from 25 to 100 per cent. To the extent that these contributions came within the Public Instruction budgets and the general budgets of the state, they were subject to the vicissitudes of the political (and economic) situation and to the will of governments and their legislative assemblies. So began a process of budgetary ups-and-downs linked to political and economic variations. The universities’ financial stability was consequently called into question, and the control of the state, justified by arguments of financial rationality, was often extended to both teaching and research such as the abolition or 32

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Paul Gerbod Table 4.2 Number of inhabitants per student Great Britain Italy

Europe Germany France Russia 1800 1815 1840 3,375a 1850 1870 1900 1,410 1913 1934 1938 950 a

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3,958 1,384

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creation of courses, fixing staff salaries, controlling expenditure, incurring extraordinary expenditure. Nevertheless, from the end of the nineteenth century until World War II, a relatively large overall increase in the financial participation of the states in the development of higher education can be noted, even if the criticism, the claims and the indignation were voiced as strongly and continuously as ever. The comparison that can be established between the amount of state funding in 1900 and that in 1936–37 in a certain number of states and universities (basing our analysis on funds in constant 1914 gold francs) leads to the conclusion that political regimes became more generous. More globally, a comparison between the costs of higher education at the beginning of the twentieth century and those at the end of the 1930s (reduced, as usual, to 1914 gold francs) reveals the increasing and undeniable interest of political regimes, local and regional communities, national associations, the churches and individuals, especially bearing in mind national demographic trends (Tables 4.2 and 4.3). These examples show large variations from one country to another, although not such extreme ones as between the average cost in 1900 of some 3,000 francs for a student at Oxford and less than 200 francs for a Spanish student. From an overall European viewpoint, however, the growth in annual income available to the university was indisputable. It speeded up between 1900 and 1937, corresponding to a better image of higher education in national public opinion. The extension and specialization of higher education were closely linked to the raising of its average level throughout Europe and, externally, to the unemployment of its graduates during the economic crisis of the early 1930s.35 35

ˆ A. Rosier, Du Chomage intellectuel: De l’encombrement des professions intellectuelles (Paris, 1934); P. Allard, Que faire de nos fils et de nos filles (Paris, 1934).

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Resources and management Table 4.3 Annual cost, (t) total in million francs, (s) of a student, (i) per inhabitant Europe (t) 1840/50 1900 1934/35 1937 a b

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i n c r e as i n g ly d i v e rs e a n d c o m p l e x administrative tasks Until the beginning of the nineteenth century, the administrative management of universities did not cope with problems, for student and teacher numbers were small. In France, during much of the nineteenth century, the administration was often reduced to a faculty secretary, assisted by an accounts secretary, porters and service employees.36 Material cares were reduced to the heating and possibly the lighting of teaching premises. The odd cellar or attic served as a laboratory and the book collections did not require the employment of a large staff. Much of that changed in the course of the century, as the administration was faced with more onerous, delicate and numerous tasks. In the first place, it had to ensure the day-to-day management of the teaching and service staffs, whose numbers increased in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some universities employed several hundred persons, and some, several thousands prior to the Second World War. These were employees of very different status: teachers, part-time lecturers, assistants, laboratory assistants, office workers, etc. Their recruitment had to be assured by collegial co-option, public competitive examination or a simple verbal agreement. The procedures for the proposal, selection and promotion of teachers suffered from an excessively legalistic approach. The teaching function, moreover, corresponded to a career, the various stages of which had to be managed by the administration. There was also considerable variation in salaries, which varied from one person to the next, and a wide range of ‘extras’ (participation in examinations, student fees), at least in the nineteenth century in most European universities. The vigilance of the administrative bodies extended to pedagogy. Teachers were obliged to give a certain number of classes and to supervise 36

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Paul Gerbod laboratory work or seminars. Regulations varied in time and space. The increasing use of substitute teachers associated with many professorial chairs, particularly in France and Germany, infringed the regulations which, however, remained in force. Teachers had to indicate the subject of their courses at the beginning of the year, and this figured on the notices put up by the administration. In some places – nineteenth-century France and Russia are examples – the political authorities, through the Minister of Education, demanded to know the content of the courses as well.37 The liberties enjoyed by the teaching staff, particularly from the scientific and ideological point of view, implied neither disorder nor licence. As civil servants, they were answerable to university discipline should they commit an offence in the exercise of their functions (or even in their private lives). This was particularly true of France, where the rules of disciplinary procedure for all the members of the university and the jurisdictions and procedures of the various legal bodies (faculty councils, academic councils, the University council, then the higher council of Public Instruction) were established under the First Empire.38 These restraints became very meaningful and extremely important in periods of political tension in Russia and in France. After World War I totalitarian regimes used disciplinary procedures to quash opposition in the university. The management of student bodies was the second task of the administration. This gradually extended to a whole range of areas. Taking responsibility for the students might be preceded by a competitive entrance examination. In most countries, a secondary education diploma was a sine qua non for admission to university education. In France, the baccalaureate was considered to be the first university degree and placed under the responsibility of the arts or science faculties. In the scientific, literary or technical higher schools the number of places was, in general, restricted, and the establishments organized an entrance examination that could be on a very high level, as in France for admission to the Ecole Polytechnique or the Ecoles Normales Sup´erieures. In Great Britain, the Oxford and Cambridge colleges subjected their potential students to entrance examinations. A totalitarian state could also take into account criteria such as ethnic origin, social class or ideological affiliation. Every admitted student had to matriculate and register for examinations. This implied the payment of fees for which the administration was accountable (stamp duty, diploma, and examination fees, for example). These procedures were renewable, in part, each year of studies. From the pedagogical point of view, the administration’s supervision could extend to the control of attendance at lectures and in laboratories, the holding

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Resources and management of examinations, and the opening of libraries and lecture rooms. Other service staff, such as porters or librarians, were also involved. Problems of everyday student life – for example offences committed within the university, duels, board and lodging, study grants, loans, national and international student bodies – only partially increased the responsibilities of the university administrations. Besides their patronage of associations, they set up local and national structures to facilitate the reception of foreign students and encourage student and teacher exchanges. This was the role of the national university offices created between the two World Wars. In the 1930s, when the economic crisis worsened in Europe and unemployment rose among university graduates, the problem of jobs for students became acute. In some states, the university authorities tried to help by setting up organizations which, though they could not accept responsibility for the situation, at least tried to find a solution for it. In France, there was the Bureau Universitaire de Statistique (BUS), created in Paris in 1932, and whose role in the preparation of relief measures for individuals was not negligible even before 1939. As administrative tasks concerning persons (teachers, service staff and students) increased, so did those dealing with property, laboratory equipment and libraries. In the second half of the nineteenth century these material problems became more numerous and more difficult to solve. It was not just a question of managing property that had deteriorated over the years, or of parsimoniously enriching the book collections which, in some cases, were centuries old. New premises had to be built, effective laboratories created, libraries extended and modernized. Administrations faced day-to-day emergencies (repairing premises, renewing scientific equipment) and the definition of policies for holding property, which implied negotiations with the state, local communities, and the users themselves. The financial management was made additionally burdensome by the requirements of clear, accurate and objective annual accounts, as occurred in France after 1835. Only autonomous universities like Oxford and Cambridge could content themselves with a certain ‘approximation’ in their accounts, at least up to the end of the nineteenth century.39 Finally, among the proliferation of administrative tasks, the maintenance of an ever-increasing correspondence should be stressed. u n i v e rs i t y g ov e r n a n c e Strong in their medieval traditions, defined at a time when the universities were communities of masters and pupils self-governing under the 39

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Paul Gerbod often theoretical tutelage of the local bishop or the sovereign pontiff,40 the European universities succeeded in retaining their essential forms of management beyond the eighteenth century. This was especially the case in Great Britain. The British Parliament, through the Privy Council, limited itself to granting universities a charter and perhaps partially to amending its terms, and to ordering enquiries into the system of studies or the financial management of the establishments. In addition to the fees paid by their students, the Scottish universities were financed from 1705 on by the Crown, from 1858 and 1889 on by the government, and the English city universities of the nineteenth century by local government and private sponsors. It was only in 1919 that central government subsidies became general. But they were distributed and their application controlled by a body composed of representatives of the universities, the University Grants Committee. Therefore neither the grant nor the supervision was resented as infringing the autonomy of the universities.41 The same applied in the Netherlands and in Scandinavia, in the German states up to the advent of Nazism, and in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, even if the universities were largely financially dependent on national governments. Up to the middle of the nineteenth century, the Spanish and Italian universities remained autonomous bodies, narrow in their routine, unaware of cultural and social change, and resistant to any attempts at reform. Through the reforms introduced in Spain by the Minister Antonio ´ Gil de Zarata (1793–1861) in 1845 and realized between 1857 and 1868 by Claudio Moyano Samaniego (1809–90) and the corresponding decrees,42 and those carried out in Italy by several ministers of education, by Casati in 1857, Matteucci in 1861, and Giovanni Gentile (1875–1944) in 1923, the state partially succeeded in imposing its administrative supervision, but traditions of self-management remained strong.43 This was even the case in France and Russia, where the control of university government by the state was very tight, as is shown in chapters 2 and 3. Nevertheless the Russian universities (as well as the single, national French one which up to 1887 was dissolved into Facult´es and Ecoles) kept to some corporate selfgovernment, unlike other institutions of higher education that multiplied during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and which were totally administered by the state. It might appear that the autonomy of university administration in many states was seriously restricted by a series of external constraints of which the state was but one. However, universities everywhere continued to 40 41 42 43

See chapter 4 in vols. I and II. F. Hutchinson, ‘The Origins of the University Grants Committee’, Minerva, A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 13,4 (1975), 583–620. ˜ Peset, Universidad Espanola, 406–7, 461–91. See chapter 2, 70–3, with the corresponding bibliography.

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Resources and management incarnate to some degree their historical tradition of self-government. This autonomy was founded on the corporate principle. Its mode of application varied according to the state and the university. We can, nevertheless, define a series of characteristics common to European universities. At the base were councils in which the members of the corporation elected the officials and decided on all academic matters. Oxford and Cambridge maintained the medieval tradition of a corporation self governed by their Masters of Arts. The supreme body, called Convocation in Oxford, Senate in Cambridge, was composed of all registered graduates who in the Middle Ages were allowed and even obliged to teach.44 Its membership in Oxford, ‘during the 1920s averaged at 7,691 but few of its members ever turned up, its powers had long been waning, and it met rarely’.45 Its most important task was the election (for life) of the chancellor. The legislative body of the university which also conferred degrees and decided on important executive matters – the Congregation in Oxford, the House of Residents, later on Regent House in Cambridge – consisted of all resident, mostly teaching members of the Convocation/Senate. It counted still several hundred members and had, besides the submission of statutes and the election of the vice-chancellor and other officials, the function of a referendum body which decided on resolutions, published in the Oxford University Gazette or the Cambridge University Reporter and opposed by a non placet of a small quorum of its members. Both supreme bodies, the main executive body for the day-to-day business – called the Hebdomadal Council in Oxford, the Council of the Senate in Cambridge – as well as the faculty councils and the special boards – for example, for student grants, the University Library, the University Press – were dominated by the colleges, whose particular interests only reluctantly accommodated the general interest of the university.46 Elsewhere, university governance by councils usually excluded in the nineteenth century all categories of teachers other than chair holders. In the twentieth century some countries allowed associate professors and lecturers to send representatives to the councils as members.47 Until the 1970s students and service staff were always excluded. The legislative body of the university, which consisted of all full professors – called Konzil, Konsistorium, Senat in universities following the German model, Assemblea Generale dei professori (1875), Collegio Generale dei professori (1923), Corpo accademico (1944) in Italy48 – dealt with matters 44 46

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45 History of Oxford, VIII, 678. See vol. I, 147. Ibid., 39–43, 683–719; University of Cambridge, IV, 341–69. Statutes, Decrees and Regulation of the University of Oxford. Statutes and Ordinances of the Universitiy of Cambridge. Cf. J. Rose and J. Ziman, Camford Observed (London, 1964), 195–216. See chapter 5, 138. B. Palma, L’Universita` fra accentramento ed autonomia (Urbino, 1983), 90, 141, 168.

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Paul Gerbod of general interest for the whole university, especially statutes, and at some places also nominated professors and elected the rector, if he was not chosen by the state, which was the case in the Napoleonic university model. The executive body, Senatsausschuss, Kleiner Senat, Conseil de l’Universit´e, Consiglio accademico (1875), consisted of the representatives of the faculties. The faculty councils elected their deans (where they were not imposed by the state), as well as their representatives for other bodies, dealt with all matters concerning curricula and examinations, and prepared the proposals for the nomination of professors. In Italy from 1875 all teachers took part in the faculty councils with the exception of the nomination procedures. Although their dilatoriness and lethargy, in short, their routine and conservatism, were often criticized, the councils played an essential role in defending the idea of autonomy and self-government. Through them the teaching staff participated in management and accepted a share of responsibility, which helped to promote after the Second World War and the end of the authoritarian political systems in Europe a renaissance of real autonomy in university governance. Other higher educational institutions also asked for more autonomy. Usually their presidents, rectors, directors as well as their governing boards were imposed by ministries, municipal governments or private donors. In Germany the Technische Hochschulen, after a century of opposing during the corporate rights of the universities, eventually won the right to elect deans and rectors, and to confer the Habilitation, the advanced doctoral degree (1899). In France it was only in 1968 that legal, administrative, financial and educational autonomy was granted to the universities by the Loi d’orientation of Edgar Faure;49 only in 1984 were the other institutions of higher education, controlled by the Ministry of Education, granted the right to confer academic degrees by the Loi Savary. The administrative officials, chosen from among the professorial body, was in principle only the executive agents of the different councils. In fact, in all universities, from the Atlantic to the Urals, their function were anything but a sinecure. They were the persons who represented the university or its members before outside political agencies, municipal councils, and religious, civilian or military dignitaries. They also embodied authority inside the establishments for the teachers, the students and the service staff. They prepared the deliberations of the councils and directed and ensured the application of the latter’s decisions. They were in charge of the offices responsible for implementing the measures decreed by the councils. In general, their functions were temporary; they might last one or two, seldom several years. Permanence was exceptional, 49

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Resources and management except for the heads of the Catholic universities in Belgium, Italy and France.50 This also applied to the chancellors of the British universities who, belonging in general to high society and being relieved by their vice-chancellors of all day-to-day business, were able to represent and defend the interests of the university to outside political agencies. Generally speaking, the management of the universities was for much of this time the business of the full professors who, in principle, could be called upon in their turn to exercise the functions of authority. Here the medieval tradition of corporate self-management remained healthy. With respect to their administrative structures, the European universities displayed an almost filial attachment to their centuries-old inheritance. They were proud of their long history, rooted in tradition, and sometimes opposed reforms with an obstinate, even a blind, resistance. But the rising tide of students submerged their ideas of autonomy and self-governance. It was necessary to build ‘university palaces’ or ‘cathedrals of knowledge’, which often proved too small after a few decades. The financial management of the individual institutions became more burdensome and complex, and financial exigency drove them to seek ever more money from the state. State interference in the functioning of the universities and schools thus intensified. As a result, university autonomy diminished during the nineteenth century. But an important vestige remained, reaffirmed after World War II, in the traditional principle of self-governance by councils. 50

For Belgium, see the example of Louvain University’s rector de Ram, cf. chapter 10, 401; for Italy, those of the Free University of Urbino, cf. F. Marra and L. Scirollo (eds.), Relazioni dei rettori. Discorsi inaugurali dei docenti nella Libera universita` degli studi di Urbino, 1864–1946, 3 vols. (Urbino, 1997). Carlo Bo (1911–2001) was its rector for 54 years from 1947 up to his death.

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CHAPTER 5

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general situation At the beginning of the nineteenth century, university teachers, especially professors, despite enlightenment and general secularization,1 were regarded as members of long-established orders, mostly ecclesiastical, but including the legal and medical orders; the use of the traditional gown in many European countries distinguished them from the nobility and the bourgeoisie. The universities as such were mostly part of the ecclesiastical world. At the end of our period, approaching the mid-twentieth century, only the teachers at the faculties of theology remained members of the clergy. They were also priests, ordinati, whereas in the early nineteenth century, the membership of professors of arts and science faculties in the clergy did not automatically mean that they were also ordained as priests. ¨ In the mid-eighteenth century, new foundations such as Gottingen were already modern in the sense that they were no longer linked to the eccle¨ siastical orders, and Gottingen itself was neither an old nor an important Episcopal See.2 Nor was the University of Moscow part of the Church from 1755; the university system was of Western origin, and was never part of an ecclesiastical order in Russia. In the new and modern University of Dorpat (Tartu) in Livonia, which was founded by Alexander I Emperor of all Russias, in 1802 (a Swedish university had existed in the same city in the seventeenth century), there certainly was a faculty of Lutheran theology, but the university was not placed under the control of the local bishop, but rather a special Kurator, or chancellor, a high state 1 2

See vol. II, Epilogue. ¨ ¨ im Zeitalter der Aufklarung’, ¨ N. Hammerstein, ‘Gottingen. Eine deutsche Universitat in ¨ A. Patschovsky and H. Rabe (eds.), Die Universitaten Alteuropas (Constance, 1994); A. ¨ Schindling, Bildung und Wissenschaft in der fruhen Neuzeit 1650–1800 (Munich, 1994).

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Teachers different political, economic and cultural development in various parts of the Continent. A good example of the changes typical for the beginning of the nineteenth century was the university in Finland. When the eastern parts of the old Kingdom of Sweden were transformed in 1809 into an autonomous Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire, the university’s revenues were almost doubled in 1811 to produce a good administrative staff for the new state. The economic system was successively moved from land income to budgetary income, the university was transferred in 1828 from the old ˚ bishops’ city of Abo/Turku to the new administrative capital of Helsinki, and the university received or had imposed on it from 1817 onwards an exclusive privilege to confirm aptitude for state service in all sectors, from administration and jurisprudence to a church career; no civil servant or priest could be appointed without having studied in the country’s only university. The ecclesiastical pro-chancellor’s post was withdrawn in 1817 and a state official, usually a general, was appointed instead as vice-chancellor. This development was largely favoured by the Russian minister Count Speransky (1772–1839), who wished to steer Russia itself into the same system of making the bureaucracy efficient. Finland was indeed the model for modernization, realized under the strong influence of a lively German discussion on the subject of the ideal university.7 In the period 1800–1940, considerable differences can be seen in different countries and different universities. The more old-fashioned, corporate type of university survived in many areas, normally situated in a smaller city with an old Episcopal See in the Catholic and Lutheran spheres. The professors’ and the students’ lives in these cities began to acquire a semi-romantic Arcadian aura outside the hard life of the capitals. Alt-Heidelberg became a concept; the famous duet cycle by Gunnar Wennerberg (1817–1901), Gluntarne, idealizing student life in Uppsala in the 1840s, became well known all over the Nordic countries, and chapters ¨ entitled ‘my years’ in, for instance, Oxford, Tartu or Tubingen, appeared in many memoirs. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and especially during the twentieth, many of those universities in the smaller cities such as Jena, Cambridge, Lund and so on became famous again, but now because of their scientific results. For the professors and other teachers and their families, the older university provided a special identity, combining devotion to research with a somewhat provincial outlook or behaviour. These universities probably also maintained more of the old corporate feelings, which manifested themselves in kinship patterns, academic parties and quarrels, rivalry and fraternity.

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Teachers faculty of theology, and employed practitioners in these fields as teachers. Here, again, the spirit of the university was marked by a higher percentage of Jewish professors, and a general orientation towards commercial and free professions.8 Generally speaking, the role and function of the professors and other teachers during the period 1800–1945 must be examined partly from the standpoint of bureaucratization of society (in Max Weber’s sense) and partly from the standpoint of a new politicization of society. Bureaucratization means introducing or strengthening ‘functional’ competencies, competence hierarchies, professional training, professional discipline and legalistic identification in contrast to a feudal and hereditary organization in the public service. This tendency is seen in the role of the universities and professors in their relation to the state as a whole as well as in the internal organization of the universities. The second main point is partly in contrast to the first, because the period 1800–1945 is also, besides one of bureaucratic professionalization, the great period of civic participation, in which the universities, students and especially the professors, played a considerable role. The first aspect of civic participation by the professors was linked to the shaping of the modern bureaucratic system. The essence of that system was the rejection of birth and patronage as the way to public office and the introduction of new career possibilities, whereby different traditions were created. In England, the old system retained its position most notably. Education in the classical universities of Oxford and Cambridge maintained its tradition of general humanistic and civic education, where civic participation, argumentation, manners and contacts with one’s own generation were central; this tradition favoured students of higher social origin, even if the British boarding-school tradition in itself stressed equality and other Roman virtues of fairness and being a gentleman. Charactertraining, whether expressed in rhetoric and Latin or in sports and military values, was central.9 In England, the modern trends did not produce major changes in the classical system, but the new ideals revealed themselves in new foundations, especially in the University of London and in the universities which were grouped under the somewhat patronizing sobriquet of ‘redbrick universities’, which stigmatized the new universities as provincial and parvenu.10 In France and other revolution-inspired countries such as Italy, the concours method gained ground. The public offices were, in principle, open to everybody, but the way of examining the candidates naturally 8 9 10

¨ Frankfurt am Main. Hammerstein, Universitat G. McCulloch, Philosophers and Kings: Education for Leadership in Modern England (Cambridge, 1991). D. R. Jones, The Origin of Civic Universities (London, 1988).

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Verger, Universit´es en France; I. Porciani (ed.), L’universita` fra Otto e Novecento: i modelli europei e il caso italiano (Naples, 1994). ¨ For 1840, 1870, 1892: F. Paulsen, Die deutschen Universitaten und das Univer¨ sitatsstudium (Berlin, 1902), 229; the numbers for 1938 are based on the indications about individual universities in: Minerva, Jahrbuch der gelehrten Welt, 33 (1938), Abt. ¨ Universitaten und Fachhochschulen 1. Bd.: Europa (Berlin 1938), and on Empfehlungen des Wissenschaftsrates zum Ausbau der wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen, vol. I: Wis¨ senschaftliche Hochschulen (Tubingen, 1960), Table 10, p. 487.

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held up as the ideal at that time, we can see a similar trend, although the figures are slightly different (Table 5.1). However, these average figures for each faculty do not show that the increase in the number of teaching posts was also attributable to the establishment of new chairs and subjects, particularly in the fields of medicine, the humanities and natural sciences. In general terms, the new chairs meant a profound change in the fields of knowledge towards systematization and specialization of all kinds of science, and in most cases, a growing research-orientated concept of the role of the university teacher, particularly of the professor. This evolution did not weaken the role of the professor as Ordinarius, or chair-holder, but rather strengthened his position as the leading expert in his field and as a sovereign judge of the scientific orientation and study curriculum in his sector of knowledge. This was particularly so for the professors of the faculties of letters and sciences, whereas in the theological, legal and medical faculties the curriculum was determined more by the collegium of the professors as a faculty council with input from the extra-academic authorities in the field. The authority of the professor only grew if his chair emerged at the head of a special institute or laboratory. The period 1800–1945 must be regarded as the era of the real ‘professors’ universities’, with state or ecclesiastical control diminishing from the Napoleonic period onwards. The professors’ role profited from the emergence of the university as a whole, their competence in training civil servants, and in all kinds of research and specialization of knowledge; state control diminished, with beneficial consequences for the universities, as no significant demands were made by groups inside or outside the universities to participate in the governance of these institutions. This description best covers the German university type, also present in the north of Europe, but it is in its essential elements valid for the Continent as a whole. It must also be said that the German university 129

Matti Klinge type was the leading role-model in Europe,13 and that this also favoured the expansion of the German concept of the professor as an authority. The effects on the individual subjects are discussed in chapters 10–15, but as the level of specialization grew, the subjects no longer tended to be embodied by individual professors. Greater emphasis was placed on communication and co-operation between colleagues, as typified by meetings of the faculty councils, often held on a weekly basis, to discuss promotions, Habilitationen and recommendations for appointments. These contacts were also cultivated in informal gatherings, academic coffee circles, or in institutions closely associated with the university, such as academies and learned societies. In many countries, although not in France where the faculties were directly dependent on the state up to 1896, the highest university bodies, such as the senate or consistory, looked after the interests of all the professors. Nevertheless, towards the end of the nineteenth century, there was still very little cross-subject contact between colleagues belonging to different faculties at the major universities and in the large cities. A new phenomenon of the nineteenth century was the inter-university and international congress, mainly in the field of the natural sciences and, by the turn of the century, in the most central fields of knowledge. At the outset the congresses had, as in the German or Scandinavian cases, both scientific and political purposes, stressing the national or supranational unity of knowledge and its representatives. Before the unification of Germany and Italy these meetings had a clear political meaning, as they did later in the pan-Slavic, pan-Nordic and other congresses of various sciences or groupings of sciences. Quite paradoxically, the phenomenon of congresses emerged alongside the enormous progress made in scientific publication and mail. The rapid evolution of scientific publishing created a desire to establish personal contacts. But the academic community was nevertheless still rather small, and younger scientists from foreign countries could even present themselves to celebrities like Hegel and ask him impertinent questions such as ‘When did he aim to publish the part of his System dealing with nature?’ access to an academic career In England, access to the old universities, Oxford and Cambridge, was reserved for members of the official Anglican Church, as were state offices. This reflects a pattern common to all countries with a state church. As the monarch and Crown appointed individuals to public office, and there was an official religion, it was quite natural that only adherents to the state confession could serve as the Crown’s officials. In so far as the universities 13

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Teachers could be regarded as institutions for training officers for state and church affairs, there was no problem at this point. But as the universities increasingly came to be regarded as places of scientific education and research, the idea of confessional uniformity became controversial. Nonconformity in confession could also mean nonconformity in other aspects, such as ethnic or racial background or social origin. In the British Isles, Catholics and Jews were two such groups. In Prussia, and also in other Protestant states of Germany, Catholics were not formally excluded from an academic career, but they were in practice seldom appointed to academic office. Before 1918, university teachers of the Jewish faith could generally not be appointed as full professors.14 In the period 1919–20, some Communists and their sympathizers were purged from the universities in the countries where there had been a civil war or an attempt at revolution, as in Poland and Hungary; right-wingers and many others were expelled, forced to emigrate or, in Russia, murdered. During the National Socialist regime in Germany about one-third of all university teachers, 11,500 professors, lost their chairs: some died in concentration camps; most emigrated.15 The social origin of professors and other university teachers during the period 1800–1940 has not been systematically examined. The great expansion in the number of civil servants and the bureaucratization of society, obliged society in general and the universities in particular to follow the century’s slogan of the carri`ere ouverte aux talents! This resulted in a decline in hereditary privileges. But the abolition of formal barriers to office did not always, in reality, result in a great change.16 It is obvious that many careers, such as in the legal and medical professions, preserved much hereditary professional allegiance. Although sometimes nepotism did exist, the general trend was more that a professor’s sons (and later, daughters) were often from an early age both orientated towards and prepared for the academic profession and therefore successful in competition. Marriages between young talents and the professor’s daughters still took place during this period. It is also obvious that many newcomer families rapidly created kinship ties to the old academic families. If a nucleus of academic families is often to be seen in the university teaching corps, one could also examine which other circles furnished members: in Germany at the turn of the century, where the profession had 14

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Matti Klinge been open for a long time, the largest group, about 20 per cent, was made up of those belonging to the academic community. A university career was seen as fashionable by the aristocracy and the higher bourgeoisie, but only in certain faculties and certain universities. The law faculty had a good reputation; a law professorship often led to higher administrative or court offices, politics or, in some cases, banking. In Lutheran countries, a professorship in theology could often result in a promotion to bishop.17 Two patterns, already present in the eighteenth century, can be discerned. There was a corporate sense of belonging to the academic world in many families, and new professors in different fields emanated from those familiar networks. In the cases of legal and medical professional bodies, as well as the Protestant clergy, the affiliation could be corporate in a double sense. The academic position could serve as a step from a lower ¨ social position to a higher one: the peasant’s or Kleinburger’s son could ¨ become professor of theology, and his son a bishop; or a Kleinburger’s son could become a professor of law and his son a banker or diplomat. The son of the famous professor of medicine in Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s (1860–1904) A Dreary Story is an officer who constantly needs money in his new social position, where the other young officers mostly come from noble and wealthy backgrounds.18 The faculty of philosophy, which outside German-speaking countries became divided into a faculty of letters and a faculty of sciences, was increasingly the nucleus of all universities.19 From having been the preparatory and youthful faculty it became the scientific, researchorientated and publishing faculty par excellence, first in Germany, and later elsewhere. This also was reflected in the status of the professors of those faculties, who were first merely teachers and in close contact with the high school teachers, wearing a gown not only in England but also in France, but who became, especially in the great cities, celebrated and elegant ‘princes of knowledge’, teaching in magnificent amphitheatres, living comfortably in houses with large libraries, fine paintings, fashionable dinners and servants. This influenced the aristocratic families and opened the academic career to their sons. The technical universities of the late 1800s created social bridges between industry, banking and applied sciences, especially chemistry and 17

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M. Schmeiser, Akademischer Hasard. Das Berufsschicksal des Professors und das Schick¨ 1870–1920 (Stuttgart, 1994); H. Titze with H.-G. Herrlitz, sal der deutschen Universitat ¨ V. Muller-Benedikt and A. Nash, Wachstum und Differenzierung der deutschen Univer¨ sitaten 1830–1945, Datenhandbuch zur deutschen Bildungsgeschichte 1, Hochschulen ¨ 2 (Gottingen, 1995); P. Moraw, ‘Vom Lebensweg des deutschen Professors’, Beilage zu: Forschung, Mitteilungen der DFG, 4 (1988), 5. See p. 157. See chapter 10, and ‘European Universities and Similar Institutions in Existence Between 1812 and ‘the End of 1944’.

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Teachers electrophysics. Between 1880 and 1914 both the professors of the natural sciences and technology grew together socially with the world of industry and colonialism. Professors of humanities merged with the political world – the journalists and writers and the great and glorified artists and composers – all of which assisted in making an academic career more attractive. A very large number of the future professors, however, still came from the lower classes of society. The learned career was, after all, the best way to upward social mobility for gifted young men without personal fortune or favourable family networks, but it demanded much work and dedication. As in other sections of society, access was facilitated if a relative or someone from one’s native village was in a position of authority in the university. Social networks played an important role in providing support during personal difficulties, but nevertheless many of these ambitious newcomers succumbed to disease, alcohol or mental disorders before attaining their goal. Women rarely became university professors during the period 1800– 1945. Their appointment was seldom explicitly prohibited, and indeed there had already been female professors in eighteenth-century Bologna.20 But the breakthrough of women as scientists and subsequently as professors was made at the turn of the century. The main subjects for women were mathematics, physics and medicine. Sonia Kowalewsky (1850–91) became professor of mathematics in the Stockholm Free University in 1884. Giuseppina Cattani (1859–1914), from a poor background, graduated in 1884 from the University of Bologna as the first female doctor in medicine and surgery, and in 1886 applied for the chair in general pathology at the University of Parma, was judged suitable for a full professorship but was not appointed; instead she received a lectureship in Turin in 1887, and in 1889 at Bologna. Marie Curie (1867–1934), the first female chair-holder at the Sorbonne, was appointed professor of physics in 1909. During the twentieth century, female professors became more common. They were often of a high social status, with many of them being daughters of professors or, later, women who had married an ambitious researcher in their youth, both spouses pursuing their academic careers and both then becoming academic teachers.21 20

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See vol. II, 296–7. M. Cavazza, ‘“Dottrici” e lettrici dell’Universita` di Bologna nel Settecento’, Annali di storia delle universita` italiane, 1 (1997), 109–26. M. Zannetti, ‘Giuseppina Cattani e la ricerca batteriologica sul tetano’, in Alma Mater Studiorum. La presenza femminile dal XVII a XX secolo, Ricerche sul rapporto Donna/Cultura Universitaria nell’Ateneo Bolognese (Bologna, 1988), 175ff.; Cf. ‘Cattani, Giuseppina’, in Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, 22 (Rome, 1979), 503ff. ¨ I. Costas, ‘Der Kampf um das Frauenstudium im internationalen Vergleich’, in A. Schluter (ed.), Pionierinnen, Feministinnen, Karrierefrauen? (Pfaffenweiler, 1992), 115–44.

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Teachers during the Third Republic, various pressures and party opinions influenced the process. The opposite was true for Prussia; as in other countries, the faculties had no right to put forward their own candidates for appointment. They could act on their own account only in assessing academic qualifications for promotions and, after the University of Berlin was established, for Habilitationen as well. The minister remained free to make his own decision on appointments and often undertook to make his own enquiries about possible candidates.23 Nevertheless, he generally invited the faculties’ opinions when he put forward his own candidates and asked them for proposals as chairs became vacant. This developed into an established practice, although it could be restricted by the state at any time. The Ministerialdirektor and later His Excellency Friedrich Althoff (1839–1908), a former professor of law in Strasburg, directed the nomination policy of all Prussian universities over a period of 25 years from 1882 to 1907. Althoff’s policy, still called System Althoff in Germany, evoked much admiration for its consistency and results, but also much criticism from both liberals and conservatives. Althoff was a strong character and he succeeded in imposing a policy under which the universities received more resources but had to maximize results. His impact was felt on the great new material resources and the general emergence of Prussian university life, including the foundation in 1911 of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Society, the forerunner to the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ¨ zur Forderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, and had great significance for the other states adopting the German university model: Austria, Switzerland, Russia and the Nordic countries.24 The success of the System Althoff must be seen in the context of the rise of Germany in general. Not for the first or last time, academic teaching and research, universities and professors, were seen as tools in the general economic and production process. This epoch recognized the demand for 23

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See the nomination procedures of the newly founded University of Berlin described in ¨ ¨ zu Berlin, vol. I: M. Lenz, Geschichte der koniglichen Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universitat ¨ Grundung und Ausbau (Halle, 1910), 200–76, and concerning the enquiries made by min¨ istries see R. Fester (ed.), ‘Der “Universitatsbereiser” Friedrich Gedike und sein Bericht an ¨ Kulturgeschichte, Erganzungsheft ¨ Friedrich Wilhelm II’, Archiv fur 1 (Berlin 1905), partly reprinted in H. Bookmann (ed.), Mehr als irgend eine andere in Deutschland bekannt. ¨ ¨ im Bericht des ‘Universitatsbereisers’ ¨ Die Gottinger Universitat Friedrich Gedike aus dem ¨ Jahre 1789 (Gottingen, 1996). B. vom Brocke, ‘Hochschul- und Wissenschaftspolitik in Preussen und im Deutschen Kaiserreich 1882–1907: Das System Althoff’, in P. Baumgart (ed.), Preussen in der Geschichte, vol. I: Bildungspolitik in Preussen zur Zeit des Kaiserreich (Stuttgart, 1980), 9–118; B. vom Brocke (ed.), Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissenschaftspolitik im Industriezeitalter. Das ‘System Althoff’ in historischer Perspektive (Hildesheim 1991); B. vom Brocke, ‘Friedrich Althoff: A Great Figure in Higher Education Policy in Germany’, Minerva, 29 (1991), 269–93.

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Matti Klinge specialization, contacts with industry, the student explosion and questions 25 ¨ of national prestige in the Konkurrenzkampf der Volker. Althoff discovered, promoted and nominated – if necessary against the advice of faculties – brilliant men, who in various ways gave stimuli and glory to German academic life. He had nothing against academic rites and traditions as a means of self-respect, but all this had little to do with academic freedom and institutional independence. By means of economic expansion the universities and their teachers were increasingly seen as parts of a national education system. Althoff created a national structure of universities and their teachers in Germany. In order to avoid the common mistrust of Prussian hegemony, he asked his colleague in the Saxon Ministry of Education, Karl Heinrich Waentig (1843–1917), to convene a ‘Conference of Representatives of German Governments in Charge of Higher Education’, which in the long term was intended to lead to a common system of higher education but, at the same time, allow regular consultations on appointments. Until 1933, it met often several times a year, all together 47 times; later, in 1937 and 1941, in Berlin and Strasburg.26 Opposition to the System Althoff and the ‘Cartel of German universityadministrations’ led in 1903 to the first ‘informal’ Conference of University-Rectors in Leipzig27 and in September 1907, the same month as Althoff resigned, to the first German Hochschullehrertag. The meeting was held in Salzburg, not in Prussia, and there was only one Prussian ¨ among the organizers, the Koniglich Preussische Professor der Staatsund Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wilhelm Sombart (1863–1941), who had long-standing notoriety as a left-winger.28 Famous non-Prussian professors, such as the economists Lujo Brentano (1844–1931) and Max Weber 25

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Teachers (1864–1920), accused the System Althoff of ‘making autocratic decisions in university matters’ and ‘treating the university administrations outside Prussia like vassals’.29 In general, many professors increasingly identified themselves as civil servants, with rather few brilliant Gelehrte as symbols for the academic tradition of independence and genius. The only response by the faculties against the incursion of state officials was to strengthen the role of scientific competence. This principle was based on an institution regarded by other countries as a peculiarity:30 the Privatdozent or private lecturer, i.e. an unsalaried member of the university staff. According to the university tradition the doctorate qualified an individual for university teaching, symbolized by the disputatio pro loco. From 1799, some governments set special rules for the admission of academic teachers. A master or doctor could become Privatdozent when his thesis had been recognized by the scientific community and when his lectures had proved his ability to teach.31 The University of Berlin introduced a second examination, the Habilitation. This took the form ‘of a public lecture on a subject chosen by the faculty or selected by the aspirant with the faculty’s agreement, after the faculty had satisfied itself as to the aspirant’s proficiency in the manner laid down in the regulations’.32 A scientific study, which was separate from the doctoral dissertation and often qualitatively less demanding, was prescribed by ¨ statute in Gottingen in 1831, Bonn in 1834, Berlin in 1838, Breslau in 1840, ¨ Bavaria in 1842, in Tubingen in 1883, and in Austria and the Germanspeaking part of Switzerland in 1888. By the end of the nineteenth century, it had been adopted by almost every faculty at German-speaking

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Matti Klinge universities.33 The increasing number of doctorate holders – many in medicine – and the general trend in certain professions towards the prestige of academic titles, had tightened up the rules for the Habilitation.34 The position of Privatdozent was the starting-point for a university career35 which then normally moved from an extraordinary professorship, where the teaching was limited to a particular field, to a full professorship or chair, with responsibility for the entire field of study. Professors were frequently appointed from other universities; this was regarded as a distinction and was rewarded with a higher salary. The professor gave the main lectures and marked the content of examinations, which greatly supplemented his income. On the whole, only professors could be appointed to the position of dean or rector and, until 1848, membership of the highest collegiate body at the university – the senate or council – was restricted to ordinary professors. Very slowly, and then only in limited numbers, were seats given to extraordinary professors, who were subsequently also given voting rights within the faculties. Private lecturers, on the other hand, took no part in the administration of the universities. They were entitled only to give lectures in the field of their venia legendi, the content of which was not prescribed, and the only remuneration they received was the attendance fee. Towards the end of the century in Prussia, they were brought under the umbrella of the state disciplinary authorities, which had some benefits for them since their work as dozents then counted towards their pensions.36 Overall, the system created considerable tensions between and within universities. These tensions developed into a movement to protect the interests of those who were not professors. The year 1909 saw the establishment of the Vereinigung ausserordentlicher Professoren Preussens (Prussian Union of Extraordinary Professors), followed in 1910 by the Verband Deutscher Privatdozenten (German Association of Private Lecturers). In 1912 these two associations merged with the organizations established

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Teachers in other German states to form the Kartell deutscher Nichtordinarien (German Non-Professors’ Cartel).37 The situation at Oxford and Cambridge was quite different. Even though a number of new universities had been established since the 1830s, these remained the leading universities in England. Here, as well, the teaching staff had its own hierarchy. The colleges formed the core of all teaching and research, whereas the university’s main task was to run the examinations required for graduation. Consequently there were relatively few university professors. At the colleges, particularly gifted graduates (holding the Bachelor’s or Master’s degree) were permitted to teach and were appointed to hold tutorials and supervise the undergraduates for a period of apprenticeship. When they became fellows of colleges they were granted tenure and could then rise to become lecturers, senior lecturers, readers and professors in the universities (although this did not change their status as college fellows, where they all enjoyed equal rights). They were not civil servants and did not have to qualify for an academic career by carrying out research or taking examinations. It was not until the mid-nineteenth century that academic or technical qualifications were required for certain professions. At some universities, such as London and Manchester, this led to the development of regulations and arrangements for examinations for those intending to enter such professions. For the rising generation of university teachers, however, the traditional, undefined and flexible selection criteria continued to be applied, although application procedures and selection committees remained the norm for professorial appointments. Higher university degrees and publications started to play just as much of a role in selection as recommendations, relationships and semi-official government favour, although there were no fixed rules. This method of recruiting teaching staff, which was applied in a similar fashion at the four Scottish universities and at Trinity College, Dublin, did not exclude previous research, although the combination of research and teaching, as used in the theory of the German university model, was neither required nor even set down in words. France, as well, distanced itself from these ideals for a long time. The centralized education system that developed during the monarchy was totally dismantled by the Revolution and Napoleon.38 There were certain conditions that aspiring university teachers had to fulfil. After 1820, 37

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Matti Klinge the doctorate – graduation after a period of research – was required in order to apply for a chair. The licence and agr´egation (the latter being generally awarded only in Paris) were adequate qualifications for other teaching posts, particularly within the loosely structured higher education system, which was partly provided at the faculties. Despite, or perhaps even because of, centralization, the methods used at different universities were not comparable. The only common feature was the vocationally based academic training inherited from the Enlightenment which met with great success at the Grandes Ecoles, Mus´ees and Facult´es. It was not until the late nineteenth century that the idea of a universitas litterarum was established. With the defeat of 1871, which was partly attributed to the superiority of the German education system, the German model of the university became more influential.39 The faculties gained more rights to self-determination and were encouraged to promote research, which was given greater emphasis in the concours, although this examination was still organized centrally.40 Following the unification of Italy, the university teacher’s career was a hybrid formed from parts of the French and German systems. These included concorsi for new posts and professorships and the requirement to demonstrate independent, but nationally recognized scientific achievement. After the doctorate, a form of Habilitation and a period as a private lecturer were the precondition for participation in a concorso for a university chair.41 income and lifestyle The professors and assistant professors (in northern countries called adjuncti) received a salary, and, in most older universities during the nineteenth century, this changed from payment in natura – as grain, wood, wine, or other rental payments of a feudal type – to cash. In the new universities, a salary from the state budget was customary. At the beginning of the twentieth century, professors in Uppsala still received part of their income from the university’s land income, and the professors of theology were still prebendaries, i.e. nominal or real vicars of parishes close to the city, besides carrying out their purely academic duties. 39 40 41

See chapter 1, 7, chapter 2, 5–7, and chapter 15, 616; V. Karady, ‘Les universit´es de la Troisi`eme R´epublique’, in Verger (ed.), Universit´es en France, 325–6; Weisz, Emergence. Charle, R´epublique des universitaires. B. Brunello, L’Universita` fra accentramento ed autonomia (Urbino, 1983), 43–4. F. De ` L’istruzione superiore in Italia Vivo and G. Genovesi (eds.), Cento anni di universita. dall’unita` ai nostri giorni (Naples, 1986), 42, 127, 250. S. Polenghi, La politica universitaria italiana nell’eta` della Destra storica (1848–1876) (Brescia, 1993), 59; summing up: M. Moretti and I. Porciani, ‘Il reclutamento accademico in Italia. Uno sguardo retrospettivo’, Annali di storia delle universita` italiane, 1 (1997), 11–39.

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Teachers In earlier times, all teachers received some economic recompense from the students, especially by giving more personal tuition than public lectures. This could, for instance, consist of explaining the public lecture, given originally in Latin, in the vernacular, or interpreting difficult or central parts of the curriculum, parts of the Bible, some classical author, or experiments in chemistry. The general tendency towards efficiency meant more and better public lectures and less need for private collegia. But in the German universities, in particular, paying for lectures continued and was formalized into a Kolleggeld for all teaching – the estimated amount of the Kolleggeld played a role in the economic comparison of different teaching posts.42 In a great city university like Berlin, the Kolleggeld was ¨ much more important than in a small academic ‘arcadia’ like Tubingen. On his appointment, a German professor negotiated a salary, and in the German system, professors quite frequently moved from one university to another, always negotiating a higher salary. But the Kolleggeld and other forms of Sporteln (special fees) – such as the medical practitioner’s fee paid to the professors as hospital chiefs – seem often to have been higher than the salary. The great disadvantage of the Sporteln system was its unpredictability and the rivalry it created between the professor and his colleagues, the extraordinarii and the Privatdozenten. This system of payment, in which wage differentials could be further emphasized by extra payments made out of ministerial funds, encouraged competition both between individual teachers and between universities.43 The system became more unpredictable, and the power of the ministry and the monopolistic position of the professors compared to other university teachers became more pronounced. In 1899, the basic salary of an ordinary professor was 4,000–6,000 marks. In contrast, the salary scale for extraordinary professors started at 2,100 marks, although they could expect supplements for length of service from the system introduced for professors. In 1897 the Prussian Ministry of Education established a special fund for granting extra-high salaries as well as subsidizing unsalaried teachers, by keeping back half of high Kolleggeld sums.44 Non-ordinary professors were even disadvantaged in their pension provision. In 1919, the then Secretary of State and later head of the Prussian Education Ministry, Carl Heinrich Becker (1876–1933), who was professor of oriental studies in Bonn up to 1916, described this status as ‘totally unacceptable’. ‘For the government, an extraordinary professorship . . . is an excellent business. In return for a miserly salary (in Prussia it is 42 43

¨ See I. Jastrow, ‘Kollegiengelder und Gebuhren’, in Das Akademische Deutschland, vol. III (Berlin, 1930), 219ff.; reprinted in Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft, 5, 1 (1997), 2–9. 44 Fick, Deutschlands hohen Schulen (note 36), 147. See chapter 2, 49–50.

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Matti Klinge just 2,600 marks, rising to 4,800 marks after twenty years), it receives a full academic teacher. These days you couldn’t get a schoolmaster for that sort of salary, or a railway guard, in fact you could barely get a day-labourer.’45 Despite considerable resistance from the universities, particularly in Berlin, Becker succeeded in converting the position of extraordinary professor into a personal ordinary professorship, even if he did not manage to have all professors with permanent civil service status placed on an equal footing.46 The French university system was based on free teaching, but the students had to pay rather large sums for examinations. A degree in jurisprudence consisted of twelve examinations, each one costing 40 gold francs at the turn of the century. The income and personal fortune of university teachers, and professors in particular, varied enormously. The salaries already differed, with older faculty members or deans and other functionaries earning more. Housing was provided for certain chairs, whether as special foundations in the old universities, or modern organizations. Professorial families could live in the observatory, because the professor was looking at stars at night; many new clinics were built so that the professorial families could live there, as professors of surgery and obstetrics were often asked to attend at unusual times of the day. The same model spread to new institutional buildings – of physics, physiology, chemistry, botany and so on – in the great era of institute-building spanning almost the whole of Europe between about 1890 and 1914. Professors of medicine had always received income from their practice, and this was often also the case for lawyers and even theologians. Extrapolating Bourdieu’s analysis of the Paris professors before 1968, it seems that professors of jurisprudence and medicine had already belonged to the wealthy bourgeois class for several decades before then, at least in the larger and capital cities. This was a result of their bourgeois background and their extra-salary earnings.47 The picture is more complicated for professors of humanities and the natural sciences. With the new world of printing from around 1830–50 – with new inventions, especially wood-based paper – and the impetus provided by the greater opportunities to purchase books and newspapers, the capacity and need to study and be informed created an expanding market 45 46

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Teachers for the knowledge possessed by the learned. Professional writers, essayists and journalists continued to be influential in the manner of les philosophes of the eighteenth century, but the university teachers with their more solid knowledge gained terrain from amateurs. This became especially clear in late nineteenth-century Germany and all German-orientated countries. The Brockhaus encyclopaedia, Justus Perthes’ (1747–1818) cartographic tradition, and the Almanach de Gotha’s genealogical and statistical exactitude, are all examples of works created to satisfy the aspirations of society. This provided professors with many economic opportunities, especially after the Bern convention began to guarantee the authors’ economic benefits from translations and new editions: the great Brockhaus encyclopaedia was translated (and completed) into Russian. Ernst Haeckel’s (1834–1919) ¨ Weltrathsel and Karl Lamprecht’s (1856–1915) Deutsche Geschichte were bestsellers, and the editorial world invented various forms of scientific popularization, including serialization. The success of this activity was closely bound to the generally rising standard of learning and schooling, and to the writers’ personal presence in the media of the changing times: as teachers and public orators; as lecturers to the general public, in the countryside, to the workers and so on; and, from the 1920s on, in broadcasting. For all people with a state salary, the period after the First World War was difficult – and even disastrous in countries such as Germany and Russia. The previous period having been a time of rising income and growing esteem for academic staff, the now-abrupt cuts in salary and other income-earning possibilities led to a quasi-proletarianization of university teachers and their families. Their position began to be restored slowly in the 1920s and more rapidly in the 1930s, but generally only reached threequarters of pre-war levels. During the long period in question the issues of pensions and subsidies for widows and orphans were also discussed and reforms undertaken. Here again, the tendency was towards general rationalization in the state bureaucracy, but in many parts of Europe the older forms of administration survived, where the universities had special foundations for such purposes; for example, they might own their own fields where academic families could practise farming for their own benefit, and there were mutual funds for the social demands of the academic community. Nevertheless, the premature death of a father in most cases resulted in economic disaster for the family. In many academic families, life was a difficult life-long economic struggle in which paying the often heavy loans of the early years took a long time and shortened the period for accumulating funds for the children’s education and the years of retirement. Academic teachers’ work bifurcated, roughly speaking, over the period of 1800–1945 into two main streams according to the main place of 143

Matti Klinge activity. The laboratorium concentrated the work to a special location – an institute. The first chemical laboratories, botanical gardens and observatories in the older universities date from the previous period,48 but the real expansion came in the nineteenth century. Being at first separate and often somewhat obscure and dirty annexes to the university itself, the laboratories and institutes of natural sciences became, in the latter half of the century, more respected and, in the new buildings of the turn-ofthe-century, achieved an almost sacral status. The same evolution, even if more modest and less disruptive to the traditions, took place in libraries and museums. University museums and libraries became public, sometimes national or central, institutions. They employed special personnel who were in more or less close administrative and institutional contact with the universities.49 The evolution of scientific institutes and laboratories, as well as libraries and museums, produced a great many new academic posts of lower rank than those of professors or assistant professors. In the former category were the demonstrator of botany, the dissector of anatomy, the laboratory assistant of chemistry, the astronomical observer. But a far larger category now included assistants and amanuenses, as well as the ‘technical’ personnel taking care of instruments and buildings. All this also required more input from the university’s central administration which, as a result, expanded accordingly. Most assistants and amanuenses were appointed only for a short period (for triennia), and they were supposed to work on their own dissertations or other scientific work. This resulted in a rise in the number of younger (and then older) doctors without tenure, seeking the relatively few professorial vacancies. The situation of the ‘hungry dozents’ became a problem for the first time at the beginning of the twentieth century. Some found careers outside the university, in industry and administration, secondary education and so on. Many stayed in the academic sphere awaiting opportunities for advancement. The rivalries could become rather bloody, as has sometimes been described in literature and even in detective stories. This, on the other hand, concentrated public interest on university conditions and gave even more kudos to the successful applicant in the professorial competitions. The increased status of professors contributed to a partial marginalization of those holding the lower academic positions, and especially those without tenure. Researchers outside the universities, the ‘private learned’, were even more marginalized. Real knowledge became the domain of 48 49

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Matti Klinge diminishing role in the administration of large households, the professor’s wife – in this period nearly all professors were men – could often emerge as a valuable companion in scientific and literary work: reading proofs, translating and helping with correspondence. Study and research trips abroad became more common and by the first part of the twentieth century were often an important part of an academic teacher’s family history and identity. Before the nineteenth century, the grand tour was undertaken before marriage.50 The more intimate working pattern only slowly replaced the idea that the father’s work was not the business of the whole family. The children of the great Russian historian Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766–1826) in 1836 discussed the sayings of a French admirer of their father, who always had Karamzin’s works with him: ‘Alors Nicholas s’´ecria: “Et vous voudriez vraiment qu’il emporte toujours 40 volumes dans sa voiture?” – “Oh, l’histoire de Papa n’a pas 40 volumes; voyons, combien?” – “Pourquoi le saurais-je? je ne l’ai pas ouverte et j’esp`ere ne l’ouvrir jamais.” ’ Philanthropy was an important field of female civic activity, particularly in the nineteenth century, and even later. One case-study examines the role of the university world in philanthropy in Helsinki. The 1840s were significant for new kinds of civic participation by professors, students and women of the upper and middle classes. The Helsinki women’s associations for philanthropy (two rival associations dating from 1848) were partly inspired by a slightly earlier activity in another academic town, Uppsala, but acquired a different character because of Helsinki’s status as a small capital and owing to the influence St Petersburg. Professors’ spouses and daughters played a central role in these associations. A rising historian, journalist and student leader, soon to be Professor Zacharias Topelius (1818–98), was secretary of the principal association, and students participated in the activities, thereby gaining access to the families and the company of young unmarried women – philanthropy consisting mainly of organizing balls and concerts with lotteries. Around 1900, some leading professors’ wives planned an academic association or club for mutual knowledge and social life among the families of the university teachers, but general political tension in the country hindered the project. Around 1950, an association of professors’ wives was founded, combining, as it still does, social life with philanthropic causes in the university, such as poor or handicapped students. Professor Topelius was a kind of a modern philosophe: journalist, novelist, dramatic author and lyric poet, and especially well known in the Nordic countries as a second, academic Andersen or writer of fairy-tales. This did not prevent him being a professor, being elected rector, gaining 50

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Teachers the title of Staatsrat, and being honoured during his lifetime and after his death by several public statues, postage stamps, etc. Female and children’s activity and general bourgeois and civic evolution could be combined, and this combination could be rather profitable to professors who joined civic activity with abilities in writing, whether in encyclopaedic works or morality in the form of fairy-tales. public image In his Trait´e de la vie e´ l´egante, Honor´e de Balzac (1799–1850) summarized the ideas of Beau Brummel in saying, among other things: ‘Sont en dehors de la vie e´ l´egante . . . et les professeurs d’humanit´es’. Balzac dealt with professors in particular in his Entre savants. The general idea is that something in the life-style of the learned is ridiculous and distant from the real, practical or elegant life. Even more than Balzac, Honor´e Daumier (1808–79) and Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier, dit Gavarni (1804–66), created professorial types. This was true of the philosophical faculties, the faculties of letters and sciences, whereas the professors of jurisprudence and medicine belonged to their respective professional societies. Here, of course, old traditions of ridiculing the learned, deriving not least from Rabelais (1494–1553) and other Renaissance critics of the Sorbonne, coincided with the actual observations of the teaching corps in France. The learned no longer benefited from the authority of the Church, having been removed from the ecclesiastical world, and the Church itself, in any case, had lost much of its position in society. Particularly from the 1830s the rising bourgeois classes and their emerging self-esteem considered wealth more important than ever. Professors as comic types occur in literature and operettas, where the German Herr Professor is represented as a more or less ridiculous but positive figure, both inside and outside the German world. In the Anglo-Saxon world this happened in Gilbert (Sir William Schwenck (1836–1911)) and Sullivan (Sir Arthur Seymour (1841–1900)) operettas. Carl Zeller’s Der ¨ Vogelhandler has a fairly well-known duet between two professors, ‘Herr ¨ Kollege’, where the Kolleg- or Prufungsgeld is also mentioned. Films continued along this line, stressing the Besserwisser tradition of German professors, who used to write multi-volume works, with the title of ‘A Short Introduction.’ Professors and scientists, mostly of physics or medicine, are presented as heroes in science-fiction literature, where they imagine and create machines, aerovehicles and even monsters, as in the case of the Swiss scientist and Ingolstadt Professor ‘Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus’, created by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851). Professor Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes stories was the world’s ‘most intelligent criminal’. Professor Mortimer in Jacob’s cartoons from the 1930s is 147

Matti Klinge represented as an effective and, in his own way, heroic agent in his social world. But, in general, the professor is portrayed as an absentminded person, mostly a professor of humanities, but of other disciplines also, such as the geographer Professeur Tournesol in the Tintin of Herg´e (Georges R´emi, 1908–75) of the 1930s and 1940s. The notion of the absent-minded professor might be due to the juxtaposition of everyday-life and the ivory tower. In the eighteenth-century tradition, university teachers were e´ rudits, whereas the moral, political and discursive principles of society were held up by the philosophes, mainly free litt´erateurs, pamphleteers and writers. This distinction was clear in France and in England. The successive triumphs of vernacular languages over Latin, and especially the esprit provincial of more peripheral parts of Europe in the eighteenth century, allowed the roles of professor and philosophe to be combined. ¨ Major examples include Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) in Konigsberg, ¨ Adam Smith (1723–90) in Glasgow, August Ludwig von Schlozer (1735– ¨ 1809) in Gottingen, but others could be mentioned – from Bordeaux, Turku and elsewhere. In the nineteenth century, writers who taught at a university include Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805; history in Jena), the famous Swedish twin luminaries, both poets, writers and politicians, Esaias Tegn´er (1782–1846; Greek at Lund (later he became bishop)), and Erik Gustaf Geijer (history at Uppsala), and the three founders of Finnish national identity, Johan Vilhelm Runeberg (1804–81; rhetoric) ¨ Elias Lonnrot (1802–84; Finnish language and literature), and Johan Vilhelm Snellman (philosophy, later Minister of Finance). It seems obvious that the academic teacher’s role as philosophe was more important in German, northern and eastern Europe than in western or southern Europe, where free-lance writers and journalists were more prevalent, though there are instances where the role of university teacher was also sometimes very dominant, as in Paris. In the northern countries, economic support for journalism and the liberal professions was less developed, and thus the academic profession supplied the public’s need for opinion-makers. This created divided loyalty among the professors and dozents, being, on the one hand, state officials, and, on the other, opinion-makers and potential critics of their times and of the establishment. For many professors, this did not create problems because they had a responsibility for state affairs, for example as members of parliament, or were able to approve of the political line taken by their governments; but sometimes they found themselves in silent or open opposition. This was often the case at the Sorbonne from the 1820s onwards: there had been many political student demonstrations in 1821 and 1822, and as a result of the unrest, some professors were dismissed, while others were suspended from holding their lectures. In 1824, one of the dismissed 148

Teachers professors, Paul-Franc¸ois Dubois (1793–1874), founded the philosophical journal Le Globe in collaboration with famous colleagues, such as the historian Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787–1874). When, from 1827 and 1828, it was permitted to give public lectures again, the courses of Guizot in history, of Abel-Franc¸ois Villemain (1790–1870) in literature, and Victor Cousin (1792–1867) in philosophy became fashionable: they spoke to 2,000 listeners, their lectures were written up by stenographers, and newspapers devoted regular columns to their weekly courses. Attending these lectures and meeting others there was ‘a must’. The university had become a medium: a mixture of a newspaper and a literary salon. This tradition was maintained from the 1830s by scholars like the historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874) and the professor of literature Edgar Quinet (1803–75). All were engaged in politics: Guizot, Villemain and Cousin as ministers; Quinet as a member of parliament; while Michelet’s lectures were instrumental in the intellectual preparation for the February Revolution of 1848. The suspension from his chair and his subsequent reappointment were significant events in 1848, as was his dismissal, together with Quinet and Mickiewicz, from the Coll`ege de France in 1852. In other countries, too, professors were dismissed and emigrated to countries like Switzerland.51 Public courses in natural sciences did not have the same impact as those in the humanities. Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707– 88), made his revolutionary discoveries as director of the Jardin des Plantes; he was never a university teacher. Neither was Alexander von Humboldt (1767–1859), whose famous lectures on the Cosmos were given in 1827/28 as a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin. But the phenomenon of public lectures in itself was important. During the nineteenth century, it became more closely connected with the idea of the university. Giving lectures to a large public came to be expected of university professors. At the same time, academic buildings were increasingly constructed with this public function in mind. In most parts of Europe, the period 1800–1945 witnessed magnificent new university buildings – the new churches of a secular society. For Berlin, the university was also a symbol of a national renaissance after the Napoleonic defeats, while Athens and Helsinki provide examples from the 1830s incorporating the idea of new nationhood. Ghent was also a symbol of the United Netherlands and then of the new Belgium. Magnificent buildings were constructed from the 1870s to 1914 in a period glorifying secular science, celebrating medieval foundations and meeting the practical need for new types of laboratories. Many examples could be given, but suffice it to point to the New Sorbonne in Paris and the new 51

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Matti Klinge university complex at the Ring in Vienna.52 As ‘owners’ of these secular churches, and by giving public lectures in their magnificent amphitheatres, decorated with boiseries, portraits and sometimes with allegorical panneaux or frescoes, the professors’ public status was certainly enhanced. As the French examples showed, the academic teacher’s role often developed into a political one. Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861), professor of history at the University of Vilnius, played a central role in the intellectual preparation of the Polish rebellion in 1831; students accused the other teachers of only teaching them ‘church fathers, Roman verse and triangles’. Later, the opposition of moral engagement to pure science became a general phenomenon in the criticism directed against the universities and their teachers, as is shown by a poem in which Victor Hugo (1802–85) railed against famous scientists and mathematicians:53 Quoi! c’est z´ero ce coeur qui bat dans ma poitrine. Quoi! la chimie est tout! Quand j’ai mon r´esidu, ˆ Un peu de cendre, un peu d’ombre, rien ne m’est du! La statique prouvant, non le droit, mais la force, Le droit n’est pas! John Brown, Spartacus, Wilberforce,54 Demeurent interdits si Biot ne les secourt!55 Quoi! Devant Gay-Lussac Mazzini reste court!56 Garibaldi ne sait que dire a` Lamettrie!57 Quoi! tout hormis l’alg`ebre et g´eom´etrie, Tout, except´e Poinsot, tout, except´e Bezout,58 Except´e deux et deux font quatre, se dissout!

From another point of view, the young August Strindberg (1849– 1912) criticized Uppsala and its professors, claiming they did not know Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–62), the leading English theorist of cultural development; Buckle himself had not been an academic teacher. Many intelligent young people asked the universities and the professors to be ‘modern’ and to explain current intellectual ideas to them. However, many 52 53 54

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Weisz, Emergence. Victor Hugo, La L´egende des Si`ecles (avec ‘La fin de Satan-Dieu’, dans l’Edition de la Pl´eiade) (Paris, 1950), 688. John Brown (1800–1859), champion of the American abolition of slavery; Spartacus, died 71 BC, leader in a Roman slave revolt; William Wilberforce (1759–1833), British champion of the emancipation of slaves. Jean-Baptist Biot (1774–1862), Professor of Physics at the Coll`ege de France and of Astronomy at the Sorbonne. Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850), Professor of Physics and Chemistry at the Sorbonne; Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872), Italian freedom-fighter. Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882), champion of the Italian Unity; Julien Offay de La Mettrie (1709–1751), herald of a materialistic philosophy of nature. Louis Poinsot (1777–1859), mathematician; Etienne Bezout (1730–1783), mathematician.

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Matti Klinge Even here, the university, its teachers and students were crucial during the period under consideration. This opposition was a source of conflict even during the Restoration. Prince Klemens von Metternich (1773–1859), the creator and spokesman of European Restoration policy, viewed this as ‘the vanguard of a revolutionary movement’.61 His attempt, backed by the Russian emperor, to replace the universities with state-controlled institutions for the training of civil servants, failed at the Congress of Europe in Aachen in 1818. This was due to resistance from the Prussian representatives, including Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), who had successfully fought against this model of a university in Berlin and replaced it with one founded on the liberal ideas of Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834).62 Nevertheless, after student attacks on representatives of the ruling order, Metternich persuaded the German princes at the Carlsbad conference of 1819 to ban the duelling societies, to subject both the press and the professors to strict censorship and control, and to place government representatives in charge of the universities.63 In 1825, just before a university was founded in London, he warned ‘You have my authority to tell His Majesty of my absolute conviction that the implementation of this plan would bring about England’s ruin’. The decisions taken in Carlsbad remained in force until 1848. Few universities in Europe were definitively closed; some experienced turbulent times for short periods, and the overwhelming majority of professors retained their posts, despite their often provocative behaviour. In 1822, four professors were removed from the University of St Petersburg, and ˚ two from the University of Abo/Helsinki; in 1823 several professors were ¨ removed from Vilnius University. In Gottingen, seven professors were dismissed in 1837 as a result of their protest against the new, more absolutist Constitution of the Kingdom. Their actions were criticized by some of their colleagues; nevertheless, their dismissal caused a great sensation, which made it easier for most of them to pursue their careers at other universities.64 During the same period, as mentioned before, some professors, who were regarded as too left-wing, were suspended in Paris. In France, it was much more usual for both the right, at the beginning of the 1820s, and the left, after 1830, to dismiss secondary school teachers than 61 62 63 64

¨ See chapter 8, 272–6; Nipperdey, Burgerwelt, 281ff. See chapter 1, 5–6, and chapter 2, 47–9. See chapter 1, 24 and chapter 8, 276. ¨ Nipperdey, Burgerwelt, 376; W. Sellert, ‘Die Aufhebung des Staatsgrundgesetzes und die ¨ ¨ Entlassung der Gottinger Sieben’, in E. Blanke, N. Kamp, A. Schone, W. Sellert, R. von ¨ ¨ Thadden and H. Wellenreuther, Die Gottinger Sieben. Ansprachen und Reden anlasslich ¨ ¨ ¨ der 150. Wiederkehr ihrer Protestaktion, Gottinger Universitatsreden 85 (Gottingen, ¨ ¨ 1988), 23–45. K. von See, Die Gottinger Sieben. Kritik einer Legende, Beitrage zur neueren Literaturgeschichte 155, 2nd edn (Heidelberg, 1997).

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Teachers university lecturers. This is true also for the turbulent period 1848–52, which the Second Empire brought to a close by dismissing professors and burdening secondary school and university teachers with many new rules and regulations.65 In the unrest of 1830–31 and 1848–49, students of many universities, mainly those of the capitals, played an active and perhaps decisive part in riots and rebellions. The professors were divided between conservative and revolutionary groups, some arguing for the state and for order, others on behalf of radical youth. From the state authority’s point of view, though, the professors were responsible for the students’ opinions. After the crushing of the Hungarian rebellion, Prince Aleksander Sergeievich Menshikov (1787–1869), the closest adviser to Emperor Nicholas, wrote in a letter: ‘Voila` de quoi faire enrager les coquins de professeurs et les gueux d’´etudiants de toutes les universit´es y compris grandement celle de Helsingfors!’66 German professors played another major (although temporary) political role during this period. The German National Assembly, which drafted a new constitution in 1848 at St Paul’s Church in Frankfurt, drew nearly three-quarters of its membership from university graduates, mainly in law. The 49 professors, just 6 per cent of the 830 members, dominated the discussions to such an extent that people subsequently called it the ‘Parliament of professors’. Although in 1849 it failed to create a unified, but constitutionally restricted German Empire in its draft constitution for ‘Freedom and order, democracy, will of the people and authority’, it did succeed in ending Metternich’s Restoration period and creating a national public consciousness.67 Subsequent parliaments were not so dominated by professors. Professors represented around 5 per cent of the Reichtstag membership, a figure which dropped to 0.7 per cent at the turn of the century. Their numbers rose again to almost 4 per cent in the Weimar Republic.68 There were also many professors in the parliaments of the various German states. In other countries as well, professors played a leading role in the 1848 movements. The second French Republic in 1848 had some academic teachers among its most renowned leaders, including the extreme leftwing professor of physics, Dominique Franc¸ois Arago (1786–1853), who became Minister of War and the Navy in the temporary government. In Sardinia-Piedmont, Vincenzo Gioberti (1801–52), professor of the 65 66 67 68

Karady, ‘Napol´eon a` Duruy’ (note 4), 287. ¨ Helsinki, 386; M. Klinge, Kejserliga Alexanders Universitetet 1808– Klinge, Universitat 1917 (Helsinki 1989), 184. ¨ ¨ und Politik in der Deutschen Nipperdey, Burgerwelt, 594–670; H. Thielberg, Universitat Revolution 1848 (Bonn, 1983). B. vom Brocke, ‘Professoren als Parlamentarier’, in Schwabe, Deutsche Hochschullehrer, 55–92.

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Teachers In France, the status of professors reached its peak during the July Revolution (1830–48) and then under the long Third Republic (1870– 1940), whereas the First Empire and the Restoration Monarchy (1814–30) and the Second Empire (1851–70) were dominated more by the military and wealthy aristocracy and bourgeoisie. As mentioned earlier, university teachers were closely involved in opinion-making, politics, the press and with book publication in general. The strong tradition from the Enlightenment stressed education and a broad-based knowledge. However, being a professor was certainly no goal for sons of the aristocracy. The mainstream from the aristocracy entered the bourgeois world in France, as in England, through administration of wealth. A military career and the foreign service continued to be attractive, and the esprit de corps of those services favoured individuals from an aristocratic or high bourgeois background. In France, as perhaps elsewhere, the university was somewhat provincial in its outlook. This was true for the universities in the regions, which often stressed provincial specialities in their research and teaching, whilst in the capital, the background of a large part of the professoriate and student body was provincial. As shown earlier, the famous professor of literature, Thibaudet, argued in the 1920s that the Left Bank and Latin Quarter was the province in Paris. French professorial types, depicted by Marcel Proust (1871–1922) in the figures of Crottard and Brichot, frequent good, but not the best, salons; during this period the academic teacher had already gained in status. This was due to several factors: the Republican state itself promoted several learned men to leading positions, forming la r´epublique des professeurs; the general tendency of the time favoured all kinds of secular knowledge; and in France, as in Britain, the collapse of the old aristocracy after the First World War contributed, if not immediately, to the rise in the status of academic teachers and the learned. In Russia, the military and administrative bureaucracy – which largely coincided with the nobility – dominated. In 1899, Chekhov depicted the self-absorbed emeritus professor of literature Serebrjakov in Uncle Vanja. A Dreary Story, published in 1889, illustrated the narrow world of the famous professor of medicine, his assistant professor and his son, who prefers a military career despite its financial constraints. The situation in Germany is most interesting and is also relatively well known: the transition from the older, more established, clerical group with strong family ties, to a Leistungselite with mostly scientific competence, is very clear. The world of learning in general, professors included, played an important role in the national unification and shaping of semantic and moral unity, which developed before, and persisted after, political unification. In that sense, many professors were important as members of the Wertelite. But in Germany as elsewhere, much of the prestige originated 157

Matti Klinge in the professors’ social background and social ties; the question remains whether a university career enhanced or diminished the social position conferred by a noble or high bourgeois birth. It might generally be said that professors were bound to the social group from which the majority came – the clergy and middle bourgeoisie – but emerged in the late nineteenth century with both the rise of the universities and their new contacts with industry and with the rise of the German Empire.70 Certainly there was a difference between the status of professors in Berlin, Munich and Leipzig, ¨ and that of those in minor cities. Of course, Gottingen, Heidelberg, Jena, ¨ Tubingen and other smaller universities had some very famous teachers, but overall they did not have much impact on the profession becoming a national elite. Status also varied between faculties and disciplines: professors of Lutheran theology gained in prestige within the ecclesiastical world, but lost outside as a result of the general decline in the prestige of religion. The medical faculty gained in prestige with the general success of the health-care system and ideology. The technical sciences gained by association with the rise of industry, as evidenced by the improved status of technical high schools. The national economy and social sciences became interesting at the beginning of the twentieth century and took over something of the prophetic role played by the philosophers and historians of the nineteenth century. Let us again take an example from Finland, which is also relevant for other small countries. The Imperial Alexander University in Helsinki and its professors became instrumental in the making of the modern Finnish nation for many reasons; however, of central interest was a lack of opposition. With a very small aristocracy and a wealthy bourgeoisie of limited numbers, with the emperor residing in St Petersburg and the archbishop in ˚ Abo, the university and bureaucracy could dominate, tied as they were to each other by common ideals and family relations. In such conditions, the academic staff was omnipresent: in the press, in Parliament, in civic organizations, in publishing, assurance companies, banks, and so on. After the First World War, with the country gaining full sovereignty with a President of the Republic, a new army with generals and admirals, a diplomatic corps, and so on, the prestige of the university slowly diminished. However, in the 1930s and 1940s, popular films still portrayed professors as distinguished, duty-conscious gentlemen at the head of society. Everywhere in Europe, academia established an all-embracing system of honouring both its colleagues and others by awarding honorary doctorates, by celebrating the universities’ magnificent centenary jubilees 70

C. E. McClelland, ‘Die deutschen Hochschullehrer als Elite, 1815–1850’, in Schwabe, Deutsche Hochschullehrer, 27–57; F. Ringer, ‘Das gesellschaftliche Profil der deutschen Hochschullehrerschaft 1871–1933’s’, ibid., 93–104.

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Teachers (which became highly fashionable in the 1870s and 1880s), and by commissioning and distributing Festschriften, portraits, medals, and so on. The professors mostly controlled the scientific societies and academies and had thereby a means of distributing academic honour in the form of memberships and prizes. Some of those prizes became well known, especially the Nobel prizes from 1903 onwards. Academic self-esteem could sometimes come near the point of being ridiculous to some observers: whereas the medievalism of the jubilees had great ceremony and drama, it was sometimes thought to be anti-modern or too theatrical. At the beginning of the period, academic gowns were rejected in some parts of the Continent – the famous poet and then bishop Tegn´er, professor in Lund, described the rector’s gown as a ‘harlequin’ dress and refused to wear it; on the other hand, he always wore his doctor’s cylinder top hat, even when riding. In general, academic dress kept its status in the British Isles, whereas its use in capital cities such as Berlin and Paris was more restricted, and it was not used at all in Russia or Scandinavia, with the exception of the rector magnificus in Finland. When Ernst Haeckel in Jena, one of the most famous professors of ¨ modern times and a symbol of his time with his Weltrathsel, turned 80 in 1914, he published enormous notices in the world press requesting money for an ‘Ernst-Haeckel-Stiftung’ instead of the other honours his long life and work had entitled him to; this provoked some snide smiles. Besides the honours given by the academic community itself, heads of states honoured academic teachers by awarding honorary titles and orders. In Germany, Austria and Russia especially, but also in other countries such as Denmark and Finland, honorary titles (Geheimer Rat, Staatsrat) were highly esteemed. In Finland, the rectors of the university were ennobled if they had maintained their office for two or more triennia (because of the fact that nobility was one of the four estates composing the Finnish parliament until 1906). In Germany and Austria also, ennoblement was practised, but not in France. While becoming Geheimer Rat or Staatsrat was customary for professors, ‘Professor’ on the other hand, was given as an honorary title to persons who were not university professors. This had occurred in the eighteenth century, but it became more common later on, especially in the German and Nordic world. State decorations were awarded to professors and other teachers. In France, Napoleon I established a special order for the teaching corps, the Palmes acad´emiques. In 1800, decorating professors was very rare, but by 1940, professors in most European countries were decorated sooner or later, and other academic teachers sometimes as well. The status of the academic world and of the people within it, both students and especially teachers, is reflected in a most spectacular way 159

Matti Klinge in the university buildings which were mentioned in the context of the public role of professors. The well-known Danish literary critic, Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1842–1927), once overlooked for a chair in Copenhagen University and twenty years later recompensed with an honorary chair, wrote in 1889 about the new main building of Uppsala: ‘The whole is as a great temple of Minerva, where the best rooms are built for the cult of the Muses of Music and Dance, for the Authority of the State, for the righteously punishing authority and the Consistorium, but where only small rooms and corners are left for that Goddess for whom the Temple was built. The whole is suited to propose to youth a spirit of progress. Everything here says to the young: Grow and go higher and become a Professor! – Then you will have comfortable chairs, and beautiful pictures by great masters on the wall.’71 But seen from the standpoint of academic freedom, both the external pomp of buildings, festivities, processions, poetry and Latin, and the demand for intellectual debate and participation, were conservative trends against the bureaucratization of the university.72 They represented different voices of an academic ethos. This ethos was in various circumstances represented by different categories and types of academic teachers and students. It is nevertheless clear that the professors were the most important pillar of academic autonomy in teaching, research and morality. select bibliography Autio, V.-M. Yliopiston virkanimitykset 1809–1952, Helsinki, 1981. Baumgart, P. (ed.) Preussen in der Geschichte, vol. I: Bildungspolitik in Preussen zur Zeit des Kaiserreichs, Stuttgart, 1980. ¨ Baumgarten, M. Professoren und Universitaten im 19. Jahrhundert, Zur ¨ Sozialgeschichte deutscher Geistes- und Naturwissenschaftler, Gottingen, 1997. Berg, C. (ed.) Handbuch der deutschen Bildungsgeschichte, vol. IV: 1870–1918. ¨ Von der Reichsgrundung bis zum Ende Ersten Weltkriegs, Munich, 1991. Charle, C. Naissance des intellectuels, Paris, 1990. ¨ ¨ Ferber, Chr. von Die Entwicklung des Lehrkorpers der Deutschen Universitaten und Hochschulen 1864–1954, Untersuchungen zur Lage der deutschen ¨ Hochschullehrer 3, Gottingen, 1956. 71 72

G. Brandes, ‘’Tale i Upsala (1889)’, in Brandes, Samlede Skriften xv (Copenhague, 1905), 419. On archaic elements in academic ceremonial as a ‘contemporaneity of the non¨ contemporaneous’ (Mannheim) and the ‘ferment of humanity’ (Horkheimer): W. Ruegg, ¨ Soziologie an der Johann Wolf‘Die Bildungsgesellschaft. Antrittsrede als Ordinarius fur ¨ ¨ ¨ Frankfurt am Main’, in W. Ruegg, ¨ gang Goethe-Universitat Anstosse. Aufsatze und ¨ zur dialogischen Lebensform (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1973), 264ff. Vortrage

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Teachers Gerbod, P. La Condition universitaire en France au XIXe si`ecle, Paris, 1965. Gerbod, P. ‘Les Epurations administratives (XIXe et XXe si`ecles)’, Actes du Colloque, Publications de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes, IVe Section: Histoire et Philologie V: Hautes Etudes M´edi´evales et Modernes 29, Geneva, 1977, 81–98. ¨ Hammerstein, N. Antisemitismus und deutsche Universitaten 1870–1933, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1995. ¨ ¨ ¨ Hammerstein, N. (ed.) Universitaten und Aufklarung, Gottingen, 1996. Jeismann, K. E. and Lundgreen, P. (eds.) Handbuch der deutschen Bildungsgeschichte, vol. III: 1800–1870. Von der Neuordnung Deutschlands bis zur ¨ Grundung des Deutschen Reiches, Munich, 1982. J´ılek, L. (ed.) Historical compendium of European Universities/R´epertoire historique des universit´es europ´eennes, Geneva, 1984. ¨ Die Universitat ¨ Helsinki 1640–1990, Klinge, M. Eine Nordische Universitat. ¨ Helsinki and Gottingen, 1992. ¨ ¨ Koˇsenina, A. Der gelehrte Narr. Gelehrtensatire seit der Aufklarung, Gottingen, 2003. Maurer, T. Hochschullehrer im Zarenreich, Ein Beitrag zur russischen Sozial- und Bildungsgeschichte, Cologne, Weimar and Vienna, 1998. McCulloch, G. Philosophers and Kings: Education for Leadership in Modern England, Cambridge, 1991. ¨ Tubingen ¨ Paletschek, S. ‘Geschichte der Habilitation der Universitat im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Das Beispiel der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen (ehemals ¨ ¨ in Tubinger Staatswirtschaftlichen/Staatswissenschaftlichen) Fakultat’, Professoren der Wirtschaftswissenschaften (1817–1991) – Leben und Werk, ed. H. von Strecker et al., Stuttgart, 2004. Pedersen, O. Lovers of Learning: A History of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 1742– 1992, Copenhagen, 1992. Schmeiser, M. Akademischer Hasard. Das Berufsschicksal des Professors und das ¨ 1870–1920, Stuttgart, 1994. Schicksal der deutschen Universitat ¨ Schubert, E. ‘Die Geschichte der Habilitation’, in H. Kossler (ed.), 250 Jahre ¨ Erlangen-Nurnberg, ¨ Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen 1993, 115– 51. Schwabe K. (ed.) Deutsche Hochschullehrer als Elite 1845–1945, Deutsche ¨ Fuhrungsgeschichten in der Neuzeit 17, Boppard am Rhein, 1988. Verger, J. (ed.) Histoire des universit´es en France, Toulouse, 1986.

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g e n e r a l r e m a r k s1 The establishment of new universities and colleges outside Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries continued the pattern of earlier foundations, when new universities in Western and Central Europe reproduced existing models under new circumstances. By 1800, too, Central and South America had already taken their models of universities from Spain and the North Americans theirs from Great Britain. In the nineteenth century, the German universities, markedly affected by the ideas of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm von Humboldt and their realization in the University of Berlin,2 were to become the sources of yet another – but still European – model that was implanted in the United States, in Japan, and elsewhere. Concurrently, too, an amalgam of features of the old and the modern English and Scottish universities did much to shape new North American colleges and universities as well as those of Canada, India, Australia and South Africa. Finally, though the university patterns of France were more limited in their diffusion, North Africa, French West Africa, Syria and Indo-China all showed the impact of French higher education in the last half century of our period. 1

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The diffusion of European models through apprenticeship, was conducted by other institutions and in other ways, most of them independent of colleges and universities and many of them private and proprietary. The later state universities in North Carolina (1776) and Georgia (1785) broke with their antecedents in having no religious affiliation, and widened the range of subjects taught, under the influence of the Scottish universities and, later, of University College, London. Despite these developments, though, the state universities continued to resemble in character the colleges which had preceded them. Notably, they were established and supported with little encouragement or aid from government; the traditional course of studies pursued at Oxford and Cambridge also long remained fairly intact, though with an admixture of moral philosophy, political economy and sciences from Scotland; courses were strictly prescribed, attendance at classes was compulsory and the morals of students were kept under surveillance. The British model was observed as faithfully as the very different circumstances allowed. Like their antecedents, new nineteenth-century colleges and even the state universities at first showed little sense of obligation to enrich the stock of knowledge or to encourage their students to do so. There was little sense of a calling to a life of learning among their teachers or that the pursuit of knowledge might itself be an appropriate career. This approach and atmosphere continued to prevail in many colleges for most of the nineteenth century and in some even into the next. Organization also long followed British patterns. Higher educational institutions had to be chartered by political authority. Once a charter was received, a private college was autonomous. Statutes and by-laws governing their internal working and structure were drawn up by the institutions themselves, that is, by their boards of trustees; neither the state – as in Germany – nor the teaching staff – as in the ancient English universities – had a hand in their promulgation. North American collegiate government bore, instead, a close resemblance to that of the eighteenth-century dissenting academies in England; there was usually a strong board of nonacademic governors, a principal or president with much executive power, and no effective voice for the teaching staff. There was no question of even the most senior and experienced teachers having a part, for instance, in the appointment of the president, which was entirely in the hands of the non-academic board of trustees. Deans were chosen by the president and served at his pleasure. As colleges grew in size, staff and numbers of students, departments were formed along disciplinary lines, they were then given chairmen by the dean and the president. Smaller colleges, with only a few hundred students, did not reach even this stage of differentiation and delegation. American colleges’ tendency to follow the pattern of the dissenting academy, not that of Oxford or Cambridge colleges, may in 165

Edward Shils and John Roberts part be explained by sectarian and denominational tradition; the Church of England and its reputedly luxurious and self-indulgent colleges were often regarded with stern disapproval. Small residential institutions brought teachers and students together, and sometimes favoured pastoral and personal relations between them. Concentration on teaching brought forward those who loved teaching and who aroused and held the esteem of many students and over many years. In this regard, there was some selective assimilation of the model of the Oxford and Cambridge colleges (and it was to be followed more deliberately in the twentieth century in the ‘house system’ introduced in Harvard in the 1920s and 1930s, and the ‘residential colleges’ of Yale). Even in the universities which were to show the greatest readiness to accept the German model – such as the University of Chicago – the provision of residential accommodation was associated with traces of the collegiate pattern – and often what was believed to be the characteristic architecture – of Oxford and Cambridge. In the twentieth century the model of the North American liberal arts and medical colleges was itself to spread, notably in the Middle East and in China. This, too, was a diffusion of European models, but at one remove: the United States exported an American modification of British models which imprinted itself on the liberal arts colleges of those regions and continued to inspire the organization of undergraduate instruction in them well into the twentieth century. The staff of a North American college was usually too small to allow specialization of teaching or separate administration in all but the most clearly disjunct disciplines. With few resources for research for most of the nineteenth century, those faculty members who wanted to pursue research used the books and laboratory equipment provided for teaching. Students were not trained for research; recipients of the doctorate were very few and most of them, in any case, were doctors of divinity. Even senior teaching staff had no permanent tenure. In the earlier nineteenth century, there could still scarcely be said to be an academic profession. Many teachers might well spend their entire working life in a college or even a university – as in Oxford or Cambridge colleges – with no intention of making a career of teaching, but holding their places while awaiting appointment to a suitable ecclesiastical living; in the English dissenting academies, too, the teachers had not been more than ‘assistant’ masters. Students were admitted to American colleges and universities at an early age and graduated young. There were no courses of preparation for professional careers on offer; graduates might enter such careers later – the clergy for example. To provide a fundamental education was the goal: this, it was believed, would discipline the mind, form and strengthen character and provide the cultural requisites for a life of responsible leadership in 166

The diffusion of European models society. Once again, this was an adaptation of a British ideal. The often promulgated goal was defined as the formation of character; it lives on in American undergraduate life today, in the dreams of self-discovery, or the discovery of one’s true identity. A major change began from the 1850s or thereabouts, as German universities began to be increasingly influential as models for major American universities, old and new. The leading universities, public and private, embraced the German model most obviously in their development of graduate schools. The tradition formed from the British models continued alongside this, but in the 1830s and 1840s, increasing numbers of graduates of American colleges and universities had already been going to German universities and fewer to British universities in spite of their prestige in the American academic world. The use of British models continued to be influential where it was reinforced by Anglophilia or respect for the antiquity and achievements of British institutions, particularly among those whose ancestors had come from the British Isles to America. Until the end of the nineteenth century these still supplied a large fraction of American college and university teachers. But German influences became far more powerful as postgraduate studies gained large numbers of students and as more provision was made for teaching them to do research.4 The German university had to be deliberately and actively propagated as a model. There was opposition to it when, as early as 1828, the faculty of Yale College declared that, since the German universities were chiefly occupied with professional studies while the American colleges sought to lay the foundations of a liberal education, they doubted that German universities could serve as a model for American colleges.5 Nevertheless, the German model made its way. There was powerful opinion in support of it, not least from those who had studied in German universities and who were firmly persuaded that it was imperative for the well-being of American society and for the dignity of the United States in the world. Younger teachers and a handful of university presidents strenuously advocated it, notwithstanding its critics, and returning young scientists and scholars wanted the German mode of training advanced students which they had experienced to be introduced into the American universities. The State of Michigan, soon after its admission to the Union in 1837, granted a charter to permit the establishment of a University of Michigan which was to follow the German university model, though without a theological faculty. So clearly was the German model held in esteem by its 4 5

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On the University of Michigan and early German influences: J. Turner and P. Bernard, ‘The “German Model” and the Graduate School: The University of Michigan and the Origin Myth of the American University’, History of Higher Education Annual, 13 (1993), 69–83; H. H. Peckham, The Making of the University of Michigan, 1817–1967 (Ann Arbor, 1967); A. Creutz, ‘The Prussian System of Practical Training: The Educational Philosophies of the University of Michigan’s First Two Presidents’, Michigan History, 65 (Jan.–Feb. 1981), 37–9. For the Michigan preparatory academies: J. Herbst, The One and Future School: 350 Years of American Secondary Education (New York, 1996), 58–60. E. D. Ross, Democracy’s College: The Land Grant Movement in the Formative Stage (Ames, 1942). J. Herbst, The German Historical School in American Scholarship (Ithaca, 1965), 1ff.; K. H. Jarausch, ‘American Students in Germany, 1815–1914: The Structure of German ¨ and U.S. Matriculants at Gottingen University’, in H. Geitz, J. Heideking and J. Herbst (eds.), German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917 (Cambridge, 1995), 195ff. See chapter 10, 427. H. Hawkins, Pioneer: A History of the Johns Hopkins University, 1874–1889 (Ithaca, 1960); F. Cordasco, Daniel Coit Gilman and the Protean Ph.D. (Leiden, 1960); A. Flexner, Daniel Coit Gilman: Creator of the American Type of University (New York, 1946).

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The diffusion of European models (1844–1924), first president of Clark University in Worcester (Mass.), chartered in 1887,11 and William Rainey Harper (1856–1906), first president of the University of Chicago, opened in 1892.12 The fourth major figure in the introduction of the German pattern, Charles William Eliot (1834–1926), President of Harvard, had studied chemistry in Germany and acquainted himself at first hand with German universities.13 The first three wanted to establish in the United States universities which would do what the German universities had done as sites of research and of the training which was required to do research. Eliot shared this view, though less enthusiastically, and with greater concern for undergraduate education. Not all features of the German university were imported into the United States. They did not import the pattern of akademische Selbstverwaltung. The principle of presidential rule was too firmly established to gain acceptance. Academic self-government nonetheless made significant progress in the first four decades of the twentieth century. The idea of academic freedom, scarcely mentioned before the appearance of the German university model with its principle of Lehr- und Lernfreiheit, slowly advanced from a condition of nullity to widespread affirmation by the profession of university teachers and to a greater respect for it from university administrators, boards of trustees and publicists. The preoccupation with academic freedom and the formation in 1916 of the American Association of University Professors14 which had as its main aim the protection of academic freedom did not occur just because academic freedom was so often infringed in the United States. It had also required the emergence of a conception of the dignity of the academic profession and of the value of the university as an estate of the realm before academics began to seek protection for the right to express opinions or investigate beliefs and institutions vested with sacredness. Without an idea 11

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H. C. Carpenter, ‘Emerson, Eliot, and the Elective System’, New England Quarterly, 24 (1951), 13–334; S. E. Morison (ed.), The Development of Harvard University since the Inauguration of President Eliot, 1869–1929 (Cambridge, Mass., 1930). See also note 13.

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Edward Shils and John Roberts literature would have been inaccessible. Another feature of the German model which was adopted in the United States was the publication of research in journals and in series of monographs. The institution of the university press which also established itself in the United States came apparently not from Germany but from Great Britain. The academic institute – usually attached to a professorial chair – did not come into American universities at the same time as the idea of the seminar. It is difficult to account for this. One reason may have been the early development of the departmental arrangement of disciplines within the university rather than the faculty, together with the flexibility of the policy of appointment to professorships. For a very long time, German universities had only one professor for each major discipline, whereas in many American universities it was possible at an early date to appoint more than one professor within a particular disciplinary department. The German system was monocratic; a single professor was responsible for his whole subject, no one shared in his authority in the distribution of teaching or in the allocation of resources or in the appointment of his juniors, except for the Privatdozenten. The institute – which in German-speaking universities was called Seminar for religious and human studies17 – was the exclusive domain of the professor in which he allocated space, equipment and funds in accordance with his own conception of what was important in his discipline. In an American university, though the chairman of a department was sometimes autocratic, he was not always the most important scientist or scholar in it, far less the only one, whereas in Germany, the professor was generally presumed as such. It would have created difficulties to have an institute which was directed by a person who was not the leading intellectual figure in his subject within the particular university. The Americans did not wish to create that difficulty for themselves. When, from time to time, ‘institutes’ were created in a few American universities – for example, the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, the Harvard-Yenching Institute at Harvard, the Institute of Human Relations at Yale – they tended to be interdisciplinary and interdepartmental. Thus they were not the domain of a single professor. They permitted a wide range of research to be done; they had funds outside the regular university budget and so could have special equipment, special library collections. They gave their members considerable freedom. American institutes therefore bore little relationship to the German Institut. Most research continued to be done in departmental laboratories or in the university libraries. Another feature of the German university which did not travel across the ocean was the Habilitation, the production of a specialized monograph 17

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The diffusion of European models on a particular subject beyond the doctoral dissertation, the delivery of a public lecture on the subject and submission to an oral interrogation on the lecture.18 This was towards the end of the nineteenth century in all German-speaking countries the precondition for the award of the venia legendi, the right to teach and the title of Privatdozent. The Privatdozentur entitled its incumbent to attend and teach without a salary, without the civil servant’s tenure or status, as enjoyed by a professor, and to be paid only through capitation fees from the auditors of his lectures. Habilitation and the status of Privatdozent were the necessary conditions for election to a professorship. Why did this rigorously grinding process of selection for candidates for professorships not find a home in American universities? It is difficult to explain why something did not happen but one distinguishing circumstance was no doubt financial. The status of Privatdozent depended on having either private means, a wealthy wife or a profession or business occupation allowing some free time for teaching and research. Most wealthy Americans – except a few in the north-east – hardly thought of entering the academic profession. To be a connoisseur, or a collector or a private scholar was one thing, but to be under the dominion of a professor – often likely to be an imperious one – did not appeal to a man of taste and spirit. American academics to a greater extent than German academics came from the lower middle class; they were often the offspring of farmers and small businessmen and it was against their grain to work without payment. It would have been practically impossible to find enough competent young teachers to teach without salary, however small. Hence, although American universities which aspired to be like German universities had a rank with the title of docent, it had no life in it. The docent disappeared in favour of the ‘instructor’. The Germans had no equivalent to the instructor. American universities also departed from the German pattern in their library provision. In Europe the universities relied on the rich imperial, royal and other kinds of state libraries.19 In Germany towards the end of the nineteenth century university institutes or seminars were able to build and develop their own libraries in accordance with the scientific or scholarly interests of their directors. In the United States, the leading private universities and some of the state universities built great, wellrounded collections of books; this probably owed something to the emergence of academic librarianship as a profession in the United States. It might be noted that in a number of cases American university libraries 18

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Edward Shils and John Roberts purchased the entire personal libraries of eminent deceased German schol¨ ars. The University of Michigan purchased August Bockh’s library, the University of Syracuse Leopold von Ranke’s. By 1914, the attendance of American students for study in Germany had waned. Graduate studies were by then well established in the leading private and state universities and there was no longer such a widespread and shared belief among American university teachers and graduate students that German universities had much to offer which could not be obtained in the United States. American scientists and scholars were still used to reading German; German universities and their science and scholarship were still very highly regarded by them. The profound and distinctive imprint of the German university model on graduate studies in American universities did not fade, but after the First World War, American universities drew their inspiration almost wholly from traditions already assimilated. Germanic influences had become so much a part of American tradition that they had ceased to be German and had become American, and the driving forces were now the intellectual aspirations and motives of American scientists and scholars. Nonetheless, direct influence of German universities on American universities by no means disappeared. Teachers who had studied in Germany were still in post in the 1920s and early 1930s; their pupils continued to draw on their intellectual dispositions and beliefs. They were somewhat reinforced, too, in the 1920s when American physicists began to travel to Europe in large numbers to be trained in the most advanced physics of the time. Germany had never lost its eminence in physics and, as American academic physics became more sophisticated, it was widely realized that the German universities still offered much from which they could learn. Thus it happened that many of the leading American physicists of the 1920s and 1930s spent extended periods at German universities with scientists like Max Born (1882–1970), Walther Hermann Nernst (1864–1941), Max von Laue (1879–1960), Werner ¨ Heisenberg (1903–76), and Erwin Schrodinger (1887–1961). They were often assisted by the Rockefeller Foundation which initiated a programme of fellowships for travel to Germany. The Foundation also supported summer seminars in theoretical physics at the University of Michigan in the 1920s which were very important for the subsequent development of American physics, and leading German physicists were guests and teachers at these seminars.20 Americans also went to Germany to study with mathematicians such as Christian Felix Klein (1849–1925). But the Americans were now interested in specific things; like their predecessors they were inspired by German science, but they no longer sought, or were 20

D. J. Kevles, The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America (New York, 1978).

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The diffusion of European models interested in, new general views of what a university ought to be. They had already got that from their studies in American universities. The intellectual current flowing from German to American universities became more animated with the coming to power of Hitler, when numerous scientists and scholars of the first eminence were forced to leave Germany.21 The racial laws in Italy also drove out some of the best Italian scientists and scholars. They also had been trained according to the German model, and many of them – Enrico Fermi (1901–54) was the most outstanding – found places in American universities. Earlier, the same had been the case with Russian scientists and scholars who after the Russian Revolution of October 1917 left their universities and sought a livelihood and the continuation of their intellectual work in American universities.22 Refugee scientists and scholars improved the quality of American scientific and scholarly teaching and research, but they did not bring with them new ideas of how a university should be organized or how it should function. Nor did the Americans seek their guidance regarding the idea of a university. CANADIAN universities also showed a diversity of influences, but within a predominantly British tradition. The oldest Canadian university, the University of King’s College in Windsor, incorporated in 1809, originated as a grammar school, the King’s College of Nova Scotia, which had been founded in 1789 by Anglican clergymen who had remained loyal to the crown and had emigrated from the United States. The first state institution of higher learning in Canada, the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, began in 1785 as a grammar school, the Provincial Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was incorporated as King’s College in 1828 and as the University of New Brunswick in 1859. Both institutions were initially modelled upon the Oxford college and reflected the determination of provincial Anglican elites to re-create British social patterns in British North America. In Nova Scotia and New Brunswick as in other provinces, these efforts were strongly resisted by Protestants of other denominations. They lobbied the provincial legislatures to force the colleges to abandon compulsory Anglicanism or to adopt a less-exclusively classical curriculum, and they founded rival colleges less committed to the Oxbridge model. The University of Edinburgh provided the institutional model for McGill College and University in Montreal, and for Dalhousie College 21

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D. Fleming and B. Bailyn (eds.), The Intellectual Migration: Europe and America, 1930– 1960 (Cambridge, Mass., 1969); L. A. Coser, Refugee Scholars in America: Their Impact and Their Experiences (New Haven, 1984); H. Lehmann and J. Sheehan (eds.), An Interrupted Past: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States After 1933 (Washington, DC, and Cambridge, 1991). The influence of the German model on the Italian and Russian universities is dealt with in chapter 2, 66–8, 70–2.

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Edward Shils and John Roberts at Halifax, Nova Scotia, which was founded in 1818 and became Dalhousie University in 1841. Both institutions had troubled early histories. McGill had been created by royal charter, the usual British legal device in 1821, but with its initial endowment tied up in court battles, it did not accept students until 1843, except in the medical school, which had been loosely affiliated with the university since 1829. With the support of Montreal’s merchant elite, McGill went on to become one of the larger and wealthier institutions in Canada, growing partly by developing affiliations with other institutions in Montreal and across Canada. These included four Protestant colleges in Montreal, their arts students obtaining degrees by sitting McGill examinations; Macdonald College in St Anne de Bellevue; McGill University College of British Columbia; and Victoria College in Victoria, BC. King’s College, Toronto, received its royal charter in 1827. An Anglican college on the Oxford model, King’s drew the opposition of rival denominations and their own colleges in Upper Canada (Ontario). In 1853 King’s was relieved of its denominational affiliation, renamed University College, and reconstituted as the teaching-arm of the newly created University of Toronto. The University of Toronto quickly went on to become the largest institution of higher learning in Canada. It grew partly by federating itself with other colleges and professional schools in the Toronto area as an examining and degree-granting body. This institutional pattern, much more common in Canada than in the United States, reflected the influence of the University of London. However, some of its patterns of government continued to reflect Oxford influence. Toronto borrowed the Oxford practice of electing the chancellor by vote of the convocation which included all graduates. The jurisdiction of the Senate was extended to all branches of the study of literature, science and the arts, and to the granting of the privilege of affiliation. The University of Toronto also led Canadian institutions in developing research. Mathematician James Loudon (1841–1916), President of the University of Toronto from 1892 to 1906, admired the German system of higher education and in 1898 introduced a research-orientated Ph.D. programme. His successor, theologian and classicist Robert Falconer (1867–1943), President from 1907 to 1932, further developed graduate studies, mostly on the American institutional model, in part to limit the brain drain towards US graduate schools.23 McGill closely followed Toronto in developing research and graduate studies and became Canada’s leading centre for research in the natural sciences and medicine. Higher education in Canada’s francophone community followed French continental models. In 1852 the French-speaking Grand s´eminaire, 23

P. N. Ross, ‘The Origins and Development of the Ph.D. Degree at the University of Toronto, 1871–1932’, Ph.D. diss. University of Toronto, 1975.

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The diffusion of European models founded in the city of Quebec in 1663 by Bishop Laval, became the Universit´e Laval, whose curricula, degrees and structure were influenced by the models of European Catholic institutions of higher learning and French universities. The Province of Quebec already possessed thirteen classical colleges, the upper forms of which educated students of early university age, and the new university quickly developed an agreement with five of the colleges to accept their graduates. In 1876 Laval founded a branch-campus in Montreal, although students had to sit for exams at the Laval University in Quebec. Laval also became affiliated in 1887 with ´ the Ecole polytechnique, founded in 1874, and later with schools of veterinary medicine (founded 1886), dentistry (founded 1894), pharmacy (1906), and the Institute of Agriculture (1908).24 latin america Although little practical or immediately visible difference was made to the universities of Latin America at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries by the upheaval of wars of independence, they underwent a great change in principle. In varying ways, and at varying speeds, new states came into being to replace the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. The universities of the southern continent, though, had been organically and intimately linked to the ancien r´egime; they were all foundations emanating from Church or state, existing by virtue of those agencies’ decisions. Revolution and independence implied the dismissal of the founding state from the scene. The authority of the Church survived over its own universities, but was significantly modified in its freedom to act by the consequences of decolonization. There came to an end a long tradition of mutual interdependence and co-operation between lay and ecclesiastical authority (though one somewhat weakened in the last half of the eighteenth century, as the influence of absolutist modernizing and secular policies began to operate in Spain itself), and there were some important institutional and ecclesiastical changes. Some of these (the dissolution of the Society of Jesus, for example) had come about even before independence, thanks to the operations of absolute monarchy; some arose directly or indirectly from the French Revolution (the ultimate regulating power of the ecclesiastical universities, for example, disappeared with the abolition of the Spanish Inquisition in 1808). More significantly still, and in the longer run, the legal position of the Church would change 24

P. Axelrod, ‘Higher Education in Canada and the United States. Exploring the Roots of Difference’, Historical Studies in Education, 7, 2 (1995), 141–75; R. S. Harris, A History of Higher Education in Canada 1663–1960 (Toronto, 1976); A. B. McKillop, Matters of Mind: The University in Ontario 1791–1951 (Toronto, 1994).

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Edward Shils and John Roberts further as the new national states took up more anti-clerical attitudes and policies.25 Interestingly, though, this development itself displayed much continuity with the past. Many Latin American politicians and administrators were unwilling to abandon the old regalian principles, which had never been more clearly expressed than in the patchy but nonetheless effective imposition of ‘enlightened’ ideas on the universities in the last prerevolutionary decades and the foundations of new royal universities at that time. Government had never counted for more in the Latin American universities than at the end of the ancien r´egime. The innovations then made – notably the adoption (even in ecclesiastical universities) of Spanish as the language of instruction and changes in curricula which reflected the ‘enlightened’ and ilustrado thinking of the ministers of Carlos III who looked to France for intellectual leadership – made it clear that the universities were regarded as institutions to be regulated to serve public ends, and not to serve autonomous purposes of their own.26 The impact of European models in Latin America was, therefore, very visible in its latest form in the universities at the time of independence. Not only did their curricula and personnel constitute a substantial and material legacy to the new order, but the last secularizing and ‘enlightened’ phase of the ancien r´egime had already somewhat prefigured some aspects of what was to be more strongly marked in the future; the republics had no intention of giving up the old patronato of the monarchy. At first sight, indigenous Latin American thinking about universities in the nineteenth century, and even down to the Great War of 1914, was exiguous. In so far as broad concepts and general ideas were concerned, university development still tended to take its inspiration from Europe. As under the ancien r´egime, there was a continuing assumption that higher educational institutions should before all else provide society with an adequate supply of professionally trained specialists; this, though, was now to be expressed in administrative forms derived from the Napoleonic models of France and the establishment of specialized schools for this task. Another influence, less closely defined, was that of Positivism. It tended to stress the general educational role of the university in the shaping of personal outlook and character, and therefore of national identity and culture, in an anti-religious, materialistic sense. The French cultural ascendancy which stood in the background of both of 25

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The diffusion of European models these trends again recalls the concerns of eighteenth-century afrancesados in Madrid; the revolutionary years brought only a brief interruption of French influence in Latin American culture. The specific French impress on Latin American universities was to remain strong and very visible until well into the twentieth century; British and North American influences had much less impact, and less still had the German model of the research university. That the special local conditions in which the French assumptions would operate might imply a need for more sensitive awareness of the Latin American context and circumstances was not grasped until the end of the nineteenth century. French ideas played in the first instance on the institutions left behind by the colonial era and later on new facts and circumstances thrown up by the politics and social developments of individual countries. In this context, though, and, some would say, even today, the roots of what became the uniquely politicized university world of Latin America can be seen to lie in attitudes and assumptions of the ‘enlightened’ phase of the ancien r´egime. Setting aside ideology, though, the practical and material legacy of the colonial period was unpromising. There were indeed some 25 universities in Spanish America at the beginning of the nineteenth century, mainly in Mexico (eight) and Peru (four), with three in Colombia and three in Argentina, but no single institution among them could be regarded as distinguished, except, perhaps, by antiquity.27 The scene contrasted strongly with the blossoming variety and comparative wealth of the North American world of colleges and universities. University staffing had been badly weakened by the closure of Jesuit institutions and the expulsion of Jesuit teachers. Other ecclesiastical institutions had by no means fully repaired this damage before the Society was reconstituted in 1814 and able to resume its efforts in South America. In so far as a general political or administrative tendency in higher education can be discerned across the new American nations in the nineteenth century, it was one which undermined or neglected (and sometimes even abolished) existing universities. Instead, new academies and institutes were created for the study of specific aspects of the humanities and science (and predominantly these reflected the traditional prestige of literary and philological study rather than the natural sciences). Others provided professional training.28 Also important were the escuelas normales which were set up in some countries, the teacher-training institutions which, notably in Mexico and Argentina, came in fact to serve in a measure as general post-secondary schools for the talented poor, and 27 28

See vol. II, chapter 6, pp. 262–6. The vigour with which these were encouraged should not be exaggerated: the School of Mines in Ouro Prete ‘founded’ in 1832 which later became the Scuola Nacional de Minas e Metallurgia da Universidade do Brasil, did not open its doors until 1876.

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Edward Shils and John Roberts so fulfilled a small part of the university role. Attempts were made to ensure that these heterogeneous bodies were at least in theory and form co-ordinated and centralized so as to express something of the Napoleonic idea of the university. Another outcome was the confining of research to non-university bodies. The new arrangements were the creatures of public authority, possessing little or no autonomy. In the process, the old universities, where they survived, were sometimes reduced to mere degree-giving bodies. They were almost always identified, though, with the new goals of creating national identity and culture, and marched under the banners of anti-clericalism and positivism. In the twentieth century, the state became more positively interested in them, and by no means always as a benevolent patron. The pervasive influence of positivism, while often confirming existing anti-religious attitudes, did little in Latin America to promote change of a truly innovatory or radical kind. Indeed, by antithesis it may even have helped to provoke a counter-current which was itself to prove the bearer of innovation, the appearance of the private university. Most of the constitutions of the republics professed liberalism and religious liberty; this could be taken advantage of by the Church, some saw, to found new universities of its own. The first of them was set up at Santiago de Chile in 1888. The private universities’ heyday, it is true, was not to come until the second half of the next century; only then would a vigorous growth of private universities begin. Nevertheless those few that came into existence before 1939 represented a significant alternative principle in higher education. They also reflected, of course, yet other influences from Europe, this time from Catholic universities there which had taken in the nineteenth century a more ultramontane and defensive stance vis` a-vis government than in the past.29 The introduction of change into national higher education systems was driven by different circumstances and with different degrees of urgency in different republics. Chile was notably early in getting under way. In 1842 the University of Chile at Santiago was set up by a lawyer and statesman, born in Venezuela, Andr´es Bello (1791–1865), on the basis of a former university of the colonial era; structurally reflecting Napoleonic institutions, his ambitions were nonetheless to create an institution capable of contributing significantly through research to the well-being of the new nation. Later the Chilean Istituto Nacional was set up as a national centre of education, overseeing all kinds of teaching institutions in a fusion of colleges with other organizations, including a seminary and a missionary school of Indians. Uruguay had a national university from 1849; 29

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The diffusion of European models this, too, was a co-ordinating structure on Napoleonic lines. Mexico was a very special case, particularly characterized by a struggle for the domination of education by lay and clerical contenders which began as early as 1830. At one time, the ancient colonial university was abolished, but quickly revived under conservatives. The new National University of Mexico which was founded in 1910, a year of revolution, was a deliberate ideological evocation of the centenary of another revolutionary act, that of the grito de Dolores which had begun the war of independence itself. The university was to become in the 1920s a notable and conscious embodiment of the idea of the university as a creator of nationalist selfconsciousness and perhaps the most successful of many experiments in this respect.30 Brazil was a special case. She had never had a colonial university and followed a very individual course towards independence. The removal of the Portuguese court to Brazil in 1808 and the survival after its return to Portugal of a monarchy there provided ties which lingered later than in the new republics; Brazil had an emperor of the royal house of Braganza until 1889. Traditional cultural ties with Europe also remained strong, and for most Brazilians who sought university education during the nineteenth century, the Portuguese university of Coimbra continued as in colonial times to suffice until the draw of Paris became stronger later in the century. Such new higher education institutes as appeared in Brazil before the monarchy gave way to the federal republic in 1889 were either basically schools of secondary education (of which the most celebrated and 30

See volume II of this History for the colonial period. From 1800 on new universities were founded in Argentina: Buenos Aires 1821, Cuyo 1939, Litoral 1919, La Plata 1897, ´ 1912; Bolivia: Cochabamba 1832, La Paz Mendoza 1939, Santa F´e 1889, Tucuman ´ 1832, 1832, Oruro 1892, Potos´ı 1894, Ren´e Moreno 1879, San Andr´es 1830, San Simon ´ Frias 1892; Chile: Catolica ´ ´ Santa Cruz 1890, Tomas de Chile 1898, Catolica de Val´ 1920; Colombia: Antioquia 1801, Bogota´ 1867, para´ıso 1928, Chile 1842, Concepcion ´ 1827; Cartagena 1827, Cauca 1827, Medellin 1886, Pontificia Medellin 1936, Popayan Ecuador: Central 1826, Cuenca 1867, Guyaquil 1867, Loja 1869; El Salvador: San Salvador 1841; Haiti: Port au Prince 1944; Honduras: Tegucigalpa 1882, Mexico: Chiapas 1826, Coahuila 1867, Culiacan 1918, Durango 1860, Guerrero 1869, Guadalajara 1925, Hermosillo 1938, Hidalgo 1869, M´erida 1848, Monterrey 1933, Morelos 1872, Nayarit ´ 1933, San Luis Potos´ı 1826, Sinaloa 1874, Sonora 1928, Tabasco 1903, 1925, Nuevo Leon ´ 1922, Zacatecas 1832; Nicaragua: Leon ´ 1812, Managua 1812; Panama: Panama Yucatan ´ 1890; Peru: Agraria de la Molina 1902, Arequipa 1828, Inge1935; Paraguay: Asuncion ´ ´ Lima nieria 1875, La Libertad 1824, San Agustin 1825, Trujillo 1824, Catolica del Peru, 1917; Uruguay: Montevideo 1849; Venezuela: Carabobo 1892, Los Andes 1810, Mara¨ caibo 1891, M´erida 1805. See H.-A. Steger, Die Universitaten in der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung Lateinamerikas (Bielefeld, 1967); T. Halperin Donghi, Historia de la Uni´ versidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, 1962); M. Pacheco Gomez, La Universidad de ´ Chile (Santiago de Chile, 1953); G. I. Sanchez, The Development of Higher Education in Mexico (New York, 1944); I. Leal, Historia de la Universidad Central de Venezuela (Caracas, 1961).

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Edward Shils and John Roberts probably the best was the Colegio Imperial de Pedro II, founded in Rio in 1803) or academies and schools of particular disciplines. But proposals for something more exalted were frequently aired, and in the course of the nineteenth century parliament received and debated (though it did not pass into law) many bills proposing various steps towards the creating of a university. In his last speech from the throne even Dom Pedro II himself acknowledged the need for a university in Brazil – and preferably two, one north and one south. Meanwhile, French cultural influence predominated in Brazilian society, literary and academic life. Many private institutions appeared to provide higher education. At last, in 1920 a University of Rio de Janeiro was set up by the merging of existing academic institutions (a polytechnic, the Rio School of Medicine and a private law school). To it was added the first Brazilian faculty of philosophy, sciences and letters in 1930. By then another university had been founded in 1927 at Minas Gerais. When dis˜ Paolo, a delegation was sent, significantly, cussion began of a third, in Sao to France, and in due course a group of distinguished French social scientists came to Brazil and helped to prepare the university which opened in 1934. Yet these often vigorous institutions still showed notable deficiencies on the eve of the Second World War. Not until 1930 had any course of higher studies in history or geography been available in Brazil and graduate schools were not to appear there until the 1960s. Research was still mainly confined to a few prestigious non-university centres and private foundations. Indigenous cultural thinking began to bear upon the Latin American university more towards the end of the nineteenth century, when intellectuals began to be concerned with the wakening of public opinion to the question of Latin American identity as something distinct from a compilation of European transplants. The Uruguayan Jos´e Enrique Rodo´ published an essay, Ariel, which did not directly address questions of university reform, but which raised two threatening images which have resonated ever since in Latin American academic life and debate: the threat to the Ariel of Latin American culture and independence by Caliban, represented by the United States, and the danger of oligarchic capitalism. These themes are still the stock-in-trade of university radicalism in Latin America though, ironically, the majority of Latin American graduate students who go abroad to take higher degrees now go to universities in the United States. There had been rumblings of discontent among Argentinean students in the first years of the twentieth century and in 1918 these broke out in the so-called ‘Reform’ movement; it began with a student rebellion ´ and the publication at the University of Cordoba of a famous Manifiesto containing many of the ideas which had been circulating for years already 182

The diffusion of European models among the students of Buenos Aires.31 There was a quick and sympathetic response to this initiative, even at the highest level of government, which suggests, perhaps (as does the rapid spread of interest in the Manifiesto to Uruguay), that the location was significant; the river Plate region was at that time where the most prosperous and stable societies were to be found south of the Rio Grande, containing the nearest thing to a middle class resembling those of Europe.32 Substantial urbanization had followed the flourishing growth of an economy based on the export of primary agricultural products, and Argentina and Uruguay both had better records of governmental stability than many other parts of the continent. It was hardly surprising that the University of Buenos Aires should soon adopt some of the specific proposals set out in the Manifiesto. From this area the Reform ideas spread, winning student adherence first in neighbouring countries – Chile, Bolivia and Peru – and then further afield. In 1921 an International Student Congress held in Mexico City brought them a little notice even outside the continent. The movement was to have protracted significance – it would be only a venial exaggeration to say that most of the internal politics of the Latin American universities since 1918 have been a long series of footnotes to the Manifiesto – though its origins were particular and local. What hap´ pened at Cordoba owed little to outside influences. That city had a small, traditional university whose professoriate was dominated by cliques and an oligarchy of academic families. The result was inadequate teaching and resentment of those who should have provided better. A few months before the outbreak, too, there had been much feeling among the students about an arbitrary closure of a student dormitory by the university. In March 1918 medical students began to agitate for change and attracted sympathetic notice by the national government in Buenos Aires. The president himself accepted the Committee’s invitation to intervene. Only when the university authorities then further bungled their own response did the situation burst out of control. The main characteristics of the Reform were a call for the promotion of national identity and independence through the university (a demand 31

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O. Albornoz, ‘The Latin American University at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: ´ The Cordoban Movement and the Emergence of the Latin American Model of University’, in O. Albornoz (ed.), The Latin American University Facing the 21st Century (New Delhi, ¨ 1994), 11–15; for further information see E. Garzon Valdes, ‘Die Universitatsreform ¨ des Lateinamerikanischen von Cordoba/Argentinien’, in H.-A. Steger (ed.), Grundzuge Hochschulwesens (Baden-Baden, 1965), 163–208, and Anhang I: Das Manifest von Cordoba (12.5.1918) Manifiesto de la Juventud Argentina de Cordoba a los Hombres Libres de Sud-America. At the turn of the century several local or provincial institutions of higher learning were ´ (1914), Santa founded which became national universities in La Plata (1906), Tucuman F´e (1919).

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Edward Shils and John Roberts not in itself new) and for resistance to imperialism – which meant the influence of the United States and the threat it presented to Latin American culture. Thus far, it was an expression of the continuing indigenous search for identity, both national and continental, pursued by many intellectuals. As such it was by no means unwelcome to governments which had been confronted with what looked often like aggression from the United States in the years (1904–16) of the ‘Roosevelt Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine and President Wilson’s vigorous promotion of democracy and political morality in Central America. The Manifiesto was in part also a reversion to old assumptions about the priority in education of the character-forming process. Reformers showed strong anti-clerical bias (expressing particular suspicion of the Jesuits) and argued that the liberalizing of the university itself, the realization of its autonomy, and the opening of its doors to greater numbers drawn from a wider spectrum of the populace were all urgent requirements. Significantly, the part-time professors who traditionally provided most of the teaching in Latin American universities (as they still do, because part-timers are cheap to hire) were to give way to full-time staff promoted by merit, while students were to be given a real part in the governance of the university. Such reforms achieved, it was hoped that the university would truly become the conscience of the nation. What is more, if that were achieved, then the authors of the Manifiesto envisaged that each reformed university would take its part in a network of liberal institutions spread throughout Latin America, transcending national barriers. On the one hand, the students’ assertion of the importance of the autonomy of the university suggests at first a return to ideas lying at its European roots. Yet in so far as this expressed specific and positive discontent with things as they were, it was also a rejection of what a specific set of European ideas had led to in the Latin American universities. The ideas which had been taken for granted in the nineteenth century had been taken for granted for too long, and, the way their theoretical implications actually worked had produced the inadequacies of the typical universities of the early twentieth century. It is difficult not to believe that the true significance of Reform lay less in a programme, than in its announcement of a new fact, the beginning of the era of student politics in Latin America, and a new intensity of politicization of the universities. The Reform movement has never lost its fascination for Latin American academic radicals. In this way too, though, it marks a new and indigenous departure in thinking about Latin American universities and not just another borrowing of ideas from abroad. Its own ideas and slogans, rather than influence from Europe and North America, were to provide the background to the enlargement of old and the foundation of new universities in the 1920s and 1930s, in which greater sensitivity began to be 184

The diffusion of European models shown to local conditions and special needs than ever before, even if still not enough. With this went a swing among political authorities towards distrust of the new level of politicization in the universities, as expressed in the student body, and even towards repression. The balance sheet of achievement of the Latin American universities may well not have seemed a very impressive one in 1939. The best scientific research work in the continent was at that time still not being done in them, but in the specialized institutions which contributed little to their teaching; this was a reflection still of the original French influence. The universities were, at their best, large-scale schools of higher education and professional training, producing such specialists as the somewhat conservative societies of Latin America required to fill the ranks of law (some have characterized the old style of Latin American higher education as the Universidad de Abogados), politics, medicine and other professions. This they did in ways demanded by a narrow elite among often still predominantly rural and illiterate populations. Though much enlarged, the majority had not broken through to democratic recruitment as envisaged by the reformers (Peru’s seven universities had less than 4,000 students enrolled in them in 1940 even if the University of Mexico was already on its own way to its later huge expansion and the elaboration of its connections with research institutes33 ). The continent’s universities thus continued to contribute to the prolonged and exaggerated cult of the intellectual which pervaded Latin American urban life, and they reflected the demographic weakness of the urban middle classes. They displayed none of the pluralism of goals and inspirations so vigorously expressed among North American universities, nor could they tap major economic resources for their maintenance. The Latin American university has been called ‘a plaything for an elite alienated on its own continent’34 and if this is too harsh to be the last word on it as the first half of the twentieth century began to draw to its close, there is enough truth in it to be borne in mind as one turns to what should have been a golden age of expansion in the second half of the twentieth century, when demographic pressure, technological ambition, changing views of what sort of elite society was required, and the stabilization of politics all encouraged increases in numbers which transformed the scale and the quality of what was provided. 33

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H.-A. Steger, ‘Die Entstehung von “El Colegio de M´exico”’, in Wirkungen von Migratio¨ frankische ¨ nen auf aufnehmende Gesellschaften, Schriften des Zentralinstituts fur Lan¨ Erlangen (Nurnberg, ¨ deskunde und allgemeine Regionalforschung an der Universitat 1996), 119–32. ¨ H.-A. Steger, ‘Universitatsgeschichte und Industriegesellschaft in Lateinamerika’, in Die ¨ in der Welt. Die Welt in der Universitat, ¨ Schriften (Nurnberg, ¨ Universitat 1994), 45– 61; H. A. Steger, ‘The European Background’, in Maier and Weatherhead (eds.), Latin American University (note 26), 89.

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See chapter 2, 34–5, 44–5. Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. II, 3rd edn (Leiden, 1965), s.v. ‘Djami’a’; R. D. Matthews and M. Akrawi (eds.), Education in Arab Countries of the Near East (Washington, DC, 1949), 199–209; J.-J. Waardenburg, Les universit´es dans le monde Arabe actuel, vol. I (Paris, 1966), 152–57.

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Matthews and Akrawi (eds.), Education (note 36), 379–88; Waardenburg, Universit´es (note 36), vol. I, 274–77.

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Matthews and Akrawi (eds.), Education (note 36), 487–99; Waardenburg, Universit´es (note 36), vol. I, 186–94.

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Edward Shils and John Roberts PALESTINE: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem which was established in 1924 adhered to no single national model although British provincial and German influences predominated, while its first president was an American rabbi. It was devoted to the proposition that both teaching and research should flourish within it, and its founders believed no less unswervingly in academic self-government and freedom of teaching. Its early appointments of academic staff brought Germans and Britons to senior positions. When the National Socialists came to power in Germany, other distinguished German scholars were appointed there, accentuating the tone of the German university at its best.41 The constitutional form of the Hebrew University, though, remained British. There was no dependency on any ministry to confirm its appointments. Great Britain, the mandatory power in Palestine, abstained from any intrusion into the affairs of the university, although it looked upon it benevolently and gave it its patronage. The pattern of a lay governing body alongside an academic body was like that of provincial British universities. The names of degrees which it conferred were taken from a British list but the MA degree was, like the same degree in the American universities of the time, awarded on the acceptance of a dissertation based on research. In substance, the university took as its proper field of action the full range of disciplines of any German or British university of the 1920s, though giving less prominence to technology than the British universities and in this respect coming closer to the German pattern. In addition to the fundamental scientific subjects of the European humanistic tradition, it gave special attention to the religious and intellectual history of the Jews and made substantial provision for Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. The medium of instruction was Hebrew. The result of the researches conducted by its teachers in the fundamental sciences were published in English for the most part, although until 1933 some were published in German. In the subjects of local interest and for those interested in Jewish studies (broadly conceived) Hebrew was the main language of publication. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is probably the most successful instance of the implantation of the Western European university model in Asia in the period up to the Second World War. While it retained essential fidelity to its model or models, it did not merely emulate them. It used them as points of departure for its own distinctive course. It was sustained by a firm academic ethic which was at first brought from abroad by its teachers, and which they reaffirmed and reproduced in the activities of teaching and research. Its financial support came from abroad, and the 41

Encyclopaedia Judaica, vol. VIII (Jerusalem, 1971), s.v. ‘Hebrew University of Jerusalem’.

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Edward Shils and John Roberts Governmentally supported and controlled schools and faculties remained separate. Only in 1917 did the Ministry of Education form a committee to examine the problem of organizing a public or state university. It recommended that the existing e´ coles sup´erieures should be brought together under a single administration. In 1923, the ministry and the administrative council of the Egyptian University agreed that the latter should be incorporated into the new state university; this came into existence in 1925 under the name of Fuad the First University. It had four faculties; the faculty of arts was constituted by bringing together the departments of letters of the Egyptian University and the parallel section ´ of the Higher Training College which had emerged in 1922 from the Ecole normale of 1880. The French influence prevailed in the faculties of law and arts. British influence was dominant in the faculties of science and medicine and later in the Polytechnique, which was incorporated in 1935. In the same year, the schools of agriculture, commerce and veterinary medicine were also taken into the university.43 A second state university was established in Alexandria in 1942 as Faruk the First University. It was made up of the faculties of arts, law and the polytechnic which, as branches in Alexandria of the Fuad the First University, were already in existence. To these were added by a decision of the ministry, faculties of medicine, science, commerce and agriculture. However, not only French and British traditions were at work in Egyptian higher education. The American model of the liberal arts college appeared in Egypt with the formation of the American University of Cairo. Planning for it had begun in 1914; it was incorporated in the District of Columbia in the United States in 1920. It had a board of trustees resident in the United States and financial support coming mostly from the United States. In these respects and in others, it strongly resembled the American University in Beirut. It was almost entirely an undergraduate college but undertook advanced work in a few fields. Its system of government was much like that of the American University of Beirut or a private American liberal arts college of the turn of the last century and its degrees were not recognized by the government of Egypt, although they were very well esteemed in Egypt and did not disqualify those who held them from holding public appointments.44 SUDAN: The Gordon Memorial College opened in 1902 in Khartoum was created by private initiative; it was supported financially by public subscription of a fund of £100,000 in response to an appeal to form a college in memory of General Charles George Gordon (1833–85), but from the beginning it was jointly supported by private philanthropy and the government of Sudan, the latter bearing most of the costs. It had a board of trustees and an executive committee, with Queen Victoria as 43

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The diffusion of European models patroness. The principal was director of education for the Sudan, which placed the college under the control of a government official. Its teachers were civil servants. In 1934, the authority of its board of trustees was transferred to the governor general. It was, in fact, scarcely a higher educational institution. At first it had attached to it a vocational school, a school for training teachers and a technical or industrial school. It had also a primary school but that was eliminated in 1924, when it was decided by the government to turn the college into a secondary school. In 1924, the Kitchener School of Medicine was established in Khartoum. It had a governing authority similar to that of the Gordon College but it was not amalgamated with it. Its principal was the director of the Sudan medical services. At first the medical school granted only diplomas. Beginning in 1940, graduates of the medical school sat for final examinations for the diploma under the supervision of the two Royal Colleges – of Physicians and Surgeons – in London. The possessor of this diploma was then admitted to the formal examinations of the Royal Colleges. In 1936, a law school was created; it was attached to the legal department of the government of the Sudan. The de la Warr Commission on Higher Education in East Africa affirmed the intention of the Colonial Office to create more professional schools. It also recommended that Gordon Memorial College should become a ‘university type’ of institution and sooner or later, a full university. In 1938, a school of agriculture and veterinary medicine was established; in 1939, a school of science and technology; and in 1940, a school of arts. These schools were also separate from each other and from the Gordon Memorial College, but in 1942 they were linked together under a higher school’s advisory committee. In 1943, all these separate schools were amalgamated into the Gordon Memorial College which thereupon became Gordon College. Its diplomas were awarded by the University of London, which set the examinations, appointed the examiners, and made arrangements for their assessment. These specialized schools and their heir and later overlord, Gordon College, were wholly British creations, teaching in English. They were to a greater extent than in other parts of the British Empire, adjuncts of colonial government. They were derived from British models by their subject matter and the medium of instruction and became peripheral parts of the British higher educational system in that the University of London examined their pupils and awarded its diplomas to those who were successful. But with respect to their constitution and internal government, they were remote from any British university model.45 45

Ibid., vol. I, 267–8.

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Edward Shils and John Roberts FRENCH COLONIES IN AFRICA: The policy of the French Third Republic concerning school and university education in its colonies was very timid, especially if compared to its brilliant and successful achievements in metropolitan France.46 Partly due to colonist pressure, the republican ideals about education as a way towards liberty and democracy were left aside in the overseas territories: to enable the native populations to get access to them was always presented as much too expensive and politically dangerous. Even for the European families, it is true, the realizations were modest. A decent network of primary and secondary schools, belonging either to the state or to religious orders, was created only in the oldest colonies (Algeria, Senegal) where the population of metropolitan origin was numerous enough. But if they wanted to go to university, the sons of colonial families had usually to come back to France, either to Paris or to towns which had traditional overseas connections like Aix-en-Provence or Bordeaux. For the natives themselves, the educational opportunities were much weaker. Where they already existed, traditional schools, like Koranic schools and madrasas in North Africa, were preserved. Some primary or ‘upper primary’ (primaire sup´erieure) schools, with French or native teachers, were founded but their total number largely varied according to the country. For secondary education, natives could just go to a few old renowned colleges (like Moulay Idriss College in Rabat or Sadiki College in Tunis) and to some lyc´ees, where the sons of some worthy local families were admitted alongside those of metropolitan descent. As regards the opportunities for university education for native people, they were even more reduced. A very limited number came to France to study mainly law and medicine. In 1932, there were in metropolitan France less than 200 students from North Africa (mostly from Tunisia) and about twenty from Black Africa and Madagascar. Yet, these figures were growing steadily and in 1938 they had probably already doubled. The Association des e´ tudiants musulmans nord-africains, founded in 1927, became very quickly a centre for anti-colonialist politics and a breeding-ground for future nationalist leaders. Overseas, the French university policy achieved but a very few concrete realizations. They were usually due to the personal energy of some local government official. These colonial upper schools and universities were more or less intended to give at the same time to young European students the possibility to do (or at least to start) their university studies at home and to native students, belonging to a very restricted local elite, to make their career in an upper position, generally connected with 46

Unless otherwise indicated, the following data and statistics are taken from J. Thobie et al., Histoire de la France coloniale, 1914–1990 (Paris, 1990).

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On Algiers University: C. Taillart, ‘L’Universit´e d’Alger’, in Histoire et historiens de l’Alg´erie (Paris, 1931), 363–80; E. Guernier (ed.), Alg´erie et Sahara, L’Encyclop´edie coloniale et maritime (Paris, 1946), 183–4.

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E. Guernier (ed.), Le Maroc, L’Encyclop´edie coloniale et maritime (Paris, 1940), 159–60. G. Peter, L’effort franc¸ais au S´en´egal (Paris, 1933), 298–300.

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A. P. Newton, The Universities and Educational Systems of the British Empire (London, 1924), 36. Ibid., 73; University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand: The Open Universities in South Africa (Johannesburg, 1957). B. K. Murray, Wits the Early Years: A History of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and its Precursors, 1896–1939 (Johannesburg, 1982). H. M. Thom et al., Stellenbosh 1866–1966. Honderd Jaar Ho¨er Onderwys (Cape Town, 1966). J. H. Louw, In the Shadow of Table Mountain: A History of the University of Cape Town Medical School and its Associated Teaching Hospitals up to 1950, with Glimpses into the Future (Cape Town, 1969).

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Newton, Universities (note 50), 105–6. P. V. Tobias, The African in the Universities (Johannesburg, 1951). On the problems of Apartheid in South African university education: Apartheid Medicine: Health and Human Rights in South Africa (Washington, DC, 1990); M. Horrell, Bantu Education to 1968 (Johannesburg, 1968); H. W. van der Merwe and D. Welsh (eds.), Student Perspectives on South Africa (Cape Town, 1972); P. V. Tobias, The Sixth Freedom, Edgar Brookes Academic and Human Freedom Lecture (Pietermaritzburg, 1977).

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Minute of 2 February 1835. See H. Woodrow (ed.), Macaulay’s Minutes on Education in India (Calcutta, 1862). B. T. McCully, English Education and the Origins of Indian Nationalism (Gloucester, Mass., 1940; rpt. 1966), 131ff. A classic account of education during British rule in India: S. Nurullah and J. P. Naik, A History of Education in India (Bombay, 1951).

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The diffusion of European models for Indian scientific journals. The University of Calcutta established the Calcutta University Press to bring before a wider public the scientific and scholarly work of Indian academics as well as translations of works on Indian subjects. Within India all scientific journals and nearly all scholarly journals were published in English. Nevertheless, Indian scientists and scholars continued to look abroad, not only for the directions in which to focus their research but also for places of publication. Publication by a European publisher or in a European journal was highly prized. So was attendance at European – above all, British – universities, whose administration, teaching and research were regarded as superior to what was locally available in the subcontinent. Though the teachers in Indian colleges and universities were from the very beginning mainly Indians, even in the missionary colleges and the Presidency colleges, there were also numerous expatriate teachers, usually European and mostly British, many of them making permanent careers in India. Expatriates were common as professors in the universities and as principals of the missionary and the Presidency colleges. Some continental Europeans such as Aurel Stein (1862–1943) and Julius E. Jolly (1849– 1932) joined the Indian Educational Service as teachers in government colleges in order to do Indological research in India. Indians began to go abroad for studies from the 1870s onwards, almost exclusively to England. Those who went to Oxford and Cambridge were accorded high prestige on their return to India, even if they only took another undergraduate degree there. After Oxford and Cambridge, London drew most Indians. M. K. Gandhi, for example, studied at the Inns of Court, while J. Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, was an undergraduate at Cambridge. The London School of Economics in the 1920s and 1930s was especially attractive to them, a few of them remaining in England and never returning to India, while there was also a continuing flow of Indians who sought legal careers by entering the Inns of Court, but few of these had any connection with universities. In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, young Indians who went to Great Britain to study often did so with intention of preparing themselves for entry into the Indian Civil Service. Later, and especially after the First World War, an increasing number of Indian graduates of European universities, almost exclusively British, entered the academic profession in India. Their participation tended to reinforce features of the British university model in Indian higher education. Small numbers of Indian students, though, went to Germany because they had political objections to placing themselves under the instruction of Englishmen. A very few went to France. Not many went to the United States, but among them, a small number stayed to make academic careers in universities and colleges, usually of second rank. Before the Second 205

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The diffusion of European models British and Indian educationalists alike seemed unable to find a solution. Among several efforts in the twentieth century to create ‘genuinely Indian’ universities was the Bengal National College, created during the period of the Swadeshi agitation in 1907. It was short-lived, and a more substantial and enduring achievement was the university created by the great literary figure Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) at Shatiniketan in Bengal in 1917. Even this notable experiment was an isolated exception to the persisting norm. Indian universities thus continued to adhere to the models drawn from the British universities. But given the anomaly of an alien curricular substance taught in an alien language, and the combination of ultimate power with the intangibility and remoteness of the affiliating university, it was difficult for the academic ethic to become implanted in India. However, there were outstanding exceptions in the Presidency colleges, leading missionary institutions and some Indian-run establishments such as Fergusson College in Poona. But the provision of Indian higher education had long-term and profound results beyond the purely academic. Indian graduates were the creators of a new type of public sphere, and a new public identity, which found political fruition at independence in 1947. Further, as higher education was gradually opened up to girls as well as boys in the twentieth century, gender roles were refashioned and Indian women increasingly played an important role in many more spheres of public life and the professions. The modern Indian polity and India’s greatly changed society would have been impossible without the experience, however anomalous and disputed, of higher education as implanted by the British. CEYLON: The first higher educational institution in Ceylon was Queen’s College. This had developed from a secondary school, the Colombo Academy, which had in 1859 become affiliated to Calcutta University. Under a new name, the Royal College, it offered postmatriculation instruction which in part prepared its pupils for the external examination of the University of London. Medical education was offered by Ceylon Medical College, founded in 1870. The college was housed in buildings paid for by local benefactors. It was recognized as a medical school by the Medical Act of 1886. A law college was founded shortly after this. Other than in law and medicine, though, nineteenthcentury British and wealthy Ceylonese families who wished their children to receive university education had to send them to Great Britain. The professional and more prosperous mercantile classes made known their desires for university education in Ceylon later than in India, and a Ceylon University Association was only formed in 1906. Leading intellectual figures demanded the establishment of a university which would combine the teaching of modern Western knowledge with traditional knowledge. It was assumed that government must be the agent of such a foundation. 207

Edward Shils and John Roberts The government for its part was neither obstructive nor enthusiastic. In 1912 it was proposed by a committee of the legislative council that a university be established in a building of the Royal College. The First World War intervened and nothing was done. After the war, the Ceylon University College was established in 1921, affiliated to the University of London which administered external examinations to the students of Ceylon University College. Meanwhile, the demand for a full university went on and the government accepted the proposal in principle. A draft constitution was prepared in 1930. The University of Ceylon was finally established in 1942. Like its predecessor, the University College, it was entirely dependent on the government for its financial support. An eminent British constitutional lawyer, Ivor Jennings (1903–65), had become principal of the University College in 1940, and in 1942 became the vice-chancellor of the university. He insisted that the new university be both autonomous and unitary. In its arrangement for the exercise of authority within the university, it resembled closely a modern British university of the period between the two great wars. In its new quarters in Peredeniya, it was said by one observer to be like ‘a Cambridge in the Mahaveli’.63 But this was again a university on the British model. The model, though, had undergone much development since the first Indian universities were founded. There had been enough experience of affiliation in India to provide convincing evidence that it ought to be avoided for the future. Meanwhile the modern British universities had developed very fruitfully and they provided both ideas and a new standard for aspiration such as had not attended the birth of the Indian universities. south-east asia BURMA: The University of Rangoon opened in 1920 with six professors and 829 students. It had two constituent colleges, the former Rangoon College (renamed Government College in 1904 and University College in 1920) which began as a college department of the Rangoon High School and became affiliated in Arts to the University of Calcutta in 1885; and Judson College (known until 1918 as Baptist College) which was a foundation of the American Baptist Mission and affiliated to the University of Calcutta for ‘First Arts’ in 1895 and for the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1909. Like the Indian universities, the colleges were created largely to satisfy the demands of the small Burmese professional and commercial classes for higher education, an additional impulse being the British colonial government’s recognition of its duty to provide higher education for 63

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The diffusion of European models its subjects. The medium of instruction was English, the majority of the teachers of the university were European; there were a few Chinese, Indians and Burmese, and teaching methods and courses of study followed the Oxford and Cambridge model (the University of Calcutta precedent which was set up upon the model of the old London University when it was an examining body only having been expressly avoided).64 The university expanded, with a Teacher’s Training College of the University in 1930, while the Agricultural College and Research Institute of Mandalay gained its status in 1938 and the affiliated Mandalay Intermediate College (established 1925) was raised to degree status in 1948 (only becoming a separate university in 1958). The University of Rangoon was from the start regarded by its students as imperialist and restrictive, and indeed the university’s opening on 1 December 1920 was boycotted in a protest which spread to schools nation wide. As Burmese nationalists’ demands grew, there were in 1936 and 1938 two further strikes at the University of Rangoon whose highly politicized Students’ Union leaders became architects of Burma’s independence.65 MALAYA: In 1905 the Straits Settlement and Federated Malay States Government Medical School was founded in Singapore. It was created on the demand of the local Chinese population and was intended to train only medical auxiliaries, but was the first modern higher educational institution in what was then Malaya. Its name was changed to the King Edward VII Medical School in 1912 and in 1926 its medical degree was certified by the General Medical Council in London. In 1921 its name was again changed to the King Edward VII College of Medicine. In 1928, Raffles College came into existence, also in Singapore. It, too, was a response to a demand by the Chinese educated class and became conjoined with the College of Medicine. Both were British institutions. Raffles College could not award its own degrees or diplomas; its students had to sit for an examination set and marked by an examining body in the United Kingdom. Their teachers were mostly British with a small percentage of Chinese and the senior administrators British. The medium of instruction was English, the subjects and the degrees and diplomas for which the students were prepared were those of modern British universities, as were the methods of teaching.66 64 65 66

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(Kuala Lumpur, London and Oxford, 1975); S. Kanagasabai et al., Studies in Malaysian Education, An Annotated Bibliography (Kuala Lumpur, 1980). B. A. Batson, The End of the Absolute Monarchy in Siam (Singapore, 1984), 78; D. K. Wyatt, Thailand: A Short History (New Haven, 1984), 228; J. A. Stowe, Siam Becomes Thailand: A Story of Intrigues (Honolulu, 1991), 76, 85.

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One must notice that in Indo-China as well as in North Africa, Senegal or Madagascar, the first real attempts to promote some kind of higher education were closely linked with the First World War during which indigenous troops were engaged in large numbers on the European battlefields; it was a kind of compensation offered to these populations.

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The diffusion of European models confer degrees in civil and canon law in the same year. Until the middle of the eighteenth century most of its students were aspirants to the priesthood. In 1871, it opened a medical school. The reforms introduced at this time were inspired by the idea of Spanish liberal reformers who regarded the German university as the appropriate model. It was now called the ´ and was a private university, largely Manila University of Santo Tomas dependent on student fees for its support. Its teaching staff were either part-time or poorly remunerated Roman Catholic priests. In 1896, it organized a faculty of philosophy and letters and, in 1907 established a faculty of engineering. In 1901, the Philippines came under American rule. In 1909, the University of the Philippines, also in Manila, was founded. In many respects, it resembled the pattern of the American land-grant colleges. Its funds came mostly from government. It taught practical subjects like veterinary medicine, commerce, nursing and journalism. It also taught courses in humanistic subjects. In addition to these two universities there were missionary universities, like the Ateneo de Manila University, founded 1859 as a primary school. In 1865 the Jesuits introduced a five-year programme leading to the Bachelor of Arts. In 1959 the Ateneo obtained its university charter. The Protestant counterpart was the Union Theological Seminary, founded in 1907. The Philippines also had proprietary colleges and universities, conducted as a business for the private profit of its owners. The leading such institution – the Far Eastern University – acquired the status of university in 1934, having previously been a privately owned commercial evening college. Some of the privately owned universities were specialized. For example, the Araneta University specialized in agriculture. Because it was an American colony, the Philippines came closer to mass higher education at an earlier date than any other country, apart from the United States. australasia AUSTRALIA: It appears incongruous that in the second half of the nineteenth century when Britain had only a handful of universities, most dating back for several centuries, four of the raw, young Australian colonial communities, and the colony of New Zealand, should devote a significant part of their limited resources to establishing universities. They did so in order to cloak themselves with manifestations of the culture and sophistication of the mother country, to assert that though distant from the centre of the Empire, British culture and learning survived on the periphery. The universities were to be an agency of civilization, to improve the moral character of the colonies. Distance and colonial rivalry dictated that they each wanted their own seat of learning. 213

Edward Shils and John Roberts The Australian colonial universities were founded by legislation in Sydney (1850),70 Melbourne (1853),71 Adelaide (1874)72 and Tasmania (1890).73 After nationhood in 1901, new institutions followed in Queensland in 1909 and Western Australia in 1911.74 The diversity of the backgrounds and university experiences of the Australian colonists meant that there were many models from which to choose. Oxford and Cambridge were the unobtainable ideal, while Trinity College, Dublin, and the Scottish universities were often favoured because they had many graduates in Australia. However, the colonial universities were also a product of contemporary liberal thought, and therefore more generally reflected the models provided by Britain’s newest institutions, London University and the University of Ireland, in that they were non-sectarian. In other respects the colonial universities were unlike any British model as they were essentially state facilities rather than private or church enterprises, more secular than their British counterparts and with limitations imposed upon church influence. They also challenged tradition in that teaching was to be the responsibility of their own faculties, rather than being undertaken by colleges whose students would be examined by university authorities. Church-based colleges were to be allowed, or even encouraged, but they were to be largely residential institutions, more supplementary and peripheral than in Britain. The first colleges in Sydney were St Paul’s (1854) and St John’s (1857), and in Melbourne Trinity (1872), Ormond (1882) and Queen’s (1888). The Australian universities were small and elite bodies, their few students mainly drawn from the comfortable socio-economic classes. Until the 1880s the students were male. Partly for pedagogical reasons and partly because of issues of viability, there was frequent debate over the range and content of courses, with tension between traditionalists who supported a classically orientated education, and those who for liberal and pragmatic reasons promoted utilitarian courses ranging from medicine to engineering to education. Eventually, the latter approach had to triumph if the universities were to survive. Until well into the twentieth century, most professors were recruited from Britain, and the most successful students were sent there for postgraduate study, which perpetuated the influence of the British system. 70 71 72 73 74

H. E. Barff, A Short Historical Account of the University of Sydney (Sydney, 1902). G. Blainey, A Centenary History of the University of Melbourne (Melbourne, 1957). W. G. K. Duncan and R. A. Leonard, The University of Adelaide 1874–1974 (Adelaide, 1973). R. Davis, Open to Talent: The Centenary History of the University of Tasmania (Hobart, 1990). F. Alexander, Campus at Crawley: A Narrative and Critical Interpretation of the First Fifty Years of the University of Western Australia (Melbourne, 1963).

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H. Parton, The University of New Zealand (Auckland, 1979). S. Keith and T. McNaughton, A History of the University of Auckland, 1883–1983 (Auckland, 1983).

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See Yearbook of the University of Hong Kong. E-tu Zen Sun, ‘The Growth of the Academic Community 1912–1949’, in J. K.Fairbank and A. Feuerwerker (eds.), Cambridge History of China, vol. XIII: Republican China 1912–1949 (Cambridge, 1986), 361–420.

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R. Hayhoe, ‘Towards the Forging of a Chinese University Ethos: Zhendan and Fudan, 1903–1919’, The Chinese Quarterly 94 (June 1983), 341. Ibid., 333.

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J. Chen, China and the West (London, 1979), 133. ¨ Zur Geschichte deutscher Kulturarbeit in ShangR. Bieg-Brentzel, Die Tongji-Universitat: ¨ ch’uang-chiao pa-shih chou-nien chihai (Heidelberg, 1984); Kuo-li T’ung-chi ta-hsueh nien t’e-k’an (Shanghai, 1987); cf. R. Reinbothe, Kulturexport und Wirtschaftsmacht. Deutsche Schulen in China vor dem Ersten Weltkreig (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1992), 141–230.

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Ikuo Amano, ‘Universities and Colleges’, in Kodansha Encyclopaedia of Japan, vol. VIII (Tokyo and New York, 1983), 170. G. B. Samson, The Western World and Japan (New York, 1950), 478. On the influence of the Dutch military medical schoolmodel, see chapter 14, 557.

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The diffusion of European models Education and paved the way for the enactment of the Education Order of 1879 which was based on the more decentralized American System but which was severely criticized as inviting confusion and decadence in education.91 The Imperial University Ordinance of 1 March 1886 stipulated: ‘The aim of the Imperial Universities is to teach those arts and sciences essential in the nation and to conduct research into unknown areas’. The ordinance followed the North American pattern of a strong supervision on the lower level by ‘college’ directors and on the top by a president, appointed by government, and assisted by a university council, composed of the directors and professorial delegates from the ‘colleges’. The universities were divided according to the first aim of teaching essential arts and sciences into ‘colleges’ of law, medicine, engineering, arts, sciences and agriculture, and they had according to the second aim to conduct research, a graduate school, the ‘University Hall’.92 In fact little provision was made for research and it had to be done, when it was done at all, with the equipment and materials which were allocated to teaching. As a result, the name of the University of Tokyo changed to the Imperial University of Japan in Tokyo, and in 1897 the Imperial University in Kyoto was added. The Kaisei Gakko was the first form of the Imperial University in Tokyo. Numerous German scientists and scholars were invited to become professors in the two imperial universities. They were permitted to teach in German at first but after two years of service, they were required to lecture in Japanese. The imperial universities were regarded primarily as a means of bringing Western knowledge to Japan. But the disregard of Japanese and Chinese literature did not last long and Japanese legal history and Chinese philosophy were soon provided with departments of their own.93 Nevertheless, traditional religious subjects never gained the importance which they had in European universities or even in China in the early decades of the National University of Beijing. Between 1900 and the Second World War other imperial universities were founded: 1907 in Sendai the Tohoku Imperial University with the university hall and faculties of sciences, medicine, engineering, law and literature; 1910 in Fukuoka the Kyushu Imperial University with faculties of medicine, engineering, law and letters; 1918 in Sapporo the Hokkaido Teikoku Daigaku with the university hall and faculties of agriculture, medicine, engineering and science; 1924 in Keijo-Seoul (Korea) with faculties of medicine, law and literature; 1928 in Taiwan the Taihoku Imperial 91 92 93

ˆ ‘Tanaka Fujimaro’, in Kodansha Encyclopaedia (note 89), vol. VII, 336. Hideo Sato, Minerva, Handbuch der gelehrten Welt, 1 (Strasburg, 1911), 547–9. Samson, Western World (note 90), 487.

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The diffusion of European models concluding observations The ways in which models of European universities spread, and the reasons for their spread in other parts of the world, are evidently very complex. However the recipient societies were organized politically, in no case was the implantation of universities simply a function of the initiative of the expanding European centre. There was always – in varying degrees – a stirring of initiative among the prospective, indigenous, recipients. This was as true of the reception of European models in Japan as it was in the United States and India. In the case of Japan, the firmly established indigenous government took the initiative, although there also existed some demand in the society. In the case of the United States, the central government played no part at all; in India it played a major role. The indigenous laity in both societies was the real source of decision. In the United States young academics, returning from foreign countries where they had studied, played the main role in the expansion and implantation of the model of German universities; in India, it was the indigenous professional, commercial and cultivated land-owning classes who pressed the alien ruler to implant the foreign model of the university. India exemplified in an acute form one major problem of the implantation of foreign university models by colonial governments. It occurred in situations in which movements for political independence were taking shape in a setting of distrust of and resentment against the ruling power. In consequence, universities were urgently demanded in colonial societies but were also often severely criticized by indigenous adult public opinion and by the politically agitated students. In most of the countries into which European universities expanded in the nineteenth and especially in the first half of the twentieth century, except in the United States, students have often disrupted the working of the universities. Indeed, it may be said that the disruptive actions of students, justified by their political beliefs, have been a very frequent concomitant of the expansion of the university model. On the whole, over the century and a half of our period, colonial officials and the metropolitan ministries did not try very hard to establish universities in the territories which they governed. In self-governed societies the central government took little interest in the establishment of universities; it was usually a vigorous individual official or a group of officials who took the initiative. Local and state governments played a considerable part in the creation of new universities in accordance with an alien model directly or indirectly perceived in an indigenous institution embodying the foreign model. This has frequently been a governing impulse helping to spread the European university model both within and outside Europe. When a 227

Edward Shils and John Roberts subjugated periphery wished to vie with the ruling centre, and to obtain for itself a dignity equal to the dignity of that alien entity, it sometimes saw universities as the means of improving its power and status. There has usually been a consensus between the alien centre and the active indigenous periphery about the importance of universities for the society in question. When colonial administrators wished to improve the societies they ruled, they increasingly thought in terms of universities, although almost always with some impulses from the citizenry, including persons who had studied in universities which were taken into the formation of the major model of the university to be emulated. The relationship between sovereign societies has been little different. Many of the educated classes of the United States believed that methodically acquired and ordered knowledge enhanced the dignity of the individuals and societies which possessed it and was an instrument for more effective exercise of power. Among them were some who focused attention on the German universities. But it was neither German manipulative power nor German propaganda which drew American attention in that direction. The expansion of the European university model has been a consequence mainly of the desires of the recipient rather than of the professors and administrators of the institutions which, in the course of time came to be the model sought at the periphery. Administrators of the University of London did not press the East India Company in London or the Governor General’s Council in India to accept it as the model for the universities of Bombay, Madras and Calcutta. The professors of the universities of Leipzig and Berlin did not press any American magnates or newly appointed presidents of still non-existent universities – for example, William Rainey Harper – to take themselves or the entire German system as the model for the new University of Chicago. Nor did the German governments of the princely states or the imperial government ever initiate a campaign to persuade Americans that they should adopt the German universities as the model for the expansion and reform of American universities towards the end of the nineteenth century. It is possible that when the Japanese commissioner, Tanaka Fujimaro, travelled to Europe and America in 1872 to canvass the alternative patterns which Japan might adopt, some officials and professors whom he met did attempt to persuade him that theirs was the best model. There were, however, plenty of reasons for Japan to adopt the German university as their model: the main one being that the German universities were at that time acknowledged, more or less universally, to be the best in the world. Universities were vessels which floated on a stream of desire to acquire the kind of knowledge which they transmitted and created. The belief that the dignity of a nation requires not only sovereignty but a university 228

The diffusion of European models shows how important knowledge was thought to be, both intrinsically and instrumentally. The expansion of universities from Europe was the outcome of an emerging world-wide consensus – not universally shared within any society or equally spread over all the societies of the earth – that the pursuit and the transmission of knowledge of a particular type, knowledge methodically pursued and based on rigorously gathered evidence and careful critical study of the best sources, knowledge that was tested by theories and which tested the theories, was of the highest importance. This kind of knowledge was the knowledge presented by universities. That was the main reason for the expansion of the model of the European university. The phenomenon of implantation has, then, many facets. The model is seldom completely and clearly visible. It is a loose and vague compound formed by the imagination from first-hand experience and hearsay. Also it is not a single thing, just as a university is not a single, indivisible thing. There is nothing about any model of a university which makes it a rigid indivisible construction which must be entirely adopted or which must be totally rejected. The model is often a transfiguration of the reality from which it is formed. That being the case, it is not susceptible to complete implantation, and even if that were the desire, it could never be completely realized. Indigenous traditions are usually too strong to be obliterated, although certain regimes in the twentieth century have deceived themselves into believing otherwise. The persistence of indigenous traditions means that no model can be implanted and can flourish as an exact replica of the university on which it is based. The model furthermore never covers satisfactorily all the desires and aspirations – and ineptitudes – of its recipients. Yet, all this being said, the model of the European university – heterogeneous and vague though it has been – and however awkward and deforming its implantation has been – has been a major facet of world cultural history. It has changed the intellectual physiognomy of all the countries which have been its recipients and it has given birth to an international community of knowledge.

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the quantitative approach A relatively recent initiative in the history of higher education has been the attempt to measure the flow of students into the universities and related institutions in a systematic and internationally comparable way. One of the important statistical properties of a system of higher education is its inclusiveness, an inclusive system being one that is reached by a relatively large fraction of the population. Total university-level enrolments per population may serve as reasonable measures of inclusiveness. They may not be internationally comparable, however, since the average duration of university study may vary from country to country. One way to get around this difficulty is to focus upon first-year enrolments, and to relate the number of entering students to the size of the most pertinent age-year within the population. Another method is to estimate the average duration of university attendance, and then to relate overall enrolments to the appropriate cluster of age-years. In either case, one arrives at a relative access rate or access percentage for the pertinent age cohort. Obviously, everything depends upon the quality of the available data. Since statistical sources are particularly rich for the Prussian/German system, the indicators for that system will serve as points of departure in the rest of this chapter. To approach systems of higher education in this quantitative way is to move away from the perspective of narrative history. The fate of individual institutions becomes marginal, and even system-wide legislative reforms and administrative innovations often recede into the background, proving less significant in their quantitative effects than they looked in ∗

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Fritz Ringer conventional accounts of political and institutional developments. On the other hand, patterns emerge that demand new lines of analysis and raise new questions of their own. What are the major epochs and turning points in the evolution of university-level enrolments? Can short-term fluctuations in admissions be distinguished from long-term trends? What are the underlying causes of short-term variation, of relative stability, and of long-term growth in inclusiveness? How are quantitative changes in higher education related to other aspects of the social process? What similarities and differences emerge from cross-national comparisons of major quantitative indicators, and how can they be accounted for? While conclusive answers to these questions are not yet available, certainly not for all European university systems, I can briefly report some initial findings and hypotheses for selected countries.1 Of special interest for the history of higher education are recurrent periods of crisis in which contemporaries noted an ‘overproduction’ or ‘excess’ of university graduates in relation to suitable employment opportunities for them. This happened in several European countries, and possibly in all of them, during the 1830s and 1840s, during the 1880s and 1890s, and again during the inter-war period, especially around 1930. There is some evidence that it also happened in some countries during the late eighteenth century, and even earlier. Contemporaries who observed this imbalance between the supply and the demand for graduates typically saw it as socially dysfunctional and dangerous. The term ‘academic proletariat’ was coined in Germany and much used in France around the end of the nineteenth century; but the phenomenon itself was older, and so was the fear that overeducated young people, typically from humble backgrounds, would make up an unproductive, alienated and potentially subversive element in the population.2 Anxieties of this kind usually led to public warnings about long probationary periods and potential unemployment in the learned professions. At least in Germany, it also provoked bureaucratic initiatives to stiffen qualifying examinations and requirements, to channel secondary students away from the universities, and even (during the late nineteenth century) to reduce financial aid to needy students. The Prussian Abitur, the famous secondary leaving examination and certificate, was initially introduced in 1788 to control a supposed excess of unqualified university entrants. In 1834, again during a period of academic ‘overproduction’, it was supplemented by a regulation that 1

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Admission largely restricted university access to successful secondary graduates or Abiturienten. Such restrictive policies had the effects that were intended, at least in the short run. Moreover, even public discussions of overcrowding in the professions tended disproportionately to affect students from less favourable backgrounds, who were more easily dissuaded from risking academic unemployment than their wealthier colleagues. Recurrent crises of academic ‘overproduction’ thus tended at least temporarily to reduce the share of university entrants from the lower portions of the social scale.3 the inclusiveness of university studies Excellent German data suggest a cyclical model of admission rates, in which phases of growth are regularly followed by phases of ‘overproduction’. Growth stems from a reported demand for graduates in certain subject areas and professions. Since students need time to complete their studies, the demand seems to persist even after it has called forth increased rates of university entry, and these in turn accordingly produce higher rates of graduation even after the initial demand has been filled. Partly as a result of these fluctuations, moreover, the age structures of professions tend to become uneven, which can further aggravate the oscillation from opportunity to closure. The cyclical pattern is internally produced by the educational system itself; but one can also conceive additional impulses coming from such external sources as rapid changes in the size of age cohorts. Educational planners are almost certainly wrong to assume that such demographic changes are fully translated into fluctuations in admissions; for parents and teachers may unconsciously compensate for the reduced size of an age group, for example, by finding almost as many potential university entrants in it as in the larger cohort that preceded it. Despite such dampening ‘compromises’, however, ‘baby booms’ must certainly be counted among the triggers of fluctuations in university access rates that will tend to perpetuate themselves in a cyclical way. If one further considers that enrolment increases will raise the demand for trained 3

L. O’Boyle, ‘The Problem of an Excess of Educated Men in Western Europe, 1800–1850’, ¨ ¨ Journal of Modern History, 42 (1970), 471–95; H.-G. Herrlitz and H. Titze, ‘Uberf ullung ¨ als Bildungspolitische Strategie’, Die deutsche Schule, 63 (1976), 348–69; D. K. Muller, ¨ ‘Qualifikationskrise und Schulreform’, in U. Herrmann (ed.), Historische Padagogik, Stu¨ ¨ dien zur historischen Bildungsokonomie und zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Padagogik, ¨ zur Bildungstheorie und zur Analyse padagogischer ¨ Beitrage Klassiker, Literaturberichte ¨ Padagogik, ¨ und Rezensionen, Zeitschrift fur Beiheft 14 (Weinheim, 1977), 13–35; D. K. ¨ ¨ Muller et al., ‘Modellentwicklung zur Analyse von Krisenphasen im Verhaltnis von Schul¨ ¨ system und staatlichem Beschaftigungssystem’, ibid., 37–77; D. K. Muller, Sozialstruktur und Schulsystem: Aspekte zur Theorie und Praxis der Schulorganisation im 19. Jahrhun¨ dert; W. Ruegg and O. Neuloh (eds.), Studien zum Wandel von Gesellschaft und Bildung ¨ 9 (Gottingen, 1977), esp. 274–80.

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Fritz Ringer teachers, one begins to appreciate the purely indigenous sources of quantitative variation within a system of higher education.4 The cyclical waves in German admissions lasted for some twelve to fourteen years; but they varied from subject area to subject area, depending at least partly upon the normal duration of university study in that area. The quality of the German data in fact permits researchers to specify the relationships between the supply of graduates, the number of openings and the lengths of waiting periods in the major academic and professional fields. Exact and convincing as their demonstrations are, however, they cannot fully resolve two sorts of questions. First, their model cannot, apart from direct observation, predict whether or not cyclical phases of ‘overproduction’ in different fields will coincide to produce more general crises of academic unemployment. One also has to ask to what extent students may be able and willing to change their fields in the light of professional prospects. Second, the cyclical approach is fully applicable only to systems in which a given course of study invariably prepares for a specific profession, or a narrow cluster of professions (the juridical civil service and the private practice of law); it was in fact applied to such systems by the educational planners of the nineteenth century.5 It would not be applicable to a system in which a general university education could serve as a preparation for an unlimited variety of occupations. On the other hand, an ‘excess’ of graduates might be perceived by contemporaries even in such an environment, and not without reason. For quite apart from the kind of calculations offered by this model, any rapid increase in the output of graduates per age group may be expected to lead to a relative scarcity in the positions traditionally regarded as appropriate for them. Historically, the cyclical model is most appropriate for the early and mid-nineteenth century, and for such university systems as those of France and Germany – not England – in which access to the traditionally learned professions was linked to precise academic prerequisites, state examinations and standardized professional credentials. Even in France and Germany, however, the enrolment increases of the late nineteenth century, and more markedly those of the inter-war period, tended to loosen the links between particular qualifications and specific professions. The narrow circle of occupations taken up by university graduates began at that time to expand very slowly. Indeed, these relatively recent crises of 4

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Admission academic ‘overproduction’ probably helped to destabilize the inherited social conventions about what positions were appropriate for the highly educated. There is some evidence that the ‘academic proletariat’ of the Weimar period for the first time included substantial numbers of university graduates who took jobs as ordinary business employees.6 In any case, the analysis of short-term fluctuations in university admissions must be supplemented by the study of long-term changes in levels of inclusiveness, to which we now turn. Table 7.1 brings together the most pertinent indicators for the German system from the eighteenth century to the inter-war period. The figures through to 1800 take account of high rates of academic mobility among students of that era, which led to many multiple matriculations.7 The calculations of new matriculations per age group suggest more moderate rates of inclusiveness than had previously been supposed. Yet the rates of university access in all of Germany around 1800 were not equalled again until 1870 (and the indicators for Prussia alone around 1800 may have been up to 60 per cent larger). Indeed, the German ratios for 1650 are even higher (2.8 per cent) than those for 1800 (0.9 per cent).8 A long-term decline in university entries per age group persisted through subordinate short-term fluctuations that became particularly rapid after 1740.9 The recurrent complaints about a perceived excess of graduates mentioned above became most insistent during the late eighteenth century, and that led to such deliberately restrictive policies as the Prussian Abitur regulation of 1788. We will return to possible interpretations of this striking phenomenon a little later. Not visible in detail in Table 7.1 is a recovery in German university enrolments that led to a new high in access rates per population in 1830– 31, as shown in the table, and that accounts for renewed anxieties about an ‘overproduction’ of educated men during the 1830s and 1840s. After declining markedly during the 1830s, both absolutely and in relation to the population, enrolments reached a low plateau between 0.3 and 0.4 students per thousand population from about 1840 to 1870. Laments about academic overcrowding ebbed away during these years, which suggests the hypothesis of an equilibrium between the supply and the demand for university leavers during the decades around the middle of the century. From 1870 on, however, university enrolments per population and per age group increased once again until the First World War and beyond. The 6 7

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Ringer, Education and Society, 98–100. W. Frijhoff, ‘Grandeur des nombres et mis`eres des r´ealit´es. La courbe de Franz Eulenburg et le d´ebat sur le nombre d’intellectuels en Allemagne, 1576–1815’, in D. Julia, J. Revel and R. Chartier (eds.), Les universit´es europ´eennes du XVIe au XVIII si`ecle. Histoire sociale des populations e´ tudiantes (Paris, 1986), vol. I, 23–7. See vol. II, pp. 298, 303–4 (M. R. di Simone, ‘Admission’). 9 Ibid. Ibid., 311.

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Fritz Ringer Table 7.1 Access to German universities, 1700–1930a

Date 1700 1740 1800 1820–21 1830–31 1840–41 1850–51 1860–61 1870–71 1880–81 1890–91 1900–01 1910–11 1920–21 1930–31

Secondary graduates as % of age cohort

Beginning students as % of age cohort

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Students per thousand of population

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15.7 11.5 12.4 12.4 12.7 21.9 28.2 34.3 54.5 86.9 99.9

0.3 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.8 1.4 1.5

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Figures to 1800 are from W. Frijhoff, ‘Surplus ou d´eficit? Hypoth`eses sur le nombre r´eel des e´ tudiants en Allemagne a` l’´epoque moderne (1576–1815)’, Francia: Forschungen ¨ zur westeuropaischen Geschichte, 7 (1979), 173–218. Figures for Secondary Graduates (Abiturienten) per nineteen-year-olds in 1921 and for beginning students per age cohort in 1870 and 1931 are from Ringer, Education and Society, Appendix Tables I, V. All other data are taken or calculated from H. Titze (ed.), ‘Hochschulstudium’ (note 1). Only universities are considered, and age cohorts are for both genders. Figures for 1830–31 etc. are almost always averages for winter term 1830–31 and summer term 1831, etc. (and for population 1830 and 1831, etc.). Enrolments per population in 1820–21 and secondary graduates per age group to 1910–11 are for Prussia only. Beginning students per cohort for 1870–71 are in fact total enrolments per four-year age group 20–23; for 1890–91 and 1910–11, first-year students are related to one-fifth of the five-year age group 1923. The results suggest that from 1890 on the university access rate was close to the ratio of enrolments to the five-year age group 19–23 used by Titze and in the last column of the table. The figures added after the slash in that column for 1900–01 and 1930–31 include students at technical institutes and other non-university institutions of higher education (with duration of study probably closer to four than to five years). Foreigners among German university students (included in the table) were some 7–8 per cent from the 1890s to the First World War and again in the mid-1920s, after which the proportion declined to around 4 per cent during the early 1930s.

last two columns in the table adequately describe this renewed expansion; but they have two weaknesses. First, the average duration of university study apparently increased after 1870, from about four to around five years. The ratio of students to the five-year age group 19–23, which stems from very good Prussian and German data, therefore tends to understate rates of university entry per age group until after 1870. Second, the table deals with the German universities alone. It thus neglects growing enrolments at the technical institutes (Technische Hochschulen), which became 238

Admission quantitatively significant after 1870, and which gained nominal equivalence of standing with the universities in 1899. Also unlisted are a number of academies and other institutions, some of them considered of university level, which grew up from the late nineteenth century on. Around 1900–01, the universities alone accounted for roughly 68 per cent of all university-level enrolments, and the technical institutes added around 22 per cent, which left 10 per cent for other institutions. As of 1930–31, the universities enrolled about 74–75 per cent of all students, and the technical institutes added another 17–18 per cent. Since average duration of study was almost certainly shorter at the non-university institutions of higher education than at the universities themselves, the indicators in the last column of Table 7.1 would have to be increased to around 1.0 in 1900–01 and 2.1 in 1930–31 to reflect first-year access to all university-level institutions. In any case, the German university system really experienced at least one and possibly two distinctive upward movements in enrolments after the plateau of 1840–70. The first of these was a phase of moderate growth that extended from 1870 to the First World War and into the inter-war period. During the 1880s and 1890s renewed concerns arose about an ‘academic proletariat’, so named during this period. Public debates about the accreditation of competing forms of secondary and higher education became extraordinarily heated. Efforts to restrict university access, while successful in the short run, ultimately failed to prevent further increases in levels of inclusiveness during the twentieth century. Indeed, the reflux of former soldiers into the German universities after the First World War, the great inflation of 1923 and the depression of the early 1930s led to unprecedented highs in enrolments that were only briefly interrupted after the currency stabilization of 1924. Beginning in 1933, the National Socialists responded with draconian measures to reduce access to the universities, which particularly affected women. These controls promptly produced shortages of educated specialists and ultimately had to be abandoned. They thus only temporarily checked the very rapid growth in enrolments per population that began during the inter-war period and that in other countries continued into the post-war era. It should be noted in Table 7.1 that Prussian secondary graduates (Abiturienten) from 1870 on were generally more numerous, in relation to the age cohort, than German university entrants; but the differences were not great. The relevant figures include graduates of incompletely classical secondary schools (later named Realgymnasien) from 1860 on and of the non-classical Oberrealschulen from 1880 on. The fully classical Gymnasium accounted for almost 90 per cent of secondary graduates around 1870, and still just over 80 per cent around 1900. Thereafter, as graduates of all secondary school types were admitted to the universities on nearly 239

Fritz Ringer equal terms, the proportion of Abitur certificates held from a Gymnasium rapidly fell to two-thirds by 1911 and continued to decline thereafter. But even before the turn of the century, many graduates of the Realgymnasien and Oberrealschulen went to the technical institutes, which are not covered in the table. The share of secondary graduates who continued on to some form of university-level study after 1870 was therefore even higher than the figures in Table 7.1 suggest. While the flow of students into the German universities during the nineteenth century can be charted with a fair degree of precision, there are few fully reliable and comparable data for France before the 1870s. The universities (really loose associations of faculties) that existed in France on the eve of the Revolution encompassed arts faculties that in theory prepared their students for the ‘higher’ faculties of theology, law and medicine. But much of the actual teaching of the arts faculties had devolved upon the coll`eges, only a fraction of which were actually affiliated with the arts faculties. The complete (full programme) coll`eges offered a classical secondary curriculum, along with a two-year terminal course in ‘philosophy’ that could be considered of university level. According to the best available estimates, students entering the ‘higher’ French faculties in 1789 were about 0.6 per cent of eighteen year-olds (or 1.2 per cent of eighteenyear-old males).10 Even without the philosophy students, this represents a fairly high level of inclusiveness as compared with the 0.4 per cent of the age group in column 2 of Table 7.1 (or 0.8 per cent of the male age cohort) at all German universities, though it comes very close to the access rate estimated for Prussia alone. Of course the Revolution swept away the French universities of the old regime, along with parts of the secondary system – and a rich network of endowed scholarships.11 In place of the old coll`eges, Napoleon created a system of public secondary schools (centrally financed lyc´ees called coll`eges royaux under the monarchy, plus municipal coll`eges), which competed with private or confessional secondary schools (also called coll`eges). In the baccalaureate examination and certificate (baccalaur´eat) of 1808, he created a French equivalent of the German Abitur, which became a near-prerequisite for access to higher education and to the learned professions. The old French universities became institutionally separated faculties or ‘schools’. Among them, the professional faculties of law, medicine and pharmacy long remained much larger and more important than the 10

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R. Chartier, D. Julia and M.-M. Comp`ere, L’Education en France du XVIe au XVIIIe Si`ecle (Paris, 1976), 249–97 (written by Comp`ere), esp. 273–6, 292; see also 294, note 7; R. Chartier and J. Revel, ‘Universit´e et soci´et´e dans l’Europe moderne: position des probl`emes’, Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, 25 (1978), 353–74, esp. 366–8. R. R. Palmer, ‘Free Secondary Education in France Before and After the Revolution’, History of Education Quarterly (1974), 437–52.

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Admission faculties of letters and of sciences, heirs of the old arts faculties. The latter had virtually no students until late in the nineteenth century. They administered the baccalaureate examination; they certified future secondary teachers, testing them essentially on the secondary curriculum, and they provided popular lectures for amateur audiences. It was not until the later 1870s and 1880s that the non-professional university faculties acquired regular students and demanded serious post-secondary studies, and it was not until 1896 that the various existing faculties were drawn together to form regional ‘universities’. The training of the Catholic clergy took place essentially in higher seminaries (grands s´eminaires).12 But far and away the most serious rivals of the French university faculties during the nineteenth century and thereafter were the famous grandes e´ coles.13 The limited numbers of students they took in annually on the basis of competitive entrance examinations, usually after a year or more in special post-secondary ‘preparatory courses’, were boarded and educated at the expense of the state, generally during a three-year course. From the late nineteenth century on, additional non-university institutions of higher education were created, many of them in technical specialities, that are now also sometimes called grandes e´ coles. This background must be considered in any quantitative account of French university access during our period. In a convincing critique of statistics initially put forward by the French Ministry of Education in 1843, it has been suggested that the French public and private secondary schools enrolled roughly as many pupils in 1842 as the full-programme coll`eges did in 1789.14 There was a shrinkage between 1789 and 1809; but it was largely compensated thereafter. Baccalaureate awards fell to just below 3,000 in 1842, after having slightly surpassed that figure in 1820 and 1831. This suggests that complaints about an excess of educated men during the 1830s and 1840s had weaker quantitative foundations in France than in Germany. In the absence of meaningful data on university enrolments between 1789 and 1870, the rate of baccalaureate awards is particularly important. Given a relatively stable number of baccalaureates between 1820 and 1842, along with an established university access rate of 0.6 for 1789, we can sustain the hypothesis of roughly constant levels of inclusiveness in French secondary and higher education during the early nineteenth century. Until the end of that century, it should be noted, French baccalaureate awards were generally more frequent, in relation to the age group, than university entries. Unlike the Abitur, clearly, the baccalaureate was fairly 12 14

13 See chapter 2, 57. See chapter 4, 113 and chapter 10, 396, 399–400. D. Julia and P. Pressly, ‘La population scolaire en 1789; les extravagances du Minist`ere Villemain’, Annales: Economies, Soci´et´es, Civilisations (1975), 1510–61.

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Fritz Ringer Table 7.2 Access to French and German universities, 1840–1930a France

Dates 1842 1854 1865 1870–71 1876 1880–81 1886–87 1890–91 1898–1901 1910–11 1920–21 1930–31

Sec. grad as % of age cohort

Germany

Students as % of 4-year age cohort

Sec. grad. as % of age cohort

Beginning students as % of age cohort

Students as % of 5-year age cohort

0.6

0.5

0.4

0.5 0.7 0.9 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.1 1.4 2.3

0.5 0.5 0.6 0.8 1.2 1.7 2.1 2.1

0.8 0.8 0.9 1.1 1.3 3.3

0.6 0.6 0.9

0.6 0.7/1.0 0.9 1.2 1.6/2.1

a

The data are taken or calculated from Table 7.1 and from Ringer, Education and Society, app. tables IX, XI, which are based on published government statistics. Baccalaureate figures are percentages of seventeen-year-olds of both genders. French university enrolments are related to the four-year age cohort 19–22 (both genders), which may slightly understate university access through 1880, while slightly overstating it for the inter-war period. French non-university institutions of higher education (grandes e´ coles, higher seminaries and certain higher technical schools) are not covered in the table, but may be roughly estimated to have enrolled 10–15 per cent as many students as the university faculties. Foreigners among students at French universities increased from 6 per cent in 1901 to 13 per cent in 1911 and (again) in 1921, and 22 per cent in 1931. The apparent excess of university access over the baccalaureate rate from 1900 on is due to increased duration of study, to foreign students, and to students reaching some faculties (as non-degree or special students) without the baccalaureate.

often held as a terminal degree during the nineteenth century. Apart from occasional highs and lows, the French baccalaureate rate grew steadily but slowly until the inter-war period, when a rather rapid increase occurred. Much the same can be said of university access, especially if the grandes e´ coles, the higher seminaries and certain other technical schools of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are counted as well. In France as in Germany, non-classical and semi-classical secondary schooling played a role, at least from the 1860s on. A ‘special’ or (later) ‘modern’ curricular stream developed within the existing lyc´ees and coll`eges. From the late 1880s on, there were sharp debates about whether modern secondary graduates ought to be admitted to higher education. Though they were in fact placed on a nominally equal footing in 1902, the rate of baccalaureate awards remained relatively steady until the inter-war period and even decreased a little in 1910–11. Nevertheless, an 242

Admission ‘academic proletariat’ was much decried in France as in Germany during the 1890s.15 Perhaps our data for France are simply not precise enough to reflect short-term enrolment fluctuations that may have helped to trigger these anxieties. Comparison between the French and German figures indicates that throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, rates of secondary graduation were somewhat higher in France than in Germany. A French advantage in university enrolments per age cohort too can be reliably observed from 1890 on, especially if non-university institutions of higher education are considered as well. The German technical institutes were not considered of university level before the turn of the century, and they were not quantitatively as significant as has sometimes been assumed. In France, the leading grandes e´ coles outranked the university faculties in academic and social prestige, and they were joined by less highly accredited technical schools from the late nineteenth century on. The traditional assumption that higher education did more in Germany than in France to stimulate industrial development is in urgent need of re-examination. Indeed, the most important conclusion to be drawn from Table 7.2, especially in view of unavoidable imprecisions in the data, is that rates of access to higher education in France and Germany during our period were really very similar, and even developed in roughly comparable stages, at least until the inter-war years. Secondary schooling in nineteenth-century England took place entirely at private or ‘independent’ secondary schools offering a classical curriculum, including the chartered ‘public’ schools, which typically boarded their students. The growth of ‘maintained’ grammar schools after the Education Act of 1902 affected a larger fraction of the age group. Yet ‘public’ and other independent boarding schools, while declining in numbers, continued to control access to the two ancient universities of Oxford and Cambridge. These were the only English universities until the foundation of the University of London as an examining and degree-granting institution in 1836. Beginning in 1851 and especially after 1870, a second tier of university-level institutions developed.16 The second column of Table 7.3 deals with entrants to Oxford and Cambridge. It may be considered a full measure of university access in England and Wales until the 1840s, and still a reasonably complete one around 1870. Thereafter, the rapid growth of the University of London network and of the ‘redbrick’ universities quickly doubled English university enrolments per age group. A degree of caution is indicated, since 15

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The controversies over modern secondary education and over the ‘academic proletariat’ in France are analyzed in F. K. Ringer, Fields of Knowledge: French Academic Culture in Comparative Perspective, 1890–1920 (Cambridge, 1992), 52, 127–40. See chapter 2, 53–5.

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Fritz Ringer Table 7.3 Access to English and French universities, 1700–1930 (in percentages of relevant age cohorts of both sexes)a Dates 1700s 1800s 1810s–40s 1850s–60s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1901 1911 1921 1931

Oxford and Cambridge 0.5 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3

English universities

French Baccalaureate

0.2 0.3 0.6 0.8 0.7 1.0 1.4 1.3

0.8 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.1 1.4 2.3

French universities

0.5 0.6 0.9 1.2 1.7 2.0 2.9

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Decennial average freshman entries per age group (both genders) at Oxford and Cambridge are calculated from estimates in L. Stone (ed.), The University in Society, vol. I: Oxford and Cambridge from the 14th to the Early 19th Century (Princeton, 1974), 91–2, 103, and from B. R. Mitchell (ed.), Abstract of British Historical Statistics (Cambridge, 1962); the age-group figures used were for England and Wales. Stone’s figures for the early seventeenth century suggest rates of entry to Oxford and Cambridge near 1 per cent of the age group. Enrolments at universities in England and Wales, including some part-time students, for the years 1861, 1871, etc. are taken from R. Lowe, ‘The Expansion of Higher Education in England’, in K. Jarausch (ed.), The Transformation of Higher Learning, 1860–1930: Expansion, Diversification, Social Opening, and Professionalization in England, Germany, Russia and the United States, Historisch – sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungen 13 (Stuttgart, 1983), 37–56, esp. 52; but Lowe’s figures have been adjusted (increased) to reflect an assumed four-year (not five-year) duration of study, which also makes for greater comparability with the French data. As late as 1961, 54 per cent of students from the UK entering Oxford and Cambridge came from ‘independent’ schools. See also Ringer, Education and Society, 220–30. For French figures, see note 16.

the tabulated ratios encompass a substantial share of part-time students, especially before 1900. Nonetheless, it is worth noting that total English university access came fairly close to French (and German) levels during the late nineteenth century. The further growth of the English university system after 1900 was apparently slower than the expansion of the French university faculties during the same period. If one includes teachertraining colleges and other (especially technical) institutions of further education, however, the indicators of inclusiveness for all of higher education in Great Britain come to 1.2 per cent of the age cohort in 1901 and 2.7 per cent in 1924–25.17 What primarily distinguished the English university system from its counterparts on the Continent, therefore, was 17

More on this in Ringer, Education and Society, 228–30, which draws on Great Britain, Committee on Higher Education, Higher Education: Report of the Committee . . . under the Chairmanship of Lord Robbins (‘Robbins Report’, London, 1961–3).

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Admission Table 7.4 University enrolments per age cohort in European countries (in percentages of the five-year age group 20–24)a Country

1840

1870

1880

1890

1900

1910

Austria Belgium England Finland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Scotland Spain Sweden Switzerland

0.9 0.5

0.7 0.7 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.7 0.2 1.4 0.9 0.5

1.0 1.0 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.2 1.9 1.0 0.6 0.7

0.9 1.0 0.7 1.1 0.8 0.7 1.0 0.3 1.8

1.1 0.9 0.8 1.2 1.0 0.7 0.7 0.3 1.4

0.9 0.9

0.7 1.4

3.8 1.3 1.3 1.2 1.1 1.1 0.8 0.2 1.9 1.2 0.9 2.2

0.3 0.6

0.6

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¨ und Chancengleichheit im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert H. Kaelble, Soziale Mobilitat ¨ (Gottingen, 1983), 200–2. Definitions of university-level education vary somewhat from country to country, and some figures listed pertain to years somewhat earlier or later than the headings. Austrian figures to 1900 are for the Empire, thereafter for the territory of the future Republic. England includes Wales.

the low rate of entry to the two older universities before 1850. With a joint access rate of 0.2–0.3 per cent of the age group, Oxford and Cambridge lagged far behind the French and German systems. Much of the difference may have been due to the fact that in England, professional training for future lawyers and doctors took place, respectively, at the Inns of Court and at the teaching hospitals. Studies at the two ancient universities during the nineteenth century were predominantly classical and literary, with the addition of mathematics at Cambridge. One has to remember that the French faculties of letters and of sciences also had very few real students before 1870. For most European countries other than France and Germany during the nineteenth century, finally, total enrolments in universities and, in some case, university-level institutions are related in Table 7.4 to the five-year age group 20–24 (both genders), which may or may not be realistic in the light of average duration of study. Since average duration of study probably came closer to four than to five years, the figures tabulated presumably understate university access rates by roughly 25 per cent. Probably no one knows enough about all of these educational systems to make the data in Table 7.4 fully meaningful. Nevertheless, two general conclusions do suggest themselves. First, with a few deviations that may or may not reflect peculiarities of classification, the measures cluster around certain typical values, which are not far from the more reliably estimated figures for Germany in Table 7.1. With rare 245

Fritz Ringer exceptions, one could say, university access rates in the European countries around 1870 stood at about 0.4–0.7 per cent of the five-year age group 20–24. Second, while there is no consistent evidence of growth between 1840 and 1870, levels of inclusiveness generally increased from 1870 on, reaching some 0.7–1.2 per cent of the five-year age group at the turn of the century, with further moderate growth following up to the First World War. Considering the complexities involved, these are remarkably welldefined and consistent patterns. Only the Portuguese figures fall far below these norms, and the English percentages through 1870 would of course look low as well. In compensation, the indicators for Scotland before 1900 document a remarkably precocious development of university access that clearly deserves further attention. preparation and distribution of students We will have to be content with a sense of overall patterns, too, as we turn to the secondary preparation of entering students, the number of foreigners and of women among them, and their choice of faculty or subject area within the university, though we have already encountered a few specifics. While ‘realistic’ or ‘modern’ forms of secondary schooling developed in France and Germany from the 1860s on, the graduates of these programmes and institutions were not generally admitted to the universities until the turn of the century. Until then, over 80 per cent of German university entrants held the Abitur from a classical Gymnasium. At Oxford during the 1890s, around 60 per cent of students entering from the United Kingdom came from the classical secondary institutions which by that time had been recognized as ‘public’ schools. The other endowed and/or fee-supported grammar schools of that period also offered a classical curriculum, as did the ‘maintained’ grammar schools after 1902. Thus curricular differences at the secondary level never became as crucial and divisive in England as in France and Germany. On the other hand, the elite independent secondary schools supplied almost two-third of entrants to Oxford and Cambridge in 1902–04, and as we noted, they still accounted for a majority of matriculates at these universities in the 1930s.18 In their own way, therefore, the independent boarding schools were the English counterparts of the German Gymnasium and the French lyc´ees, especially those in Paris. Foreign students were quite numerous in England, France and Germany during the late nineteenth century, and again during the inter-war period. They made up the following percentages of all students (Table 7.5). 18

History of Oxford, VIII, 53, Table 3.2.

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Admission Table 7.5 Foreign students in Germany, France and England (in percentages of all students)

Germany France Oxford

c. 1900

c. 1920

c. 1930

7 6 6

13

4 22 12

The Swiss universities also attracted high proportions of foreign students, including talented women, who around the turn of the century found this one of the few ways to reach higher education.19 The crucial developments in secondary and university education for women in France, Germany and England took place between 1890 and 1920. In France, girls’ lyc´ees and coll`eges replaced the older ‘secondary courses for girls’ during the 1890s, and as early as 1901, women comprised 3 per cent of students at French university faculties. In Germany, the ‘higher girls’ schools’ of earlier decades were supplemented during the 1890s by courses preparing for the Abitur, even while a few women began to reach the universities, usually as auditors or special students. The establishment of fully accredited girls’ secondary schools (Lyzeen) and unqualified university admission for women followed in the first decade of the twentieth century (in 1908 for Prussia). In England, change at least began somewhat earlier. Eight women’s colleges were founded at Cambridge and Oxford between 1869 and 1893.20 At Oxford, women were admitted to university examinations in 1884, which encouraged the development of women’s colleges; but admission to Oxford and Cambridge degrees did not follow until after the First World War. The percentages of women among university students in some of the European countries between 1900 and 1930 are charted in Table 7.6. The very high figures for Switzerland before the First World War reflect the early importance of the Swiss universities for well-to-do women from a variety of European countries, especially from Russia. Thus women made up some 35 per cent of the student body at the University of Bern in 1903–04; but only about one in ten of these women were natives of Switzerland. The percentages for the British universities are more consistently remarkable, especially given the slow rate of change at Oxford and Cambridge. The French figures look strong as well, whereas significant progress for women in Germany did not come until around 1930, only to be retarded by the National Socialists shortly thereafter. The decline in 19 20

See chapter 2, 69 and chapter 14, 585. University of Cambridge, IV, 301–30.

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Fritz Ringer Table 7.6 Women among university students, 1900–1930 in selected European countries (in percentages of all students)a Countries Austria France Germany Great Britain Italy Netherlands Spain Sweden Switzerland

c. 1900

c. 1910

c. 1920

c. 1930

7

8 9 4 19 17 14

3 20

8 22

14 13 9 27 20 15 4 10 12

17 26 18 26 15 18 7 15 12

3 17

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¨ (note to Table 7.4), 222–4; but figures for Great Britain From Kaelble, Soziale Mobilitat c. 1900–1910 in fact pertain to England and Wales and are taken from J. Howarth and M. Curthoys, ‘The Political Economy of Women’s Higher Education in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain’, Historical Research, 60 (1987), 208–31, esp. 210–11. German and French figures are virtually identical with data in Titze, ‘Hochschulstudium’ (note 1), and Ringer, Education and Society. A few dates vary up to two years around those listed. Some non-university institutions of higher education are included for Austria and for the Netherlands, in both cases from 1910 on.

the proportion of women among Italian students between 1920 and 1930, too, was presumably a consequence of Fascist policies. Beyond that, the indicators for Spain are particularly abnormal on the low side.21 The long-term trends in the distribution of students over the major faculties and subject areas in France and Germany are summarized in Table 7.7. For Germany, the most important developments were the relative decline of both Catholic and Protestant theology, and the rise of the humanities and natural sciences, or more simply of the faculty of ‘philosophy’. Both trends were almost certainly characteristic of other university systems as well. For France, one should note the absence of students in the state faculties of Catholic theology which led to their dissolution in 1885,22 the replacement of the arts faculty by faculties of letters and of sciences and especially the dominant position held by the faculties of law throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. In the absence 21

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See J. C. Albisetti, Schooling German Girls and Women: Secondary and Higher Education in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, 1988), 204–305, esp. 297–301; S. Ulivieri, ‘Women and the University Studies in Italy’, in Higher Education and Society in Historical Perspectives [7th International Standing Conference for the History of Education] (Salamanca, 1985), vol. I, 658–67; Alma Mater Studiorum. La presenza femminile dal XVII al XX Secolo. Ricerche sul rapporto Donne/Cultura Universitaria nell’Ateneo Bolognese (Bologna, ` professioni: un percorso difficile’, in S. Soldani 1988); M. Raicich, ‘Liceo, universita, and F. Angeli (eds.), L’educazione delle donne (Milan, 1989), 147–81; J. Stephenson, ‘Girls’ Higher Education in Germany in the 1930s’, Journal of Contemporary History, 10 (1975), 41–69. See chapter 10, 396.

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Admission Table 7.7 The distribution of French and German university students over the faculties and subject areas, 1830–1914 (in rounded percentages by column)a German universities

1830–60

1860–90

c. 1911

Theology Law, Government Medicine Humanities Sciences Minor fields

30 30 15 15 5 5

20 25 20 15 10 10

10 20 20 25 15 10

French Univ. Fac.

1850–70

1870–90

c. 1911

Law, Government Medicine Letters Sciences Minor fields

50 25 5 5 15

40 35 10 5 10

40 25 15 15 5

a From Ringer, Education and Society, 60, 149, based on app. tables V, XI. All percentages are approximate, intended to represent long-term trends only. For Germany, no distinction is made between Catholic and Protestant theological faculties; Law and Government encompasses the cameral sciences or Staatswissenschaften; Humanities refers to the Geisteswissenschaften, which were typically grouped with the natural sciences in the faculties of philosophy; Minor fields includes pharmacy and agriculture. For France, the faculties of law in fact offered some of the specialties called Staatswissenschaften in Germany; Minor fields really means pharmacy; the figures for 1850–70 are based on degree awards, not on student enrolments.

of strong faculties of arts and sciences, the French law faculties apparently took on a generalist function as well. Perhaps the traditions of the old judicial nobility contributed to this pattern. As late as the 1860s, only about half of French law students intended to pursue legal careers.23 From the late nineteenth century on, the French law faculties also offered courses in economic, political and social studies, trying to broaden the training of future civil servants. In any case, no greater contrast can be imagined than that between the strength of the professional faculties in the French university of the nineteenth century and the curricular emphasis characteristic of Oxford and Cambridge at that time. Despite the emergence of new degree subjects, especially after 1870, the Oxford curriculum long remained predominantly classical, literary and philosophical. Mathematics and the sciences were stronger at Cambridge, and the London system offered a variety of 23

G. Weisz, ‘The Politics of Medical Professionalization in France 1845–1848’, Journal of Social History, 12 (1978–9), 3–30, esp. 28. See also Weisz, Emergence, 188–9, for what follows.

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Fritz Ringer specialization in science, technology and medicine. Yet it was at Oxford and Cambridge, not at the German universities, that something like the Humboldtian preference for generalist studies survived into the twentieth century. That surely helps to explain why levels of inclusiveness in English higher education during the early nineteenth century lagged so far behind their French and German counterparts. costs of university studies Having thus roughly charted the inflow of students and their distribution over the fields of study, at least in a few European systems, we must come back to some of the questions asked at the beginning of this chapter: what were the main causes of short-term and long-term changes in the pattern of university enrolments; what factors played a role in channelling students towards higher education or in keeping them away? Catholics and religious dissenters were not admitted to matriculation at Oxford and Cambridge until the 1850s, and they could not take the higher degrees until 1871. But this is the only absolute exclusion known to me. Of course the European universities generally charged tuition or fees, at least until the inter-war period; but one has the impression that the amounts were generally moderate, except where residential arrangements were involved, as in the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. The direct costs of university study were reduced for many students from modest circumstances through ‘free tables’ and/or fee remission, through scholarships provided by religious and charitable endowments (especially in England), by individual patrons, or by the state (more likely on the Continent and after 1800). Patronage and aid to deserving poor students, especially candidates in theology, was an important social feature of European higher education during the early modern period and into the nineteenth century.24 As of 1899–1900, some 16 per cent of Prussian students at Prussian universities were on scholarships, 6 per cent had access to free tables, and 17 per cent had some sort of relief from fees; but the percentages should not be added up, since an indeterminate number of students received several forms of aid.25 24

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For a vivid portrait of the circumstances and ethos of poor theology students in eighteenthcentury Germany, see A. J. LaVopa, Grace, Talent and Merit: Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Cambridge, 1988). Titze, ‘Hochschulstudium’ (note 1), 282; unfortunately, these detailed data are available only for the Prussian universities between 1886–87 and 1911–12. Therefore, it is not easy to assess either the costs or the opportunities for aid in a systematic way even for individual countries, not to mention cross-national comparisons. See also chapter 4, 108–9.

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Admission Probably more important than university fees in their social effects were the direct costs of secondary schooling, which again were highest for such boarding institutions as the English ‘public’ schools and certain lyc´ees and private or religious coll`eges in France. The expenses of secondary schooling for rural and small-town families was of course much affected by the distance to the nearest full-programme or lower secondary institution. The state scholarships established by Napoleon collectively provided less student support than the foundations and endowments of the pre-revolutionary period, even apart from the fact that nineteenthcentury French state scholarships often went to the offspring of deserving minor officials.26 The special courses offered at the great Parisian lyc´ees to prepare candidates for the entrance examinations to the grandes e´ coles probably functioned as serious economic barriers, especially for youngsters from the provinces with less than outstanding academic records. Again, I know of no systematic or comparative studies of secondary costs and opportunities. Yet it is my impression that the average direct cost of secondary schooling was somewhat higher in England and France than in Germany, where a relatively dense network of non-residential schools, including lower secondary schools, probably made access comparatively inexpensive. At the same time, the direct costs of higher education and of secondary schooling may not have been the decisive factors in determining access to the universities. The indirect costs of withholding young people from the labour market for extended periods were probably more important. After completing their university studies, candidates for the academic professions, especially law and medicine, typically faced years of unpaid internship, even if a scarcity of openings did not further extend probationary periods. In Prussia and more generally in countries with strong meritocratic and state traditions from the eighteenth century on, efforts to control standards in the bureaucracy and in the learned professions gave rise to a complex system of formal qualifications that were generally more demanding in the juridical civil service and in the liberal professions than in theology and in secondary teaching.27 The indirect costs of obtaining these qualifications inevitably affected family strategies, and of course reports of overcrowding in the professions had to be taken seriously as well. In relation to the overall pattern of indirect costs, therefore, tuition and fees were probably not decisive. We know that the abolition of fees in French secondary education between 1928 and 1933, for 26 27

Palmer, ‘Free Secondary Education’ (note 14). ¨ See, for example, P. Lundgreen, ‘Zur Konstituierung des “Bildungsburgertums”: Berufs¨ und Bildungsauslese der Akademiker in Preussen’, in Bildungsburgertum, esp. vol. I, 79–89.

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Fritz Ringer example, did not occasion an immediate increase in first-year secondary enrolments.28 Very significant, on the other hand, were the institutional and curricular barriers that separated primary and post-primary schooling from fully accredited secondary education, and from such crucial qualifying examinations as the German Abitur and the French baccalaureate. More than anything else, it was the structure and curriculum of the secondary systems that truly regulated access to the universities. I have repeatedly called attention to the social importance of segmentation in late nineteenthcentury European secondary education. It can be empirically observed and even exactly measured where divergent ‘streams’ or ‘tracks’ within the secondary system catered to different social groups. The differences of accreditation between the fully classical Gymnasium and the less prestigious branches of German secondary schooling may serve as an example of segmentation, and so may the comparable divergences between the classical and ‘modern’ secondary streams in France after 1860. It seems that in England, such non-curricular differences among schools as distinctive modes of socialization played a similar role. Educational segmentation, especially at the secondary level, tended to perpetuate socio-cultural or status distances within the population. The status order they fostered and sustained was not necessarily congruent with the existing hierarchy of wealth and economic power, as Max Weber pointed out. In Pierre Bourdieu’s terminology, the distribution of ‘cultural capital’ was not simply identical with the distribution of ‘economic capital’. Nevertheless, the cumulative effect of educational segmentation was to legitimate and to enhance class differences.29 Without further developing this subject, I want here simply to indicate how the segmentation of secondary systems could affect family strategies with respect to higher education. As French educational reformers of the late nineteenth century liked to point out, an independent artisan, shopkeeper or small businessman might hesitate to risk the indirect costs of classical secondary schooling for his son, since what the youngster learned in a classical school would be of use to him only if he earned good grades and completed the course. If he fell short of that, he would bring back little that could help him in the family business. It was therefore economically rational to opt for a non-classical and practically orientated secondary programme, if it was available, especially if the focus upon the ancient languages in the classical stream was early and exclusive. At the 28 29

Ringer, Education and Society, 141–2, 327–8. ¨ Along with Ringer, Education and Society, esp. 12–22, 28–30; D. K. Muller, F. Ringer and B. Simon (eds.), Rise of the Modern Educational System: Structural Change and Social Reproduction 1870–1920 (Cambridge, 1987), esp. the Introduction (F. Ringer), chapter 2 (F. Ringer), and chapter 4 (H. Steedman).

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Fritz Ringer the supply and the demand for university education be extended to these cases? We have come back in fact to some of the questions that were posed at the beginning of this chapter, and that also have to do with the major phases in the development of access to the European universities. Are we now in a position to address these questions in a conclusive way? the development of university access The development of university access between 1800 and 1870 needs only a brief review. In Germany, enrolments first climbed to a peak in 1830–31, then declined for a decade, to reach a low plateau of constant inclusiveness, in relation to the age group, that lasted until 1870. The high point in 1830–31 coincided with complaints about an ‘excess’ of educated men that was heard in several other countries as well. It perfectly fits the pattern of a short-term deficit in demand, particularly in light of the modest and stable access rates that followed. As Table 7.4 indicates, relatively stable indicators of inclusiveness, ranging from 0.4 to 0.7 per cent of a five-year age group, actually obtained in most European countries during the decades around the mid-century. An interesting recent study of inscriptions (not enrolments) at Belgian universities by Jan Art also points to a short peak in 1828–31, a setback thereafter, and a period of very modest increases until about 1870.30 I have proposed the hypothesis of an early industrial equilibrium in the supply and the demand for graduates, which reflected stable access to the traditionally learned professions, rather than to positions directly associated with the developing economies. I have also noted that during the nineteenth century, university access rates seem to have varied inversely with economic cycles.31 The Belgian study has seconded this tentative observation, which suggests that university study served to some degree as an alternative to business careers. One really has to imagine two distinctive arenas of middle-class opportunity. One of them was linked to industrialization and to the accumulation of economic capital, which often took place without benefit of university education. The other was associated with the minor and major educated professions, including the civil service in Prussia and elsewhere on the Continent, and thus with the pursuit of educational qualifications or of ‘cultural capital’. After 1870, the situation became very much more complicated. On the one hand, a further short-term cycle of academic ‘overproduction’ 30

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J. Art, ‘Les Rapports triennaux sur l’´etat de l’enseignement sup´erieur: un arri`ere-fond pour des recherches ult´erieures sur l’histoire des e´ lites belges entre 1814 et 1914’, Revue belge d’histoire contemporaine, 17 (1986), 187–224. Ringer, Education and Society, 50–51.

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Admission has been most concretely documented for Germany by Titze, but it apparently occurred in France as well. Perhaps it was aggravated by the ‘great depression’. On the other hand, more long-term structural changes were taking place as well. Focusing particularly upon German secondary ¨ education, Detlef Muller has characterized these changes as a process of ‘systematization’. In early nineteenth-century Prussia, he argues, the Gymnasium enrolled a good many pupils who were not preparing for university entry, but left school early to pursue a variety of non-graduate occupations. This brought pupils from modest backgrounds into the secondary schools, where some of them were ultimately encouraged to complete their studies and continue on to the universities. The potentially progressive effects of this pattern were undercut, however, as various curricular options were more sharply defined and separated from each other. From the 1860s on and especially late in the century, in fact, the boundaries between different types of secondary schools were ever more rigorously defined; curricula and graduate qualifications were meticulously specified, and the functional relationships among the different parts of the total system were fully articulated. Systematization was partly a form of bureaucratic rationalization, but it was also a conflict-ridden exercise in social demarcation. The former early leavers were in effect channelled away from the Gymnasium, into the Realgymnasium and the Oberrealschule, which long remained incompletely accredited. In France and England too, a process of systematization can be detected, as an essentially binary pattern of elite secondary and popular primary schooling was replaced by a more complex hierarchical structure of elite university-preparatory, nonelite secondary and higher primary schooling.32 In my terms, the segmentation of French and German secondary education became particularly marked after 1870, not before then. During fierce debates over the accreditation of classical and ‘modern’ curricular streams, educational conservatives became quite explicit about their socially exclusionary intentions. Yet along with an exclusionary dynamic, inclusionary pressures were at work as well. Most visibly in France, the emergence and growth of a non-classical secondary curriculum also brought new social groups into the secondary system. As the non-classical option underwent a generalist shift and took on a more academic character, its sponsors sought university access for its graduates, and they could not be put off for ever. Around the turn of the century, the graduates of all full-length secondary programmes were admitted to university study on largely equal terms, not only in republican France, but in monarchical Germany as well. Rates of secondary graduation and of university entry,

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Admission schooling, and as short-term enrolment booms helped to undermine the established expectations about the educational levels appropriate for various occupations. Hartmut Kaelble has suggested a long-term and not precisely datable evolution of European educational opportunities between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries from a ‘charitable’ to a ‘competitive’ period, and from there to the epoch of the ‘welfare state’.33 There is a rough parallel between his three stages and what I have called the ‘early industrial’, the ‘high industrial’ and the ‘late industrial’ phases in the history of higher education, especially with respect to the changing relationship between the educational system and the economy. But Kaelble also points to something else, and something very important. During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a pervasive expectation of status persistence was nevertheless accompanied by an acceptance, even an active sponsorship, of individual mobility through education for talented poor students seeking to enter the clerical and teaching professions. Somehow, during the course of the nineteenth century, this pattern was replaced not only by sharp competition for education places, but also by a popular pursuit of educational opportunities on the one hand, and a conservative determination to limit university access, on the other. Vaguely to sense so broad a shift is of course not to explain it; but then we are still some distance away from fully understanding the main stages and dynamics involved in the evolution of access to nineteenth-century European higher education. the social origins of university students We still have much to learn, too, about the social origins of university students and about the whole issue of progressiveness. A system of higher education may be considered progressive if it recruits a high proportion of its students from the lower middle and lower classes. Progressiveness in education is a necessary but not a sufficient condition of social mobility through education. Measures of progressiveness are relative in principle. For example, if 10 per cent of students in a university system and 20 per cent of the total population were from the working class, then the relative access chance or access ratio for working-class students in the system would be 1:2, which would be very progressive indeed. The same ratio could be reached if 5 per cent of working-class youths and 10 per cent of a total age cohort were known to have reached universities. In practice, because of limitations in the available data, I shall here focus mainly upon percentages of students from various occupational groups. 33

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Fritz Ringer Table 7.8 Social origins of German university students, 1820–1930 (percentages of fathers in various social groups)a

Father’s social group Nobility Learned Professions Econ. up.-mid. class Small Independents Lesser Employees Lower Officials Farmers Lower/working

Halle/ Halle, from Leipzig, from Prussian Prussian German ¨ ¨ Wurttemberg Five Univ. Wurttemb. Univ. Univ. Univ. 1821–37 1777–1867 1874–76 1887–91 1911–12 1931 3 44 33 23

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Table 7.8 is designed to provide a simplified sketch of social recruitment into the German universities from about 1820 to 1930. From 1886 on, unusually precise data are available for Prussia and, from 1928 to 1941, for all of Germany as well. For the earlier period, I have added composite figures calculated from published studies of selected universities around 1821–37 and 1874–76. If one ignores column 2 for the moment, one can arrive at a rough sketch of long-term changes that could be further supported from more detailed breakdowns and annotations.34 It is clear, above all, that the German universities of the early nineteenth century were dominated neither by the landed nobility nor by an entrepreneurial bourgeoisie, but by an educated upper middle class that encompassed all the university-educated 34

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Admission or ‘academic’ professions. Particularly important were the higher officials, including the university professors, and the ‘liberal professions’, especially doctors and lawyers; but clergymen and secondary teachers made up significant contingents as well. This educated elite accounted for about 45 per cent of German university students during the early decades of the century; it reached a representation in excess of 50 per cent for some institutions and periods. Its decline from this dominant position began before the 1870s, but it became more rapid thereafter until the First World War. Despite a modest recovery during the Weimar period, the group fell to roughly half of its original size, or to some 20–25 per cent of university enrolments. Much of the space thus ‘left open’ was taken up by an almost equally important social group, namely the lower officials, including many primary teachers. In any cross-national comparison, this group stands out as a further hallmark of the modern German university system. It was quantitatively significant even during the early nineteenth century, at some 15–20 per cent of enrolments, and it reached a representation in excess of 30 per cent by about 1930. That much is safely established. Unfortunately, the situation is less clear with respect to the industrial and commercial occupations, or the economic upper and lower middle classes. The sources do not, before 1911, consistently distinguish the economic bourgeoisie of large-scale owners, managers and executive-level employees from the old ‘burgher stratum’ (Mittelstand) of small-scale independent producers and tradesmen on the one hand, and from the ‘new lower middle class’ (neuer Mittelstand) of lower-level employees and clerks. The percentages listed in the table for the ‘economic upper middle class’ in 1821–37, 1874–76 and 1887–91 encompass ‘industrialists’, along with a few large-scale businessmen and insurance agents. The ‘smaller independents’ listed for these periods consist primarily of merchants, shopkeepers and innkeepers. The lesser employees apparently did not become quantitatively significant until late in the century; the farmers made up a modest and declining contingent, and the working classes remained virtually excluded from the universities, except when grouped with artisans in 1874–76. The economic middle classes of early nineteenth-century Germany consisted predominantly of early industrial ‘burghers’, of small merchants, small producers and independent artisans. Therefore the increased representation of the economic occupations at the German universities after 1870 was not necessarily progressive. While workers and petty employees made up significantly increased portions of the work force, their offspring rarely reached the universities. The very small entrepreneurial upper middle class, by contrast, achieved a representation in excess of 10 per cent by the early twentieth century, adding a ‘plutocratic’ element to the reduced presence of the old educated elite. This is not to deny that German university recruitment became somewhat 259

Fritz Ringer Table 7.9 Social origins of students at selected German universities, 1800–1910 (estimated percentages of fathers in various occupational groups)a Fathers’ occupations

1797

1817

1837

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¨ und die burgerliche ¨ From K. H. Jarausch, ‘Die neuhumanistische Universitat Gesellschaft 1800–1870’, in C. Probst (ed.), Darstellungen und Quellen zur Geschichte der deutschen Einheitsbewegung, 11 (Heidelberg, 1981), 11–58, esp. 14–15, 32, 39, and Jarausch, Students Imperial Germany, 122–8. Jarausch drew on published matriculation records for the ¨ ¨ universities of Tubingen (1776–1817), Gottingen (1779–1837), Erlangen (1798–1843), Kiel (1827–64) and Heidelberg (1807–70). His numerical results for this whole sample, in the summary occupational categories he used, are reproduced under ‘5 Universities 1777–1867’ in Table 7.8, except for 8 per cent Unknowns. The first percentage in that column is for the nobility (use of von); ‘economic upper middle class’ encompasses landowners as well as businessmen. In Students (note 42), Jarausch presented a similar sample in a similar graph for the University of Bonn between 1840 and 1910. Finally, Jarausch combined his Bonn data with published surveys for the universities of Berlin and of Leipzig, and for ¨ students from Wurttemberg, from the 1860s to the 1910s, drawing upon the very rough occupational categories used by the author of the Berlin survey. The last three columns of Table 7.9 reproduce this portion of Jarausch’s numerical results for three selected decades; ‘economic upper middle class’ here encompasses industrialists and merchants of all sizes, while the ‘lower middle class’ covers lower officials (including teachers), artisans and farmers.

more progressive during the century after 1820, and especially between 1870 and 1930. It is to say only that the progressive shift was more modest than has been widely realized, and perhaps also that the German universities of the early nineteenth century were already more progressive than is commonly thought.35 In any case, there is nothing to suggest a more dramatic shift in a progressive direction at the German universities between 1800 and 1914. I have tried to show this in Table 7.9. Broken down into distributions for selected sample years, the results for five universities indicate no steady decrease in the representation of the educated upper middle class between 1797 and 1857, and they do document a steady increase in the percentages for the economic upper middle class. Thus, even if the declining share of the nobility is taken into account as well, the joint indicators for the upper and upper middle classes actually rose gradually from 65 in 1797 to 74 35

On p. 80 of Jarausch, Students Imperial Germany, K. Jarausch reports my conclusions in a condensed but generally accurate way; his own formulations on pp. 122–6 are consistent with mine.

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Leipzig, 1874–78 Learned prof./ Lower officials

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in 1857. To be sure, the very summary percentages for the 1870s, 1890s and 1910s appear inconsistent with the pattern in evidence through 1857; but they too suggest a stable representation of the lower middle classes, rather than an increasing one. Table 7.10 deals with the social composition of the major faculties and fields at German universities between 1874 and 1931 by focusing upon the two most consistently significant and well-delimited occupational groups among students’ fathers. To read the table, one must compare the percentages for specific faculties or fields with those for all fields. Thus one can see fairly quickly that the faculty of Protestant theology and especially the humanities wing of the faculty of arts and sciences (‘philosophy’), which trained secondary teachers, served as channels of upward social mobility through education for the sons of lower officials and primary teachers. Protestant theology also recruited disproportionately from the learned professions; presumably it attracted many pastors’ sons. In Catholic theology, as the note to the table indicates, the offspring of farmers were unusually numerous. In the sciences division of ‘philosophy’, the learned professions were consistently underrepresented; but the lower officials and teachers were not markedly over-represented until after 1900, when the sciences came to occupy a secure place in the secondary curriculum. By 1931, in any case, the recruitment of science students was even more progressive than that of the humanists. 261

Fritz Ringer As we have already noted, the quantitative significance of civil servants and teachers among students’ fathers was a salient characteristic of the German universities during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Table 7.10 shows that this trait was associated particularly with the faculties of philosophy and theology, and with the training of future secondary teachers and clerics. The professional faculties, by contrast, attracted disproportionate shares of students from upper middle-class backgrounds. Around 1900, law clearly outstripped medicine in this respect; but the roles had been reversed by 1931. The direct and indirect costs of access to the medical and legal professions, including the legally trained portion of the high civil service, tended to discourage aspirants from modest circumstances. At the technical institutes in 1931, finally, the economic upper and lower middle classes must have been more strongly represented than either of the groups treated in the table. Indeed, as the note indicates, the entrepreneurial elite was particularly interested in this sector of German higher education. One could speak of a mild form of segmentation. The French distributions charted in Table 7.11 provide a sharp contrast with German patterns. To be sure, the available data do not pertain to the French system of higher education as a whole, but only to selected portions of it. To focus upon three provincial law faculties before the French Revolution is to neglect their academically and socially more distinguished rival in Paris. The columns for the 1860s really reflect the educational plans of secondary graduates, not all of whom ultimately realized their academic ambitions. Moreover, these data pertain to the two main professional faculties during an era when the faculties of letters and of sciences were of only marginal importance. The particularly prestigious faculties of law at that time attracted significant numbers of students who did not to intend to enter the legal professions. The figures on the two most famous grandes e´ coles, by contrast, stem from a period when the expansion and stepwise accreditation of non-classical secondary schooling produced a progressive shift in the social origins of students even at these elite institutions. This is documented more fully by the authors whose findings are summarized in these columns. There is no information, unfortunately, for the reformed faculties of letters and of sciences, which were undoubtedly more progressive in their recruitment than any of the major grandes e´ coles. Thus the most obvious case of segmentation in French higher education, the divide between the grandes e´ coles and the university faculties, particularly those of letters and of sciences, is not visible in Table 7.11. Even so, the table leaves no doubt at all that the French professional faculties from the late eighteenth century to around 1880 and the Ecole Polytechnique even thereafter were overwhelmingly dominated by the upper middle class. Thoroughly disproportionate over-representations 262

Admission Table 7.11 Social origins of French university-level students, 1773–1914 (percentages of fathers in various occupational groups)a Fathers’ occupational groups

4 Provincial Law Fac. 1773–89

Prospective students 1864 Law, Medicine

Ecole Polytechnique 1880–1914

Ecole Normale 1880–1909

Landed nobility Learned professions and officers Econ. upper middle Lower middle class Lower working class

3–4 65–77

37

37

20

38

39

33

24

30

38 30 11

20 36 6

2–9 10–25 1–5

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The data on the provincial law faculties of Douai 1773–75, Nancy 1782–89 and Dijon 1785–89 are from Chartier, Julia and Comp`ere, L’Education (note 10), 277–8. ‘Learned professions’ here comprises two groups of about equal size; (1) the ‘higher liberal professions’ and ‘holders/owners of major offices’ (grands officiers), and (2) the ‘lower liberal professions’ and ‘minor officiers’; the ‘Economic upper middle class’ consists of ‘bourgeois’, and the rubric ‘Lower middle class’ is somewhat arbitrarily assigned to ‘merchants’ (marchands). Data on secondary school leavers planning to study law or medicine as of 1864 are from P. Harrigan and V. Negila, Lyc´eens et coll´egiens sous le Second Empire: Etude statistique sur les fonctions sociales de l’enseignement secondaire publique d’apr`es l’enquˆete de Victor Duruy (1864–65) (Paris, 1979), table 15. The ‘Economic upper middle class’ here also includes 29 per cent and 22 per cent ‘property-owners’ (propri´etaires), respectively, under law and medicine. The figures on the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Normale Sup´erieure are, respectively, from T. Shinn, Savoir scientifique et pouvoir social: L’Ecole polytechnique, 1794–1914 (Paris, 1980), and R. J. Smith, The Ecole Normale Sup´erieure and the Third Republic (Albany, 1982); but are here taken directly from Ringer, Education and Society, 175–8. At Polytechnique, the ‘Economic upper middle class’ also includes 13 per cent propri´etaires and rentiers; the ‘Lower middle class’ encompasses 10 per cent shopkeepers, 10 per cent middle and 10 per cent lower officials; the ‘Lower/working class’ is broadly defined as classes populaires. At Normale, the ‘Learned professions’ include 18 per cent secondary and university teachers; ‘Economic upper middle class’ includes 8 per cent propri´etaires and large farmers; ‘Lower middle class’ encompasses 14 per cent middle and lower officials, 10 per cent lower teachers, and 13 per cent shopkeepers, artisans and lower white-collar employees; the ‘Lower/working class’ is made up of skilled workers.

were achieved not only by the liberal and learned professions, as in Germany, but also by the rich and powerful office-holders of the old regime, by the propri´etaires, the only occasionally aristocratic owners of land and other forms of capital during the nineteenth century, and by the entrepreneurial elite that did not enter German higher education in force until the late nineteenth century. If one uses the term bourgeoisie as it has come to be used in France, to designate all sectors of a propertied and educated upper middle class, then some 75–80 per cent of French law students through 1864, along with nearly 60 per cent of students at the Ecole Polytechnique between 1880 and 1914 came from bourgeois families. The corresponding figure for the Prussian universities in 1911–12 (from Table 7.8) was less than 40 per cent for landowners, the learned 263

Fritz Ringer professions, and the economic upper middle class of large commercial and industrial owners, managers and executive employees.36 If we had data on the French faculties of letters and of sciences after 1880, they would certainly resemble their German equivalents more closely. More generally, the reforms in the French universities during the late nineteenth century must have brought the French and German universities closer together in their social make-up. As it is, one must look at the Ecole Normale Sup´erieure to find anything like German patterns of recruitment in nineteenth-century French higher education. For this distinctive institution drew principally upon the educated, rather than the propertied, portion of the French middle-class spectrum. As of 1880– 1909, among fathers of students at this meritocratic training ground for the elite of secondary and university teachers, well over a third were in lower middle-class occupations, including 24 per cent (as against 32 per cent in Prussia as of 1911–12) who were middle and lower officials and teachers. If one adds the figure for university faculty and secondary teachers to that for primary teachers, one arrives at a remarkable 28 per cent for fathers in education. Within the French system, at any rate, the Ecole Normale stood out as a relatively progressive and emphatically academic institution. For nineteenth-century English higher education, we only have the figures for the two ancient universities of Oxford and Cambridge in Table 7.12. The social categories are a little vague; but they are used consistently enough to permit a look at changes over time. A greater proportion of unknowns probably accounts for the apparently smaller percentages for the major groups at Oxford during the early nineteenth century. If the unknowns were distributed roughly like the knowns, then the landed gentry and the Anglican clergy each could be seen to have accounted for roughly a third of enrolments at the two English universities of the early nineteenth century. The lay professions at that time reached a representation of around 20 per cent, with the middle-class business occupations ranking in fourth place, and the artisan classes scarcely present at all. Thus the secular middle classes were undoubtedly much weaker in the English than in the French and German universities at that time. Change away from this pattern was slow and possibly unsteady until the mid-century; but then the professions and, to a lesser extent, the business groups expanded their portion of enrolments to some 50–60 per cent by the end of the century. We cannot be sure, but even by that time, neither the lower middle classes in general nor the lower civil servants and teachers in particular appear to have been as well represented at Oxford and Cambridge as at the continental universities, and especially in Germany. 36

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Admission Table 7.12 Social origins of English university students 1800–1900 (percentages of fathers in various occupational groups)a Fathers’ occupation Landowners Clergy Professions Business Tradesmen, clerks, working class Unknown Total N

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Thus this sector of English higher education was almost certainly the least progressive in Europe until the present century. In Table 7.13, finally, we get a glimpse of the Swedish and Danish universities on the eve of the First World War. The Swedish system by that time rather closely approximated German levels of progressiveness, with slightly higher representations for the learned professions, but also for farmers and workers. Students at the University of Copenhagen, however, came a good deal more often than their German colleagues from upper middle-class backgrounds. All sectors of the lower middle class were notably more poorly represented at Copenhagen than at German institutions, although a strong contingent of farmers at Copenhagen partly compensated for this shortfall. In any case, the divergences of social recruitment were no longer as great by around 1911 as the differences between the English, French and German universities had been during the early nineteenth century. We spoke earlier of a convergence between the educational and the occupational systems in Germany from the late nineteenth century on; but perhaps we should have referred to a double convergence. For it seems increasingly clear that during the late industrial phase in their history, the European university systems shed some of the special characteristics that had distinguished them from each other a century earlier. Levels of 265

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progressiveness probably increased everywhere, perhaps less rapidly in Germany than in systems that began less auspiciously. It is hard to say whether higher levels of progressiveness also engendered increased social mobility through education; but on the whole I doubt it. For as higher education became even a little more generally available, it lost some of the ‘market’ advantages of rarity. As the entrepreneurial middle classes began to patronize higher education, moreover, upward mobility through education to some extent replaced earlier patterns of social ascent without or around the universities. But we are far from understanding all the complexities involved. My aim here has been only to sketch the flow of students into the European universities of the nineteenth century in a preliminary way. select bibliography Albisetti, J. C. Schooling German Girls and Women: Secondary and Higher Education in the Nineteenth Century, Princeton, 1988. ¨ Conze, W. and Kocka, J. Bildungsburgertum im 19. Jahrhundert. Bildungssystem und Professionalisierung in internationalen Vergleichen, Stuttgart, 1985. Jarausch, K. H. Students, Society, and Politics in Imperial Germany: The Rise of Academic Illiberalism, Princeton, 1982. Jarausch, K. H. (ed.) The Transformation of Higher Learning, 1860–1930: Expansion, Diversification, Social Opening, and Professionalization in England,

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CHAPTER 8

STUDENT MOVEMENTS

LIEVE GEVERS AND LOUIS VOS

In the previous volumes of this History of the University in Europe, under the title ‘Student education, student life’, a picture of the student’s social life was sketched out, focusing on the material and educational aspects of daily life. An approach of this kind is in agreement with the first two core topics of the history of student life.1 The third core topic, that of political engagement, is entirely different in character. Political engagement does not take place exclusively in the small world of the university but views this world as an extension of broader society. For the history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the topic of student movements is more significant than the history of everyday student life alternating between student rooms, pubs and lecture theatres. Although the apolitical spending of free time, the mores (student traditions) and the gulf between ‘town and gown’ continued to exist in the nineteenth century to a far greater extent than hitherto, at the same time students felt they heard a call from the broader society. They sensed this calling both in their direct political engagement and in their preparation for later life. The effort made to attain that great goal even became the principal task and reason to exist at a given moment in time and for particular students. Analyzing and describing these developments means paying attention to the chronological interaction of events and ideologies, the formation and alternation of generations, the effects of student action in broader history, and the evolving self-image of the movement. In its ‘classical’ manifestation, i.e. from its origins at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the ‘new’ student movement of 1968, the student movement had the following characteristics.2 It was a – more or 1 2

Jarausch, Students Imperial Germany, 9–12. L. Vos, ‘Rebelse generaties. Het studentenprotest van de jaren zestig’, in L. Vos, M. Derez, I. Depraeterre and W. Van der Steen, Studentenprotest in de jaren zestig. De stoute

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos less organized – collective action by students under their own leadership to influence society. It generally tied in with a broader political current or emancipation movement, in which it often played a radical spearhead role, and for which it also served as a mobilizing channel. While the student movement adopted the ideals and motives for fighting from the broader movement, it also influenced the broader movement. On the one hand it affected society at large, and on the other it trained and prepared its members for a later task. This training always had an action component: through action the conviction and idealism of future leaders were strengthened. A precondition for any movement is the existence of communication and mobilization channels, such as meetings, periodicals and publications. Particular associations may struggle with each other for dominance, or form the core of the movement. But membership of this association does not, in fact, mark the boundary of the movement.3 Activists in student movements develop an image of themselves and their movement, as a result of which they acquire a role of their own in history and society at large.4 This ‘narrative of consciousness’ changes over the course of time, yet each period brings new generations and individuals to commit themselves to the movement.5 In modern – urban – society, as it has been emerging since the nineteenth century, the student had three specific characteristics that made him susceptible to a cause. First, the student enjoyed an atypical social position in which he almost exclusively came into contact with fellow students in his daily life, thereby escaping the multiplicity of roles typical of modern society. Being a student was playing (or living) a total role,6 so that role

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jaren (Tielt, 1978), 43–52; L. Vos, ‘Student Movements: Some Theoretical Aspects’, in B. Henkens et al. (eds.), Student Protest in Contemporary Europe. ISHA Journal, 3 (Louvain, 1995), 3–18; L. Vos, ‘Nationalism and Student Movements: Conceptual Framework and a Flemish Case-Study’, in M. Norrback and K. Ranki (eds.), University and Nation: The University and the Making of the Nation in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Helsinki, 1996), 77–87. G. Langguth, Die Protestbewegung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschlands, 1968–1976 (Cologne, 1976), 23–4; K. R. Allerbeck, Soziologie radikaler Studentenbewegungen. Eine vergleichende Untersuchung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten (Munich and Vienna, 1973), 37. S. K. Morrissey, Heralds of the Revolution: Russian Students and the Mythology of Radicalism (Oxford, 1998), 5. Allerbeck, Soziologie (note 3), 40–4. See also J. R. Gillis, Youth and History: Tradition and Change in European Age Relations. 1770 to the Present (New York, 1974). Morrissey, Heralds (note 4), who analyzed the ‘narrative of consciousness’ of the Russian student movement, regards the student movement as ‘a phenomenon analogous both to class and nation’, because, like ‘those two other categories of identity’, it principally exists ‘through the consciousness of its members’. ¨ K. R. Allerbeck, ‘Eine strukturelle Erklarung von Studentenbewegungen in entwick¨ ¨ Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, elten Industriegesellschaften’, Kolner Zeitschrift fur 23 (1971), 482–90.

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Student movements conflicts no longer occurred; an insider feeling easily arose with respect to non-student outsiders; and a rebellious attitude could be adopted without having to pay a high social price. This is why students, more readily than workers or young working people, opt for the pure principle that they defend in an expressive or ‘testifying’ way, rather than the half-hearted compromise called for by an instrumental and pragmatic approach.7 Second, there was the student’s intellectual habit, by which he could easily observe and analyze problems in society, examine the current values and truths in a critical manner, and handle ideological concepts with no difficulty. Third, a student movement is sustained by a particular generation. A layering effect ensues from generation-forming events experienced by adjacent years or age cohorts during their period of socialization.8 Each generation meets the culture handed over to it with new eyes, and from this fresh contact there arises a style that differs from the one expressed by previous generations. Consequently, a student movement cannot be studied as a category in its own right, but rather as an historical moment of reproduction and transformation in society.9 Student movements, viewed as the organized participation of students under their own leadership in a broader emancipation current, emerged in some European countries and at particular times more than others, sustained by specific generations of students. An additional problem dating from the nineteenth century was the growing importance of national context. This led to different developments in different European countries, making a genuine synthesis all the more difficult. This chapter therefore focuses on certain countries rather than others.10 s t u d e n t s f i g h t i n g f o r f r e e d o m (1800–1830) The first modern student movements developed against the backdrop of Enlightenment and Romanticism at the end of the eighteenth century. 7 8

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C. Verhoeven, ‘Dubieus idealisme’, Jeugd en samenleving, 3 (1973), 307–15. ¨ ¨ Soziologie, K. Mannheim, ‘Das Problem der Generationen’, Kolner Viertelsjahresheft fur 7 (1928), 157–85, 309–30; E. Pfeil, ‘Der Kohortansatz in der Soziologie. Ein Zugang ¨ ¨ Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 19, zur Generationsproblem?’, Kolner Zeitschrift fur 4 (1967), 645–57; A. B. Spitzer, ‘The Historical Problem of Generations’, American Historical Review, 57, 5 (1973), 1353–85; R. G. Braungart, ‘The Sociology of Generations and Student Politics: A Comparison of the Functionalist and Generational Unit Models’, Journal of Social Issues, 30, 2 (1974), 31–54. ¨ L. Rosenmayr, ‘Jugend’, in R. Konig (ed.), Handbuch der empirischen Sozialforschung (Stuttgart, 1976), vol. VI; see also K. R. Allerbeck and L. Rosenmayr (eds.), Aufstand der Jugend? Neue Aspekte der Jugendsoziologie (Munich, 1971). We have dealt more or less systematically with movements in Germany, France, Russia, England, Scotland, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Danube Monarchy, with its Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian student movements. We have also given some attention to Romania, Greece, Italy and Spain. For the latter Prof. Maria Fernanda Mancebo sent us a paper, entitled ‘Estudiantes’.

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos New ideals of freedom and fraternity appealed to students throughout Europe in such a way that they felt called, both literally and figuratively, to man the barricades in order to point the way to a new future for their own community, thereby appearing as a fighting vanguard and as idealistic prophets. A little-known early example of a student movement – which did not survive – was the revolt that arose in Cambridge in the 1780s. Inspired by the radical liberalism of the English Enlightenment, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) and his friends committed themselves to ‘Liberty and Equality’ and succeeded in building up a broad base within the student community. But when the French Revolution broke out, the established intellectuals almost as a matter of principle became anti-revolutionary. And yet England afterwards became the motherland of European Romanticism, with figures such as William Blake (1757–1827), William Wordsworth (1770–1850), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), John Keats (1795–1821) as well as Coleridge. They looked to the Revolution with admiration and gathered on the side of ‘the people’ against the forces of reaction which, following the fall of Napoleon, had come to power again. But the English student generations of the early nineteenth century were little moved by this.11 Poland in 1793, after the second Polish partition, provided the first example of students as a group putting themselves at the service of the national community, and whose calling was adopted by following generations.12 A wave of Polish nationalism culminated in the 1794 uprising led by Tadeusz Koˇsciusko (1746–1817). Students enthusiastically supported the uprising, in which they fought in their own military units. Of the 387 students who had been enrolled at the University of Cracow in 1791, around 200 had entered service. But the revolution misfired. Poland disappeared from the map, and it was not until the Polish legion, commanded by Jan Hendrik Da¸browski (1755–1818), joined up with Napoleon’s army that independence was, to some extent, restored in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw created by the French emperor. While the Polish students pinned all their hopes on Napoleon, German students regarded him as someone who threatened the very existence of the German nation. The defeat of Prussia in 1806 was an event that gave 11

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odzie˙zy Uniwersytetu Krakowskiego ´ 1848 r.)’, in C. Bobinska (ed.), Studia z dziejow od o´swiecenia do pol
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Student movements direction and had a generation-forming effect for the student youth of the time. It had the effect that, in the resistance to French suppression, the striving for freedom and emancipation of the citizens finally shifted from the individual level to one of the German people as a community. The dream arose that the liberation of the fatherland would result in a spiritual revival and territorial unification of the German people. Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) provided the intellectual legitimacy for this cultural nationalism with political consequences in the winter of 1807–8, in his Reden an die Deutsche Nation (Speeches to the German Nation). And Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860) continued the emotional tone in 1813 in the song he composed with the question ‘Where is my German Fatherland?’, with the reply ‘as far as the German tongue rings’. His article ¨ Uber den deutschen Studentenstaat, in which he pinned great hopes on the student generation of that time, also found great resonance in the academic world.13 Under the influence of this new spirit, student movements emerged in many cities. In Berlin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778–1852) – the founder of the gymnastics movement – together with his friend, the philosophy professor much admired in student circles, Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773– 1843), started in 1811 the secret student association Deutscher Bund which would prepare them for the coming war of liberation. Two years later, students from Jena with the support of some professors founded a first Urburschenschaft under the motto ‘Ehre, Freiheit, Vaterland’. It was a fighting German national association, which aimed to promote the establishment of a liberal constitutional state for the whole of the fatherland. Those who took the initiative wanted to displace the existing apolitical Landsmannschaften which were supported by regional recruitment and breathed a particularistic spirit. They also opposed academic privileges and aristocratic student clothing, and prompted a ‘moral regeneration of student life’ that would emancipate ‘schoolboys’, thereby allowing them to become ‘citizens of the academic community’.14 They nevertheless adopted certain rituals and functions from the existing student customs, as well as a certain Teutonic and anti-Semitic Romanticism. Many German students were prepared to fight as volunteers for the liberation of the fatherland. They joined the student Freischar of Major ¨ Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lutzow (1782–1834), which at one time numbered 2,800 members,15 and the colours of which – blackened civil cloth 13 14

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Student movements universities. They already represented about 30 per cent of all students at that time.19 The ideological orientation of the German student movement was strongly influenced by a book published in 1819 by Jahn entitled Deutsches Volkstum, a book with strong Messianic elements that was ¨ read almost like a gospel. Henceforth the words volkstumlich and ¨ Volkstumlichkeit became established in the vocabulary of Romanticism. ¨ This quickly led to Volkstumelei of an extremely xenophobic and antiSemitic nature. Against this backdrop, Jewish students in 1819 were excluded from the Burschenschaften, a measure that was reversed at the Burschentage in Nuremberg in 1830 and Frankfurt in 1831 (but one that would be reintroduced in the mid-1890s).20 Varying political strategies nevertheless continued to exist above the common denominator of Romantic nationalism.21 Within the liberal-national wing of the student movement, quite quickly the Giessener Schwarzen or Unbedingten stood out as a radical group. Their society was set up by the charismatic lecturer Karl Follen (1795– 1840), who developed an original ideology in which he reconciled impulses from the French Revolution with Romantic ideas. The radical ‘Blacks’, more than the main current in the movement, championed the welfare and uplifting of the popular masses and wanted to do away with the oppression by the ruling class, through a popular uprising led by the intelligentsia. They were therefore strongly committed to waging systematic propaganda among ordinary people.22 The authorities naturally viewed this with some disquiet. The assassination of the German-born Russian diplomat and writer August von Kotzebue (1761–1819) by the Heidelberg theology student Karl Ludwig Sand (1795–1820), who belonged to the circle of the Giessener Schwarzen,23 was the opportunity Metternich (1773–1859) had dreamt 19

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J. Bauer, ‘Die Wartburg und die Studenten – Festerlebnisse’, Aurora, 59 (1999), 225–36; ¨ ¨ Muller, Geschichte (note 15), 75; D. Duding, ‘The Nineteenth-Century German Nationalist Movement as a Movement of Societies’, in H. Schulze (ed.), Nation-Building in Central ¨ Europe (Leamington Spa, 1987), 19–49, 28; R. Muth, ‘Bekenntnis zu Schwarz-Rot-Gold. ¨ Die freiheitlich nationale Idee in der Tubinger Studentenschaft von 1813 bis 1848’, in H. M. Decker, H. G. Richter and K. Schreiner (eds.), 500 Jahre Eberhard Karls Univer¨ Tubingen. ¨ ¨ zur Geschichte des Universitat ¨ Tubingen, ¨ ¨ sitat Beitrage 1477–1977 (Tubingen, 1977), 251–84. D. Grieswelle, ‘Antisemitismus in deutschen Studentenverbindungen des 19. Jahrhun¨ derts’, in O. Neuloh and W. Ruegg (eds.), Student und Hochschule im 19. Jahrhundert. Studien und Materialien, Studien zum Wandel von Gesellschaft und Bildung im Neun¨ zehnten Jahrhundert 12 (Gottingen, 1975), 366–79, here 367. Wawrykowa, Freiheit (note 13), 49–50; D. F. Burg, Encyclopedia of Student and Youth Movements (New York, 1998), 36. Bartol, Ideologie (note 16), 70; Wawrykowa, Freiheit (note 13), 45–6. Wawrykowa, Freiheit (note 13), 46–8. The first ‘foreign’ poem devoted to him was written by the Russian poet Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799–1837), see J.-C. Caron,

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos of for dealing with the student movement. He organized a meeting of representatives of German states in Carlsbad in Bohemia, and persuaded them to agree to a series of decrees that were approved by the Bundestag of the German Federation on 1 September 1819. They placed the universities under the supervision of government commissioners. The Burschenschaften were prohibited and student associations were only allowed to exist if special permission was obtained. Throughout Europe, the autonomy and influence of the universities were restricted.24 These repressive measures remained in force in the German Confederation for the next thirty years, and they partly paralysed the liberal movement, at least the legal one.25 Prosecution drove the Burschenschaften into hiding, with inevitable resulting radicalization. The German student movement also affected Finland, a region that had been governed by the Russian Tsar as a grand duchy since 1809. ˚ At the University of Abo (Turku), students founded in the autumn of 1816 an independent student fraternity along the lines of the Burschenschaft model. However, the academic authorities could not keep pace with it, preferring a general academic association. But the deeper basis of the difference of opinion was the rapturous devotion of the students to Romanticism on the one hand and the adherence of the academics to Classicism on the other. The tense relationship reached a climax in April 1817 with a petition and demonstrations by the students for more academic freedom. The students’ demands were largely met, so that cooperation was restored.26 In 1826–27, incidents between students and ˚ Russian soldiers in Abo (Turku), as well as a three-day fire in the same year that reduced a large part of the city to ashes, prompted the authorities to move the university to Helsingfors (Helsinki), the new de facto capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland. In 1828 there came new statutes providing for stricter control of student life. The Landsmannschaften were allowed to continue to exist, but only if they were more closely supervised by the professors.27 In Spain, law students in particular opted predominantly for the liberal camp, as is apparent from the part they played in the revolution of 1820,

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G´en´erations romantiques. Les e´ tudiants de Paris et le Quartier Latin (Paris, 1991), 245. On Sand see also chapter 10. R. Dudkowa, ‘Les e´ tudes des jeunes Polonais dans les universit´es e´ trang`eres au XIXe si`ecle. Une esquisse de probl`eme’, in M. Kulczykowski (ed.), P´er´egrinations Acad´emiques. IVi`eme session scientifique internationale. Cracovie 19–21 mai 1983. Prace Historyczne, Zeszyt 88 (Cracow, 1989), 131–60. L. W. Cowie and R. Wolfson, Years of Nationalism: European History 1815–1890 ¨ (London, 1985), 48–9; Nipperdey, Burgerwelt, 281–5. See also chapters 2 and 3. ¨ Helsinki, 239, 246–51, 253, 263–4. Klinge, Universitat Ibid., 279, 283, 295, 298, 301.

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Student movements which aimed to reintroduce the abolished constitution of 1812.28 When, in Greece, the revolution for national independence erupted in March 1821, almost all Greek students and academics studying abroad returned to their homeland to take part.29 They brought enlightened European notions with them and developed a plan in 1824 for the establishment of a Greek university in Athens. This came into being in 1837, following the country’s independence. In Poland, unlike in Germany where most of the students and the intel¨ ligentsia came from the urban bourgeoisie (the Bildungsburgertum), students largely came from the very numerous szlachta or gentry. This section of society had regarded itself until the end of the eighteenth century as the sole carrier of the nation, but then, under the influence of the Enlightenment, it had transformed itself into a more open ‘intelligentsia’.30 Polish academic activity was sustained by the conviction that the university had its own mission in the continued existence of the nation, at the very moment of losing its independence. Polish students in Warsaw, ´ Vilnius, Cracow and Lemberg (Lwow), and also at other universities in the partitioning countries, consequently became spokesmen for the liberal and patriotic current that was focused on reviving the nation, a term gradually referring to the whole Polish people.31 Representative of this current was the Vilnius circle Towarzystwo Filo´ or ‘Fellowship of Philomaths’ (from the Greek: ‘friends of scimatow ence’), founded in 1817 by six students, including Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), along the lines of German student associations.32 From 1819 it displayed political conspiratorial activity, and even became the most widely branched Polish organization of its type, although at that time it was a strictly secret and closed circle.33 As in Finland, the Polish Philomaths rejected the rigidity of Classicism and opted for Romanticism as the spirit and ideal of the young generation. As Mickiewicz put it in his Oda dl
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´ Mancebo, ‘Estudiantes’ (note 10); see also E. Hernandez Sandoica, ‘De la Universidad complutense a la universidad central’, in J. L. Peset (ed.), Historia y actualidad de la ˜ universidad espanola, 6 vols. (Madrid, 1985), vol. II, 466–502. ¨ ¨ A. N. Tsirpanles, ‘Die Ausbildung der Griechen an europaischen Universitaten und ¨ deren Rolle im Universitatsleben des modernen Griechenland’, in R. G. Plaschka and ¨ ¨ K. Mack (eds.), Wegenetz Europaischen Geistes, vol. II: Universitaten und Studenten. ¨ Die Bedeutung studentischer Migrationen in Mittel- und Sudosteuropa vom 18. Bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (Vienna, 1987), 250–72. Wawrykowka, Freiheit (note 13), 13. B. Klimaszewski (ed.), An Outline History of Polish Culture (Warsaw, 1984), 163. J. Tazbir (ed.), Zarys Historii Polski (Warsaw, 1980), 401. Wawrykowa, Freiheit (note 13), 84. The poem ‘Ode to Youth’ was written between 1818 and 1824. It was not published ´ A first translation into French (because of censorship?) until 1827 in (Austrian) Lwow.

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos other young people, faith and love were more important than research and study.35 Between 1817 and 1823, on former Polish territory and in other places where Poles were studying, some 50 student associations came into being. A number of them were small and only existed for a short time, but a few others comprised several hundred members and had an active existence for several years. The secret societies built up European networks. In 1820 former students set up a revolutionary committee in Switzerland, which was the most important centre of political migrants at the time, where all the paths of European conspiracy crossed. The committee founded a society made up ¨ of cells known as the Mannerbund, which hoped to turn Germany into a free republic through Volksaufstand und Volksrevolution.36 One of the exiled activists was Follen, the former leader of the ‘Blacks’ from Giessen, who had also fled to Switzerland, whence he maintained contact with the conspiratorial network until it was rounded up in 1823. He then moved permanently to the United States. The most important role model for the conspiratorial student radicals was the secret society of the Carbonari, which first appeared in 1807 in Calabria and was very active again in 1820–21 in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, especially in Naples and Salerno. It was a secret military society with legions, cohorts, centuries and maniples. Each carbonaro knew hardly any other carbonari, but all followed the leadership in blind obedience. Its leader, Filippo Buonarotti (1761–1837), was by then living in Switzerland and had built up a network of like-minded people throughout Europe. German, Polish and French students in exile joined his movement. In all European countries, therefore, the police were shadowing foreign students, and everywhere some of them were arrested for alleged conspiracy. This pointed to both the internationalization of the liberal network and the cross-border co-operation of the police services.37 The police also tried to infiltrate these networks through secret agents pretending to be revolutionaries. The most sensational figure in this context was Johann ¨ Wit-von Dorring (1800–63). He was a former member of the Giessener Schwarzen, who afterwards became an agent provocateur in the service of the Prussian, Austrian, French and Polish police. In 1824 the majority ¨ ¨ of the members of the Junglingsbund and Mannerbund were arrested.

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was published in 1841, Z. Makowiecka, Mickiewicz w Coll`ege de France. Pa´zdziernik 1840-maj 1844 (Warsaw, 1968), 213. Both texts in A. Mickiewicz, Dziela – Tom 1 Wiersze (Warsaw, 1949), 9–11, 102–4, 436–7. With thanks for this information to Dr Idesbald Goddeeris, Catholic University of Louvain. Wawrykowa, Freiheit (note 13), 58–65; L. Vos, with assistance of I. Goddeeris, De strijd van de witte adelaar. Geschiedenis van Polen (Louvain, 2000), 152–3. See also Klimaszewski (ed.), History (note 31), 169–70. Wawrykowa, Freiheit (note 13), 75–8. Caron, G´en´erations (note 23), 271–2; Wawrykowa, Freiheit (note 13), 77–8.

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Student movements In France – both Paris and Montpellier – there were strikes and demonstrations in the spring of 1819 against book censorship in the libraries, compulsory religious worship, and the sanctioning of a professor who had dared to express criticism of the existing situation.38 In November 1819, the French Government came up with a plan to amend the existing electoral system in a conservative direction. This again caused student protests directly after the reopening of the 1819–20 academic year, by coincidence also just after the Carlsbad decrees. Students launched a petition in Paris, Tours and Rennes. Les Amis de la V´erit´e secretly began forming an armed student company to prepare an uprising. When the heir to the throne was murdered in February 1820, this led to stronger repression by the government as well as to new student protests. In April 1820, the protest movement spread, first to the Sorbonne and then also to Aix-en-Provence, Rennes, Toulouse, Dijon, Strasburg and Grenoble. On 3 June 1820 the demonstrating crowd in Paris was attacked by plain-clothes police and, among the fleeing demonstrators, the law student Nicolas Lallemand was shot dead. His ‘martyrdom’ caused the unrest to spread to the working-class districts, as a result of which socio-economic grievances became more prominent. There were demonstrations of solidarity by students in Grenoble, Caen, Toulouse, Strasburg, Rennes, and soon also by workers and the bourgeoisie in Brest, Nantes, Lorient, Vitr´e, or by students and the population together in Poitiers, Lyon and Dijon. The ‘martyrdom’ also had a long-term impact: it gave rise to an ‘awareness of mission’ among French students, which marked the beginning of a genuine student movement. A minority of Royalist students who had opted for the side of the established order also demonstrated repeatedly. The government acted forcefully. At the beginning of July 1820 it imposed a strict disciplinary regime and brought the student population – both inside and outside the institution – entirely under control, which passed all the more easily because examinations were approaching. Sometimes, as in Grenoble, whole faculties were abolished. A last vestige of the June movement was the failed coup d’´etat of 19 August 1820. It was mainly prepared by Bonapartist army officers, but the armed branch of Les Amis de la V´erit´e, at that time around 600 men strong, also took part under the command of Saint-Amand Bazard (1791–1832) and the professor of philosophy, Victor Cousin (1792–1867). As was to be expected, the vast majority of the students remained outside this conspiratorial movement, but they gave vent to their mood of opposition through anti-clericalism, manifested increasingly from 1821–22. This was

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos expressed, for example, by disrupting services and by treating religious worship as absurd. In May 1821, the first French Carbonari branch was established in Paris by two students who had fought alongside the Neapolitan liberals and who had learnt the principles of the movement there.39 The movement spread rapidly across the Parisian faculties and out to the provinces. Among its supporters, servicemen formed the largest group with around 40 per cent, while the students, especially former members of the Amis de la V´erit´e lodge, came far behind with 11.5 per cent. The emphasis was on patriotism and national sovereignty, now that the Bourbons, who were involved in the Metternich system, had converted France into a third-rate power. The political orientation of the Carbonari movement was liberal, yet Bonapartist rather than republican. Its activities consisted of setting up conspiracies, all of which failed.40 King Charles X (1757–1836), who came to the throne in 1824, systematically continued the policy of control and to this end specially set up the Minist`ere des Affaires Eccl´esiastiques et de l’Instruction Publique, a significant combination. The ever stronger presence of the Church through the proliferation of processions, the increase in monastic orders, and the wayside shrines built all over the countryside strengthened the anticlericalism of the opposition. It appeared that the Church wanted to sweep away la soci´et´e la¨ıque (lay society). However, despite the censorship, the press in France remained predominantly liberal in orientation during the 1820s.41 A periodical such as Le Globe – which from 1824 was edited by young people, including students – exercised considerable influence, while publishing political poetry and exalting the Greek struggle for freedom in the context of the philhellenism that was appealing to young people throughout Europe. At the end of the 1820s new historical studies were published on the French Revolution, written and taught by figures such as Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877), Auguste Mignet (1796–1884), and Paul Matthieu Laurent de l’Ard`eche (1799–1877). As a result, a younger generation was able to learn about the political culture of the revolutionary years of 1778–99. The ideals of the French Revolution received attention again, and the contrast with the existing situation was felt poignantly. Perhaps all this caused the students to protest again in May 1827. At that time the appointment of a ‘clerical’ professor was the final straw, leading to open demonstrations of protest. The subsequent court trial, in which the students were convicted, helped bring about a revival of political interest among a younger generation of students. It ensured that in 1830 they were ready for revolution. 39 41

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos students, encouraged in their views by some young German professors. In Louvain, a first political student association was set up in 1821 on the model of the German Burschenschaft, which idolized philhellenism.44 From 1827, when the union of Catholic and liberal opposition had come about, rapid politicization was noticeable in the university context. It was striking that opposition occurred principally in the Li`ege and Louvain student milieu, while Ghent remained relatively calm.45 In the Belgian Revolution which erupted in the summer of 1830, the students accounted for a large proportion of the protesters, for which they later gained reward in new positions which were to be filled in the independent Belgium – de facto from November 1830. After 1830, the growing differences between the Catholic Church and the liberal Freemasons led to the abolition of the state university in Louvain and to the establishment – alongside the existing state universities of Ghent and Li`ege – of two ideologically coloured universities: a Free(-thinking) one in Brussels in 1834, and a Catholic one in Louvain in 1835.46 In the north of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, student life resumed the old traditions whereby students consciously put themselves outside social reality by cherishing companionship and friendship in their own circles, with ragging senates and debating societies. There was a single upsurge of social unrest in 1823, when in Leiden the city administration tried to suspend the traditional distribution of ‘herring and white bread’ to the poor, and the students then – and in subsequent years – organized it themselves. There also was a great deal of interest in Romantic writers such as Byron, Scott, Hugo and Heine. A first student corps was set up in 1815 in Groningen. Other places soon followed.47 The Belgian uprising sent a wave of patriotism and Orange sentiment through the universities of the (northern) Netherlands.48 Separate corps of volunteer riflemen were formed in Amsterdam, Groningen, Leiden and Utrecht. However, the first few months brought great disappointment to the student volunteers: military drill, keeping guard and boredom were their lot. It was not until the ‘ten-day campaign’ began in August 1831 that ‘heroic deeds’ could be performed. But the student volunteers did not have more than a few 44 45 46 47

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E. Lamberts and J. Roegiers, De universiteit te Leuven. 1425–1985 (Louvain, 1988), 182. R. L. Plancke (ed.), Rijksuniversiteit Gent. 1817–1967 (Ghent, 1967), 15. See chapter 2, 40, chapter 10, 347; Chronological List 684. See an extensive depiction of this on the basis of literary sources: G. Brom, De omkeer in’t studentenleven (Delft, 1923), particularly Part I: ‘Het geslacht van Klikspaan’, 5–80. L. D. Frank and H. B. Wiardi Beckman, Geschiedenis van het Leidsche Studentencorps (Leiden, 1927), 12, 22; A. C. J. de Vrankrijker, Vier eeuwen Nederlandsch studentenleven ([Voorburg], 1939). F. Santegoets, ‘Togae cedant armis: een generatie getekend door de Belgische opstand’, in W. van den Broeke and P. van Hees (eds.), Studenten en nationaal gevoel in Nederland. Utrechtse Historische Cahiers, 19, 3 (1988), 21–33; R. Hagendijk. Het studentenleven. Opkomst en verval van de traditionele studentencultuur (Amsterdam, 1980), 44–6.

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Student movements skirmishes to put on their roll of honour. When the French Army came to the assistance of the Belgians, the campaign was called off. The student volunteers were nevertheless welcomed as heroes on their return: the start of the new academic year was deferred for them, and they received academic recognition through a bronze badge of honour. The celebrations were completed on 22 June 1832 with the presentation of a metal cross cast from two canons captured from the Belgians. By taking part in the campaign – albeit on the side of the established order – the Dutch students had become full members of the nation.49 When the Russian Tsar prepared to come to the assistance of the Dutch prince against the Belgian rebels, an uprising against Russia broke out in Warsaw in November 1830. The cadets of the military school under the command of Piotr Wysocki (1797–1874) took the initiative, but they were assisted by a broad group of rebels, in which the students of the University of Warsaw were particularly prominent. They received support from Cracow, whence, in the first few days of 1831, 210 volunteers, more than half the Cracow student community, came to reinforce the ranks. The fighting lasted for ten months. Several students ended up in Russian prisons, where some were held until 1834.50 Others became part of the wielka emigracja (the great emigration) and went into exile abroad, chiefly to France (around half the students from Warsaw and most of the students from Vilnius, where almost the entire student population joined the uprising).51 After the Polish defeat the universities of Warsaw and Vilnius were closed. The Polish uprising strengthened enthusiasm for the Polish cause and aversion to Russia throughout Europe. This was especially the case in France, where the economic crisis in the winter of 1830 had hit the common people above all. Riots broke out in Paris on 20 December 1830. Radical republican students such as Jules Sambuc, Auguste Blanqui (1805–81) and the later Communard Charles Delescluzes (1809–71) joined in. After Christmas the authorities easily restored order, but the republican students continued the action and persisted in arguing for freedom of association. The government refused to make any concessions to the right of association, and the academic authorities took measures against the radical students. They gave the consilium abeundi (exclusion from university studies) to Sambuc and Blanqui among others. A violent protest against this on 22 January 1831 led to radical student leaders being arrested, and this signified the end of the movement for the right of association. When, 49 50 51

Frank and Wiardi Beckman, Geschiedenis (note 47), 12–13. R´ev´esz, Jugendbewegungen (note 12), 63. B. Konarska, ‘Les e´ tudiants d’universit´es polonaises dans les universit´es de France apr`es l’Insurrection de novembre (1832–1848)’, in Kulczykowski (ed.), P´er´egrinations (note 24), 161–80, here 163.

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos on 15 September 1831, the news of the capitulation of Warsaw became known, there were displays of solidarity in Paris, and again in December, towards the Polish generals in exile, who had previously also been welcomed by the students of Strasburg.52 In December 1831 the social unrest in Paris increased once again as a result of the economic crisis and a threatening cholera epidemic. The government immediately acted vigorously against the press, thought to be too critical, and against radical republicans by putting them on trial.53 This led to abrupt radicalization among the younger generation, who now opted for a social republic, with Robespierre’s D´eclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen of 1793 as a source of inspiration, while seeking contact with the workers. The cholera epidemic actually broke out in March 1832, and hundreds of students volunteered to give first-aid assistance. The pent-up tension was released on 5 June 1832, when the interment of a general two years earlier became the signal for an uprising aimed at establishing a republic. The uprising consisted mainly of workers, although students accompanied them on the barricades, and it was put down in two days. Its failure pushed the republicans even further into clandestine activity. Workers and students met in the secret society entitled La Soci´et´e des Droits de l’Homme, and membership increased as the third anniversary of the 1830 Revolution approached. When, on 13–14 April 1834, the republican uprising feared by the authorities erupted in Paris, it was nipped in the bud almost the same day by the arrest of suspects and successful house-searches for weapons in the Latin Quarter. The disillusionment that followed ensured a lull in French political life that persisted for almost ten years. Student activity in those years was largely restricted to the defence of ‘corporatist’ interests, in so far as the interest of student youth was not completely taken up by fashion, dancing and women. The legitimacy of Louis Philippe was no longer questioned. The change of regime in Paris, the independence gained in Brussels and Athens, and the defeat in Warsaw, naturally ensured radicalization of the students elsewhere. In Spain, King Ferdinand VII (1784–1833), fearing student unrest, decided to close the universities in 1830, and they were not reopened until two years later.54 In Finland, the Polish uprising tested the tie with Russia. Small incidents like a toast in honour of Poland by a student in a Helsingfors caf´e, or the disruption in April 1831 of 52

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Student movements the Orthodox Easter Saturday night service by drunken Finnish students, were interpreted as anti-Russian deeds. The government threatened to close the university. The cholera epidemic, which affected Finland in the summer of 1831, provided a welcome excuse for closing the university during the autumn term of 1831–32. In the spring of 1832 the government decided to introduce a student uniform. Somewhat surprisingly this met with the approval of the students. Tacit understanding between students and government appeared to have been restored. Then the Tsar decided to make concessions to the Finns. In February 1833 he founded a centre for the study of Finnish language, literature and history, and the promotion of Finnish culture. The visit by the Tsar to Helsingfors in the summer of 1833 was one display of student loyalty.55 In 1840 the Russian Government appointed a first professor of Finnish language and literature. The arrival in 1842 of the new rector, the Russian Grand Duke Alexander Nikolayevich, was greeted with enthusiasm on the part of the academic community in Helsingfors. This prompted bitter comments among Finnish emigrants in Sweden on the servility which, to them, had taken on grotesque forms in Helsingfors.56 In Germany, from about 1827, a second phase began for the Burschenschaften, that of the ‘Demagogues’.57 On the initiative of a particularly active group of the ‘Teutons,’ illegal student days took place in 1830 and 1831. The foreign revolutionaries were revered as champions of the ideal of freedom and plans were forged for the formation of ‘academic legions’ to come to the aid of the Greeks and the Poles in their struggle and to stand by in readiness for a possible German revolution. In 1831, ¨ Gottingen and Heidelberg were declared ‘liberated territory’ by the local students.58 On the Burschentag of 1832 in Stuttgart, it was proclaimed that the freedom and unification of Germany should be realized through revolution.59 Propagating the idea of unification was also the goal of the Hambachfest of 27 May 1832, which brought together 25,000 participants, mostly adults but also a large number of students, mainly from the ‘Teutons’. The Hambachfest led to repressive measures against the ‘Presse- und Vaterlandsverein’, which had organized the meeting. As a result, the opposition gradually began to adopt a different strategy, that of underground conspiracy and preparation for uprising.60 On 3 April 1833, around 50 radical students responded positively to the call of the Vaterlandsverein to storm the police headquarters in Frankfurt together 55 57 58 59 60

56 Ibid., 326, 340. ¨ Helsinki, 305–20. Klinge, Universitat Jarausch, ‘Sources’ (note 14), 540. M. E. Boren, Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject (New York, 2001), 32. The aim was: ‘die Erregung einer Revolution, um durch diese die Freiheit und Einheit Deutschlands zu erreichen’, Bartol, Ideologie (note 16), 73–4. ¨ Duding, ‘Nineteenth-Century’ (note 19), 35.

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos with intellectuals and artisans, in an attempt to instigate a popular uprising. This Wachensturm – the first armed revolt in Germany – failed and ¨ led to even stronger repression of the Burschenschaftler, known as the Zweite Demagogenverfolgung. From 1832 to 1838, legal proceedings were instigated in 23 German federal states against more than 1,800 people, including at least 1,200 students and academics.61 In 1837, King Ernst Georg August of Hanover (1771–1851) dismissed ¨ seven professors in Gottingen because they had criticized his decision to abolish the constitution. This immediately unleashed student protests, which were put down with the deployment of troops.62 Both the ‘Teutons’ and the ‘Armins’, who were mostly focused on self-education, consequently had to stop their activities almost completely. The Burschenschaften thus ceased to play a central role in German unification.63 The repression of the Burschenschaften gave the traditional apolitical Landsmannschaften more scope. The most exclusive of these now developed into a ‘corps’, which codified a number of old customs from student subculture. The ‘corps’ were farbentragend (distinguished by the wearing of colours) because they wore cap, ribbon and dress in specific colours; they were also schlagend because they retained the ritual of duelling with the sword, the Mensur, in which the body was protected but the face was not. Scars on the face sustained in duels were regarded as proof of bravery. ¨ (foxes, firstEach ‘corps’, directed by a Seniorenconvent, included Fuxe year members) and Burschen (lads, older years), but it could also count on the support of the Alte Herren (former students). They gained a dominant position in the student world, not least because they were considered to be folkloristic and politically less dangerous. From the 1840s they were tacitly tolerated by the civil and academic authorities, and from 1848 they were even officially recognized.64 In 1844 the Wingolfbund, the first Protestant Christian Burschenschaft, was founded in Erlangen. Under the motto Sittlichkeit, Wissenschaft¨ lichkeit und Geselligkeit auf religioser Basis (Morality, scholarship and good company on a religious basis), similar Protestant Burschenschaften also arose elsewhere, for example in Halle (1843), Berlin (1845–46), ¨ Bonn (1846) and Gottingen (1851). After 1848 Catholic students associations were only formed as a result of the freedom of association, mostly emerging from Lesevereine (reading clubs), in Munich (Aenania, 1851), Bonn (Bavaria, 1853), Berlin (Katholischer Leseverein, 1853), and Breslau 61

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Student movements (Winfridia, 1856). More devout was the Catholic student association Unitas, set up in 1853 and (until 1887) limited to students of theology.65 The competing radical democratic line in the student world was given a fresh start at the beginning of the forties with the Progressbewegung (progress movement). It was the third phase of the Burschenschaften in which the emphasis was on social equality.66 It began in 1839–40 in ¨ Gottingen and rapidly gained support both among the Burschenschaften and among the non-incorporated students (the Finken or Wilden). Its goal was to eliminate what difference there remained between students and the citizens. They therefore opposed the ‘corps’ with its student traditions and rituals, especially the Mensur. They founded reading clubs, which became centres for political debate. Over the period 1844–46 ¨ Deutschlands Hochschulen, the first they published the Zeitschrift fur significant student journal in Germany. They reproached the university for being an instrument of government and for not fostering the Humboldtian fertile tension between Bildung and Wissenschaft. They were supported in this criticism by a number of young critical lecturers, but it encountered opposition from both the authorities and the ‘corps’. In the Habsburg Empire, particularly among the Polish, Czech, Slovak and Slav students at the University of Vienna, 1830 led to an increase in conspiratorial activities. Secret societies such as Nowa Polska (New Poland), which in 1837 joined up with the Ml
oda Sarmacja (Young Sarmatia) and its propaganda association Synowie Oczyny (Sons of the Homeland), maintained contacts with the political exiles from the wielka emigracja in Paris. They also made contact with the Slovak students around ˇ ur, ´ originating from the Evangelical Lyceum of Poszonyi Vrchovsky´ and St (Bratislava) and gave them organizational and ideological guidelines on how to expand their movement ‘Young Slovakia’. After reading the publications given to them by the left democratic Polish political exile Joachim Lelewel, the Slovak young nationalists came to the conclusion that they had to turn against feudalism and open up to the broader popular masses.67 In August 1834, this Czech–Slovak–Polish co¨ operation was formalized with the establishment in Brunn (Brno) of a secret association on the initiative of the medical student Frantiˇsek Cyril 65

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos Kampel´ık, who subsequently turned out to be the pivotal figure in the Slavic circle in Vienna. When the authorities banned all student associations in Poszonyi (Bratislava) in 1837, the Slovak student Alexander Boleslav´ın Vrchovsky´ (1812–43), founded the secret organization ´ Vzajomnost (Mutuality), which remained at the heart of the Slovak national revival until it was discovered in 1840 and its members were arrested. In the 1840s, a more moderate political line emerged under the ˇ ur ´ (1812–56), which laid the principal emphasis leadership of L’udov´ıt St on Slovak national revival, and less on social emancipation. s t u d e n t s i n r e v o l t (1845–1850) In the mid-forties, a wave of social criticism swept through Europe that was not directed solely against the Metternich system but also against interior relationships of power and ownership. It appeared to the authorities to be an international plot, principally because the critical groups such as ‘Young Italy’, ‘Young Germany’, ‘Young Poland’ and also ‘Young Finland’ found each other despite political opposition.68 They discovered ‘the social issue’, not just by reading and discussing left-wing publications, but above all because they saw with their own eyes the consequences of the economic crisis with failed harvests, winters of starvation and endemic cholera. Some then set up associations to provide social assistance to those in need, while others expressed radical criticism of the capitalist system. Most radicals dreamt of a national and socialist revolution, which would bring freedom and justice. In fact, the views of the students became more differentiated, and varying political tendencies became apparent, from left to right, reflecting the contrasts existing in society at large. In France, this change in student mentality was revealed during a ‘revolutionary funeral’.69 On 30 May 1844, Jacques Lafitte (1767–1844), the leader of the democratic movement in the 1830 Revolution, was interred. In the great crowd of the funeral procession there marched around 1,000 students and at the graveside – together with a spokesman for the workers – a student made a speech pleading for more democracy. It was the first time since the 1830s that workers and students had taken part in a demonstration together, and this happened again on 7 May 1845 at the funeral of Godefroy Cavaignac (1801–45), one of the republican leaders of the 1830 Revolution. On 8 June the first issue of the short-lived periodical ´ Les Ecoles was published, which adopted a distinct republican tone and dreamt of reorganizing the students ‘who had lost all influence’. Momentum increased as a result of the authorities’ attack on three professors 68

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Student movements of the Coll`ege de France highly regarded in student circles, Mickiewicz, Edgar Quinet (1803–75) and Jules Michelet (1798–1874). A first demonstration of support by the students for the threatened professors came in August 1845. Quinet’s dismissal, prompted by a new Minister of Education in December 1845, led to a show of solidarity in which at least 3,000 students participated, and which culminated in a brutal confrontation with the Paris police and the arrest of eleven students. Michelet observed with satisfaction what he called la jeune d´emocratie (young democracy) stir again and expressed the hope that this would change everything. The demand for modernization was also evident in Finland in the mid1840s. In Helsinki, the 1844 graduation ceremony was the last one to take place in the traditional way in Latin. The ceremonial poem that was declaimed pleaded for a future which must above all be national. It referred both to the Scandinavianism that had arisen the previous year and to Greater Finnish solidarity. At the same time it was inspired by the revolutionary ideal of liberty, which urged action. The rejection of Latin as an academic language ensued from national and social stirrings. Greater love of one’s own language was also apparent from the growing literary activity of the students and the increase in publications in Finnish. Many students became convinced that both Russian and Swedish culture held Finland in shameful slavery, and that they had to work on the liberation of ‘People, Language and Country’. In the spring of 1846, there followed a movement for the reform of student associations. If it was to turn to the people as a whole, the student community had to form a general student federation and an academic reading society, which implied the establishment of a student house with a restaurant and reading room. This would give students and intellectuals the opportunity of educating themselves by reading foreign newspapers and periodicals. These plans were put into effect both in Helsinki and in Uppsala, in Sweden. In the 1840s a new ‘student identity’ also arose in Sweden (which at that time still included Norway) and in Denmark, with an ‘external’ and an ‘internal’ face. On the ‘external’ level the influence of Scandinavianism grew. It became ‘the great vision’ of a generation of radical students. This vision contained the striving for ‘a united Scandinavia with a “modern” liberal constitution’.70 As a result, the differences of opinion between students in the Scandinavian countries that had existed up to that time disappeared and a certain mutual understanding emerged. The new vision was dubbed student radicalism and opposed by the Danish and Swedish governments. When a student congress was arranged in Uppsala in 1843, it was stopped through the arrest of the Danish participants. The second 70

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Student movements they were spontaneously followed by a mass of workers and citizens who had been waiting for them.75 The demonstration swept on to the Palais Bourbon and entered the Parliament. Further demonstrations the following day ended in the evening with the demonstrators being fired upon in the Boulevard des Capucines. On 24 February, barricades were set up. Students – fewer in number than in 1830 – were the organizers and mediators between workers, citizens and the National Guard; it was to them that the king had to tender his abdication. A provisional government proclaimed the republic, made an appeal for public order and prevented the change of regime from resulting in social upheaval.76 The enthusiasm over the revolution, which spread across the whole of Europe in March, had a contagious effect in the student world.77 Belgium already enjoyed a regime which, in principle, had been liberal since independence, but the right to vote was limited to a very small minority of the population. In 1847, a purely liberal government took over the leadership of the country for the first time with a liberal programme in which expansion of the right to vote – constituting a doubling of the electorate – was particularly spectacular. Partly for this reason, no revolutionary outburst was forthcoming in Belgium in 1848. Furthermore, anxiety over social upheaval and fear of annexation by France caused the Flemish movement to reject revolution. The Louvain student society ‘Met Tijd en Vlijt’ (With Time and Devotion) condemned the February upheaval in France, and in response to the brief rattling of weapons by French revolutionaries on the Belgian border, it sent a patriotic declaration of devotion to the Belgian prince.78 But the Belgian universities did not remain insensitive to the revolutionary atmosphere. This was most clearly noticeable in the spring of 1848 in Louvain, where out of solidarity with students elsewhere – in Vienna, Jena and Berlin – a revolt broke out for more freedom and social justice inspired by Saint-Simonism. Action to prevent this by the Louvain rector led to a petition movement opposed to the rigid authoritarian structure of the university. When this had no effect, a number of student leaders left Louvain, which they depicted as a bastion 75 76 77

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Student movements the progressive Norddeutsches Kartell, which in 1862 was joined by the related Rotes Kartell. Conservative Burschenschaften in 1861 formed the ¨ ¨ Suddeutsches Kartell, and the political centre then founded the Grunweiss-rotes Kartell. In 1852 the Christian Protestant Burschenschaften formed the Schwarzburger Verein, which only lasted for a year, but it was succeeded in 1858 by a more viable Schwarzburgbund. This was less distinctly denominational than the Wingolfbund from Erlangen, which fundamentally discarded everything considered to be in conflict with religious worship, and which from 1860 formed a federation with others of like mind. The Catholic student associations also expanded, and formed two umbrella bodies: the Cartell Verband (CV) and the Kartell Verband (KV). The participation of the three Catholic student associations from Munich, Breslau and Berlin in the General Catholic Day in 1863 signified recognition of those associations in the world of the German Catholics, but also pointed to their great integration into the Catholic network. Catholic student asso¨ ¨ ¨ ciations were also founded in Bonn, Munster, Tubingen and Wurzburg. From 1867, ‘Bonifatius associations’ for Catholic students were set up in a number of university towns. From about that time the threat from the Italian nationalists against the Papal State also led to the successful establishment of ‘Pius associations’. At the same time a new phenomenon appeared: a great many students decided to remain outside such associations. These were the Finken. Throughout these decades they made little use of the power granted by their sheer numbers, except in the Schiller year of 1859, when a true ¨ Finkenschaftsbewegung arose – especially in Gottingen, Jena and Leipzig – in which ‘black’ associations took part as well as genuine non-organized students. An attempt in 1863 to form an umbrella organization failed because of differences of opinion between the ‘black’ and ‘wild’ ones. Progressive students formed the Studentische Reformpartei, which opposed the ‘corps’, the duel and other ‘medieval’ institutions, and appeared first in Freiburg (1860–64), then in Halle (1865), Greifswald (1865), Heidelberg ¨ (1867) and Konigsberg (1867). A first attempt to give the non-organized students a voice was the establishment in 1868 of a ‘Permanent Student Committee’, first in Leipzig and later also in Berlin. This began to publish an Akademische Zeitschrift, but it did not survive 1870.99 The wave of national enthusiasm which swept through Germany in the Schiller Centenary Year, and which was boosted by the wars with Denmark (1864) and Austria (1866), fanned the commitment of students in a nationalistic direction. They put fresh wind into the sails of the Freikorps or Wehrschaften at universities.100 The face of German 99

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos nationalism became more right wing, with the democratic progressive current steadily fading. As for students who spoke other languages – specifically Polish students – the atmosphere at German universities was more tolerant in Saxony and southern and western Germany, but more restrained in Prussia and northern Germany. They were permitted a social and associative life here but only under strict control, and their activities were often restricted.101 Under the Habsburg Empire in 1849 all student associations were explicitly forbidden. When in 1857 German-speaking Austrian students organized a petition to be allowed to form a Leseverein again, the authorities refused. Although an Akademischer Sangverein (academic choral society) was founded in 1858, it was not even allowed to sing the Gaudeamus because this was regarded as politically too dangerous. In Cracow, which in the meantime had been swallowed up by Austria, a new secret political student association emerged in 1858, and this also occurred at other Polish universities. From 1859, the centennial of Schiller’s birth, student activities were tolerated to some degree. This was coupled with a revival of criticism. Students complained about the lack of consistency between formal prohibition and the actual policy of tolerance, and they criticized the traditional and closed atmosphere of Vienna University under the considerable influence of the Catholic Church. On this point they obtained the support of liberal professors. The students now demanded recognition of their civil rights, the right to petition, and a new law on association.102 In 1863, patriotism and politicization increased sharply owing to the commemoration of the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, 50 years earlier, as well as the Schleswig-Holstein question. Viennese students urged the formation of a student Freikorps and sent a message to the students at Kiel, in which they proposed the national unification of Germany as the great ideal, albeit a Greater Germany under Austrian leadership. Antipathy towards the imperialistic and militaristic Prussia under the authoritarian Bismarck even brought the students to express loyalty towards the Habsburg dynasty. Thus in 1863 Viennese students acclaimed the Austrian Emperor Franz-Joseph (1848–1916) when he returned from the ¨ Furstentage in Frankfurt. Yet the authorities did not dare to allow the celebration of 500 years of the university to be held on the anniversary date of 12 March, a date which also referred to 1848. The students nonetheless celebrated on 12 March and boycotted the later official ceremony. In 1867 a number of students sent an address to the Reichsrat, which at that time had just been re-established, in which they protested against the concordat 101 102

R´ev´esz, Jugendbewegungen (note 12), 64. Schulze and Ssymank, Studententum (note 65), 313.

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Student movements between the state and the Catholic Church. They regarded protest against the excessive influence of the Church as a continuation of the struggle of 1848, as well as their criticism of individual conservative – Catholic – professors. They in turn received the support of the Catholic student associations, which in the meantime had already expanded strongly in Germany.103 As a result of the ban on associations which was upheld until the 1860s, a consensus persisted longer in the German-speaking Austrian student world – unlike in Germany itself– over Greater Germany, and the differences between Landsmannschaften, Burschenschaften, and ‘corps’ remained minimal.104 Perhaps this consensus was also due to the emergence in the 1860s of a network of vacation groups throughout Austria that brought together during lecture-free periods students from different universities and high schools. It was not until the sixties that differences of opinion arose, firstly on the Mensur. Discussion on this began in Prague and Graz, and in 1863 also broke out in Vienna. The conservative students defended this tradition, while the progressives were against it. In 1864 a first farbentragend association – located in Innsbruck – explicitly issued a ban on the Mensur.105 In the 1860s the differences between the German-speaking students and those who spoke another language came even more clearly into the open.106 In Prague scuffles broke out for the first time between Czech and German-speaking students. The Czech students left the German federations from 1861, formed their own Czech student associations, and explicitly opposed German cultural hegemony in their periodicals. The tensions between German-speaking Hungarians and Austrians following the Austrian defeat by Prussia led to the ‘Ausgleich’ (Compromise) of 1867, which transformed the Habsburg Empire into an Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy. In the Austrian part a university reform completely legalized student associations. From this time on, there also emerged more differentiation with respect to the political orientation of student associations. In Vienna, the federation ‘Markomannia’ explicitly renounced the name Burschenschaft. The Viennese ‘Saxonia’ and two associations in Graz opted for an Austrian ‘corps’, which also accepted non-German-speaking students. Opposition to this came from those who aspired to the national unity 103

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¨ Heither, ‘Zwischen burgerlicher Revolution und Erstem Weltkrieg’ in Elm, Heither and ¨ ¨ ¨ Schafer (eds.), Fuxe (note 61), 66–92; Muller, Geschichte (note 15), 80; Schulze and Ssymank, Studententum (note 65), 309–12. Stimmer, ‘Mythologisierung’ (note 88), 271–7. Schulze and Ssymank, Studententum (note 65), 314–15. S. Brzozowski, ‘Le probl`eme d’´etudes polonaises en Allemagne (1860–1918)’, in Kulczykowski (ed.), P´er´egrinations (note 24), 215–28.

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos of all ethnic Germans, and these included the conservative Burschenschaften and the Akademische Lesevereine. Some of the Burschenschaften in Graz and Vienna cut themselves off from the majority, opted for the line of Bismarck, and regarded themselves – like the Viennese ‘Silesia’ – as vorgeschobene Posten der nationalliberalen Partei (vanguards of the national liberal party). On the other hand, there was also opposition from the left, from a group of Progressburschenschaften, which emphasized social-democratic reforms.107 From the time of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, the good understanding between Austrian and German stu¨ dent associations also became a thing of the past. In 1867 the Kosener Corps explicitly rejected the admission of the Austrian corps, and the German Burschenschaften later did likewise. However, the FrancoPrussian War prompted some Austrian students to vow support for their German brothers, and some even to make a – failed – attempt to join the Prussian Army as volunteers. In the mid-nineteenth century there were still around 5.5 million Italian speakers living in the Habsburg Empire, mainly in Lombardy and the Veneto, but these regions were ceded by Austria to the newly formed Italy in 1859 and 1866, respectively, including the universities of Padua and Pavia. From then on, the approximately 530,000 Italian speakers who had remained in the Habsburg Empire no longer had the option of receiving academic education in their own language within the borders of the Empire. The government tried to resolve la questione dell’universita` italiana in Austria from 1864, in Innsbruck, by having a number of classes taught in Italian and by providing a state examination in that language before a central examination committee. But against the backdrop of Italian nationalism, the Italian-speaking students found these facilities unsatisfactory and demanded a separate Italian university, because of its symbolic value. Conversely, in 1859, German students in Innsbruck formed a Freikorps (volunteer corps), which set itself the task of acting as a Schutzwache (guard) of German culture. In France, the university system during the Second Empire remained largely the way it had been since Napoleon I: a collection of separate schools and faculties that were no longer linked to each other and focused mainly on vocational training.108 The authoritarian regime of Napoleon III was fatal to intellectual freedom. There was a last and only upsurge of student protest at the Sorbonne in 1855–56, when some classes were disrupted. The authorities took stringent measures, and two professors and around ten students were sent to prison.109 Although a more liberal 107 108 109

Schulze and Ssymank, Studententum (note 65), 314–15. R. D. Anderson, Education in France, 1848–1870 (Oxford, 1975), 225–39. R. H. Guerrand, Lyc´eens r´evolt´es, e´ tudiants r´evolutionnaires au 19e si`ecle (Paris, 1969), 80–1.

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Student movements phase followed in the sixties, in which plans were made for the reform of higher education,110 the repressive line towards student dissidence was maintained. In 1865 the French representative at the international student congress in Li`ege used black flags to complain that freedom had been lost in her fatherland.111 The students involved paid for the protest with the consilium abeundi.112 The 1870–71 Commune saw very few students on the barricades, unless they were there on an individual basis. The Second Empire had succeeded in breaking the revolutionary student tradition. In Belgium, a connection was made in the 1850s and 1860s between progressivism and pro-Flemish sentiment. The student association ‘t Zal wel Gaan’ was set up at the University of Ghent in 1854, and it was influenced by the radical liberal ideas of the Soci´et´e Huet and by pro-Flemish sentiment combined with fervent anti-Catholicism.113 In the 1860s, by which time the liberals had gained political power, a powerful progressive student movement was again visible at Belgian universities. Socialism was the catalyst in Brussels, Ghent and Li`ege. At the Catholic University of Louvain the driving force was pro-Flemish commitment, which aimed at co-operation with non-Catholics and was associated with the emancipation of the Dutch-speaking middle and working classes. At international student congresses (Li`ege, 1865; Brussels, 1867; Ghent, 1868) students from Brussels, Ghent and Li`ege joined their French counterparts in setting up a socialist student international, which at that time eventually proved unsuccessful.114 The open-mindedness that had existed in the 1860s both on the Catholic and the liberal side towards co-operating on the defence of the Flemish language position barely survived the decade. In the Netherlands, the tenor in the third quarter of the nineteenth century remained one of pro-Orange sentiment, coupled with minimal social interest, at least among the majority of students. A typical comment was made by the minute-taker of the student corps in Leiden that the student congress in Li`ege in 1865 could be summed up as ‘a motion against the existence of God and the throwing of furniture’.115 There was nevertheless sympathy for socially aware writers such as Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820–87), who under the pseudonym Multatuli criticized in 1860 Dutch colonial policy in the novel Max Havelaar, and Jacob Jan Cremer 110 111 112 114

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J. Minot, Histoire des universit´es franc¸aises (Paris, 1991), 42–4. Anderson, Education (note 108), 236; Feuer, Conflict (note 42), 266. 113 Gevers, Bewogen jeugd (note 79), 40–9. Prost, Histoire (note 77), 80–2. J. Bartier ‘Etudiants et mouvement r´evolutionnaire au temps de la premi`ere internationale. Les congr`es de Li`ege, Bruxelles et Gand’, in M´elanges offerts a` G. Jacquemijns (Brussels, 1968), 35–60. Minutes of ‘Leidsch Studenten Corps’ 1874 quoted by Frank and Wiardi Beckman, Geschiedenis (note 47), 96.

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos (1827–80), who stood up for the workers.116 Multatuli found a ready audience from 1862 in the debating society Vrije Studie in Delft, and in 1867 in Utrecht. This led occasionally to radical stirrings, as when the Utrecht student corps paid tribute to Zola. The Delft corps did the same with Multatuli and banished the Wilhelmus, the Dutch National Anthem; around 1870 there was enthusiasm for liberal principles in Leiden. This indicated evolution, even in Leiden. Whereas in 1856 honorary membership of the corps was offered to Prince Willem as a matter of course, the question of whether this should be repeated in 1870 on the arrival of his younger brother, Prince Alexander, led to heated discussion.117 This did not prevent the threatening international situation at the end of the sixties (as in 1830) from prompting the formation of military student-volunteer corps, first in Leiden in 1866 under the name ‘Pro Patria’, and afterwards also at other universities.118 In Spain, a thorough reform of the universities took place between 1845 and 1857, when the Minister for Education, Claudio Moyano (1809– 90), introduced new legislation including the discipline and control of ´ Sanz del R´ıo (1814–69), in his students.119 In 1857, the rector, Julian opening address at the Central University in Madrid, explicitly urged the students to commit themselves politically, now that the traditional obstacles to doing so had been removed. Sanz del R´ıo had become acquainted with the German university system in Heidelberg in the 1840s, as well as with the philosophy of Karl Christian Friedrich Kraus (1781–1832), which he brought back to Spain and where a chair was established to teach it. In 1865, Professor Emilio Castelar (1832–99), a republican politician who strongly emphasized ‘Krausism’ in his lectures, was dismissed from this post after having expressed sharp criticism of Queen Isabel II (1830–1904). Demonstrations of solidarity by a few other professors and students culminated in clashes with the police, ultimately leading to the exclusion of a number of protesting students and professors, among them Sanz del R´ıo and Fernando de Castro (1814–74). In September 1868 a revolution broke out that sent Queen Isabel II into exile and brought the proclamation of the (First) Republic. The dismissed professors were restored to their posts and Fernando de Castro was installed as rector of the university. In 1873 Emilio Castelar became President of the Republic. 116

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A lecture by Cremer in a student circle in the University of Leiden (see Brom, De omkeer [note 47], 89), was published as a booklet entitled Fabriekskinderen een bede, doch niet om geld (Schoorl, 2nd edn, 1988). He also wrote Betuwsche Novellen en een reisgezelschap (Leiden s.d., several reprints) and Distels in’t weiland: Over-Betuwsche Novellen (Leiden, 1865). Brom, Omkeer (note 47), 92. Frank and Wiardi Beckman, Geschiedenis (note 47), 95. ˜ Mancebo, ‘Estudiantes’ (note 10); cf. Peset, Universidad Espanola, ch. xviii: 1857, la ley Moyano 461–90; ch. xviii: El Estudiante burgu´es 525–50.

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Student movements These were the golden years of ‘Krausism’, in which students and professors became politically aware and drew up plans for a reform of the university, which came to nothing. The monarchy was restored in 1875. In Russia, the discovery in 1849 of a secret socialist circle in St Petersburg gave rise to a stricter disciplining of students.120 In Helsinki, as a result of a change in the terms of admission, the generation of students who had undergone the change from ‘idealistic’ to ‘materialistic’ was purged.121 The students would henceforth have to wear a uniform daily and were prohibited from growing a beard. A student-inspector, equated to the level of professor, had to supervise the behaviour of the students with the assistance of six beadles. Specifically for Finland, students from the law faculty who were to enter public service were obliged to follow Russian throughout their training. The new statutes came into effect in January 1853, and from that year the Landsmannschaften were prohibited as hotbeds of rebellion. However, they continued to exist de facto underground, and as a result they became more radical and developed illegally into groupings with a specific political hue. The death of Tsar Nicholas I and the accession to the throne of his successor Alexander II in 1855 signified the beginning of a decade of liberal transformation in all spheres of life in Russia. It made it possible for a genuine student movement to exist. Until that time only the Polish students at the Russian universities were politicized on the basis of their national stirrings, but they avoided any fraternization with their Russian fellow students and their associations remained almost completely illegal until the 1870s.122 The new Tsar lifted the restriction on the number of students, and in principle opened the universities in Russia to students from all social classes, resulting in an increase in the number of students from 5,000 in 1859 to 8,045 in 1880. He also made it possible to go abroad to study again and relaxed the censorship on the purchase of foreign books. Military discipline and the obligation for students to wear a uniform were abolished.123 At the same time, student association life expanded. The lowest structural framework for this was offered by the Zemliachestva, associations which brought together students of the same regional origin and which aimed at mutual material and moral support; to some extent these were comparable to the German Landsmannschaften. In addition, students of the same ideological inspiration found one another in krushki, circles with ten to twenty members. Unique to St Petersburg among these was 120 121 122 123

Burg, Encyclopedia (note 21), 155. ¨ Helsinki, 399–404, 414, 423–5, 537. Klinge, Universitat Kassow, Students Tsarist Russia, 3; Brzozowski, ‘Probl`eme d’´etudes’ (note 106); figures on the nineteenth century in Dudkowa, ‘Etudes’ (note 24), 229–46, 242. Feuer, Conflict (note 42), 113; Kassow, Students Tsarist Russia, 16.

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos the Kassa Vzaimopomoshchi, an association for self-help and mutual support that aimed to supply cheap meals and accommodation, eventually growing into a central umbrella organization with representatives from all kinds of circles. A formal and informal student infrastructure also grew at other universities, with libraries, reading clubs, institutions for financial assistance, co-operatives and labour offices, and all kinds of self-help associations.124 Polish students formed comparable Bratniaki or Bratnie ´ (‘Student Pomocy (officially: Towarzystwa Bratniej Pomocy Studentow Societies of Brotherly Assistance’)), which devoted themselves to student interests but which, after the revival of academic life in Poland, adopted a political stance as time went on.125 A new tradition was the skhodka, a general student meeting where common questions and interests were discussed and the style of which appeared to refer to the egalitarianism of the free peasant communities. The skhodki became the starting point for a whole network of representative umbrella bodies, discussion groups and student periodicals, in which the atmosphere of direct democracy prevailed. The notion of a specific mission for the studentchestvo or student community grew, together with the rejection of self-centred ‘philistinism’ and a bourgeois-mentality.126 This new student self-image and awareness of a student mission was enhanced by a new literary intelligentsia. It was called raznochinnia (literally ‘people of different classes’), and it believed in rational research by the natural sciences, in simple and sincere human relations, and in a society based on reason instead of exploitation and oppression.127 At the end of the 1850s, in Kazan, students demanded the dismissal of incompetent professors and, in Moscow in 1857, the punishment of police officers who had beaten up some students.128 Students also took part in the discussion on the abolition of serfdom, which had in fact been lifted in 1861. In this area they maintained a good understanding with Polish and Finnish students. After the secret police had murdered a Polish student in Warsaw on 15 February 1861, students from St Petersburg, Moscow and Kiev organized mourning for the murdered student in March 1861, followed by demonstrations.129 The alarmed Russian Government tried to get a grip on the university again. New university statutes provoked student protests, first in St Petersburg in September and October 1861, leading to hundreds of arrests and to the closure of the university. When it reopened two years 124 125 126 128

Morrissey, Heralds (note 4), 30; Burg, Encyclopedia (note 21), 232; Kassow, Students Tsarist Russia, 77–87. C. Wankel, Anti-Communist Student Organizations and the Polish Renewal (Houndmills, 1992), 7. 127 Ibid., 22. Morrissey, Heralds (note 4), 20–3. 129 R´ev´esz, Jugendbewegungen (note 12), 14–16. Feuer, Conflict (note 42), 127–9.

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Student movements later, it numbered 265 students instead of the 1,442 it had in 1861.130 Also in September and October 1861, Moscow was in turmoil with a petition signed by 500 students, arrests and even a clash with the police, whereby several students were killed, 340 arrested and 29 received prison sentences. The same pattern applied in Kazan and Kharkov.131 To remove the dissatisfaction prevailing at the universities, the government issued new university statutes on 30 June 1863, thereby restoring the autonomy that the universities had enjoyed between 1804 and 1861.132 The professors received more power again and were allowed to choose the rector, nominate colleagues, and supervise the students, who continued to be prohibited from forming skhodki or organizing themselves. However, these measures did not bring back the hope for calm in the student world. Also in the part of Poland controlled by Russia, the accession of the new Tsar Alexander II in 1855 meant a change in climate.133 From 1857 Poles were allowed to become civil servants again, in 1858 secondary education could use Polish as the language of instruction, and a Polish medical academy was opened in Warsaw. In this new climate there was a revival of secret Polish circles at the Russian universities, which established contacts with the e´ migr´es. In Kiev Polish students made up four-fifths of the total student population; they tried to introduce the Polish language into the university, but this met with opposition from the Ukrainian students.134 In Warsaw, in March 1861, demonstrations against the insufficiently farreaching regulations on the abolition of serfdom were broken up by the use of firearms, leaving five dead. This led to a united Polish front of soldiers, peasants, workers, aristocrats and clerics against the Russian authorities. It met with further repression until, in the spring of 1862, the Tsar relaxed his position again and reopened Warsaw university under the ´ name of Szkol
a Gl
owna (Main School). But new suppression afterwards resulted in further radicalization. The government’s decision to call up all young men for army service by conscription was the proverbial last straw. The uprising broke out in Warsaw on 22 January 1863. Students of the new medical academy and of the academy of fine arts were among the first conspirators. Their leader was the student Stefan Bobrowski (1841–3) and his committee initially also acted as a provisional government.135 The revolution, the largest Polish uprising in the nineteenth century in terms of the number of people involved and its duration, spread to Lithuania and the Ukraine. Cracovian left-wing students formed the breeding ground 130 131 133 134 135

Feuer, Conflict (note 42), 128; Burg, Encyclopedia (note 21), 169–70. 132 Kassow, Students Tsarist Russia, 27–8. Feuer, Conflict (note 42), 128–9. Vos, Strijd (note 35), 145–52; P. S. Wandycz, The Lands of Partitioned Poland. 1795– 1918 (Seattle, 1974), 155–79. Dudkowa, ‘Etudes’ (note 24), 236; Wandycz, Lands (note 133), 159–60. Wandycz, Lands (note 133), 171–3.

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos for the elaboration of a programme which was adopted in the last phase of the revolution, when the ‘red’ Romuald Traugutt (1826–64) became its leader from October 1863 until his arrest and execution in April 1864.136 Russian policy following the uprising was highly repressive against the Polish clergy and intelligentsia.137 At least 400 people were executed after being put on trial, thousands were deported to Siberia, and several thousand estates of Polish aristocrats were confiscated. All separately existing Polish institutions were eliminated, the name ‘Congress Poland’ was replaced by ‘Vistulaland’, and the province, divided into districts, was governed entirely in Russian by a Russian governor-general. Education ´ was also Russified. The Polish Szkol
a Gl
owna was abolished in 1869 and replaced by the Russian Imperial University of Warsaw. At all Russian universities the number of Polish students fell sharply. The failure marked the end of the Romantic Polish tradition of uprisings. The United Kingdom paved the way for the modernization that went hand in hand with the industrial revolution, while remaining a bulwark of traditionalism owing to the continuing existence of many medieval institutions, despite their gradual transformation. In the period covered so far, there was no student movement such as the one that took place on the Continent. This was primarily due to the university system of Oxford and Cambridge, which neither served as places for the education of a professional elite, nor as centres of scientific research. Until the 1870s ‘Oxbridge’ held on to a classical and purely scientific ‘liberal education’. This spared Great Britain ‘the overproduction of an underpaid and underemployed university graduate class which helped to fuel Continental revolutionary movements’.138 ‘Extra-curricular’ student life in the two old universities was strongly governed by the college system, around which a pattern of competitive sporting events (boat races and cricket matches) developed in the first half of the nineteenth century as an expression of the ‘college spirit’. There was little room in this milieu for social problems outside the university. The French attack on Prussia provoked by Bismarck in 1870 caused the German students to close ranks in a spirit of national enthusiasm. In all the university towns, students of the ‘corps’, the Burschenschaften, Landsmannschaften, ‘Wingolf’ or other denominational associations demonstrated together until deep into the night. In many places they volunteered, sometimes collectively, as in Halle where they reported to the local barracks, marching behind the banner, or in Braunschweig, where all the polytechnic students of the machine department served in the Kriegsmarine. 136 137 138

´ R. F. Leslie (ed.), The History of Poland since 1863 (Oxford, 1980), 11; Bobinska, ‘G´en´erations’ (note 73), 143. Tazbir, Zaris Historii Polski (note 32), 491–2; Wandycz, Lands (note 133), 193–6. M. Sanderson, The Universities in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1975), 4.

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Student movements In Heidelberg, the students asked Heinrich von Treitschke (1834–96) for a farewell message before marching on France. He obliged and ended his message with the sentence that Fichte had spoken in Berlin in 1813: ‘Nicht siegen oder sterben, sondern siegen schlechtweg!’ (‘Not victory or death, but only victory!’). In Leipzig the anti-Prussian feelings of public opinion were strongest and the newspapers asked scornfully whether the Saxons would now have to give their lives for the Prussian King. In reaction, the students marched in massive numbers through the streets and everywhere seized the critical newspapers from caf´es and kiosks and burned them. They then sent an address signed by 800 students to the King of Prussia to prove their loyal devotion and dedication to the German fatherland. They also sent a call to the Austrian students to lend their support to the fight against France in the name of German culture.139 The war had a great impact on German student life. A remarkably high number of students fought, though not in separate ‘Freikorps’ as during the war of liberation against Napoleon. Of the 13,765 students registered for the summer term of 1870–71 in Germany, 4,510 or one-third were soldiers, of whom 248 perished. In a number of places close cooperation developed between the student-soldiers at the front and students on the ‘home front’. This was the case, for example, in the Berlin student association Motiv, which brought together students from the architecture academy, and in Leipzig, where in the winter of 1870–71 a new student association sent newspapers and periodicals to the 60 or 70 fellow students in the field.140 c o n s o l i d a t i o n a n d a n t i - l i b e r a l i s m (1870–1885) With the demise of the Paris Commune, the liberal tide abated in Europe and old and new nation states alike looked to install more rigid internal coherence. In the bourgeois democracies of Western Europe and in Germany, a calm period generally ensued from a political point of view with respect to the student movement. Students seemed to exhibit little social commitment, although a political option lay at the root of this attitude: they had gathered behind their nation and wanted to strengthen and secure the institutions and existence of their fatherland. This unity was nevertheless threatened by ideological and national differences in some countries. Conflict between nations occurred among students in the Danube Monarchy, while Russian students tried with difficulty to escape from the grip of autocracy. The university landscape perhaps underwent more thorough changes in France than in any other Western European country. The establishment 139

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos of the Third Republic in 1875 did not just create a new political situation but also a new policy in relation to higher education. France at the end of the nineteenth century witnessed ‘the birth of the student in Arts and Sciences’ and the rebirth of the universities.141 The reform also contained an approach to the German university model, with its focus on Bildung and scientific research in seminaries and laboratories.142 The condition d’´etudiant changed as a result of these reforms and the substantial rise in student numbers: university students now enjoyed a separate social status, alongside the jeunesse des e´ coles, and for the first time a specific student associative life in France developed. As a result, France caught up with countries such as Germany to some extent. After the consolidation of the Third Republic, the government considered it important to promote social integration and to bridge social differences through higher education. Student associations were now regarded as instruments of socialization. A first student association was set up in Nancy in 1876, and in 1888 there already existed fifteen such associations in France. The best known was the Association g´en´erale des e´ tudiants, set up in Paris in 1884 and soon known simply as the ‘A’. One year later it already had 400 members. The association was patronized and in the longer term also financially supported by the academic and political authorities. The ‘A’ seemed to them to be the ideal place where links could be forged between members of the elite who would govern the country in the future and who would be capable ‘d’achever dans la d´emocratie r´epublicaine la patrie franc¸aise’ (‘of completing the French fatherland through Republican democracy’).143 The association adopted a neutral stance: it carefully avoided discussions on politics and religion. It did, however, make an effort to look after the interests of the students by establishing a students’ house, and by organizing services and recreational activities. While students in previous decades had stood on the barricades, a period of unusual calm existed in the years following the establishment of the Third Republic.144 In England the rapidly expanding civic colleges and the emerging Welsh colleges became instruments of social change and upward mobility for the middle classes. At the same time, Oxford and Cambridge underwent significant reforms so that they acquired modern characteristics and could respond better to competition from the civic colleges. They were nevertheless characterized by a distinct aristocratic spirit, and the Oxbridge 141 142 143 144

F. Mayeur, ‘Naissance de l’´etudiant en sciences et lettres a` la fin du XIXe si`ecle en France’, in Kulczykowski, Etudiants (note 73), 134–45; cf. chapter 2, 55–7. Weisz, Emergence, passim; Ringer, Education and Society, 113–31. Y. Cohen, ‘Avoir vingt ans en 1900: a` la recherche d’un nouveau socialisme’, Le mouvement social, 120 (July–September 1982), 11. G. Weisz, ‘Associations et manifestations: les e´ tudiants franc¸ais de la Belle Epoque’, Le mouvement social, 120 (July–September 1982), 31–8; Weisz, Emergence, 302–6.

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Student movements model set the norm for the civic colleges.145 A significant process of transformation also took place in student life from around 1870 due to far greater organization of the students’ leisure time.146 An extensive network of clubs and societies grew up. The ‘sporting revolution’ was particularly striking. The students had always practised sport, but it was not until around 1860 that organized sports began, following the example of the British public schools. Sport was now valued by schoolmasters and university authorities alike as a means to character building, discipline, morality, healthy competition and group solidarity. Clubs were established at the colleges for rugby, tennis, cricket, boating and other sporting activities, and from the last decades of the nineteenth century significant efforts were made to expand this sports infrastructure, which represented a further asset in attracting students.147 From the social point of view, students often still reflected the notions of the traditional prevailing elite. They invariably supported the policy of the Tories and condemned trades-union action, social measures for workers, and democratic access to the universities. They were distinctly patriotic and subscribed to the ambitions of the British nation.148 On the other hand, the universities and colleges displayed a stronger social awareness from the 1870s and 1880s. Cambridge and Oxford responded positively with the ‘University Extension’ programme, set up to cater for the demand for higher education of less privileged groups in society.149 At the Dutch universities, the corps continued to set the basic pattern for student life. They were still characterized by: ‘exclusivity, freshman years, a superior class consciousness, and a flamboyantly avowed nationalistic faith in Orange and legal authority’. Internally there was ‘a solid life of debating and young men’s clubs, in which “mores”, wanton mirth, rivalry between debating societies, and competition in the fields of sport, culture and consumption kept the group spirit alive’.150 Membership of the corps nevertheless began to crumble in the last few decades of the nineteenth century.151 This trend can be explained by a greater influx

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odzie˙zy Polskiej’ (Federation of Polish Youth, known by the name of ‘Zet’), a secret organization at university level which was set up in 1886 by Zygmunt Balicki (1858–1916).167 The student movement existing at the other Russian universities was likewise confronted with government repression. Committed students started devoting themselves to organic work, the cultural and material elevation and political awareness-raising of the peasants. From 1872 on, hundreds of students moved to the countryside as social workers, teachers and doctors. The government regarded the action as a threat and arrested almost 1,600 narodniki (populists), 525 of them were brought before the courts, and 79 condemned to exile.168 The total lack of response from the peasants to this populist crusade, however, pushed the students in the second half of the 1870s in a revolutionary direction. 164 165 166

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(Freiburg, Basle and Vienna, 1985), 494–6; G. Cholvy and Y. M. Hilaire, Histoire religieuse de la France contemporaine, vol. II: 1880/1930 (Toulouse, 1986), 166–7; Marc Sangnier et les d´ebuts du Sillon, 1894 (Paris, 1995). Weisz, Emergence, 308–14. Simon, Education (note 149), 78–85; Sanderson, Universities (note 138), 147. Hagendijk, Studentenleven (note 48), 62–8; Janssen and Voestermans, Studenten (note 172), 32–4. L. Gevers, ‘Studenten en sociale kwestie. De “Sociale Studiekring en Sprekersbond der Leuvensche Studenten” ten tijde van Leo XIII’, Onze Alma Mater, 30 (1976), 222– 4; Gevers, ‘Vlaamse studentenbeweging’ (note 153), 121–3; Gevers, Bewogen Jeugd (note 79), 201–7; Gevers and Vos, ‘Mouvement’ (note 153), 163.

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos model of harmony. Examples of such circles were the Evangelische Sozialwissenschaftliche Studentenvereinigung (Berlin, 1893) and the Catholic ¨ Sekretariat Sozialer Studentenarbeit in Monchen-Gladbach, led by Carl Sonnenschein (1876–1929). Courses were also set up for workers on the initiative of the Freistudenten. These formed a counterpart to the professional Volkshochschulkurse, the German version of ‘University Extension’ courses, which were also created during those years. The social and democratic response of German students was most successfully embodied in the Freistudentenschaft or Finkenschaft. In 1896 a Finkenschaft came into existence in Leipzig, an example that was quickly followed at other German universities. A general Deutsche Finkenschaft was set up to give a slightly more solid form to the action. The association regarded itself as representative of the totality of non-organized students and opened its ranks to everyone who wanted to join, irrespective of their political or religious convictions. The movement was organized on a democratic basis, with the general meeting as the decision-making body, and its goals were to organize educational and leisure activities and to provide social services for their largely petit-bourgeois supporters. The Finkenschaft thus joined battle with the dominant tendencies existing in the student world, namely, rigidly organized anti-democratic corporatism and anti-Semitic nationalism. All this could not prevent anti-Semitism from rapidly spreading still further among the organized student community of the German universities. A shift took place from cultural to racist anti-Semitism, so that baptized Jews were also excluded. Berlin took the lead in this process. The ‘corps’ accepted hardly any more Jews from 1880 on. In the Burschenschaft the process of exclusion took place between 1892 and 1896, against the opposition of a minority of members and former members, who regarded this as a betrayal of the liberal heritage of the movement. This conflict led to the establishment of the Reformburschenschaft in 1896. Landsmannschaften, Turnerschaft, Wissenschaftlicher Verband, Protestant and Catholic asso¨ ciations also became judenrein (free from Jews) during the course of the 1890s. The few associations that remained friendly to Jews were too weak to reverse the general trend. Self-confident Jews consequently withdrew into their own newly founded corporations or associations, and a number of them were driven to Zionism.186 In Austria around 1890, a critical generation – grouped around a literary circle of young Viennese, mainly Jewish authors – launched a wave of opposition against bourgeois liberalism. They withdrew from society and sought their salvation in aestheticism and individual artistic expression. 186

See also Grieswelle, ‘Antisemitismus’ (note 20); N. Hammerstein, Antisemitismus und ¨ deutsche Universitaten. 1871–1933 (Frankfurt, 1995).

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´ ‘Studentenorganisationen’ (note 165), 164–81. Bosak, Schulze and Ssymank, Studententum (note 65). Taylor, Habsburg (note 162), 196–7; Schulze and Ssymank, Studententum (note 65), 423. Schulze and Ssymank, Studententum (note 65), 372, 424.

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Kassow, Students Tsarist Russia, 28; Feuer, Conflict (note 42), 133. Feuer, Conflict (note 42), 134. Kassow, Students Tsarist Russia, 81–2, 87; Feuer, Conflict (note 42), 135; Burg, Encyclopedia (note 21), 6–7; Boren, Resistance (note 58), 54–5.

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Feuer, Conflict (note 42), 135; Kassow, Students Tsarist Russia, 29, 83, 85–7. ¨ Boren, Resistance (note 58), 58–9; W. Ruegg (ed.), Kulturkritik und Jugendkult (‘Neunzehnes Jahrhundert’, Forschungsunternehmen der Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung, Jahrhudertwende) (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1974). Sanderson, Universities (note 138), 207. Ibid., 21–2; Twigg, Queens’ (note 146), 259. Sanderson, Universities (note 138), 187; Marwick, ‘Youth’ (note 171), 41.

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Twigg, Queens’ (note 146), 245–6. R. D. Anderson, The Student Community at Aberdeen: 1860–1939 (Aberdeen, 1988). 209 Sanderson, Universities (note 138), 213. Marwick, ‘Youth’ (note 171), 39. ¨ For what follows on Sweden: Skoglund, Vita Mossor (note 70), 267–9. Janssen and Voestermans, Studenten (note 172), 34–5; Hagendijk, Studentenleven (note 48), 75. Hagendijk, Studentenleven (note 48), 68–73; Calj´e, ‘Studentenleven’ (note 151), 81–2. Hagendijk, Studentenleven (note 48), 74.

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Gevers, ‘Vlaamse studentenbeweging’ (note 153), 127–42; Gevers and Vos, ‘Studentenbeweging’ (note 153), 2908–10; Gevers and Vos, ‘Mouvement’ (note 153), 166. Cohen, ‘Vingt ans’ (note 143), 26–9; Weisz, ‘Associations’ (note 144), 36. E. Weber, L’Action franc¸aise (Stanford, 1962; French translation Paris, 1985), 84. Weisz, Emergence, 304–7; Weisz, ‘Associations’ (note 144), 35–44; Mayeur, ‘Naissance’ (note 141), 162–3. Mancebo, ‘Estudiantes’ (note 10).

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Jarausch, Students Imperial Germany, 363–84, 391. P. G. Altbach, ‘The International Student Movement’, Journal of Contemporary History, 5, 1 (1970), 159. Jarausch, Students Imperial Germany, 388.

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Ibid., 384–92. S. Malfer, ‘Italienische Studenten in Wien, Graz und Innsbruck 1848–1918’, in Plaschka and Mack (eds.), Wegenetz II (note 29), 183–5; Schulze and Ssymank, Studententum ¨ (note 65), 423–4; Otruba, ‘Universitaten’ (note 160), 101–4. Schulze and Ssymank, Studententum (note 65), 424, 426. ¨ ¨ in Otruba, ‘Universitaten’ (note 160), 102; G. Stourzh, ‘Die Frans-Josephs-Universitat Czernowitz, 1875–1918’, in Plaschka and Mack (eds.), Wegenetz I (note 161), 54–9. Schulze and Ssymank, Studententum (note 65), 424–5.

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233 Ibid., 149–51. Melik and Vodopivec, ‘Intelligenz’ (note 94), 147–8. This and following paragraphs on Russia are based on Kassow, Students Tsarist Russia, 141–51.

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos as freedom of speech, freedom of the press and of association, the right to strike, the introduction of the eight-hour working day, and the holding of a constitutional meeting. It was an attempt to synthesize the academic and political points of view prevailing in the student movement. A wave of strikes and demonstrations against the reform proposals of the government broke out in the first few months of 1902. A heavily attended banned student meeting at the University of Moscow in February 1902 passed a resolution in favour of the political reform demands referred to above. The political authorities saw in this a signal that the student movement had become more dangerous than ever and acted accordingly. Many students ended up in prison and were sent into exile in Siberia, but they were given an amnesty after a few months when the government also relaxed the university regulations. But the students, partly influenced by their contacts in Siberia with left-wing dissidents, were nonetheless propelled in the direction of politicization. At a national student meeting in Odessa in November 1903, which was attended by delegates from St Petersburg, Kharkov, Moscow, Odessa, Riga and Kiev, social democratic and social revolutionary students once more marked out new lines for the Russian student movement of the future: it had to consist of political factions serving the objectives of the major revolutionary parties, as well as acting as the young people’s organization of those parties. This idea found support at the universities: the general student councils were replaced by what were known as student coalition councils, on which the various party political student groupings were represented. Many students were nevertheless not willing to comply with these plans. A joint demonstration of workers and students in November 1904 failed dismally. The Russo-Japanese War (February 1904–September 1905) and ‘Bloody Sunday’ (22 January 1905, the massacre by troops in St Petersburg of hundreds of unarmed workers wanting to present a petition to the Tsar) brought new challenges for the student movement. After the war broke out, the initially moderately patriotic mood among the students rapidly changed to one of opposition to the government and the war. The response to ‘Bloody Sunday’ was vehement and bitter. In February 1905, a decision was taken in the institutions of higher education to hold a student strike lasting until 1 September, when the situation would be reassessed. Unlike the large demonstrations of 1899, 1901 and 1902, this strike was not just aimed at reforming university policy but was now also closely related to fundamental political reforms and the establishment of a constitutional assembly. The professors also began to express their dissatisfaction over autocracy. They were able to obtain temporary measures from the government which were issued on 27 August 1905 and granted greater autonomy to the universities. The government appeared 332

Student movements to be bringing the situation back under control in that same month by concluding a peace treaty with Japan and announcing the election of a duma with an advisory character. The universities nevertheless played a crucial role in unleashing the revolutionary wave of October 1905. On 1 September 1905, it was decided at an all-Russian student congress to end the strike and to make the reopened universities the basis for the fight against the government, using the lecture halls for political education. By the end of September, the universities had grown into places for political meetings, to which workers streamed in increasing numbers. Older professors tried to call a halt to the meetings under the threat of closing the university altogether. But a greater threat came from outside: universities and students became the target of attacks by counter-revolutionary gangs. The country was further paralyzed by the strike of railway workers that broke out on 13 October 1905. The government then decided to close the universities and on 17 October issued a manifesto in which the prospect of more freedom and the formation of a constitutional monarchy was held out. This failed to bring the unrest in the country to an end: instead there followed an orgy of violence, with leftwing demonstrations for further reforms and right-wing pogroms against intellectuals, students and especially Jews. The universities would remain closed until September 1906. When they reopened, they were found to have undergone significant transformation as a result of the revolution. The curriculum became more flexible, the number of registrations almost doubled, and the obstacles to the admission of Jews and women were practically eliminated. The character of the student movement changed during the period from 1906 to 1908. It continued verbally to profess its alliance with the revolutionary movement, but it focused its attention again on action favouring its own corporative interests. Student associations such as the regional zemliachestva made efforts to obtain study grants, control over student restaurants, and employment for students. In addition, numerous consumer and credit co-operatives for students were created. Despite this apolitical turn in the student movement, the universities were hard pressed during those years of the counter-revolutionary crusade, which the government now launched. In 1907, general student organizations were prohibited and student meetings were put under police supervision. When the students submitted to this decision without major protest, the government went further in a systematic policy to subjugate the universities: in 1908, the relative autonomy provided for in the rules of August 1905 was terminated and the repressive statutes of 1884 reinstated. The catalyst for a renewal of student unrest was the death on 7 October 1910 of the writer Leo Tolstoy, for whom students throughout the country organized spontaneous commemorative ceremonies, holding 333

Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos demonstrations in honour of the deceased author and approving resolutions for the abolition of the death penalty. Although these student demonstrations were not targeted at revolutionary objectives, the government saw them as presaging a new revolutionary wave. It reacted in an unnecessarily tough manner, with severe punishment for those who had taken part in the demonstrations, and with a circular, dated 11 January 1911, according to which student meetings were only permitted outside the university campuses, thereby facing the constant threat of police action. A wave of strikes spread throughout the universities, which helped to further sour the relationship between the government and the universities. Many professors resigned or were transferred by the government. The student unrest persisted until the war. Ideologically, student professionalism and a focus on economic and material student interests nevertheless continued to be decisive in the student movement. With the great increase in student numbers (there were more than 100,000 university students in 1914) and over-populated universities (particularly in Moscow and St Petersburg), competition for accommodation and study grants became ever greater. The events taking place in Russia influenced both Vistulaland, the part of Poland controlled by Russia, and Galicia, the Polish region in AustriaHungary. When the Russian Revolution of 1905 broke out, workers in Vistulaland started a general strike movement, which was joined by the intelligentsia, teachers, university students and secondary school pupils. The principal aim of this boycott of education, which spread over the whole of Congress Poland, was the reintroduction of Polish as a language of instruction, the reappointment of the dismissed Polish teachers, and the abolition of the police system in the schools. The repressive government measures that followed led to the closure of the University of Warsaw as well as many secondary schools, and to the exclusion and arrest of many young students. Higher education had to be continued temporarily in secret in the clandestine ‘flying university’, transformed from 1906 into the ‘Society of Scientific Courses’, which would play a significant role in the reopening of a Polish university after the occupation of Warsaw by the Germans in 1915. At the same time a massive emigration of young people took place from Congress Poland to other universities, ´ especially Cracow and Lemberg (Lwow), which consequently developed even more into centres of Polish intellectual life during this period. Cracow and Lemberg in 1905 were held in thrall by a radical, social and freedom-minded movement. Workers, teachers and students organized demonstrations and strikes to support their suppressed fellow nationals in Russian Poland, together with the expansion of suffrage, social reforms and changes in the Galician school system towards democratization, laicization and equality for women. In Prussian Poland there was no Polish 334

Student movements university, and the development of a separate Polish scientific life had to battle against the heavy pressure of Germanization.235 Finland, as a Grand Duchy, enjoyed a different position within the Russian Empire. From the reign of Alexander II it had developed more clearly into a separate state. The Alexander University in Helsingfors the only university in the country, played a key role in this ‘Finnish Question’. The presence of Swedish and Finnish language communities in Finland made the situation even more complex. With the appointment of Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikoff (1839–1904) as Governor-General of Finland in 1898, a more repressive policy towards Finland was ushered in, aimed at binding the Grand Duchy ever more tightly to the Russian ‘fatherland’.236 The students combined their forces against this new Finland policy. In February 1899, they drew up a ‘great address’, in which they wished to communicate to the Tsar the nationalist aspirations of the Finnish people. They went into the countryside with this manifesto and were able to collect more than 500,000 signatures. At the same time, an offensive to develop the people began with renewed vigour. Courses were held in the villages to teach the population to read and write, and social assistance was organized. This social action bore a somewhat conservative stamp, because there was also a wish to warn the population against Communist and anarchist ‘aberrations’. It was nevertheless a constant source of friction between the university authorities and the Russian governor-general, to the extent that the university was forced to prohibit these student meetings. On 16 June 1904, Bobrikoff became the victim of a terrorist attack by Finnish dissidents from Stockholm. The end of the ‘repressive’ Bobrikoff policy brought new differences of opinion to light in Finnish society. The ‘Swedish Party’, which had representatives in the Finnish convention among the aristocrats and the bourgeoisie, now hoped – in line with the constitutionalists – for a return of the ‘lawful relations’ of before 1899 and hence for a restoration of its class privileges and Finnish autonomy. Old and Young Finns, in contrast, aspired to the democratic and social reforms of Finnish society, both for the impoverished peasant population and for the industrial proletariat. This democratic turn was evident from the start of 1905 in the Finnish student movement and focused on agitation against the class system and the introduction of universal suffrage. When Finnish workers joined the Russian wave of strikes in October 1905, the students decided 235

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Student movements In the remaining pre-war years, Finland, like the other Scandinavian countries, came under the thrall of German cultural imperialism with its race and power ideology, in which the struggle between ‘Slavs’ and ‘Teutons’ was central. Out of opposition to the exaggerated Russification policy, it was also directed more firmly towards Sweden. Swedish-speaking students from around 1912 took a Swedish-German line and compared the inferior racial characteristics of the ‘Finnish-speaking masses’ with the superior racial features of the Swedes. But Finnish student associations were also aiming for better contacts with Swedish students with a panGermanic orientation and found the ideals of readiness for action and personal sacrifice appealing in light of the impending war. The war commenced with the assassination of the pretender to the Austrian throne in June 1914 by the Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip (1895–1918). Bosnian Slav nationalism had grown strongly after 1900 and took on aggressive forms particularly after the annexation of BosniaHerzegovina by Austria in 1908. The new generations spawned the Mlada Bosna movement (‘Young Bosnia’), which distanced itself from parliamentary and legal forms of opposition to Austro-Hungarian dominance. In contrast, Bosnian students at the universities of Belgrade, Zagreb and Vienna, together with secondary school pupils, were inspired by Russian revolutionary ideas and the terrorism of the Russian student movement. They organized themselves into the ‘Serbo-Croat Nationalist-Radical Youth’ and established protest publications in various cities. They also formed terrorist groups or left school or university to join distinctly military revolutionary organizations such as the ‘Black Hand’ (actual name: Ujedinjenje Ili Smr, ‘Unity or Death’), which was set up in 1911. Following the lead of Russian students, Bosnian students carried out attacks on Austrian administrators. The repressive response of the Austrian authorities provided the nationalist movement with martyrs and spurred on the terrorist campaign even further. In 1912, several bloody clashes took place between young people and police at the University of Agram (Zagreb) and in Sarajevo, followed by a general strike in Bosnian schools. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 was the culmination of this spiral of Bosnian nationalist youth violence.237 a w o r l d s a f e f o r d e m o c r a c y ? (1919–1939) After the war, there was a revival of student organizations and student movements at all universities in Western and Central Europe. They offered an answer to the challenges posed by post-war social problems, for which 237

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Student movements by Communist students in France to establish a left-wing front around Clart´e failed, and the Union f´ed´erale des e´ tudiants which was then set up, had very little autonomy of its own in relation to Moscow.242 Until the mid-thirties, the Communists avoided all collaboration with the nonCommunist left-wing camp of the socialist Ligue d’action universitaire r´epublicaine et sociale. This did not happen until the idea of a left-wing front against Fascism became dominant both in Moscow and among the students and a Front universitaire antifasciste was created. In Great Britain,243 the National Union of Students was established in 1922,244 like the UNEF adopting an apolitical stance, and in the twenties it did not succeed in creating a ‘corporate social conscience’ among the students.245 However, international pacifism provided the basis for a more left-wing stance on the part of a number of active students. The movement experienced an upsurge in the first half of the twenties, depoliticization in the second half of the twenties and radicalization from around 1933, when pacifism revived. This was then not restricted to the university world, and linked the problems of ‘peace, freedom and social justice’ to anti-Fascism. From the concerns of pacifism there emerged a great interest in the League of Nations in the twenties, manifested in all kinds of new student associations and clubs, and enthusiastic involvement in the international umbrella organization, the Conf´ed´eration Inter´ nationale des Etudiants (CIE).246 This pacifism was combined for a number of students with sympathy for Communism,247 and the right-wing suspected a Communist conspiracy behind every action. The universities where students adopted the most radical stance, and where the emphasis was on the new left-wing student movement, were surprisingly Cambridge, Oxford, the London School of Economics and, at the end of the thirties, also University College and Bedford College in London. All this formed the background to the noted ‘Oxford Pledge’, a resolution passed by the students in the Oxford Union on 9 February 1933 by 275 votes to 153, with the statement that came as a complete surprise to public opinion that ‘this house will under no circumstances fight for 242 243 244 245

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Frank and Wiardi Beckman, Geschiedenis (note 47), 209–11. Vrankrijker, Vier eeuwen (note 47), 344–5. Hagendijk, Studentenleven (note 48), 75; P. J. Knegtmans, Een kwetsbaar centrum van de geest. De universiteit van Amsterdam tussen 1935 en 1950 (Amsterdam, 1998), 33. P. A. J. Calj´e, ‘Continu¨ıteit en discontinu¨ıteit in de studentencultuur van de twintigste eeuw. Studentencultuur als jeugdcultuur’, in K. van Berkel and F. R. H. Smit (eds.), Een universiteit in de twintigste eeuw. Opstellen over de Rijsksuniversiteit Groningen. 1914–1999 (Groningen, 1999), 11–66, esp. 20–1. Vrankrijker, Vier eeuwen (note 47), 356–8. Frank and Wiardi Beckman, Geschiedenis (note 47), 217–18. A. Droeve, ‘Studentenraad’, in Studenten (note 152), 119. Hagendijk, Studentenleven (note 48), 76–7; Calj´e, ‘Continu¨ıteit’ (note 257), 23–4. Vrankrijker, Vier eeuwen (note 47), 359–61. Vos, ‘Dietse studentenbeweging’ (note 215), table 2, 468: 1930 figures for Utrecht: only Utrecht, Groningen and Leiden brought together less than 10 per cent of the students. See also, Van Hees, ‘Studentenbeweging’ (note 215), 34–52, figures 48–9. Vos, ‘Dietse studentenbeweging’ (note 215), table 1, 467; Van Hees, ‘Studentenbeweging’ (note 215), 34–52.

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Student movements of the discussion on Fascism and new order and the attraction of radical right-wing groupings. In 1921, an apolitical national union of students also came into being ¨ ˚ in Sweden, the SFS (Sveriges Forenade Studentkarer – National Swedish Union of Students).264 The left-wing student movement experienced an upsurge in the twenties under the influence of the Clart´e movement. It rejected both Fascism and Marxism-Leninism and adhered to democracy, in which it saw a role set aside for intellectuals as ‘social engineers’, who had to borrow their ‘tools’ from the emerging social sciences and eugenics, which was principally developed by the state institute for racial biology established in 1921 at the University of Uppsala.265 Conservative and radical right-wing student associations peppered with anti-Semitism gained a following. A shift from conservatism to Fascism proved particularly successful among students who were preparing for a career in the civil service. This alarmed the social-democrat politicians of the time, who from 1932 were in power in coalition with the Agrarian Party, and who would remain in power for 44 more years. They therefore tried to conceal their socialist signature as much as possible, and to portray themselves as a left-of-centre party. The social-democratic student associations also dropped Marxism and tried to make themselves acceptable to future civil servants. The followers of Clart´e, including a good number of Communists, naturally regarded this as a betrayal of the socialist ideal. Some older student associations joined the Swedish student branch of the social-democratic Second International.266 The government then attracted many former students from radical circles into government service, a process which continued in the forties and which, in the fifties, led to many of them ending up in top positions and helping to shape the post-war Swedish welfare state.267 In the newly independent Finland, Finnish and Swedish were in principle put on an equal footing as official languages in the 1919 Constitution, so that the bilingualism of the university in existence before the war was continued.268 This led to a language battle in the student world, which remained the most significant point of dispute in the inter-war period, all the more so because, as a result of the Fennicization of secondary education since the start of the twentieth century, increasing numbers of Finnish-speaking students were enrolling.269 The dispute focused not just 264 265

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v o¨ l k i s c h e r n a t i o n a l i s m (1919–1939) In Germany, the student movement bore all the marks of the after-effects of the First World War.273 After November 1918, the 22 German universities received a real influx of students and consequently faced a structural crisis, with the characteristic features of massification of the institution,274 proletarization of the students, and unemployment.275 The student movement responded with the Studentenhilfe initiative for student jobs and student accommodation, and organized a say in student matters by form¨ ing Allgemeine Studentenausschusse (ASta) through elections; these, like their umbrella organization, the Deutsche Studentenschaft (DSt) established in June 1919,276 were recognized by the civil authorities as being representative.277 Unlike in France or England, the student umbrella organizations did not restrict themselves to ‘representation’ but also called upon the students to serve the German nation.278 The DSt adopted an 273

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos ‘Alldeutsche’ stance, with the intention of representing not just the students of the Weimar Republic but all German-speakers, including those in other countries. From the outset there were differences of opinion on the political direction the nation should take. A small minority of students in 1918 opted for the left, particularly in Munich, where they gathered around the pacifist student veteran Ernst Toller (1893–1939), who in April 1919 supported the revolution which briefly turned Bavaria into a soviet republic. Most students, on the other hand, opted for right-wing nationalism, feeling that the chaos in Germany was caused by Jews and reds,279 and believing in the ‘stab in the back’ legend as the cause of the ‘humiliation’ of Versailles.280 When the revolution was quashed, this was done by the ‘Freikorps’, which also included right-wing students,281 and the right-wing Bavarian Government which then came to power continued to use students in paramilitary formations until 1923.282 In March 1920, a large number of Berlin students lent their support to the Kapp Putsch, an attempt to overthrow the republic through a coup d’´etat and to restore the Kaiserreich.283 But when, in response to this, left-wing revolutionary uprisings broke out in Thuringia and the Ruhrgebiet, many students on the basis of a nationalist anti-left reflex re-examined the question of government and army command to help put them down.284 When Marburg students on 25 March 1920 shot fourteen captured workers in Bad Thal, the Prussian Government banned the students from undertaking any more military action, although they did continue to exist illegally. Many students were attached to the radically anti-Semitic Schutz- und Trutzbund, which – until it was closed down by the government because of terrorist activities – had around 200,000 members. ‘A philosophical leaning to militarism seems to have predisposed many student veterans to paramilitary activities.’285 More significant than the paramilitary predisposition was the ideolog286 ¨ ical shift to a right-wing nationalism which called itself volkisch. This term referred to a body of thought in which race and being united by blood 279

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Student movements were regarded as the basis of the German identity, and which was linked to ¨ anti-Semitism. The volkisch current dreamt of a revolution which would genuinely make the Volksgemeinschaft the bearer of the nation, rejected the previous empire that was blamed for the German defeat and aimed to bring about the Third Reich – after the title of a book, published in 1923 by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876–1925).287 This Reich, held aloft ¨ by a people which had become a nation, would be a true volkische Staat, ¨ in which the Fuhrerprinzip would replace parliamentary government. ¨ The impetus for this volkisch nationalist movement among the students was provided by the Hochschulring Deutscher Art (later Deutscher Hochschulring), founded in Berlin in June 1919 by student veterans, which was joined by most of the pre-war student associations.288 As a ‘movement’ it spread rapidly throughout Germany, with the vagueness of the programme leading to internal rivalry between three political groupings; around 1922, these could be described as the Young Conser¨ vatives, who were distinctly volkisch and who were strongest in Berlin, the Conservatives, who were based on the old corps and set the tone in many local student communities, and finally the paramilitary, extreme ¨ volkisch group centred in Bavaria, which was associated with the ‘Freikorps’ tradition and in which National Socialists also played a role. This third tendency set the tone of the Ring journal, Deutsche Akademische Stimmen.289 The most significant forum at which the Hochschulring and others tried to push the student movement in a particular direction was the annual Deutsche Studententag (German Student Day). Since the first one con¨ vened in Wurzburg in 1919, there had been heated discussion as to who could be counted as belonging to the Deutsche Studentenschaft (DSt). It was unanimously agreed that foreign non-German-speaking students did not belong, but discussion centred on the question of whether – as the Austrian students demanded – the Jews should be excluded. The differ¨ ences between the liberal republicans and the volkisch racist nationalists ¨ were dealt with in a compromise solution in Gottingen in 1920, but from ¨ 1921 this led to a struggle for predominance in the DSt which the volkisch racist nationalists achieved in 1924.290 The national umbrella organizations of Poland and Czechoslovakia did not recognize the claims of the 287 288 289 290

J. Schwarz, Studenten in der Weimarer Republik. Die deutsche Studentenschaft in der Zeit von 1918 bis 1923 und ihre Stellung zur Politik (Berlin, 1971), 379. Zorn, ‘Politics’ (note 277), 299; Leisen, ‘Ausbreitung’ (note 277), 57; Schwarz, Studenten (note 287), 168–74; Burg, Encyclopedia (note 21), 96. Steinberg, Sabers (note 273), 49–60. Jarausch, Students Imperial Germany, 145–6. Report on the growing differences of opinion during the student days in Schwarz, Studenten (note 287), 223–76; Leisen, ‘Ausbreitung’ (note 277), 38–65.

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¨ internationale Freundschaft nach dem Ersten Batowski, ‘Die Studentenvereine fur Weltkrieg am Beispiel Polens und der Tschechoslowakei’, in Plaschka and Mack (eds.), Wegenetz II (note 29), 55. Around 1929 a new – more democratic – umbrella organization was created, the ‘Deutsche Studentenverein’, with which Czech and Polish students were able to reach a compromise; however, this association became marginal in the German student world, and it disappeared in 1933. See various case studies, including for the first ‘brown’ university, Erlangen: M. Franze, Die Erlanger Studentenschaft, 1918–1945 (Wurzburg, 1972); W. Kreutzberger, ¨ Studenten und Politik 1918–1933. Der Fall Freiburg im Breisgau (Gottingen, 1972); G. Mergner, ‘La mobilisation national-socialiste parmi les e´ tudiants allemands’, Le mouvement social 120 (1982), 109–21. D. Heither and M. Lemling, ‘Die studentischen Verbindungen in der Weimarer Republik ¨ (note 61), ¨ ¨ und ihr Verhaltnis zum Faschismus’, in Elm, Heither and Schafer (eds.), Fuxe 99–110. M. H. Kater, Studentenschaft und Rechtsradikalismus in Deutschland. 1918–1933. Eine sozialgeschichtliche Studie zur Bildungskrise in der Weimarer Republik (Hamburg, 1976), 159–62. The anti-Lessing campaign was the first in a series of actions by rightwing students against democratic – often also Jewish – professors, such as E. Cohn (Breslau), E. J. Gumbel (Heidelberg), G. Kessler (Leipzig), B. E. Maurenbrecher and H. Nawiasky (both Munich). On anti-Semitism, Jewish professors and students: Kater, Studentenschaft, 154–62; Jarausch, Students Imperial Germany, 146–50; Heither and Lemling, ‘Verbindungen’ (note 293), 115–19.

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Student movements Jews. At the end of 1927, the minister allowed the students themselves to vote for or against the draft law. The result of this referendum was a defeat for the democratization policy of the Prussian Government, because 77 per cent of the total of 12,315 students rejected the constitutional equality of all citizens.295 This right-wing ‘victory’ pushed the minority of student groups with a democratic, republican, Jewish or socialist leaning even further into isolation.296 In October 1928 the Hochschulring began military training, and from 1929 it started setting up ‘war sport’ camps together with Stahlhelm. But in the following years it lost its popularity to the uniformed sections – brown shirts, swastika armbands and boots – of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Studentenbund (NSDStB) set up in 1926, which in 1928 came under the leadership of Baldur von Schirach (1907–74).297 The NSDStB opposed what it called ‘the infiltration of the universities by Jews’ and advocated the introduction of a numerus clausus (restriction on numbers) for Jewish students, which in due course also had an impact on the appointment of members of staff and professors.298 It had the wind in its sails, and in 1931 at the national student day in Graz it was able to gain control of the DSt.299 Under Nazi leadership, the DSt on 12 April 1933 published its ‘12 theses against the un-German Spirit’, with the result that Jewish and liberal publications became the target of ritual book-burning. Following the seizure of power by Hitler, this occurred at all German universities between 26 April and 10 May 1933.300 The integration of organized student life into the NS-Staat was completed by ¨ the subsequent establishment of a Reichsstudentenfuhrung (Reich student leadership) led by Gustav Adolf Scheel, which controlled both the DSt and the NSDStB.301 In 1935 and 1936 there followed the demise of the old student corps, with their absorption into the NSDStB, and the disbanding of all denominational student associations followed in 1938.302 During the National 295 296

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos Socialist period all kinds of duties were imposed on the students (‘Arbeitsdienst’, ‘Wehrdienst’, ‘Dienst im Kameradschaftshaus’). They also had to take part in physical training (fencing), and they were repeatedly deployed in a group, with the result that the university rectors complained to the government that too little time was left for study.303 Protest and dissidence had no place in the academic world, as elsewhere in the Third Reich. Even academic freedom had ceased to exist in 1933. The Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy broke up in November 1918, with the German-speaking part becoming the new Austria. It had three important universities, Vienna, Graz and Innsbruck, where the mood in the student communities had already been distinctly German nationalistic and anti-Semitic since the nineteenth century.304 In the twenties, they were pleased to welcome students from the Weimar Republic to spend a summer term in Austria, when they dubbed Graz the ‘Austrian Heidelberg’. This influx of students came to an abrupt end in 1933, because of the strict Austrian control and restrictions.305 The aversion to the influence of the ‘Jewish International’ was far stronger among the German-speaking Austrian students than in Germany itself.306 This was coupled with a great aversion to non-German-speaking students from Russia and Poland in particular, who were depicted in the press as ‘Bolsheviks’.307 The ideological distinction among the corps students between Catholics and German nationals weakened slightly in the twenties, when anti-Semitism and anti-Marxism were shared by both groups, but it increased again as the National Socialism rejected by the Catholics came to dominate in the German national camp.308 At the University of Graz, around 1930, about 550–700 of the approximately 2,000 students there were politically active: some 300 to 400 in ¨ a German national volkisch sense, around 200 in Catholic associations, 303 304

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Student movements and only 25 to 50 on the left. The 40 or so Jewish students – some leftwing, some orthodox – increasingly turned to Zionism and, as elsewhere in Austria, they formed an organization for self-defence. Nazi student formations were founded as early as 1919 in Vienna, 1923 in Graz, and 1929 in Innsbruck. They quickly gained ground from 1931. In Vienna they gained 37 per cent of the votes at the university in 1931/32, and at the Technische Hochschule they won 49.5 per cent. In 1930 the Technische Hochschule of Graz became the first institution in the German language area where Nazis won all the seats.309 ¨ Tension between the volkisch-national and National Socialist students on the one hand and the Catholic students on the other increased from 1932–33.310 The latter explicitly rejected Nazism, although they also opposed Marxism. The Nazi students for their part linked up with the nationalist pre-war ‘Freedom from Rome’ movement. Following the Anschluss of March 1938, they took over completely. They were able to ¨ and they have the University of Graz renamed Adolf-Hitler-Universitat, started a campaign to ‘purify’ the student community of Jews and political opponents. Backing for the NSDStB grew to 55.6 per cent of the student population and, at the Technische Hochschule in the same city, to as much as 70.3 per cent.311 t h e c h a r m o f f a s c i s m (1919–1939) The disappearance of Austria-Hungary was coupled in Central Europe with the formation of new nation states, where the students felt called to serve a national revival movement. This was also the case in the re-created Poland.312 The students in Cracow began forming a Student Legion on 3 November 1918, before the actual armistice. Afterwards, several hundred students took part in the fighting in three Silesian uprisings, in the hope of gaining the whole of Silesia for Poland. The student umbrella organization Zwia¸zek Narodowy Polskiej Ml
odzie˙zy Akademickiej (ZNPMA) (National Association of the Polish Academic Youth) was dominated by the nationalist and anti-Semitic313 student association Ml
odzie˙z Wsechpolska (Pan-Polish Youth). The Catholic student circle Odrodzenie (Renaissance), which was re-established in 1918, initially 309 310 312 313

¨ D. Binder, ‘Der Weg der Studentenschaft in den Nationalsozialismus’, in C. Brunner and ¨ und 1938 (Vienna and Cologne, 1989), 75–7, 82–6. H. Konrad (eds.), Die Universitat 311 Ibid., 93. Ibid., 79–86, 88–9. R´ev´esz, Jugendbewegungem (note 12), 64–5. The Jewish community in Poland formed 9–10 per cent of the population, and at the most important universities a quarter to a third of all students in the early 1920s were ´ 31 per cent, Vilnius 33 per cent and Warsaw 23 per Jewish (Cracow 24 per cent, Lwow cent). A. Pilch, Studencki ruch polityczny w Polsce w latach 1932–1939 (The political student movement in Poland 1932–1939) (Cracow, 1972), 144–71.

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Lieve Gevers and Louis Vos supported it but in 1923 came into conflict with it, because they placed Catholicism above nationalism. A younger generation, centred in Vilnius, opted in 1929 for the Christian personalism of Jacques Maritain (1882– 1973),314 and wanted to form a common front of all students who rejected integral nationalism. But this progressive trend was reined back at the (Catholic) Social Week of 1932 by the established Catholic organizations, resulting in a split in the Catholic student association. A middle position was taken by the populist ‘Association of Polish Democratic Youth’, which had been set up in 1927 to bring together those young people whom Marshal Pilsudski (1867–1935) – the strong man of Poland since 1926 – wanted to help in attaining the Sanacja, an authoritarian programme for moral revival, political clean-up and social solidarity. But in the early thirties the Sanacja regime supported a more radical student association that was on the rise at the time, the ‘Legion of the Young Academic Association of Working for the People’, which agitated for social reform in a corporative sense. The regime disbanded all other national student associations in 1933, so that Ml
odzie˙z Wsechpolska, Odrodzenie and the small socialist and Communist student associations were all affected. In the left-wing camp, some tried to form a popular front against Fascism, the focal-point of which were the Communists, particularly in Cracow and Warsaw. In the winter of 1935–36, the front organized strikes to protest the rise in the cost of higher education, but it was rebuffed by right-wing and traditional student formations, which created gangs of thugs to disrupt the lectures of Jewish and left-wing professors and to brutalize Jewish and left-wing students. In addition, in 1937 and 1938, there were police and government actions targeted at left-wingers.315 Prague was the seat of the ‘Czechoslovak’ central student umbrella ¨ organization, with a Slovak branch located in Brno (Brunn), while a purely Slovak student umbrella organization existed alongside this in Bratislava (Pressburg).316 Prague also housed a Russian University partly financed by the Czechoslovak Government and a Ukrainian University with their 314

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On Maritain: chapter 10, 403. In 1934, Maritain visited Poland, when he attended ´ His ideas were disseminated in Poland the international Thomist Congress in Poznan. in particular through the monthly magazine Pax (Vilnius), and from the end of the thirties through the quarterly Verbum (Warsaw). Four of his works appeared in Polish translation before the Second World War. J. Babiuch-Luxmoore, ‘Het personalisme en de oppositie in Polen’, in L. Bouckaert and G. Bouckaert, Metafysiek en Engagement. Een personalistische visie op gemeenschap en economie (Louvain, 1992), 25. Wankel, Organizations (note 125), 8. ´ redni svaz cˇ eskoslovensk´eho studentstva’ (US ´ CS: ˇ ‘Ustˇ Central Association of the ¨ cˇ eskoslovensk´eho studentstva’ (Association of Czechoslovakian Student Body), ‘Svaz ¨ slovensk´eho studentstva’ (Association of Slovakian Czechoslovakian Students) ‘Svaz Students).

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Student movements corresponding immigrant student associations.317 The two associations had a tense relationship with each other, but both sent representatives to ´ the Conf´ederation Internationale des Etudiants (CIE). Despite the official Czechoslovak hospitality towards foreigners, there were conflicts, particularly with the German-speaking students, because they adopted a radical German nationalist stance throughout the inter-war period. In 1920 a law was passed stipulating that the insignia of the Charles University would be transferred to the Czech university. But this provision was not put into effect. In 1934, this led to violent nationalist demonstrations by Czech students demanding its implementation. The riots lasted three days. Czech Fascists exploited them in an attempt to bring the student movement under their influence, but they failed in this attempt. German-speaking students, on the other hand, then openly opted for National Socialism. They formed what were known as Volkssport groups, which perpetrated anti-Czech and anti-Semitic actions, and whose leaders, arrested by the Czech authorities, continued to attract support as martyrs of the movement.318 The occupation of Bohemia and Moravia by Germany in March 1939 fostered a spirit of resistance among many Czech students, the most important resultant actions being large demonstrations on 28 October and 15 November 1939, but which were broken up. There were fatalities, many demonstrators were incarcerated, and all the Czech universities and technical colleges closed. Of the arrested students, 1,200 Czechs aged twenty and more were sent to the Oranienburg camp. This fitted in with the Nazi plan to destroy the Czech nation, either by assimilation or – as far as the intelligentsia was concerned – by deportation and extermination.319 In Slovakia, the situation was different because a satellite state dependent on Nazi Germany was set up there under Monsignor Jozef Tiso (1887–1947). In Romania, the expansion of the country’s territory after the First World War resulted in a doubling of the population and an increase in ethnic minorities. Against this background, students belonging to the ‘generation of 1922’ launched a protest movement under the leadership of a law student, Corneliu Codreanu (1899–1938), against overcrowding in 317

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Student movements toured the country in educational campaigns with a popular theatre (‘La Barraca’), and with puppet shows and a ‘cinema for the people’. When the Civil War broke out in 1936, many students became involved in the fighting on various fronts, in various formations, both left wing and right wing. A considerable number of students perished. The dictatorship, established by General Francisco Franco (1892–1975), led to the ‘gagging’ of the democratic and left-wing student movement. The FUE was dismantled and the opposition driven into clandestine activity. In the student world, power went to the Falangist ‘Spanish Student Union’ that was tied to the apron strings of the regime. In Italy the Duce Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) liked to present himself as the spokesman for a new generation and contrasted the ‘young’ Fascist Italy with the senility of the ‘old Europe’. The highest level of the Fascist youth movement (Opera Nazionale Balilla) was the Gruppo Universitaro Fascista (GUF), open to students aged 26 or less. In 1935, it had 68,659 members. As well as providing training in Fascist doctrine, it fostered sporting, recreational and para-military development, which also included compulsory weekly pre-military exercises under the leadership of officers from the militia. The main attraction of the GUF was that it was responsible for student accommodation, medical student services and student grants.322 From 1932, the GUF organized each year the Littoriali della Cultura e dell’Arte. These were a kind of oratory contest, where discussion took place on society and Fascist ideals in the framework of the official ideology. National prizes were awarded to anyone who, on the basis of science, could make practical proposals for daily life in the modern age. The Littoriali were the most free forum for discussion in Fascist Italy, and a place where criticism of various aspects of the regime could be expressed. The students were very interested in debates on Fascism as a ‘social revolution’ and the way in which corporatism had to be applied as a new social order. The GUF also sponsored inter-university Littoriali in sport and athletics. Although no independent student movement existed, there was some scope for discussion in Italy, and the GUF even faced competition from Catholic student associations affiliated to the Vatican-supported Federazione Universitaria Cattolica Italiana (FUCI), in which an anti-Fascist trend was also manifested. The tension between the two groups increased when, in 1931, the regime wanted to liquidate the Azione Cattolica and the groups of the FUCI, but this tension was defused when Mussolini 322

M. Ostenc, L’Education en Italie pendant le fascisme (Paris, 1980). M. Ostenc, ‘Les e´ tudiants fascistes italiens des ann´ees 1930’, Le Mouvement Social (July–September 1982), 95–106; R. J. Wolff, ‘Fascisizing Italian Youth: The Limits of Mussolini’s Educational System’, History of Education, 13 (1984), 287–298; M. A. Ledeen, ‘Italian Fascism and Youth’, Journal of Contemporary History, 4 (1969), 137–54.

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Student movements by the radical appeal of Communism. From 1934, a new international line was adopted by Moscow, aimed at the formation of ‘popular fronts’ against Fascism. Henceforth, the KIM opted for co-operation with other left-wingers, thereby strengthening its leading role in the anti-war movement.337 They helped to organize the World Youth Congress held for the first time in September 1936 in Geneva, and two years later in Vassar, in the United States. These meetings influenced left-wing student leaders from every European country and had an impact particularly in England – the only country where a left-wing student movement became dominant in the thirties. Around 1937 a ‘World Student Association’/Rassemblement mondial des Etudiants (WSA/RME) came into being, with the ‘independent’ but Communist sympathizer James Klugmann (1912–77) as general secretary. The WSA/RME brought together student associations from Western countries as well as the colonies, where the students were often involved in anti-imperialist actions. The Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939 and the subsequent Soviet attack on Poland as a partner of Nazi Germany in September 1939 and on Finland in November 1939 dealt a severe blow to the ‘front organizations’, resulting in a drain on numbers and a split, so that these ‘front organizations’ disappeared from the national and international stage one after the other.338 In a Europe dominated by the new order, a new international student umbrella organization – Jung Europa – began operating under German leadership, with an international student congress held in Dresden in 1941, attended by some pre-war national student umbrella organizations such as the Flemish VVS.339 When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the Nazi regime in Germany was less inclined than ever to give up its grip on the student world. There was no place for academic protest against Hitler’s policies. select bibliography Allerbeck, K. R. Soziologie radikaler Studentenbewegungen. Eine vergleichende Untersuchung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten, Munich and Vienna, 1973. Anderson, R. D. Universities and Elites in Britain since 1800, London, 1992. Bleuel, H. P. and Klinnnert, E. Der deutsche Student auf dem Weg ins Dritte Reich. ¨ Ideologien-Programme-Aktionen. 1918–1935, Gutersloh, 1967. Boren, M. E. Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject, New York, 2001. 337 338 339

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introduction In educational practice, the maxim non scholae, sed vitae discimus is more often violated than observed. Following this mind-set, university historians have written volumes on what goes into institutions of higher learning and what happens within them. But they have all too often ignored their output, namely the consequences of such training for culture, society and polity. The topic of ‘graduation and careers’ surfaces only occasionally in university historiography, usually in the guise of ‘alumni history’. Anniversary Festschriften abound with references to famous sons of an alma mater, with the institution taking full credit for illustrious individual achievement. One extreme specimen relating to the nineteenth century is an East German coffee table book on Karl Marx’s years at the University of Berlin.1 In countries with strong student associations such as Germany, a second variant of the genre is fraternity history. Sometimes coupled with lists of Old Boys, these amateurish accounts chronicle the development of a particular student corporation. Reflecting nostalgia, career listings are used as a recruiting tool to impress newcomers with the graduates’ success.2 In cultures with less academic migration and more general institutional loyalty such as Great Britain, universities sometimes edit biographical registers of their famous alumni. Based upon address lists used largely 1 2

G. Steiger, R. Lange, E.-G. Schmidt and I. Taubert (eds.), Die Promotion von Karl Marx – Jena 1843 (Berlin, 1983). ¨ ¨ M. Dreßler (ed.), Festschrift zur Feier des funfzigj ahrigen Bestehens der Verbindung ¨ Halle-Wittenberg (Halle, 1910). Cf. also the printed CorpslisThuringia an der Universitat ten and Burschenschaftslisten as well as K. H. Jarausch, Deutsche Studenten, 1800–1970, Edition Suhrkamp, n.s. 258 (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1984). Fraternity lists are inadequate sources for career data, since they only cover a small and atypical part of the student body.

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Konrad H. Jarausch for the purpose of soliciting donations, these dictionaries are a potentially important source for investigating the subsequent role of graduates prosopographically. If they are linked with matriculation records, such alumni directories allow the comparison of inputs with outputs of higher education, thereby revealing patterns of social hierarchy and mobility.3 Such sources are preferable to declarations of intent of high-school leavers, since they deal with actual outcomes rather than anticipated hopes.4 Yet in spite of their interesting material, such volumes of alumni history lack a theoretical thrust which would make their conclusions generally interesting. Current studies of higher education and occupation in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are also of little help, since they are preoccupied with labour market control.5 If it were linked more closely to higher education, professionalization theory might provide a conceptual focus, since it systematically addresses the role of academic careers. Without help from university history, this approach was developed by social historians interested in the emergence of the learned professions and by social scientists intent on generalizing about their increasing importance in society.6 While the radical perspective on the intellectuals or intelligentsia captures only a minority of politically committed literati, a professions’ focus can address the problems of all higher education graduates.7 Since most definitions include references to tertiary training and the acquisition of credentials by examination, this approach poses systematic questions about the relationship between higher learning and subsequent careers.8 Although there has been some discussion of the professionalization of professorial pursuits, most accounts of lawyers, doctors and the like are practitioner centred and remote from the academy. In order to become fruitful for university 3

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Graduation and careers history, research on professions therefore has to engage in questions of training and certification more systematically.9 Recent shifts in professionalization theory from an a priori knowledge-based conception to a critical debunking of professional egotism have made such a rapprochement difficult.10 But greater attention to continental experiences has not only drawn attention to the crucial role of the state but also increased appreciation of the importance of formal education as opposed to the apprenticeship training of the British system.11 It might therefore be useful to explore such academic issues as training, organization, labour market and institutional tradition from a professionalization perspective, although in the absence of systematic information about the subsequent careers of European university graduates between 1800 and 1939, the following remarks can only provide a preliminary sketch of developments which still needs to be completed with further national and occupational detail.12 t h e ro l e o f k n ow l e d g e i n t h e r i s e o f the professions The role of knowledge in the rise of the professions has become somewhat disputed. While functionalists assume that professionals are its living embodiment, critics concede only a rhetorical utility for justifying professional claims. Such differences persist, since the structure of that expertise is rarely discussed in detail. The distinctions of the German philosopher Max Scheler between religious, meritocratic and political knowledge (Heils-, Leistungs- und Herrschaftswissen) are not particularly helpful.13 A comparative look at nineteenth-century universities and professions suggests a different typology. A prerequisite of higher learning and of academic occupations was some form of general cultivation. Known variously as liberal education, Allgemeinbildung or culture g´en´erale, this generalized cultural capital functioned both as common ground for the educated and as a social divide 9

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Konrad H. Jarausch to those below. More peculiar to tertiary institutions and professions was specialized scientific knowledge, involving a mastery of the dynamic principles of a scholarly discipline. Such Fachwissen was the specific property of its initiates, providing insights beyond the grasp of the layman and thereby justifying professional prerogatives. Though usually underestimated in academic rhetoric, there was, finally, practical competence, applied in professional work. Consisting of a set of experiential rules and codes of behaviour, such Berufswissen was the foundation of practice, often considerably more important than claimed scholarly expertise.14 During the course of the nineteenth century emphasis shifted from liberal education to scientific instruction while practical training grew ever more elaborate. Not surprisingly, these different aspects of knowledge have resulted in distinctive arrangements for professional training. Liberal education was generally located in classical secondary institutions such as the Gymnasium, lyc´ee or public school, concluded by a recognized examination such as the Abitur or the baccalaureate. However, some remnants of medieval tradition survived on the post-secondary level in the arts faculty of British colleges with the Bachelor degree. Actual scientific instruction largely took place in tertiary institutions such as the universities or grandes e´ coles, usually concentrated during the middle or later years of study. Hence the MA or first state examination (Erstes Staatsexamen) emerged as the degrees ratifying its achievement. The pursuit of the doctorate was usually reserved for academic careers although in medicine and law it became also a professional badge around the turn of the last century. While some practical training was included in university or technical institute courses, the bulk of professional socialization tended to take place in apprenticeship systems of learning on the job, usually following the completion of scholarly education. Hence certification of this third stage generally involved a larger practitioner influence, whether as corporate self-government in qualifying associations or in mixed academic, government and practical commissions for a second state examination (zweites Staatsexamen). While secondary schooling prerequisites increased everywhere, the course of scientific study became more extensive and informal apprenticeship was integrated into a formal higher education sequence.15 14

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Graduation and careers During the nineteenth century, the examination system gradually evolved into the crucial link between training and practice. For professional careers, it was not expertise as such, but its certification, which created cultural capital. The shingle on the wall and the title on the calling card symbolically represented a licence which permitted the holder to practise and at the same time assured the public of a minimum standard of competence. In bureaucratized countries, the importance of state approved credentials gave rise to a veritable entitlement system, known by its German term as Berechtigungswesen. Despite considerable public criticism of its rigidity, this set of government decrees and informal practices regulated the relationship between training and occupation through a series of increasing thresholds, requiring a certain degree for a specific level of employment. At its pinnacle stood the licensing of highly trained professionals who were thereby guaranteed a market monopoly.16 In more openly capitalistic societies, the qualifying associations of practitioners themselves assumed similar functions of creating professional examinations. Controlling career access, tests such as the bar exam, medical boards, etc., did not necessarily guarantee a monopoly, but at least they conveyed powerful competitive advantages. Not only testing academic achievement or practical experience, such examinations also regulated entry into a profession. Hence their standards and passing rates tended to vary with the state of the job market.17 Though the relationship is complex, the social constitution of the professions came to rest on the superior performance of abstract knowledge and the market control guaranteed by licensed expertise. Owing to the bourgeois belief that ‘knowledge is power’, the control of expertise sparked incessant struggles between professionals and professors, mediated by bureaucrats and clients. Usually preliminary liberal education was relatively uncontroversial, even if aspiring occupations, such as dentists, veterinarians or engineers, tried to use increases in their career prerequisites as a strategy for gaining professional status. Conflicts have focused rather on the amount and kind of scientific instruction, with practitioners more sceptical than professors about its work value. Often clients resisted the academization of expertise and agitated for lay jurisprudence, folk healing and the like. The practical stage provoked constant quarrels between academics, insisting on its location within universities, and 16

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Konrad H. Jarausch practitioners, demanding a greater share of training relevant to actual job situations.18 During the late nineteenth century the state increasingly intervened with its own interests for legally trained civil servants or government technicians, thereby bureaucratizing the final phase of apprenticeship. While the interests of university and profession somewhat coincided in relation to the amount of scientific expertise demanded, they clashed about its character and the location of its instruction. In the course of these struggles, the once-dominant clients slowly lost their power of patronage and became passive consumers of professional services. Though accepting the increase of competence standards as salutary, many users began to resent ‘medicalization’ or ‘legalization’ which left them at the tender mercies of the experts.19 The growth of knowledge increased during the nineteenth century the importance of formal training for the professions. The much-debated transition from classical to modern liberal education somewhat facilitated this development. However, the shift from reproduction to the discovery of knowledge after 1800 was the crucial breakthrough in reshaping traditional scholarship into modern science. Though in practice a more gradual transition from citing the classics to empirical investigation, this change transferred academic priority from teaching to research. With the gradual breakdown of the philosophical unity of knowledge, scholarship was organized increasingly along disciplinary lines around different central questions and distinctive methods. Reflected in the university chair system, journals and scientific organizations,20 such communities of discourse began to fragment the traditional faculties and dominate academic life.21 This explosion of science also forced a redirection of practical training. In bureaucratic regimes on the Continent, the final phase of occupational initiation was more strongly integrated into academic procedures and examination. Even in countries with apprenticeship traditions, professional instruction gradually returned to formal institutions of higher learning. Moreover, a whole new hybrid sector of applied research emerged in technical or commercial colleges.22 By 1900 the different corporate 18 19

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Graduation and careers and bureaucratic systems began to converge. Recapturing the ground lost by its corporate predecessor, the research university became, in Harold Perkin’s phrase, the central powerhouse of modern society.23 the process of professionalization Though closely related to this transformation of higher learning, the process of professionalization during the nineteenth century also derived from other powerful impulses. In contrast to the functionalist interpretation, professionalization was not an automatic result of scientification, but a complex product of practitioner desires, state policies and client wishes, interacting with a renewed university system. In an increasingly open market for professional services in capitalist countries, university graduates needed some proof of their meritocratic superiority. What would be more convincing than an impressive educational diploma or professional certificate? At the same time, governments intent on upgrading public welfare were interested in raising the standards of professional practice in such areas as law, health or teaching, not to mention the emerging industrial pursuits. Hence continental bureaucracies instituted a complicated system of state examinations, with ever higher demands on scientific instruction and practical skill.24 Finally clients also clamoured for protection against charlatanism and, in an increasingly impersonal society, some generalized standards, since professional performance was essentially based on trust. Once again, improved training and credentialing proved the most attractive answer. From a professionalization perspective, the debate about the actual contribution of scientific knowledge to the improvement of health is therefore largely irrelevant. The success of the profession project derived less from a demonstrated superiority of scientific performance than from practitioner, government and public belief in its greater potential for solving problems.25 The promoters of the new professional ideal were to be found both inside and outside of academe. A key group in the process of ‘professionalization’ was the academic profession which served not only as knowledge producer but also as role model for practical pursuits. During the nineteenth century, university teaching gradually became a full-time career, not just a stepping stone for dons to higher clerical office. 23 24 25

H. Perkin, ‘The Pattern of Social Transformation in England’, in Jarausch (ed.), Transformation (note 9), 207ff. ¨ Titze et al., ‘Prufungsauslese’ (note 17). T. McKeown, ‘A Sociological Approach to the History of Medicine’, in T. McKeown and G. McLachlan (eds.), Medical History and Medical Care: A Symposium of Perspectives, Arranged by the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation (London, 1971), 6ff.; T. McKeown, Die Bedeutung der Medizin. Traum, Trugbild oder Nemesis? (Princeton, 1979).

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Konrad H. Jarausch Instead of being passed on in the family (academic nepotism), professorial appointment gradually came to rest on free competition of academic excellence.26 In accordance with more stringent scientific training, the examination requirements for admission to a university career also increased from a sometimes perfunctory dissertation to a second, extensive piece of original research, called th`ese d’´etat in France, Habilitationsschrift in Germany. Practice shifted from laborious teaching and recitation to primary research and publication, providing more objectifiable standards of performance than lecturing popularity. The new research ethos also endowed professors with a higher mission than before and demanded a different kind of inner-worldly asceticism, no longer based on religion but on secular enlightenment. Finally, a dense network of mostly scholarly associations promoted the new gospel of scientific discovery within a bewildering and ever-increasing variety of new disciplinary specialities.27 In the long run this professional conception of scholarship proved irresistible because of its enormous success in promoting empirical discovery and a secular scientific world-view. Hence it was passed on to students who entered the bureaucracy, academic occupations or the general public. Outside of academe, graduates paralleled the professorial example by reorganizing their traditional callings such as the Church, law or medicine into modern professions. Across all national differences in institutional arrangements, higher training was lengthened beyond the classic triennium. The content of teaching shifted from an introduction into the received authorities to an initiation into scientific methods. Moreover, practical instruction gradually became more academic. Certifying examinations grew more elaborate and rigorous, testing became an everexpanding field of specialized scholarship and of occupational skill.28 Though much corporate custom and rhetoric survived, the self-image of practitioners gradually evolved from a learned craft consciousness to a spirit of science-based service to mankind.29 Even remote country doctors slowly moved away from tried herbal nostrums to the new chemical

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Graduation and careers remedies derived from the scholarly investigation of bacteriology and biochemistry.30 Spurred by the reform of academic institutions, this transformation of callings was not at all foreordained but the result of prolonged struggles between traditionalists and reformers.31 In countless meetings and speeches the new breed of professionals championed a novel ideal of learning and service. For the sake of improving performance, bureaucrats disenfranchized untrained competitors such as surgeons, while clients supported innovative movements based on promises and sometimes even proof of improved competence. The majority of practitioners was eventually won over to the cause of science-based professionalism, since the new practice also yielded rising incomes and improved social status.32 This attractive recipe for success was soon imitated by new callings, aspiring to professional prestige. Previously marginal graduates of the propaedeutic philosophical faculty began to clamour for a professionalized teaching career.33 Graduates of freshly created post-secondary institutions like technical colleges also agitated for turning the emerging engineering occupation into a full-fledged profession.34 Such rising groups insisted on academizing their training, either by establishing their speciality within the university canon or by demanding the creation of equivalent institutions such as the Technische Hochschulen. After a long struggle, they also achieved the recognition of examinations that carried with them credentials, be they state-sanctioned (such as the teaching Staatsexamen), academic (such as the engineering diploma) or private (such as the Verbandsexamen of chemists).35 In order to achieve their end, reformers developed a new professional self-image of their calling 30

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¨ C. Huerkamp, Der Aufstieg der Arzte im 19. Jahrhundert. Vom gelehrten Stand zum professionellen Experten. Das Beispiel Preussens, Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswis¨ ¨ senschaft 68 (Gottingen, 1985). For law see D. Ruschemyer, Lawyers and their Society: A Comparative Study of the Legal Profession in Germany and the US (Cambridge, 1973). Cf. K. H. Jarausch, The Unfree Professions: Lawyers, Teachers and Engineers, 1900– 1950 (New York 1990), 8ff. For a fictionalized account of these struggles cf. A. J. Cronin, The Citadel (London, 1937). H.-E. Tenorth, ‘Professionen und Professionalisierung. Ein Bezugsrahmen zur historischen Analyse des “Lehrers und seiner Organisationen”’, in M. Heinemann (ed.), ¨ Der Lehrer und seine Organisation, Veroffentlichungen der historischen Kommission ¨ Erziehungswissenschaft 2 (Stuttgart, 1977), 457ff. The der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur rise of the teaching profession has yet to be analyzed comparatively. P. Lundgreen, ‘Engineering Education in Europe and the USA, 1750–1930: The Rise to Dominance of School Culture and the Engineering Professions’, Annals of Science, 47 (1990), 33–75. K. Gispen, New Profession, Old Order: Engineers and German Society, 1815–1914 (Cambridge, 1989); K. Gispen, ‘Engineers in Wilhelmian Germany: Professionalization, Deprofessionalization and the Development of Non-Academic Technical Education’, in G. Cocks and K. H. Jarausch (eds.), German Professions 1800–1950 (New York, 1990), 104ff.

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Konrad H. Jarausch and founded countless pressure groups such as teachers’ associations, for example the deutsche Philologenverein, founded 1837 which became ¨ the Verein deutscher Philologen, Schulmanner und Orientalisten36 in 1844 or engineering organizations, for example the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure.37 Established professions often tried to resist the claims of the newcomers, fearing that their own superior standing would be damaged if the benefits of professionalism were conceded to fresh groups. Hence reformers had to fight on two fronts, against traditional practitioners within and rival competitors without. In this conflict, recourse to scientific advances was a powerful rhetorical weapon, since demands for material improvement and greater prestige were more persuasive, if based on public benefit. Innovative scholars and reform practitioners therefore often worked hand in hand.38 By no means all claimants to professional status were successful in their endeavour. Primary school-teachers, pharmacists and veterinarians long remained ‘semi-professions’, while nurses or social workers also failed to reach their goal.39 Their lack of success partly stemmed from deficiencies in knowledge and partly from other socio-political constraints. Though requiring post-primary education, such semi-professions were not able to lift their seminar training to recognized tertiary status. Sometimes, as in pedagogy or social work, the cognitive content of the discipline was also considered weak and confusing. Often fiscal limitations or insufficient revenue for lifting an entire occupation on to a new level of the civil service scale played an important role.40 The questionable composition of the occupation also proved to be a handicap if it were known as a woman’s field like nursing or a pursuit attracting religious minorities (Jews) such as psychotherapy.41 36 37

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Graduation and careers Such failures illustrate the fact that the advancement of knowledge alone did not create the modern professions but only provided a powerful stimulus and a compelling argument for practitioners to organize themselves in pursuit of a new professional ideal. Professors as generators of scientific progress often played an important role as mid-wife in this process, but success depended ultimately upon the vigour and commitment of the practising reformers themselves. In the end, the state had to sanction the new dispensation and the clients had to accept the innovations by actually preferring them to older customs. The professional ideal proved so attractive that it radiated beyond the actual or would-be professions into other sectors of society. The meritocratic transformation of bureaucracies from noble courtiers to bourgeois experts made the recruitment and practice of the civil service more ‘professional’. While their political dependency and hierarchical organization differed from those of free practitioners, bureaucrats increasingly derived their authority from expertise in problem solving rather than feudal loyalty or state power. With the exception of British generalists, civil servants successively claimed legal, technological or social service credentials. In the commercial and industrial sector the emergence of white-collar employees formed an analogue to bureaucratization, thereby also professionalizing the large corporation. Though dependence on profits limited the autonomy of businessmen, professional skills such as managerial, technical or scientific know-how began to loom ever larger around the turn of the century. This broader diffusion of professionalization shifted training patterns so that administrative courses were added to legal curricula, service specialities like social work gained university recognition, and managerial or accounting subjects complemented technological instruction. As a result, a new set of entrance examinations to the bureaucracy, such as the concours in France and the Civil Service Examination in Great Britain (analogous to the second Staatsexamen in Germany), were added after the completion of university study. Eventually, the growth of government bureaucracy and white-collar employees in industry slowly began to shift the careers of university graduates away from the classical liberal professions to public service and business.42

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Konrad H. Jarausch the numerical expansion of the professions Statistics on graduates are notoriously incomplete, since universities were more concerned with the input of matriculations than the output of leavers. While the professions themselves often kept figures on members, the double slippage between student numbers and graduation rates as well as between university leavers and careers entrants complicates the linkage to prior enrolment figures.43 The rudimentary numbers that are available suggest an impressive expansion: in England the size of eight professions rose by half, from 127,354 to 191,384 between 1880 and 1911; in France the number of liberal professionals and intellectuals similarly swelled from 83,359 to 121,257 between 1876 and 1906; in Germany the number of those educated multiplied from about 63,000 (31,418 in Prussia) in 1852 to 335,252 in 1933; finally, in Russia higher education leavers increased from 133,600 to roughly 233,000 between 1897 and 1926.44 Though the absolute growth of the professions was considerable, the relative share of professionals in the workforce hardly exceeded 5 per cent by 1930, depending on whether one includes the higher bureaucracy. Hence, the growing importance of the professions derived less from their absolute weight in the labour force than from their influential position in the work process. It was the authority, autonomy and gentlemanly life style of the professional that made this role so attractive not only to their subordinates but also to rivals in business and government.45 Where figures do exist (as at Oxbridge, see Table 9.1), the careers of graduates suggest several interrelated developments: first, owing to the fixed number of estates the occupation of landed proprietor declined in relative terms throughout the nineteenth century. Second, with secularization the clergy decreased in importance, since teaching gradually emerged as an independent pursuit. Third, the share of the liberal professions in law and medicine among graduates rose considerably, but eventually reached a plateau because of strong competition among practitioners. Fourth, with the institutional growth of tertiary and secondary education, more and more university trained men entered academic life or the teaching profession, so that educational expansion propelled itself to some degree. Fifth, 43 44

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455 1599 763 523 433 208 908 4889

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the establishment of national, state or local bureaucracies drew ever more graduates to the civil service beyond a traditional military career. Sixth, the professionalization of business also gradually broke down the pronounced aversion of educated men against going into commerce and/or industry, slowly creating a regular path between academe and practical affairs. Fragmentary career data from other countries seem to point into a similar direction of increasing professionalization. In France the rich information of the Duruy enquiry of 1864 suggests the importance of professional careers as well as the persistence of petit bourgeois occupations for secondary-school graduates (see Table 9.2). Occupational data for the individual grandes e´ coles show their orientation towards one specific career such as tertiary and secondary teaching for the normaliens (4/5), the military for the polytechniciens (4/5), and industry for the graduates of the arts et m´etiers (2/3). But aside from some broadening into government service and leading positions in business, it is difficult to discern any overriding trends in the absence of comparable information on university leavers.46 Similarly limited information on

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Konrad H. Jarausch Table 9.2 Careers of French secondary school leavers in 1864a Career

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Coll`eges %

(1) Landed/farm (2) Professional (3) Teaching (high) (4) Government (5) Business (6) Lower occupation Total Number

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Table 9.3 Career plans of German students in 1928–1931a Careers

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Technical colleges %

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German student preferences also reveals the importance of the professions and the rising attraction of bureaucracy and business (see Table 9.3). Despite some commonality in trends, the importance of specific careers varied with national context. In France the legal professions became the most influential (45,512); in Germany doctors expanded most rapidly (from 13,728 in 1876 to 30,558 in 1909); in Britain school teachers formed the largest occupation (68,651); and in Russia engineers became the most frequented pursuit.47 Hence the degree of professionalization differed between countries, with England leading the way, followed by France and Germany; Russia followed way behind, owing to its later start. 47

Huerkamp, Aufstieg (note 30), 151; P. L. Alston, ‘The Dynamics of Educational Expansion in Russia’, in Jarausch (ed.), Transformation (note 9), 89ff.

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Graduation and careers The rise of the professions was accompanied by periodic labour market crises. In economic terms, the increase in the number of graduates could be supply driven through an expansion of higher learning or demand induced through a growth in the need for expertise.48 In fact, manpower supply and demand were only rarely in balance. While lack of trained graduates could be met by lowering standards, an excess of educated men repeatedly raised the spectre of an ‘academic proletariat’ and contributed to political unrest.49 Since academic overproduction has been studied only for Germany (and Austria), this particular case raises the question whether the growth of the professions was accompanied by similar problems elsewhere. The postHumboldtian expansion of the universities ran out of steam in the 1830s, creating an oversupply that fed directly into the Revolution of 1848. Stagnating enrolments eventually created a new demand in the 1860s which fuelled another expansion leading to renewed overcrowding by the 1880s, the famous Qualifikationskrise that prompted students and graduates to turn to illiberalism. Resumed in the last decade before the war, the enrolment explosion peaked in the 1920s, provoking yet another, politically more disastrous oversupply, since it provided grist for the Nazi mill.50 Individual careers therefore displayed regular cycles, teetering from excess to deficit and back. In an entitlement system in which government hiring was crucial for academic employment, this seemingly inevitable succession of crises created considerable political resentment.51 Time and again, professionals called for a closure of their career through a numerus clausus while professors favoured continued growth. The recurrent job market difficulties proved remarkably impervious to control. During the overcrowding of the 1830s, the Central European bureaucracies raised entry requirements to the university (making the 48

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Konrad H. Jarausch Abitur mandatory), issued repeated warnings and ceased hiring graduates. These drastic measures did deter new enrolment for one generation at the price of blocking careers for the excess of educated men.52 During the oversupply of the 1880s, the government sought a firmer information ¨ basis by charging the Gottingen economist Wilhelm Lexis with compiling exact labour market statistics – an impossible task, since the demand for graduates could not be measured exactly. Due to the contraction of scholarship support, bureaucratic countermeasures only served to aggravate the crisis, leading officials to abandon all attempts to steer academic manpower after 1900.53 During the excess of graduates of the 1920s, resumption of government hiring as well as the partial closure of entry into the teaching career initially succeeded in reducing the post-war overhang. But the normalization of the mid-twenties proved to be fleeting when the Great Depression dried up public or private employment opportunities. Liberal measures such as official warnings, more rigorous selection during training and increased competition proved unattractive to those who lost out in the struggle for academic survival.54 While placement bureaux, labour service schemes or fraternity contacts could help individuals, they failed to alleviate the collective plight. In the short run, universities could shift some students from teaching into theology or from law into medicine. But in the long run overcrowding engulfed all careers until the forced drop in enrolments created a new demand, thus starting the cycle all over again. The continued structural expansion of numbers in higher education overwhelmed all organized efforts to limit the number of graduates. Though in the long run, the demand for qualified labour generally increased, the opening of access of higher education in the short run produced more educated men than government hiring, free professional practice or industrial employment could absorb. First, in all European countries the output of secondary institutions grew rapidly during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This expansion was fuelled through the growth of traditional types of schools such as the Gymnasium, 52

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Graduation and careers as well as through the creation of or granting of university access to modern branches such as the Realgymnasium or the Oberrealschule.55 Second, structural analyses of the composition of student bodies have shown that new social groups began to participate in higher education in significant numbers. In Germany and Austria, for instance, academic self-recruitment in the first half of the nineteenth century gave way to an influx of the old and eventually the new middle class, making the petite bourgeoisie the dominant parental stratum.56 Third, religious and cultural minorities began to gain access to advanced training. Hence the Catholic educational deficit declined in the first decades of the twentieth century while the Jewish minority showed an enormous desire for cultivation.57 Finally, the limited opening of higher learning eventually also led to the reluctant admission of women into universities and other tertiary institutions.58 Motivated by a desire for social advancement and equity, this massive incursion of new groups changed both the composition of the universities and increased competition among the emerging professions. Though creating recurrent crises, the expansion of student numbers advanced professionalization by facilitating institutional differentiation and practitioner organization. Universities adapted to the growing influx not only by expanding existing programmes, but by following specialization in opening up new research fields. Pushed on by professorial selfinterest and student demands, these novel programmes such as chemistry eventually clamoured for their own examinations as a basis for careers.59 But when traditional universities were too slow to take up the challenges of economic advance in areas like technology, entire new tertiary institutions arose such as the Technische Hochschulen.60 Although many professors resisted and practitioners remained sceptical of further academization, even newer forms of higher learning crystallized

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Konrad H. Jarausch such as the commercial colleges (Handelshochschulen).61 Professionals responded to the rising output of graduates by more vigorous collective action. Increasing demand for expert services made it possible to raise their status and influence. Yet even an excess of academically trained men spurred greater co-operation. During phases of relative overcrowding, free professionals like doctors and lawyers organized themselves to restrain competition and persuade the public to resort to their services. During periods of absolute oversupply, bureaucratically employed professionals such as teachers closed ranks in order to push the government into further hiring. During moments of economic depression, practitioners working in industry or trade banded together to seek job security by controlling professional entry.62 Though it blocked some advances, oversupply also demonstrated the need for more rigorous training and entry requirements. national variations While the secular process of professionalization was universal in character, its institutional pattern varied considerably according to national context. Ironically, the British experience, often taken as the classic case, is quite peculiar when viewed in comparative perspective, differing even from the Scottish arrangements. Except for the clergy which remained linked to Oxford and Cambridge, professional training had moved away from the universities during the early modern period. While most British practitioners went through public or grammar schools and many attended colleges for general cultivation, they were essentially apprenticed by fellow professionals at the Inns of Court or the Royal Colleges of Physicians. The famous ‘qualifying associations’ controlled the professional examinations and licensing was a matter of corporate self-government, independent of any bureaucracy.63 Only after the middle of the nineteenth century did the reform of the British universities gradually begin to pull training back into higher education. Though the influence of continental German examples as well as the rapid progress of science led to the return of instruction in the universities, testing and validation remained the prerogative of the professional associations. Even the expansion of higher education through the teaching-orientated redbricks and polytechnics did not break this mould, 61

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Graduation and careers the like. Frustrated by the slow pace of change and often unemployed, many higher education graduates also joined the radical intelligentsia in its effort to overthrow the repressive system.69 Nonetheless, in the early twentieth century an associational life gradually emerged that clustered around scholarly rather than practical pursuits. During the revolution many idealist professionals joined the Bolshevik onslaught on bourgeois privileges, unaware that they might eventually endanger their own prerogatives. When the Party realized that professionals wanted to retain their autonomy, it ruthlessly disbanded all associations and only permitted lawyers to continue in government controlled collegia. Ironically enough, both the Tsarist and Bolshevik regimes preferred docile technological cadres to liberal self-governing professionals.70 In the smaller European countries, professionalization tended to reflect the pattern of one of the larger states, albeit with a special accent governed by local tradition. Resemblances were usually produced either by direct political control, indirect cultural influence or similar structural conditions. The ancient version of learned professional self-government survived longest in societies with strong corporate traditions, such as Italy.71 In contrast, similarities to the British practitioner-control model seem to be rare outside of the unbureaucratic grass-roots democracy of Switzerland.72 The French mixture of state control and market freedom, characterized by government qualification but open competition, is somewhat reflected in the arrangements in Belgium.73 The German manner of ‘professionalization from above’ closely linked to higher learning proved influential in Austria, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Greece.74 Finally, the Russian experience of late professionalization coupled with a radical 69

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introduction* Theology and the arts have been closely linked since late antiquity. Both are principally based on works of language; the former on Holy Writ, the Bible, to biblion, the book of books, the latter on the secular use of language and its objective manifestations, letters, writings and books. The artes liberales with the three sciences of language, grammar, rhetoric, dialectics, and the four mathematical sciences, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, as well as the three forms of philosophy based on them, physics, ethics and metaphysics, were known in the Middle Ages as the ancillae theologia, the ‘handmaids of Theology’. This scarcely changed with the advent of humanism, when a philological and historical methodology was added to that of scholasticism and dialectics in the field of theology. The newly founded chairs of Greek, Hebrew, and later Arabic and other oriental languages both inside and outside the theological faculties were concerned in particular with biblical and other religious writings. The appearance of patristic in the seventeenth century meant that the humanist concern with the Fathers of the Church was raised to a systematic discipline within the theological faculty. Similarly, the interest in profane history on the part of the humaniora led in the seventeenth century to the establishment of ecclesiastical history as a theological discipline. ∗

Besides the National Correspondents mentioned in the Preface, the following colleagues helped me by providing information or revising the relevant parts of my text: Carlo ¨ Bo, Urbinoe (†); Peter Brang, Zurich; Rudiger von Bruch, Berlin; Carl Joachim Classen, ¨ Gottingen; Jean-Baptiste Duroselle (†), Paris; Thomas Finkenstaedt, Augsburg; Herbert Franke, Munich; Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Munich; Willy Hirdt, Bonn; Axel Horstmann, ¨ Hamburg; Rudolf Sellheim, Frankfurt-am-Main; Stig Stromholm, Uppsala; Michael Werner, Paris.

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¨ Walter Ruegg The arts faculty was on the one hand limited to a propaedeutic function, as for example within the Protestant universities of Germany, where until the nineteenth century students could only complete their studies within one of the higher faculties, usually theology or law. When Friedrich August Wolf (1759–1824), who was to become famous later as a scholar ¨ of antiquity, began his studies at the University of Gottingen in 1777, he was said to have insisted on being registered as a student of philology and not, as was usual until then, of theology. On the other hand, to have completed studies in the faculty of arts in the early part of the modern era in France and England was a satisfactory academic qualification for the lower offices in the Church. Practical theological training came later in the college or the seminary.1 From the thirteenth century onwards, when the faculties of arts were forbidden to occupy themselves with theologically relevant questions, disputes arose repeatedly because of the close links with respect to content between them and philosophy, and metaphysics and theology in particular, which Aristotle called the prima philosophia (first philosophy).2 In 1798 Kant, after he had been reprimanded by the king in 1794 for his philosophical writings on religion, produced his ‘Conflict of the Faculties’ in which he defended the independence, indeed the scholarly superiority of the arts faculty over the higher faculties, where the content of the courses was controlled by the government and whose needs they were meant to serve.3 In the nineteenth century the arts faculty no longer needed to emancipate itself from the role of handmaid of Theology. On the contrary advances in the arts and sciences were forcing Catholic theology on to the defensive, whilst Protestant theology went on the offensive and took the lead in the philosophically and historically orientated arts subjects. In all these developments the mutual connection is clearly evident, so that it makes sense to take theology together with those disciplines of the arts faculty which as arts, humanities, lettres, letras, lettere e filosofia, Geisteswissenschaften are concerned with language products. History, whose emergence as an independent subject within the arts faculty was an achievement of humanism, is in this volume treated together with the social sciences according to the UNESCO classification. The close connection between the two ‘book sciences’ is not only shown in the important contributions of classical philologians to New Testament 1

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Theology and the arts studies, such as the critical edition of the text by Karl Lachmann (1793– 1851) or the establishment of the Hellenistic context of St Paul’s writings by Richard Reitzenstein (1861–1931). It is also reflected in the biographies of important theologians. The classical translation of Plato’s writings into German, which is still in print today, is the work of a theology professor, Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834). Some theologians moved more or less willingly into the philosophical faculty, such as Eduard Zeller (1814– 1908) and Julius Wellhausen (1844–1918). Through their biblical criticism both had provoked a rabies theologica among their colleagues – Zeller, in fact, provoking even a riot in Bern in 1847. Wellhausen continued his pioneering researches into the Old Testament as professor of semitic languages, whereas it was as a professor of philosophy that Zeller became famous far beyond Germany, especially because of his monumental work on Greek philosophy. In 1914 Ernst Troeltsch (1865–1923), professor of systematic theology at Heidelberg and one of the leading representatives of religious liberalism, accepted a chair in philosophy at the University of Berlin. Until well into the second half of the nineteenth century Catholic theology owed crucial impulses to the work of both philologists and hommes de lettres, as will be shown in the next section. catholic theology and the inf luence of ultramontanism The French Revolution, shaking Europe like a mighty earthquake, produced those deep fault lines in the university landscape which were described in chapter 2. The most profound effect was on Catholic education. Secularization brought about two important changes: with the confiscation of Church lands, the financial basis of the papacy was undermined, and, with the victory of the Enlightenment, its role as the intellectual and spiritual guardian of the Church was challenged. As a result, during the period covered in this volume the papacy, with few exceptions, barricaded itself and confronted the new movements not so much with theological arguments as with repressive measures. ¨ In 1863 the famous Munich ecclesiastical historian, Ignaz von Dollinger (1799–1890), declared that German theologians were defending Catholicism with ‘guns’ whilst the Romans were using ‘bows and arrow’.4 His 4

H. Jedin (ed.), Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte (HKG), vol. VI: Die Kirche in der Gegenwart, Erster Halbband: Die Kirche zwischen Revolution und Restauration, 2nd edn (Freiburg, Basle and Vienna, 1985), 673. If not otherwise indicated, the following information on the history of the Catholic Church is taken from this work, including the second part ‘Die Kirche zwischen Anpassung und Widerstand (1878–1914)’, 2nd edn (Freiburg, Basle and Vienna, 1985). The chapters on theology are written in the first part ¨ by R. Aubert, Louvain, in the second by O. Kohler, Freiburg im Breisgau.

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¨ Walter Ruegg strictures were aimed primarily at ultramontanism, that is, the Curia’s anti-Enlightenment traditionalism and centralist view of Church politics, which had begun with the restoration of the authority of Rome after the fall of Napoleon, and which reached its apogee in the pontificate of Pius IX with the dogmatization of papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council (1870). In the universities, ultramontanism first showed itself in the condemna¨ tion of those professors who were opposed to it. Dollinger, who fiercely attacked the infallibility of papal teaching, was excommunicated in 1871 and gave up his theological teaching at the university, whereupon King Ludwig II promptly appointed him President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for life. Other professors had either to recant their teachings or renounce their posts. Following the pontificate of Leo XIII (1878–1903), who had been more receptive to the modern spirit, Pius X (pontiff from 1903 to 1914) condemned modernism as the ‘source of all heresies’ in the encyclical Pascendi dominici gregis of 1907, and in 1910 demanded that all priests active in pastoral care and teaching should take the so-called anti-modernist oath. It was ‘designed to flush out those theologians who were guilty of secret modernist thinking and to lead to their removal from teaching and pastoral service and thus to prevent an internal erosion of the faith and life of the church’.5 The oath was not officially abolished until the Second Vatican Council; but in the German universities it met with such strong opposition that it was not applied. A further institutional consequence of ultramontanism was the widespread retreat of theology into the seminaries run by bishops and the religious orders. Here orthodoxy could be better guaranteed than in the university faculties, for there the professors of theology were allowed a greater freedom of teaching, despite the Church’s right to exercise supervision. The popes refused to recognize the theological faculties in Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon and Rouen, which were reopened between 1806 and 1808, with the result that their degrees had no practical value and they initially produced fewer than ten graduates a year, rising to a mere twenty by the middle of the century. When these faculties were closed in 1885 they could hardly muster 50 students between them.6 A more fruitful alternative source of scholarship appeared in 1886 with the introduction of the Ve Section des sciences religieuses in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.7 In Spain the theological faculties survived the liberal and anti-clerical reforms. In 1854 they were reintroduced into the universities of Madrid, 5 6 7

¨ Theologie und Kirche (LThK), 2nd edn W. Reinhard, ‘Modernismus’, Lexikon fur (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1934), vol. VII, 253. Verger, Universit´es en France, 274–5. E. Durkheim (ed.), La vie universitaire a` Paris (Paris, 1918), 188–91.

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Theology and the arts Santiago, Zaragoza and Seville in order to educate the higher ranks of the clergy. Yet they were so ossified that their abolition in 1868 merely served to put them out of their misery. In the previous decade only one single professor had published books. ‘Theological studies had taken refuge in the seminaries; for a decade the state university made possible studies which had remained in the first rank for centuries, filling the lecture halls.’8 In Italy, too, theological teaching was concentrated in the priests’ seminaries. Before unification the theological faculties remained in existence in the various mini-states, such as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.9 In the Vatican state itself it was suspended by the decrees of the Sacra congregazione degli studi of 1831 and 1833, and teaching was moved to the bishops’ seminaries and to the schools of the various Orders.10 After 1861 the Kingdom of Italy abolished all theological faculties at the state universities.11 In special circumstances the Curia approved the founding of Catholic universities with theological faculties. One of these came into being in 1834/35 in Louvain as a result of an initiative on the part of the Belgian bishops. In 1875 the French bishops used the new law on the freedom of teaching in order to found Catholic universities or theological faculties modelled on Louvain in Angers, Lille, Lyon, Paris and Toulouse. In Switzerland the Catholic university of Freiburg, which was founded in 1889, was given permission by the pope to introduce a theological faculty run by the Dominicans.12 In Germany and Austria-Hungary, Rome could only partly enforce ultramontane control over theology. In 1805 a bishop’s seminary was founded in Mainz to take the place of the university which had disappeared in the course of secularization. The seminary became and remained, even after temporary closure, a leading proponent of strict church theology. Until the end of the nineteenth century the training of priests took place for the most part in seminaries. But in contrast to 8 9 10

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˜ Peset, Universidad Espanola, 712–28: for the reintroduction of faculties see 723ff.; for publications 514ff., quotation 717. G. Libertini, ‘La Universita` di Catania dal 1805 al 1865’, in M. Catalano et al., Storia della Universita` di Catania dalle origini ai giorni nostri (Catania, 1934), 314–17. A. Sorbelli, ‘L’Universita` di Bologna e la rivoluzione del 1831’, Studi e Memorie per la storia dell’Universita` di Bologna, 9 (1926), 166–87; for the text of the decree dating from 12 September 1831 see 167ff. P. Nardi, ‘Italie’, in J´ılek (ed.), Historical Compendium, 84. From 1880 on, in France the title Universit´e only applied to the state universities, and the Catholic universities were called Facult´e libre or Institut catholique. See Appendix: ‘European Universities and Similar Institutions in Existence Between 1812 and the End of 1944’. Concerning the influence of ultramontanism on the foundation of the University of ¨ Fribourg: M. Zurcher, ‘G. Ruhlands “Wirtschaftspolitik des Vaterunsers”. Genese, Logik und Wirkung’, in N. Graetz and A. Mattioli (eds), Krisenwahrnehmungen im Fin de si`ecle. ¨ Judische und katholische Bildungseliten in Deutschland und der Schweiz (Zurich, 1997), 211–29.

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Theology and the arts ¨ influence extended to Munster, Freiburg in Breisgau, and in particular to Giessen, where between 1830 and 1851 the Mainz seminary had been ¨ replaced by a Catholic faculty of theology. The Tubingen school introduced an historical dimension into dogmatics. It found its characteristic expression in the monumental ‘Conciliengeschichte’ (Conciliar History) ¨ in seven volumes by the Tubingen historian Karl Hefele (1809–83). The University of Munich which replaced Landshut in 1825 exerted an influence on European Catholicism which extended beyond theology. It was here that the Protestant philosopher Schelling (1775–1854) developed a synthesis of Christianity which came close to Catholicism. The historian ¨ Dollinger mentioned earlier gave new life to Catholic Church history, and the theosophist and philosopher Franz Xaver von Baader (1765–1841) did ¨ the same for speculative dogmatics. Joseph von Gorres (1776–1848), in his twin roles as cultural historian and ‘political prophet’,16 found an academic sounding board here for his manifold and wide-ranging publishing ventures. Germany was later instrumental in the development of a ‘Reformed Catholicism’, which strove for a dialogue with modern science and liberal ideas. In attempting this it provoked strong opposition from the ultramontanists, who, after 1879, found a new dogmatic basis in New Scholasticism. This movement was given an historical dimension through the research into medieval scholastics of the Munich professors Klemens ¨ Baumer (1853–1924) and Martin Grabmann (1875–1949), the Louvain professor Maurice de Wulf (1867–1947), the head of the Vatican Libraries and Archives Cardinal Ehrle (1845–1934), together with the Tirolean Dominican and for a time professor at the University of Graz Heinrich Denifle (1844–1905), who also wrote the first history of medieval universities to be based on full source materials.17 In 1911 Joseph Schmidlin ¨ (1878–1944) introduced Catholic missionary studies in Munster as a university subject. As a result, in the period between the two world wars, professorships in this new subject were founded in a variety of countries. Indeed, in 1932 faculties in missionary studies were established both in the Gregoriana and in the Propaganda College in Rome.18 In France, as we have already noted, the training of priests was until 1875 entirely in the hands of the seminaries. In his Souvenirs d’Enfance et de Jeunesse Ernest Renan (1823–92), with considerable reverence for his former teachers, described it as being based theologically on traditional dogmatics and the corresponding textbooks,19 yet in the Saint Sulpice seminary in Paris the learning of semitic languages as a basis for study of 16 17 19

¨ Achim von Arnim, quoted by H. Raab, ‘Gorres’, in Staatslexikon, 7th edn (Freiburg, Basle and Vienna, 1986), vol. II, 1081ff. 18 See vol. I, p. xxiii. HKG VI, 2 (note 4), 593–7. See especially the chapter entitled ‘Le s´eminaire d’Issy’.

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¨ Walter Ruegg the Bible was encouraged. As for the seminary in Strasburg and its asso´ ´ ciated Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Molsheim, they were influenced even more strongly by developments at German universities. The remaining 80 schools for priests did not pursue a scientific approach to theology. Any theological initiatives came therefore – at first with apologetic intent – from writers such as Chateaubriand (1789–1848), Bonald (1754–1810), and from the Dane Ferdinand von Eckstein (1790–1861), who had been ¨ influenced by Gorres, and above all from the private scholar F´elicit´e de Lamennais (1782–1861). His works were written in a passionate inspiratory style, and in particular his Essai sur l’indiff´erence en mati`ere de religion (Treatise on Religious Indifference), published in four volumes between 1817 and 1823, not only had a huge influence on Catholic philosophy and theology over half a century in France, Belgium, Italy and England but also provoked the development of Hermesianism in Germany. He based theological knowledge on the original revelation of God in the sens commun, that is in the general rationality of the human race, and developed ideas about the separation of Church and state, which bore fruit in the foundation of Catholic universities in Louvain, Dublin and France. Initially hailed as a confederate of the ultramontanists, he attracted papal condemnation especially for his revolutionary social teachings, which were published in 1834 and were a huge success with the public. He nevertheless remained true throughout to his religious socialism.20 The life and works of Ernest Renan were just as exceptional and influential. He had learned Hebrew at the seminary of Saint Sulpice, but, having become disaffected with Catholic dogma through his philological studies of the Bible, decided to leave the seminary. After a pioneering work on Averroes, the Arab commentator on Aristotle, and following excavations in Palestine, he was elected in 1862 to a professorship in Hebrew at the Coll`ege de France. His inaugural lecture and his Vie de J´esus of 1863, which developed in an original way German research on the life of Jesus, depicting Him not as the Son of God but as a man of genius who changed the course of history, both provoked so much controversy that, after the intervention of the French episcopacy in 1864, he was deprived of his post and only regained it in 1871 after the fall of the Empire. He was less influential with his specialist works on semitic languages than with his splendidly written volumes on the history of religion and his philosophical, cultural and political writings, in which he not only defended the freedom of research and teaching, but also religious and political liberalism.21 20 21

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Theology and the arts t h e pa pacy ’ s py r r h i c v i c to r i e s ov e r m o d e r n i s m In 1864 Pope Pius IX published the Syllabus errorum in Europa vigentium and condemned as the latest of the 80 ‘heresies current in Europe’ the reconciliation of the Church with progress, liberalism and modern civilization. The main representative of modernism, Alfred Loisy (1857–1940), who had provoked Pius X into the condemnations of 1907 and 1910 mentioned above, had been professor of Hebrew at the Institut Catholique in Paris since 1881 and professor of Exegesis from 1889. In 1893 he lost his professorship, but he was able to continue teaching in 1900 in the Section ´ des sciences religieuses at the state Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, and later from 1909 at the Coll`ege de France. He supported the autonomy of ` biblical criticism vis-a-vis theological doctrine and attempted to produce an apologetics based on the New Testament, which relativized the dogmas of the church. The results of his work brought the pope’s condemnation and in 1908 excommunication, but at the same time found widespread resonance both within France and beyond. The application of historical methods to the Old Testament by the Dominican Albert Lagrange (1855– 1938) was just as critical in terms of its scholarly approach, but its impact remained limited to specialists. In 1890 Lagrange, at the instigation of ´ his Order, founded the Ecole pratique des e´ tudes bibliques in Jerusalem, but in 1912 he was removed from his post following the condemnation of several of his writings.22 At the Catholic University of Louvain, founded in 1834, prominent followers of Lamennais were in leading positions. Xavier de Ram (1804– 65), who had been the first to produce a history of the national church using original source material, led the university as rector for 31 years until his death. In the field of religious studies the new foundation had an outstanding reputation for its prowess in oriental studies. Thanks to De Ram’s initiative the Jesuits were allowed to continue the monumental Bolland edition of the Acta Sanctorum after a gap of fifty years. The head of the ‘Louvain School’, the professor of philosophy Gerhard Ubaghs (1800–75), attempted with some success to produce a metaphysics founded on Platonic and Augustinian traditions. His ontological equation of all intellectually perceivable truth with the unlimited Being of God was a continuation of the ideas of Lamennais. Out of consideration for the newly founded Catholic institution, Ubaghs’ teachings were at first not publicly criticized in Rome, but after the death of De Ram, they were in 1869

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Theology and the arts partly through the papal university the Gregoriana, and partly through a range of institutes, editions and conferences supported by the pope. On the one hand it led to a number of sterile polemics, such as the one referred to earlier against Rosmini’s 40 sentences, but to a widespread renewal of Catholic dogmatics on the other. The main protagonist between the two world wars was the philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), who had converted from Protestantism in 1906 and had taught from 1914 at the Catholic Institute in Paris and then in Canada and America. Following influential works on the theory of knowledge and on moral and social philosophy, his Humanisme int´egral of 1936 provided the philosophical basis for the increasingly important confrontation between Catholicism and Marxism. It was also in France during the twentieth century that a moderate form of anti-scholastic Modernism flourished, largely thanks to the Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), who sought a renewal of theology through the scientific theories of evolution. There was also Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) whose Nouvelle Th´eologie was condemned as recently as 1950 in the encyclical Humani generis by Pope Pius XII and who was then rehabilitated in 1983 by John Paul II and made a cardinal. In general the papacy found itself theologically in a beleaguered city. The image was in fact used by Leo XIII. In an encyclical letter to the French bishops in 1899 he accused the modernists of breaching the walls of the city they were supposed to be defending.25 Significantly the only pioneering work of scholarship that Pius IX had supported was an archaeological investigation into the early Church in Rome, which had a crucial bearing on the question of the primacy of the pope. In the course of this Giovanni de Rossi (1822–94) managed to put the Catholic investigation of Christian archaeology and epigraphy on a scientific footing. ¨ If Dollinger, as already stated, had been able to accuse Rome in 1869 of mounting an inadequate ‘bows and arrows’ theological defence of Catholicism, this was no longer completely true later on. Even Leo XIII engaged in, to use his image, theological raids through the defensive walls of ultramontanism in order to ward off modernism, opening up the urbs for developments which in the end led to the Second Vatican Council. For outside the Vatican the tension between ultramontanism and modernism had given way to mutually stimulating discussion and research. It found expression in numerous scholarly journals and handbooks,26 in 25

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¨ Walter Ruegg lexica,27 in discussion fora involving lay and professional researchers28 as well as in a series of international congresses of scholars. The first of these was organized in 1888 by the founding rector of the Catholic Institute in Paris, Maurice d’Hulst (1841–96), and the last, which took place in 1891 in Swiss Freiburg, involved some 3,000 participants.29 No one played a more prominent and progressive role between modernism and ultramontanism than John Henry Newman (1801–90), whom ¨ Dollinger characterized as Roman Catholicism’s most important intellectual gain in the modern era.30 The Oxford university preacher had converted to Catholicism after an intensive study of the Church Fathers and after vain attempts to introduce reforms into the Anglican Church. Disqualified by the ultramontanists as a ‘liberal’, he was even denounced in 1859 by an English spokesman for the pope as ‘the most dangerous man in England’, although he often opposed modernist tendencies and accepted the infallibility of papal teaching. In short, both his thinking and his actions testified to an independent theological intellect, which, though deeply anchored in a dogmatically secure faith, took contemporary scientific discoveries seriously and attempted to take account of them in theological works. In doing so Newman isolated himself from his earlier comrades both to the left and the right. He disappointed his liberal ¨ ally Lord Acton (1834–1902), who remained true to his teacher Dollinger both as a historian and a reformed Catholic. Until he was made a cardinal by Leo XIII in 1879 Newman was also viewed with suspicion by his fellow convert in Oxford, the ultramontanist Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Manning (1808–92).31 Appointed the first Rector of the Catholic University in Dublin, founded in 1851, he found himself unable to realize his ideas for an ideal university set out in his Discourses on the Idea of a University of 1852, and he resigned in 1858. Whilst this particular work 27

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Theology and the arts remained rooted in the ideas of the nineteenth century his theological thinking which revolved around the sanctity of conscience had an enduring influence on the renewal of Catholic theology right up to the Second Vatican Council.32 protestant theology as a subject of university research Barely 100 European universities survived the French Revolution and its consequences up to 1850 and of these two-thirds were in Catholic countries.33 The remaining third consisted of the four orthodox universities in Russia, the ten reformed universities in Scotland, Holland and Switzerland, the Anglican universities of Oxford and Cambridge together with the seventeen Lutheran universities in Scandinavia and Germany. This minority, and in particular the German faculties, turned theology into an academically respectable university subject in the nineteenth century. The reason for this is not primarily to be found in the fact that Protestant pastors as state officials received their education in the universities. In 1893 out of 4,870 students at the University of Berlin 620 were studying evangelical theology, in Halle it was 585 out of 1,472: in 1891/92 ¨ in Leipzig 451 out of 3,307, in Uppsala 347 out of 1,476, in Tubingen 306 out of 1,185 as against 172 students of Catholic theology.34 A more important reason for this predominance was the lack of universally binding dogmas and the variety of church regulations, which allowed the faculties from an early stage to reflect a diversity of opinion in their teaching and for professors, who had been dismissed for their teaching in one state, to be re-engaged in another. Thus a dogmatic pluralism developed, not so much within as between the universities, which did not merely exhaust itself in absolutist squabbles but led to academically fruitful debates and encouraged tolerant princes to offer and guarantee freedom of teaching. In the course of the nineteenth century academic freedom generally prevailed, though not without suffering reverses such 32 33 34

J. Roberts, ‘The Idea of a University Revisited’, in I. Ker and A. G. Hill (eds.), Newman after a Hundred Years (Oxford, 1990). See the maps in vol. II, pp. 102ff. See the information on the universities concerned in: Minerva, Jahrbuch (note 13), 2 (1892/93). After 1918 the relations were reversed. In 1928/29 the German universities trained 2,166 students in Catholic theology and 1,895 in Protestant theology; in 1938/9 2,971 were studying Catholic and 878 Protestant theology (Empfehlungen des Wissenschaftsrates zum Ausbau der wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen, vol. I: Wis¨ senschaftliche Hochschulen (Tubingen, 1960), 462). For figures relating to the development of the teaching body and the students in German Protestant faculties until 1914: ¨ F. W. Graf, ‘Rettung und Personlichkeit, Protestantische Theologie als Kulturwissenschaft ¨ des Christentums’, in R. vom Bruch, F. W. Graf and G. Hubinger (eds.), Kultur und Wissenschaften um 1900, Krise und Glaube an die Wissenschaft (Stuttgart, 1989), 104ff.

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Theology and the arts and practical life a religious sense. Thus even more important than the education in school for the implantation of religion as a centre of moral education are ‘the academic years, for what the young persons absorb then is acquired in freedom, and it enters fully into their characters’.39 On the other hand the ‘combination of scientific spirit with a sense of religion’ forms the basis of a theology grounded in the principle of freedom, as understood and given institutional form by Schleiermacher. This is evident from the first in the appointments to professorial chairs: ‘the more opposing views and approaches prevail in theology, the greater the number of young people for whom study is something merely vocational and the more necessary it is to use a range of teaching modes so as to stimulate the students in a variety of ways and, by introducing competition, to maintain a stimulating spirit of rivalry among the teaching staff.’ To achieve this he felt it was not necessary to have a particular subject area represented by various approaches – as became the case later in many faculties. It was better to choose professors who, as exegetes, could teach dogmatics, for dogmatists could teach history just as historians could also teach exegesis, so that Berlin initially could manage with three professors of theology; Schleiermacher himself was obliged to teach dogmatics, which then became one of his major areas of achievement in theology. The difference between Reformed and Lutheran theology was not acknowledged by Schleiermacher, who came from the reformed church, and in 1817 he achieved the union of the two churches, something which had also been desired by the king. The professors who, in addition to Schleiermacher, were the speculative dogmatist and ecclesiastical historian Philipp Marheineke (1780–1846), the Bible exegist Wilhelm de Wette (1780–1849) and from 1813 the ecclesiastical historian August Neander (1789–1850) lectured on the various branches of theology, partly supplementing each other and partly in parallel. The traditional components of theology – Bible study, ecclesiastical history, systematic theology with dogmatics, ethics and apologetics – were augmented by Schleiermacher with practical theology, homiletics and catechetios. The increase in student numbers, the introduction of double professorships in order to represent conservative theology, and the specialization of branches of teaching led in the course of the century to an increase in theology chairs throughout the whole of Germany. At the University of Berlin in 1892, Old Testament exegesis and ecclesiastical history were each represented by three chairs, New Testament exegesis, dogmatics and the philosophy of religion by two chairs, practical theology and Christian archaeology by one. At the same time individual professors also covered 39

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Theology and the arts contribute independently to the common solution of problems, but also where the professors could be stimulated in their research by collaborative work with future scholars. Through the Berlin University model the theological seminar found its way into the modern, research-based university. A practical seminar was added to the theological one in 1876, in order to train students in homiletics and catechetics. Until then Schleiermacher’s view had prevailed, according to which ‘exercises’ that ‘were not conducive to the deepening of scholarly research and knowledge, but which merely practised certain skills and abilities’ should be performed outside the university. There was a different attitude to the ‘Christian Archaeological and Epigraphic Collection’. A report in 1810 introduced lectures on church antiquities but limited them for the most part to literary source materials, until in 1843 Ferdinand Piper (1811–89) set the monuments themselves in the foreground and in 1848 received permission to establish a ‘Collection of Church Monuments’ to serve the teaching of theology. In this way the study of Christian archaeology and epigraphy was founded as a scholarly discipline. The principle of freedom not only formed the basis of the daily routine of lectures and teaching on theology. Schleiermacher consistently argued for the freedom of theological teaching and research from interference by the state or Church authorities. His colleague De Wette was dismissed in September 1819 because, in a consolatory letter to the mother of the recently executed student Sand, the murderer of Kotzebue, he had praised ‘the firmness and purity of her son’s convictions’ and had excused his deed. The theological faculty appealed to the government in a letter drafted by Schleiermacher. It not only intervened on behalf of the colleague, but gave a very full justification for the need for that ‘unlimited freedom to teach in theology’ which had been removed by Metternich’s decrees. Schleiermacher also insisted that De Wette should publish the documents concerning his dismissal, in order to achieve his academic rehabilitation. This both opened the way for him to go to the University of Basle and exposed the reactionary stance of the Prussian state. Schleiermacher also played a leading role in the resistance of the university Senate and the Academy of Sciences to the Carlsbad Decrees. Reactionary circles in both the church and state bureaucracy tried for years to silence him through denunciations, police summonses and other attacks. The witch-hunt continued until 1823 when a motion was drafted by the government to remove Schleiermacher from the university and the pulpit but was not carried out.43 43

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¨ Walter Ruegg (1832–88) when appointed professor in 1858 was given the title ‘Professor of German and Romance Philology’ and was able to pursue both with his students in the previously mentioned ‘Seminar for German Philology’. In 1872 Adalbert von Keller was granted a ‘Seminar for Modern Lan¨ guages’ in Tubingen; in 1873 Bartsch introduced one with the same name in Heidelberg, but changed the name in 1877 to ‘Seminar for German and Romance studies’. Independent seminars for Romance studies appeared in 1877 in Halle and Bonn, and in Berlin in 1896 by the splitting of the seminar for Romance and English studies created in 1877.128 This particular combination was more common in the second half of the century both in the case of newly qualifying professors and in established chairs of modern language and literature. With the exception of Halle, where from 1822 there was a professorship in Romance studies, chairs in Romance philology first appeared as a result of the division of what were previously double professorships, first in Berlin in 1867 for Diez’s student Adolf Tobler (1835–1910) and then from 1872 to 1911 at the other German universities.129 At the same time journals of Romance studies began to spread, often independently of German and English philology.130 Until the First World War Romance studies were limited to philological and language studies, which examined not just great poets like Dante and Petrarch but also earlier periods in a manner that was similar to the one used by the Classical philologists to approach works of antiquity, that is, to study them as manifestations of a certain national and historical spirit. As a result, Renaissance and Humanism studies in Germany led the way until 1933.131 Contemporary Romance cultures, on the other hand, no longer met with anything like the interest which aesthetics and philosophy had stimulated. This situation changed in 1917. Bonn as the chief centre of German Romance studies was charged with responsibility for ‘The Study of the Romance Countries’ by the Ministry of Education on the initiative of the head of the university section, the former Bonn orientalist, Carl Heinrich Becker (1876–1933). The emphasis was placed on research into 128 129 130

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¨ Walter Ruegg compared with the number of other modern philologies and the number of highly specialized professorships in Oriental studies in the twentieth century. This is matched by the smaller number of dedicated specialist journals which appeared before 1945 and which remained in existence. Of course, this is no indication of the range and quality of teaching and research carried out by the relatively few western Slavists. Not only had they to deal with more languages and literatures within their own subject area than the Germanists, Romanists and Anglicists, but they also had to take into account the political, religious and cultural history of the whole of Europe and the languages and literatures of the neighbouring countries in order to distinguish foreign influences on the Slavonic world, while identifying its special features. Last but not least, Slavonic studies lacked support in terms of personnel and influence with the education authorities that is automatically there when a subject is taught in school. the european diffusion of modern philology The German model of modern philology became important in nonGerman-speaking countries after 1870. In addition to a professorship which had existed in Pisa since 1861, the modern Latin languages and literatures rapidly gained new chairs in Milan (1871), Florence (1874), Bologna and Turin (1875), Naples, Rome and Padua (1876).140 In 1892 romance philology was represented by teaching posts in Helsinki and Toulouse, by associate professorships in Genoa, Groningen and Li`ege, and by two full professorships in Christiania (Oslo), where one was combined with German and the other with English philology. Copenhagen and Uppsala had full chairs in Romance languages, and Lund an associate chair, whereas Turin had a teaching post in French philology. Professors were responsible for teaching the French and Italian language in London and Liverpool, and Spanish language and literature in Toulouse. Elsewhere they were usually taught by Lektors. There were chairs in German philology in 1892 in Birmingham, for Germanic languages in Lund and Uppsala, for German language and/or literature in Groningen, Lille, London and Milan. In addition there were teaching posts in Glasgow, Li`ege, Lyon, Palermo, and Rome. English philology had been established in Birmingham, London and Oxford by professorial posts, but on the Continent there were only teaching posts in Li`ege, Rome and Turin. Outside Great Britain, professorships in English language and/or literature only existed in Dublin, Copenhagen 140

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A. Zetersten, ‘The Pre-history of English Studies at Swedish Universities’, in T. Finkenstaedt and G. Scholtes (eds.), Toward a History of English Studies in Europe: Proceedings of the Wildsteig Symposium, April 30– May 2, 1982, Augsburger I-and I. Schriften 21 (Augsburg, 1983), 292.

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¨ Walter Ruegg thanks to his pioneering work had pupils throughout Europe. In 1814 the Coll`ege de France was granted chairs in Sanskrit as well as in the Chinese, Manchurian and Tartar languages and literatures. Egyptology, which had been given a firm foundation as a result of Napoleon’s Egyptian expedition, and had already seen its first scholarly publications, was introduced at the Coll`ege de France by Jean-Franc¸ois Champollion (1790–1832), and despite his premature death developed remarkably.155 It reached a highpoint thanks to Gaston Maspero (1846–1916), who taught at the newly founded Ecole pratique des Hautes e´ tudes from 1868, and then after 1873, at the Coll`ege de France as well. He also founded the Mission arch´eologique franc¸aise au Caire. In France especially, but not only in that country, Egyptology was linked with the care of collections, and one particularly distinguished example in this field among others is Auguste Edouard Mariette (1821–81), Curator of the Egyptian Museum at the Louvre, director of important excavations in Memphis, founder of the monumental museum at Cairo, and author of the corresponding archaeological reports. In England the development of Oriental studies was closely linked to education for the colonial service. In 1878 Cambridge introduced a Tripos for Semitic languages and in 1879 one for Indian languages. At the same time the university library was strengthened in these areas. Few students entered for these examinations, however, and so in 1895 they were combined into a Tripos for Oriental studies. At Oxford an Indian Institute was created in 1884,156 and in London in 1917 the School of Modern Oriental Languages, consisting of a section in University College and one in King’s College. In Russia political interest in Asiatic cultures led to the founding in 1814 of the Lazarev Institute in Moscow, which was granted professorial chairs in the languages of the Middle East, and also the Asiatic Museum in St Petersburg in 1818. The former was made into a research institute in Oriental studies in 1921 and the latter in 1930. In Spain the historical background favoured research into Islamic culture and this was carried out in particular by the Islamists Miguel As´ın y Pala´ Ribera y Tarrago (1858–1934), whilst in Italy cios (1871–1944) and Julian there were particularly close links with Egyptian and Ethiopian culture. In the German Empire a ‘Seminar for Oriental languages’ was opened at Bismarck’s instigation at the University of Berlin in 1887.157 Here languages important for the East African Protectorates were taught, together with those held to be significant in terms of German foreign policy, that is: English, French, Modern Greek and Spanish. In 1936 the seminar was

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Theology and the arts ¨ Germany after the First World War with the exception of Tubingen (1869), Strasburg (1872), Heidelberg (1890), Freiburg (1910) and Frankfurt-amMain (1914). Cologne, Kiel and Marburg kept to the undivided philosophical faculty until the 1960s, Vienna and Graz until 1975.186 Philosophy was represented in the larger universities by at least two chairs in the philosophical faculty and often by a further chair in another faculty. Its representatives determined the teaching of philosophy in the secondary schools (Gymnasien) and influenced the intellectual life of the age. From Humboldt and Schleiermacher in Berlin through Victor Cousin (1792–1867) in Paris to Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile (1875–1944) in Rome, philosophers were active too as university reformers. If, however, one were to ask which philosophers had had an influence beyond the limits of their subject, their language area and/or their age then there would be a significant difference. In Germany they were all either university professors – from the great figures of Idealism Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, through an evolutionary Monism influenced by Darwin and Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), as well as the representative of Lebensphilosophie and hermeneutics Wilhelm Dilthey, to the Phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, the philosopher of existentialism Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) and the philosopher of culture Ernst Cassirer – or they were academics who had abandoned a university career, either of their own free will, like Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), or because their teaching had been held to be ideologically unsound, like the leftwing Hegelian Arnold Ruge (1802–80) and the representative of radical ¨ Materialism Ludwig Buchner (1824–99), or else because of illness like Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), or indeed like Karl Marx (1818–83) they had been prevented on political grounds from entering a university career. On the other hand Auguste Comte (1798–1857), whose influence extended as far as South America, spread his Positivism outside the university through publications, private lectures, and his church-like Religion de l’humanit´e. John Stuart Mill (1806–73) developed his epoch-making principles of the empirical sciences and his radical liberalism and utilitarianism as an academic outsider. The same was true for Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) and Charles Darwin (1809–82),187 and it was not at the Sorbonne but at the Coll`ege de France that Henri Bergson (1859–1941) first presented his concept of e´ lan vital as the basis of e´ volution cr´eatrice,

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¨ Walter Ruegg an idea which was highly influential in the spheres of biology, psychology and aesthetics. This basic difference takes us back to the beginning of the chapter. In those countries which only took over the German development of the arts subjects quite late, philosophy was part of the traditional humanist education. In France it was clearly there in the final class of the lyc´ee or coll`ege which was devoted to philosophie. In other countries it appeared as part of education in the humanities and was supposed to provide the logical rules and moral principles necessary for a general education. As a subject in the lower faculty where students were being prepared for church or state careers philosophy was to a considerable extent exposed to the prevailing state ideology or church dogmatics. In the so-called Humboldt university philosophy was held to be a science. Significantly the prospectuses of the University of Berlin at the beginning of the twentieth century listed the theological, legal and medical lectures under the headings Gottesgelahrtheit, Rechtsgelahrtheit and Heilkunde, but those of the philosophical faculty – with the exception of ‘history and geography, art and art history’ – were listed as the ‘sciences of philosophy, mathematics, nature, state, philology, cameralism and trade’. Philosophy as a specialist subject embraced systematic philosophy as well as the philosophy of religion, history and society, the history of philosophy, the theory of knowledge and logic, psychology and pedagogics. In 1847 the first – German – congress of philosophers took place. Whilst the very first scholarly journal, the one founded in 1665 by the Royal Society of London, could be called philosophical in the all-inclusive encyclopaedic sense of humanism, and in a similar way other scholarly journals also had the word ‘philosophical’ in their title, the first real specialized scholarly journal for philosophy appeared in Germany in 1837.188 In the 1870s there followed seminars for philosophy in Jena, Leipzig, Strasburg and ¨ Tubingen, to be followed in the twentieth century by ones at the other German universities as well as at Austrian, Swiss-German, Polish, Swedish and Hungarian universities, some combined with, and others independent of, the pedagogical and/or psychological institutes.189 188

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Landes and Tilly (eds.), History (note 3), 5. P. Burke, Culture and Society in Renaissance Italy (London, 1972); W. Hardtwig, Geschichtsschreibung zwischen Alteuropa und moderner Welt. Jacob Burckhardt in ¨ seiner Zeit (Gottingen, 1974); E. Schulin, ‘Rankes Erstlingswerk’, in Schulin, Traditions¨ kritik und Rekonstruktionsversuch (Gottingen, 1974), 44–64. ¨ Gooch, History and Historians (note 6), 101–2. On Gervinus: G. Hubinger, Georg ¨ Gottfried Gervinus. Historisches Urteil und politische Kritik (Gottingen, 1984); cf. chapter 10.

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Gooch, History and Historians (note 6), 24. On Mommsen: A. Heuss, Theodor Mommsen und das 19. Jahrhundert, 2nd edn (Stuttgart, 1996); S. Rebenich, Theodor Mommsen, Eine Biographie (Munich, 2002); on Niebuhr: G. Walther, Niebuhrs Forschung (Stuttgart, 1993).

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History and the social sciences es eigentlich gewesen’ – he was the founder of what came to be called Historismus. Ranke, for whom modern European states were manifestations of the divine will, was neither an Hegelian nor a positivist. He believed that historical understanding required more than the accumulation of facts and spoke of ‘ahnen’, an intuitive cognition, a grouping of the ideas which shaped events. He ‘wandered about the broad landscape of world history’, but concluded that universal history would degenerate into ‘mere theory and speculation’ if it were to be separated from the history of states.19 Ranke was not deemed to be a brilliant lecturer, and depended for his immense influence on his seminar, organized for the benefit of highly talented students who were despatched to the archives, and his books, including published versions of his lectures which were widely read across Europe by an unseen audience. Some of his work was recommended text in Oxford where his methods were not copied by history tutors. When he died in 1886 at the age of 91, having faithfully observed his own rules, he was the doyen of Europe’s historians, with no fewer than 54 volumes listed under his name. In old age when surrounded by his children and grandchildren he was wont to say ‘I have another and older family, my pupils and their pupils’.20 In the nineteenth century the lecture was a main instrument of inspiration as well as of instruction, and there are many accounts of the impact of professorial lectures and lecturers on the seen audience. Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–84), who wrote a much studied Encyclopaedia and Methodology of History, was said by a Belgian pupil, Paul Fred´ericq (1850–1920), later a professor at Ghent, ‘to have begun his lectures low, like a great preacher, to obtain complete silence. . . . You could hear a pin drop. . . . Every moment there came a biting jest. There was great originality and much verve. The lecture ended with Homeric laughter at some anecdote told with irresistible humour.’21 19

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History and the social sciences to be considered ‘a London School of History’. An Institute of Historical Research was founded in 1903 as a centre of postgraduate study, and seminars held there became a feature of organized postgraduate study. In the provinces Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929), appointed to the chair of history at Owen’s College, Manchester, in 1890 after his predecessor, Adolphus William Ward (1837–1924), who continued to teach, became principal, developed along with his colleague James Tait (1863–1944) a ‘Manchester School’, highly professional in its approach to research and concentrating on medieval administrative history. In contrast to students in Oxford, Tout’s students were ‘formed into little groups not exceeding a dozen’, and each group was ‘put under the direction of a teacher who has already made the subject his own’. In 1905 Owen’s College became a university in its own right and between then and 1914 80 students passed through Tout’s hands, six of whom became professional historians. By-passing what was often heated argument in Oxford and Cambridge, Tout, secure in his professorial authority, believed that his ‘system’ would not sacrifice the many to the few. ‘It would be as good for the statesman, the lawyer, the clergyman, the journalist, the civil servant, and the man of business, as for the would-be historian.’36 Manchester retained its reputation as a centre of historical studies during the years between the two world wars, when one of its leading figures was the Polish-born historian of European diplomacy and of eighteenthcentury English politics, Lewis Namier (1888–1960), although he would greatly have preferred to have been a fellow of Balliol and bitterly regretted his exclusion. There were other historians from provincial universities who found Oxford posts, however, among them the medievalist Frederick Maurice Powicke (1879–1963) who left Manchester for Oxford as Regius Professor in 1929.37 Before 1914 there was significant movement from Oxford to Scotland, where in Glasgow Robert Sangster Rait (1874–1936), not a Scot by birth but educated at King’s College, Aberdeen, before Oxford, moved north in 1911, to become the first professor of Scottish history and literature. He went on to become principal of the university in 1929. Meanwhile, Richard Lodge (1855–1936), a Balliol College tutor, who, like A. L. Smith, prepared meticulous notes for his students, moved from Oxford to Glasgow in 1895, the same year as Prothero moved from Cambridge to Edinburgh, and in 1899 he succeeded Prothero in the Edinburgh chair, remaining its occupant until he retired in 1925. The study of Scottish history was not at the heart of the university history curriculum even 36 37

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Asa Briggs in St Andrews and Aberdeen, and while Rait made significant contributions to it and served as Historiographer-Royal for Scotland from 1919 to 1929, Lodge’s researches were concerned only with England and continental Europe. Like Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher (1845–1940) in Oxford, politician as well as academic who published a widely read three-volume History of Europe in 1935, he was one of the authors of a volume to a Longman History of England, a series much in use in colleges and universities. french historiography from michelet t o t h e ‘a n n a l e s ’ The contrast between the development of university history in German and in British universities was paralleled by an equally strong contrast between the development of history inside and outside universities in Britain and France. There were, of course, important links. Gabriel Monod (1844–1912), a great admirer of the Romantic historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874), whose biography he wrote, translated J. R. Green into French. Elie Hal´evy (1870–1937), who lectured at the Ecole libre des Sciences Politiques, where he gave his first course in 1902 (three years later, he refused a chair at the Sorbonne), approached English history through studies of utilitarianism and Methodism. The fact that England had not undergone a revolution comparable to that in France fascinated him as much as the French Revolution fascinated (or horrified) most of his contemporaries, who pivoted French history on it.38 Michelet’s own voluminous writings, which began with an Introduction a` l’histoire universelle, published in 1831 and which included a history of the Renaissance – he invented the word – culminated in a sevenvolume history of the Revolution, vivid, poetic, romantic, which Franc¸ois Alphonse Aulard (1849–1928), one of the first professional historians of the Revolution, described as the truest, though not most exact, history of the Revolution, a history which had only one hero, the People, the title of another of Michelet’s books, published in 1846. In 1887 Aulard was promoted from Poitiers to a chair founded for him at the Sorbonne by the Municipality of Paris which he held until 1922. He became president of the Soci´et´e de l’Histoire de la R´evolution Franc¸aise in 1904. The Revolution began to be studied in universities in almost every aspect and from almost every angle in the twentieth century, with Georges Lefebvre (1874–1959) opening up new horizons. He founded the Institut d’histoire de la r´evolution franc¸aise in Paris and produced La r´evolution 38

H. Guy-Lo´e, Elie Hal´evy Correspondance, 1891–1937 (Paris, 1996). Cf. P. Stadler, Geschichtsschreibung und historisches Denken in Frankreich 1789–1871 (Zurich, 1958).

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History and the social sciences franc¸aise in 1930 as part of a great French academic series Peuples et Civilisations under the general direction of Louis Halphen (1880–1950) and Philippe Sagnac (1868–1954). His doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne on Les Paysans du Nord had made him aware of a ‘level of popular mentality that had previously resisted historical illustration’, and some of his critics claimed was ‘not history at all’,39 but his later monograph La Grande Peur was a full justification of his approach. In any interpretation of the Revolution and the revolutionary wars the problem of how to interpret Napoleon could not be avoided, as Pieter Geyl (1887–1966), a Dutch historian with strong historiographical interests, a professor at the University of Utrecht, explained in his important study Napoleon, For and Against, not published in English until 1949. Geyl, more critical of Napoleon than any French historian, treated him (with Hitler then in mind) as a ‘dictator’, while confessing at the same time how he had ‘almost continuously . . . enjoyed the spectacle provided by French historiography. What life and energy, what creative power, what injustice, imagination and daring, what sharply contrasted minds and personalities.’40 Geyl, whose own first work, itself controversial, particularly in his own country, concerned the revolt of the Netherlands, also wrote Debates with Historians (The Hague, 1955), which included a critical study of Ranke. It was the French, not the Germans or the British, who established a new relationship between history and the developing social sciences between the two world wars, in the process encouraging interdisciplinarity and integration in the name of ‘total history’ rather than further fragmentation. A key figure was Lucien Febvre (1878–1956), the son of a teacher in Nancy, who had studied at the Ecole Normale Sup´erieure, where he took part in seminars given by Monod, whom he described as ‘my old master’. He also attended lectures from visiting professors in addition to those delivered at the Sorbonne by, amongst others, Henri Bergson (1859–1941) on philosophy, Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845–1918) on geography and ˆ (1852–1964) on the history of art. His early research focused Emile Male both on history and geography within a regional setting, an approach suggested by Vidal de la Blache in his powerful inaugural lecture at the Sorbonne in 1899. Febvre was planning a book on the relationship between the two subjects when the First World War began. After the war he became a Professor at Strasburg, a university almost completely reconstituted following the end of the First World War after the return of Alsace Lorraine to France.

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Asa Briggs It was ‘to the University of Strasburg in the days before the war’ that Friedrich Meinecke (1862–1954), most erudite of German historians, who in 1896 had succeeded Treitschke as editor of Historische Zeitschift, dedicated his Die Enstehung des Historismus 22 years after the First World War in 1936. This was the climax of his own history. But Meinecke lived long enough to see modern German history in perspective in his Die deutsche Katastrophe (1946), an urgent plea to restore the religion and culture of the German people as it had been before ‘nationalist excesses’. As long ago as 1905, when he was 43 years old, he had given a seminar at Strasburg to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the death of Schiller ¨ which led up to the publication of his Weltburgertum und Nationalstaat three years later, not translated into English until 1972. The English title of Die Entstehung des Historismus was Historism: The Rise of a New Historical Outlook, and not without an element of irony this was a similar title to that given by Peter Burke to the first English edition of Febvre’s essays, A New Kind of History, in 1973, the first of them written in 1928, ‘Fronti`ere, the Word and the Concept’.41 It was at Strasburg in 1920 that Febvre met the medievalist Marc Bloch (1866–1944), a great scholar, who shared all his interdisciplinary interests. Eight years later, Febvre and Bloch were joint founders of Annales: e´ conomies, soci´et´es, a periodical, soon highly influential, which was devoted exclusively to problem-orientated history, ‘total history’ as they conceived of it. For both men history was a science humaine, a broader description than ‘social science’. Bloch’s brilliant unfinished essay, Apologie pour l’Histoire, ou M´etier d’Historien, dedicated to Febvre, was written in defeated France in 1941, without books, when he left academic life to join the French resistance. Bloch was to be tortured and shot in a German prison camp in June 1944, when the Nazi hold on France was beginning to weaken. Among the subjects of Febvre’s essays the tracing of the history of historical concepts, like ‘civilization’, was prominent: ‘historism’ or ‘historicism’ might have been another. On this topic Karl Popper (1902–94) whose Jewish origin had prevented him from becoming a lecturer at the University of Vienna, first expressed ideas in 1936 on his way into exile, which in 1957 he published in The Poverty of Historicism. This was dedicated ‘In memory of the countless men, women and children of all countries, all origins, all creeds who fell victims to the nationalist and Communist belief

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History and the social sciences in “Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny”’. Meinecke had never put his trust in those.42 the rise of the social sciences Within the context of this chapter what Febvre said about ‘cognate’ sciences humaines is strictly relevant, although these were slow to develop as university subjects of study. The first of them was psychology, a subject prominent in pre-Anschluss Vienna, where Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) established a world-wide reputation, the second geography, which in the 1930s often took the form of geopolitics, and the third sociology, which, according to Febvre, took over in imperialistic fashion ‘anything that seemed open to rational analysis in the field of historical studies’.43 Febvre, who was interested in all three of these disciplines, had less to say about economics, which was more generally studied in twentiethcentury European universities than any other ‘social science’, a term with a different history from science humaine. ‘Economies’ came first, however, in the first title of Annales, and 100 years earlier, the relationships between economics, sociology and politics had been examined by the English scholar, John Stuart Mill (1806–73), who, like most early ‘social scientists’, never held a paid university post. His first book A System of Logic (1843), in which he used the term ‘contemporary history’, included interesting and still-pertinent sections on the social sciences, and he followed this up ten years later with his Principles of Political Economy. In A System of Logic Mill, brought up as a Benthamite Utilitarian, was careful to relate what came to be called the policy-making aspect of the ‘social sciences’ to their context. ‘If, for instance, we would apply our speciality in political economy to the prediction or guidance of the phenomena of any country, we must be able to explain all the mercantile or industrial facts of a general character appertaining to the present state of that country: to point out causes sufficient to account for all of them, and prove or show good ground for supposing, that these causes have really existed.’44 In explaining when and why ‘social sciences’ were introduced into the nineteenth- and twentieth-century university syllabus it is always equally 42

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Asa Briggs important to examine context. ‘The circumstances varied from country to country and from university to university in accordance with their traditions.’45 Only in Germany were there courses in what later came to be called ‘social science’. Before the nineteenth century what was called Statistik covered quantitative descriptions of states, population, wealth and resources. There was also a close relationship with law not only in Germany, but in Italy, Sweden and other countries which persisted through into the twentieth century, and importance was attached to the social context in the development of jurisprudence.46 Staatswissenschaft included constitutional and public law, political economy, administration – and fiscal science. ¨ Special chairs in economics (Nationalokonomie) were created at the universities of Zurich in 1851 and Berne in 1864, but in other German-speaking universities ‘political economy’, after 1850 also called ¨ ‘Nationalokonomik’ or ‘Volkswirtschaftslehre’, was still taught by the professor of ‘Staatswissenschaft’ or ‘Staatswirtschaft’. As the study of economics developed as a university subject in German universities in the nineteenth century, it retained a strong historical orientation, represented by Wilhelm Roscher (1817–94), ‘the incarnation of professorial learning’,47 who taught in the University of Leipzig for 46 years, and by Karl Knies (1821–98), who made Heidelberg into a ¨ renowned centre of research. Roscher’s Grundriss zu Vorlesungen uber die Staatswirtschaft nach geschichtlicher Methode (1843) set the pattern. A ‘younger historical school’ was led by Gustav von Schmoller (1838–1912), who was at the centre of a number of fierce methodological controversies, some based on misunderstanding, and was continued by what the outstanding Austrian economist Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1853–1950) called a ‘youngest school’, represented by Werner Sombart (1863–1941) and Max Weber (1864–1920), ‘one of the most powerful personalities’ that ever entered ‘the scene of academic science’.48 The range of influence of both older and younger and youngest schools was European, through Italy, Scandinavia and Belgium, and it reached the United States. Britain was not entirely immune from historicism, as the successive chairman’s lectures delivered to Section F of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, created in 1860, show.49 Yet in Britain, as for different reasons in France, the legacy of ‘classical political economy’ 45 46

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E. Shils, ‘The Universities, the Social Sciences and Liberal Democracy’, Interchange, 23 (1992), 184. F. Wieacker, A History of Private Law in Europe with Special Reference to Germany ¨ (Oxford, 1995); M. Rassem (ed.), Statistik und Staatsbeschreibung in der fruhen Neuzeit ¨ Geisteswissenschaften zwis(Paderborn, Munich, Vienna and Zurich, 1980); K. W. Norr, chen Kaiserreich und Republik (Stuttgart, 1994). J. A. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis (New York, 1954), 809. 49 R. L. Smyth (ed.), Essays on Economic Method (London, 1962). Ibid., 817.

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History and the social sciences was so strong that in public, if not always in universities, it constituted an orthodoxy. It was possible, therefore, for John Elliot Cairnes (1823– 75), professor of economics at Dublin from 1857 to 1862, and later at University College, London, from 1867 to 1872, to claim confidently that ‘Great Britain, if not the birthplace of Political Economy, has been at least its early home. Every great step in the progress of economic science . . . has been won by English thinkers.’50 Cairnes obviously treated ‘English’ in the broadest terms, to include the Scots and Irish as well. Three years earlier he had claimed equally confidently that the task of economists was ‘pretty well fulfilled’. This proved to be false. Most of the lectures delivered to the British Association, which rotated its meetings from city to city, were not by academic economists – Dublin was prominent in providing these – but by civil servants, and while Oxford had a Drummond Professor of Political Economy, a privately endowed chair, since 1827, and Cambridge since 1863, there was no separate Economics Tripos at Cambridge until 1903 and no Oxford degree in economics – and then part of a shared syllabus, PPE or ‘Modern Greats’ – until 1921. The first holder of the Cambridge chair, however, was a distinguished economist, Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), who was largely responsible for the conversion of what came to be called ‘classical political economy’ into ‘neo-classical economics’. His Principles of Economics (1890) was devised very differently from Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) which claimed to expound ‘the laws which regulate the distribution of the produce of the earth’. Marshall continued in his chair until 1908 when he was succeeded by Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959), who followed in the same tradition. A ‘Cambridge School’ of economics did not come to be identified until later in the twentieth century, and even then there was no complete agreement among always contentious Cambridge economists. The leading figure from the 1930s onwards was John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), whose General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money appeared in 1936, but he had critics inside as well as outside the university. There were obvious differences in orientation between Cambridge and Oxford and between Cambridge and the London School of Economics (LSE), founded in 1895, from the start an alternative centre of ideas and interest. Yet Marshall wrote to William Albert Samuel Hewins (1865–1931), first Director of the LSE and 23 years younger than himself, that ‘London and Cambridge have in many respects a closer kinship with one another than with any other economic schools on this side of the Atlantic’.51 50 51

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History and the social sciences in two volumes, published in Germany in 1897–98, appeared in English translation. The German geographer Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904), who invented the term Lebensraum, became a university professor at Leipzig in 1886, having lectured previously at the Technische Hochschule in Munich.54 The kind of political geography he taught was converted in the 1930s into geopolitics (Geopolitik) by Karl Haushofer (1869–1946), who treated the quest for Lebensraum as a great political mission and geography as a whole as a ‘perpetual struggle for life’. Geopolitics had been conceived of earlier as an amalgam of geography and political science by the Swede Rudolph Kjell´en (1864–1922), and the LSE Professor Halford John Mackinder (1861–1947), who coined the term ‘heartland’. Sweden remained a major centre of university studies in geography in the twentieth century as it did in economics. Knut Wicksell (1851–1926), who studied science and mathematics at Uppsala and economics in London, Strasburg and Vienna, did not obtain a university doctorate in economics until 1895 when he was told authoritatively that there was ‘little hope’ that the [University Board] at Uppsala would take any steps to appoint a professor or docent in economics’.55 He went on to take a full law degree, therefore, which he obtained in 1899, by which time his writings on price theory and money supply were well known outside Sweden. He moved to a provisional associate professorial chair in economics and taxation law at Lund in 1899, but in face of academic resistance it required a royal decree of 1901 to make the chair permanent. Wicksell’s controversial ideas and behaviour always attracted attention, but despite his economic textbooks he had no more than three licentiate students while he was at Lund. He was the first president of an economists’ club founded in Stockholm in 1917, but he was not on good terms with an equally well-known Swedish economist, Gustav Cassell (1866–1945), fifteen years younger than himself, who was professor of economics at Stockholm from 1904 to 1933. As a young scholar Cassell, who became renowned for his monetary studies, rejected marginal utility theory, which had been pioneered by Carl Menger (1840–1921) who after a brief civil service career held one of the two chairs of political economy in the faculty of law at the University of Vienna from 1872 to 1903 by L´eon Walras (1834–1910), first holder of a chair in economics in the faculty of law at the University of Lausanne in 1870; and by William Stanley Jevons (1835–82), born in Liverpool, who worked for a time on socio-economic 54 55

¨ G. H. Muller, Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904), Naturwissnschaftler, Geograph, Gelehrter (Stuttgart, 1996). Letter of 1896 from Professor C. Y. Sahlin, quoted in T. Gardlund, The Life of Knut Wicksell (Stockholm, 1958), 168.

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History and the social sciences became a highly successful textbook, in 1803. After the fall of Napoleon he was appointed to the first academic post devoted to political economy (renamed ‘industrial economy’) at the Conservatoire des Arts et des M´etiers in 1819, moving to a chair at the Coll`ege de France in 1827 ‘which remained in the hands of his followers until the end of the century’.58 Its lectures, open to the public, were supplemented by articles in the Journal des Economistes, founded in 1842, along with a Soci´et´e d’Economie Politique. Say’s followers, particularly Michel Chevalier (1806–79) and the journalist apostle of free trade, Fr´ed´eric Bastiat (1801–50), asserted the hegemony of economic laws over politics. Proud of their orthodoxy, they had nothing to do with sociology, Comtian or Marxist. Comte’s career went through distinct phases and his ideas at every stage in it – they became doctrines – always attracted disciples, some of them in universities. The first volume of his Syst`eme de politique positive et trait´e de sociologie, instituant la religion de l’humanit´e appeared in 1851. Comte had an international influence and his disciples were known as Comtists or more simply as Positivists. In France itself, however, it was an academic sociologist, Emile Durkheim (1858–1917), who in establishing sociology also influenced anthropology and psychology, and whose statue stands in Paris outside the ‘Nouvelle Sorbonne’, a university reformed on ideological as well as practical grounds during the late nineteenth century. Durkheim, son of a Rabbi, born at Epinal in Lorraine, not far from Strasburg, in 1858, began, like Comte, by accepting positivism as the basis for sociological education, but while treating society as a ‘system’, he explicitly rejected Comte, and in 1895 he set out his own Rules of Sociological Method, an English title of a book not translated into English until 1982. After the French defeat by the Germans in 1870 and the loss of Lorraine, Durkheim had moved from the Ecole Normale, which he had entered as a student in 1879, to teach in a number of lyc´ees, and having spent a year in Germany in 1885/86, became the first professor of social sciences and education at Bordeaux in 1887, a combined professorship specially created for him. He then moved to the University of Paris where he became a full professor of sociology and education in 1906. The combination of sociology and education was crucial to him. He was a key figure in peace and war in the days of the Third Republic both as an educator himself – he had many distinguished pupils – and as a propagandist. He had his French critics, however, including several on the right, and on the academic front Gabriel de Tarde (1843–1904), who wrote a number of sociological monographs after serving as the head of 58

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History and the social sciences the University of Kiel. His Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (1887) which he had presented as his Habilitation thesis as Privatdozent for philosophy in 1881, was an extremely influential study not only in Germany but abroad. Together with Sombart, Weber and Georg Simmel (1858–1918), ¨ Sociologie’ in 1909.59 he founded the ‘Deutsche Gesellschaft fur During the Weimar Republic chairs in sociology were at last created in Cologne (Staatswissenschaften und Soziologie 1919), Frankfurtam-Main (Soziologie und Wirtschaftstheorie 1919), Leipzig (Soziologie 1925), Berlin (Associated Professorship 1921). Sociology was also taught in Technische Hochschulen, and in teacher-training colleges and police academies.60 Some of those teaching it survived the arrival of National Socialism, which attacked sociology as a Jewish and Marxist invention. ¨ Sozialforschung at One which obviously did not was the Institut fur Frankfurt, which gave its name to the Frankfurt School, which was concerned inter alia (through Theodor Wiesengrand Adorno (1903–69)) with what came to be called communications studies. Marxist in theory, with an input too from Freudian psychology, the blend was called by its shrewd director, Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), ‘critical philosophy’. Two years before Hitler came into power Horkheimer had transferred the endowment of the Institute to the Netherlands and a sub-division of the Institute to Geneva which allowed it in 1933 to move from Frankfurt to Paris and in 1934 to Columbia University in New York. In 1941 it moved again, to California, where its influence after the Second World War was considerable.61 Even more so was the influence on American sociology of Weber, who had never held a chair in the subject. He was appointed professor of political economy at the University of Freiburg in 1894, of Heidelberg in 1897 and finally of Munich 1919. He was deeply interested and involved in politics, which he treated, like Wissenschaft, as a ‘vocation’ or ‘calling’, as well 59

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Asa Briggs as in economics, psychology and, above all, history.62 He set out to seek links between different kinds of social activity, and his span included India and China. He died in 1920. Again there was a time-lag in English translations of his works. Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus (1904) did not appear in English until 1930 by which time Tawney’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926) had appeared. Weber’s unfinished Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, which was published in 1922 did not appear in English until 1968. In that decade sociology was a booming academic subject in all parts of the world, and the study of history, in particular, was being strongly influenced by it. History was being influenced by anthropology too. Indeed, there were international links between all the emerging disciplines, not all social scientists choosing to describe themselves as such: for example, at the LSE the professor of anthropology from 1927 to 1942, Branislaw Malinowski (1882–1942) had studied with Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) at Leipzig, a scholar whose first degree was in medicine. He had offered the first course ever taught in scientific psychology in Europe in 1862 in the University of Heidelberg and in 1879 had established the first psychology laboratory at Leipzig, where there was no department of psychology. Before studying with Wundt, Malinowski had taken a doctorate in physics and mathematics at Cracow, where, bored with his doctoral studies, he had read with excitement The Golden Bough (1890) by the British anthropologist James George Frazer (1854–1944). Much of the most interesting and important writing on anthropology, which explored magic, science and religion, was carried on outside universities, although in Oxford Edward Burnet Tyler (1832–1917), author of Primitive Culture (1871), had been appointed reader in anthropology in 1884, having lectured in the University Museum, where he became Keeper of the Pitt Rivers ethnographic collection. His attempt to introduce a degree course in anthropology failed in 1895, facing opposition from both classicists and natural scientists, but a year later he was offered a personal chair. In faculty terms, anthropology was handled as a diploma subject supervised by a Board which also included archaeology and geography. There was a parallel association with museums in Germany where Adolf Bastian (1826–1905), after travelling around the world as a ship’s doctor, in 1866 was appointed in Berlin as Curator of the Royal Collections and given at the University of Berlin the title of reader in ethnology 62

M.Weber, ‘Politik als Beruf’ (1918), and ‘Wissenschaft als Beruf’ (1918), translated into English with an introduction by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (London, 1947), 77–156; R. Bendix, Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait (New York, 1960).

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History and the social sciences ¨ (described by Max Muller as ‘Mr Tyler’s Science’63 ). Bastian founded ¨ ¨ Volkerkunde ¨ both the Konigliche Museum fur (1873) and, together with Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Pre-history (1869), one of a number of such societies on both sides of the Atlantic. There were cross-links with linguistics, archaeology and evolutionist biology, Darwinian and non-Darwinian. Following fieldwork in the Pacific, Malinowski wrote books which became ‘classics among anthropologists of every persuasion’, including so-called ‘applied anthropologists’ working in an imperial context. British anthropologists, given the opportunity of doing ‘fieldwork’ in various parts of the Empire, developed ‘social anthropology’ during the inter-war years in a different way from American ‘cultural anthropologists’. (The distinction was to be sharpened after 1945.) Meanwhile, in Germany versions of ‘physical anthropology’, with earlier roots, could become tools of National Socialist racist propaganda. The twentieth-century map of learning, therefore, like the nineteenthcentury map or, indeed, the Baconian map of the sixteenth century, cannot be studied apart from its political context. Nor can modes of transmitting and communicating knowledge. And round the corner there were bigger changes to come. select bibliography Bendix, R. Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait, New York, 1960. Berger, St., Lambert, P. and Schmann, P. (eds.) Historikerdialoge. Geschichte, ¨ Mythos und Gedachtnis im deutsch – britischen kulturellen Austausch 1750– ¨ 2000, Gottingen, 2002. Blaas, P. B. M. Continuity and Anachronism: Parliamentary and Constitutional Development in Whig Historiography and the Anti-Whig Reaction between 1890 and 1930, The Hague, 1978. Bleek, W. Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft in Deutschland, Munich, 2001. Breisach, E. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Chicago, 1983. Burrow, J. W. A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past, Cambridge, 1981. Butterfield, H. Man on His Past: The Study of Historical Scholarship, Cambridge, 1955. Carbonell, C.-O. Histoire et historiens, une mutation id´eologique des historiens franc¸ais, 1865–1885, Toulouse, 1976. Dahrendorf, R. A History of the London School of Economics, 1895–1995, London, 1995. 63

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In the course of the last years of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century, the teaching of mathematics and the exact sciences at the European universities underwent a slow but profound change. From auxiliary sciences or elements of general education, mathematics, physics, astronomy and chemistry developed into independent disciplines. The hierarchy of faculties handed down from previous centuries assigned only a preparatory role to the arts faculty. As a result of the evolution of the natural sciences in the eighteenth century and their ever-increasing importance for the economy, industry, mining, agriculture and military science, physics and chemistry developed outside the universities from purely auxiliary sciences to independent fundamental sciences. Their further differentiation during the nineteenth century brought about the creation of new professions, which also influenced the universities. The philosophical faculties gradually outgrew their preparatory role and began to develop autonomously. Alongside the traditional speculative approach to nature, there developed in the eighteenth century a new method for teaching natural philosophy based on experimental demonstrations using machines and instruments. As the Newtonian ideas spread, the mathematical approach to natural phenomena also obtained a place, albeit modest, in university education. Inhibiting here was the inadequate mathematical knowledge of the students and, not rarely, also of the professors. Around 1800 Physica, Naturlehre, physical or natural philosophy, was not yet a clearly delineated scientific discipline. In addition to physics in the present meaning, it included also elements of astronomy, geology, mineralogy, physiology and anatomy. A clear differentiation of these various disciplines only came about in the nineteenth century.

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Paul Bockstaele The mathematical sciences also had a place in the faculty of philosophy. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the teaching of mathematics was still at a rather low level at most of the universities. In the last decades of the eighteenth century, the teaching of mathematics in the German uni¨ versities was strongly influenced by the Anfangsgrunde der Mathematik of ¨ Abraham Gotthelf Kastner (1719–1800). The several volumes of a French textbook by Etienne Bezout (1730–83) were widely translated and used into the nineteenth century, also outside of France.1 In Spain, Benito Bails (1730–97), inspired by the courses of Wolff and Bezout, wrote the most important encyclopaedic work on mathematics in Spanish of the eighteenth century.2 Noteworthy, too, is the book, Elementos de Aritm´etica, Algebra y Geometr´ıa (Madrid, 1782) by Juan Justo Garcia (1752–1830), in which a number of pages are devoted to differential and integral calculus. This work continued to be used as a textbook until after 1800 in the universities of Santiago, Oviedo, Seville, Valladolid and Zaragoza. Obviously, these works contained much more than what was actually treated in the courses. An idea of what the students were offered in the best cases, perhaps, is given by the courses of Nicolas Louis de la Caille (1713–62). Appointed professor of mathematics at the Coll`ege Mazarin of the University of Paris in 1740, by the next year he had published his courses.3 In this short book, he treated arithmetic, algebra, logarithms, the summation of series, geometry with a chapter on plane trigonometry, the analytic treatment of conic sections, and the principles of infinitesimal calculus. La Caille’s Lec¸ons were reprinted several times and translated into Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English and Greek. La Caille’s successor, Joseph Franc¸ois Marie (1738–1801), published a new, extended edition that served until far into the nineteenth century as a handbook in various European universities. In general, at the end of the eighteenth century, instruction in mathematics at most universities remained limited to arithmetic, the elements of algebra with the solution of linear and quadratic equations, logarithms, and geometry with plane and spherical trigonometry. In applied mathematics, one taught the mechanics of solid and liquid substances, optics with perspective, astronomy, geography, gnomonics and chronology. Conic sections, analytic geometry and calculus were still rare at the end of the eighteenth century. Unlike the mathematical and physical sciences, the initial institutional context in which chemistry developed into an academic discipline was not the faculty of philosophy but of medicine. There, its teaching was 1 2 3

E. Bezout, Cours de math´ematiques a` l’usage des Gardes du Pavillon et de la Marine, 6 vols. (Paris, 1764–69). ´ B. Bails, Elementos de matematica, 10 vols. (Madrid, 1772–76). N. L. de la Caille, Lec¸ons e´ l´ementaires de math´ematiques, ou e´ l´ements d’alg`ebre et de g´eom´etrie (Paris, 1741).

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The mathematical and the exact sciences entrusted to one of the younger professors, as a temporary assignment. This situation prevailed until the end of the eighteenth century. From the second half of the eighteenth century, primarily non-medical applications of chemistry in agriculture and industry played the main role in the emancipation of chemistry from an auxiliary science to a fundamental science. In Sweden, so rich in mineral resources, the tradition of chemical research grew out of mineralogy and mining. When the University of Uppsala established a chair for chemistry in 1749, it was decided not to place it in the faculty of medicine but in the faculty of philosophy, where the students of administration, economics and mining were also trained.4 The Swedish organization, followed also at Coimbra and a few other universities, was ahead of its time. Chemistry remained largely in the medical faculties well into the nineteenth century. As the demand by industry for technicians increased in the course of the eighteenth century, new schools were created, some with university rank, where ample space was provided for the teaching of chemistry. A prominent example was the academy of mining at Schemnitz in Slovakia, where chairs for mineralogy, chemistry and metallurgy were established in 1764. The laboratory method introduced at Schemnitz had a great effect on the teaching of chemistry far beyond the Habsburg Empire.5 Of critical significance for the emancipation of the mathematical and physical sciences that enabled them to form independent academic disciplines were the educational reforms in revolutionary France at the end of the eighteenth century, and also, after the fall of Napoleon in 1815, the renewal of the faculties of philosophy in the so-called spirit of Wilhelm von Humboldt in the German universities. mathematics and the exact sciences in f r a n c e a f t e r 1800 In France, the Revolution eliminated the universities.6 As centres of higher education, there remained only the Jardin du Roi, which was converted by the decree of 10 June 1793 into the Mus´eum d’Histoire Naturelle, and the Coll`ege royal, which was reopened on 21 November 1794 as the Coll`ege de France. In the Mus´eum, public courses were organized on such subjects as geology, mineralogy and chemistry. Among the lecturers were Antoine Franc¸ois de Fourcroy (1755–1809) and Louis Nicolas 4 5

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Paul Bockstaele Vauquelin (1763–1829) for general and technical chemistry, and Ren´e ¨ (1743–1822) for mineralogy. Separate courses in physics in the Just Hauy ˆ modern sense were not given. Joseph J´erome de Lalande (1732–1807) taught mathematics and astronomy at the Coll`ege de France. He was succeeded in 1807 by Jean-Baptiste Delambre (1749–1822). There had been a chair in general physics since 1769, and a chair for experimental physics was also established in 1786. The two courses were combined in 1824 under the title of general and experimental physics, the first holder of the chair being Andr´e Marie Amp`ere (1775–1836). The chair for chemistry and natural history, established in 1774, was split in 1800, and chemistry assigned to Vauquelin. By 1804, Louis Jacques Th´enard (1777–1857), his student, took over the task. He taught with great success until 1845. The Ecoles Centrales established throughout the entire country by the Convention did not provide higher education, but were an attempt to introduce mathematics, physics and chemistry on a reasonably high level. However, they did not exist long enough to exercise any lasting influence. ´ Above the Ecoles Centrales, but without any relationship to them, were the e´ coles sp´eciales, which generally were strictly professional, like the ´ ´ Ecole de M´edecine or the Ecole des Arts et M´etiers. Far and away the ´ most important was the Ecole polytechnique, founded in 1794. Initially ´ called Ecole des Travaux publics, it was undoubtedly the greatest achievement in the French revolutionary period in the area of technical education ´ and, more generally, in the area of the exact sciences. The Ecole polytechnique was initially intended to replace all the higher technical schools for military and civil engineers. This original plan was, however, soon ´ abandoned. By the law of 22 October 1795, the Ecole polytechnique was assigned the task of providing the basic knowledge needed for further studies in one of the more specialized e´ coles d’application, like the Ecole ´ ´ d’Artillerie, the Ecole du G´enie militaire in Metz, the Ecole des ponts ´ et Chauss´ees, or the Ecole des Ing´enieurs de Vaissaux. The earliest curriculum mentions for mathematics analysis with applications to geometry and mechanics in addition to descriptive geometry, subdivided into stereometry, architecture and fortification. Physics was divided into general and special physics or chemistry. General physics dealt with the general characteristics of bodies, caloric, light, electricity and magnetism. In special physics or chemistry, the saline substances, the organic substances and the minerals were studied in turn. ´ The professors of the Ecole polytechnique were selected from among the best French scholars: Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813) for mathematical analysis, Gaspard Monge (1746–1818) for descriptive geometry, and Fourcroy, Vauquelin, Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822) and Jean Antoine Chaptal (1756–1832) for chemistry. Although founded as a school for applied sciences, most of the attention from the outset was given to the 496

The mathematical and the exact sciences teaching of pure sciences. In the first decades of its existence, this gave rise to frequent criticism. In a short time, the Ecole Polytechnique developed into the best scientific faculty in the world. Between 1806 and 1808, the French educational system was once again changed. The law of 17 March 1808, which introduced the Universit´e Imp´eriale, divided higher education into five independent faculties: theology, law, medicine, sciences and letters. The non-professional faculties, letters and sciences, were attached to lyc´ees. Their task remained largely limited to the administration of examinations and the granting of degrees. Scientific research did not belong to their official mission. Each faculty of sciences had to have at least four professors: one for differential and integral calculus, one for mechanics and astronomy, one for physics and chemistry, and one for natural history. Their impact on the teaching of mathematics, physics, astronomy and chemistry was not great. An exception to this was the faculty of sciences at Paris, which could call ´ upon professors of the Coll`ege de France, the Mus´eum, and the Ecole polytechnique. Teaching was begun there on 22 April 1811. The courses were divided into two series: one for mathematics and one for physics. In the mathematics series, Sylvestre Franc¸ois Lacroix (1765–1843) taught differential and integral calculus, Sim´eon Denis Poisson (1781–1840) taught mechanics, Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862) taught astronomy, and Louis Benjamin Francoeur (1773–1849) taught advanced algebra. Common to the two series was the course in physics given by Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778–1850). Chemistry, together with natural history, belonged to the physics series and was taught by Th´enard. The influence of French educational policy was also felt in the areas occupied or annexed by France. The Italian universities retained their unity and organization, although they were compelled to make more room for the sciences and to establish an independent physics and mathematics faculty from which the philosophy of the old arts faculty had virtually disappeared. At the University of Geneva, new chairs were established in 1802 to strengthen the sciences, including chemistry and mineralogy. After the annexation of the Kingdom of Holland by France, the universities of Leiden and Groningen were incorporated as academies including faculties of sciences into the Universit´e Imp´eriale by a decree of 22 October 1811. The independent faculties of science with more opportunities for mathematics and physics survived the fall of Napoleon. The universities of Ghent, Louvain and Li`ege, founded by William I in the southern provinces of his kingdom received their Facultas matheseos et philosophiae naturalis, with professors for mathematics, physics, astronomy and chemistry. Until around 1830, Paris was the predominant centre for education and for research in mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and chemistry. The handbooks published by the professors and their great fame as 497

Paul Bockstaele scholars, which attracted students from all over Europe, maintained the hegemony. Fourcroy’s Philosophie chimique (first published in 1792) went through three Parisian editions and several editions outside of France. The sixth edition of Th´enard’s Trait´e de chimie e´ l´ementaire, th´eorique et pratique (4 vols., Paris, 1813–16) appeared in five volumes in 1834–6, and a German translation by Gustav Fechner (1801–87) was published in Leipzig in 1825–30. Poisson’s Trait´e de m´ecanique of 1811 remained in use until after 1830 by the universities of Leipzig and Coimbra and reappeared, reworked, as William Whewell’s An Elementary Treatise of Mechanics (Cambridge, 1819). Lacroix, who succeeded Lagrange in 1799 ´ as professor of mathematical analysis at the Ecole polytechnique, spread French methods all over Europe, and even in England. Monge’s Lec¸ons de g´eom´etrie descriptive (Paris, 1799) were reprinted several times and widely translated. Foreigners who had studied in Paris helped to start to reform education, especially that of mathematics, mathematical physics and chemistry in their own countries. A strikingly large number of Poles and Russians attended courses at the Ecole Polytechnique. Among the Poles, we find Jozef Markowski (1758–1829), professor of chemistry and mineralogy in Cracow from 1810 to 1829; Franciszek Sapalski (1791–1838), who introduced descriptive geometry in Cracow, and also J. K. Skrodzki and Adrian Krzyzanowski (1788–1852), professors of, respectively, physics and astronomy at the University of Warsaw. Zachariasz Niemczewski (1766–1820) stayed in Paris from 1802 to 1807 and was then appointed professor at the University of Wilna, where he taught mathematical analysis according to Lacroix. Among the Russians were Mikhail Ostrogradskii (1801–62) and Viktor Buniakovskii (1804–89), both of whom had great influence on the teaching of mathematics in Russia. In Spain, the French methods of teaching science were propagated by Jos´e Mariano Vallejo (1779–1846), who stayed in Paris for a few years and was a friend of Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749–1827). From Germany, too, people came to Paris to do further studies in science. Because he saw no opportunity to learn modern mathematics at any of the German universities, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805– 59) went to Paris in 1822 and studied at the Coll`ege de France and the ¨ Paris Facult´e des Sciences. He would later succeed Gauss in Gottingen. Among the German chemists who worked for a time in Paris were Leopold Gmelin (1788–1853), who is known for his Handbuch der theoretischen Chemie (Frankfurt, 1817–19), and Justus von Liebig, the founder of the famous Giessen chemical school. Another foreign chemist trained in Paris was Jean Servais Stas (1813–91). He studied and worked there with Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–84) until 1840 and later taught chemistry at the Military School in Brussels. The influence of Paris was 498

The mathematical and the exact sciences particularly great on the Romanian universities and technical institutes: well into the twentieth century most of the professors of mathematics, physics and chemistry had studied at the Sorbonne. Their courses were generally revisions or adaptations of French university handbooks. Outside of Paris, the level of education was roughly that of popularized lectures on scientific discoveries for a varied public. The faculties for the sciences were primarily offices for issuing diplomas. The new concepts that typified the German universities, after 1830 gradually gained dominance, particularly in physics and chemistry. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, however, the desire to keep up with Germany helped refashion French educational policy. The science faculties obtained ever more material and scientific resources for the reorganization of education on a more modern and experimental basis. The re-establishment of the universities in 1896 also had a favourable effect. In co-operation with regional industries, technical institutes were founded7 in which applied physics and mechanics were taught alongside applied and industrial chemistry. This commitment, made to applied research and to the training of engineers and highly qualified technicians, was the most important motor in the reform and re-evaluation of the faculties for sciences outside Paris. ´ At the Sorbonne, however, to which the Ecole Normale Sup´erieure was associated in 1905, as well as at the Coll`ege de France, the teaching of theoretical sciences continued to predominate. the exact sciences at german universities With the development of the gymnasia, the better organization of secondary education, and the introduction of the Abitur examination, betterprepared students came to the university, making superfluous the more elementary courses in the faculty of philosophy. Classical studies were affected first, and then mathematics and the sciences. A good example of the transition is the teaching of mathematics. During the first quarter of the nineteenth century, it continued the eighteenth-century tradition. The impulse for renewal was first institutionalized at the small provincial ¨ University of Konigsberg in East Prussia.8 ¨ Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784–1846) had already made Konigsberg a centre for astronomical research, when, in 1826, Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–51) was appointed professor in mathematics. By introducing the students to the latest developments, he vastly exceeded the normal level of instruction in Germany. In the same year as Jacobi, Franz ¨ Neumann (1798–1895) came to Konigsberg as Privatdozent. In 1829, he 7 8

See chapter 15, 616. ¨ W. Lorey, Das Studium der Mathematik an den Deutschen Universitaten seit Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts (Leipzig and Berlin, 1916).

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Paul Bockstaele was appointed professor of mineralogy and physics. Influenced by Bessel and Jacobi, he concentrated primarily on mathematical physics. Together with Jacobi, he founded a mathematics and physics seminar in November 1834. It consisted of two divisions, one for mathematical physics under his direction, and one for pure and applied mathematics under the direction of Jacobi. From the work and commitment of the trio of Bessel, Jacobi ¨ and Neumann grew the Konigsberg School, one of the most striking indications of the rising interest in Germany in educational questions about mathematics and physics. ¨ Konigsberg’s influence was felt earliest at the universities of Heidelberg and Giessen. Ludwig Otto Hesse (1811–74), who took his doctoral degree ¨ in Konigsberg in 1840, went via Halle to Heidelberg in 1857, where the ¨ physicist Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–87), also a Konigsberg alumnus, had been teaching mathematical and experimental physics since 1854. The ¨ Konigsberg spirit and method came to Giessen largely through the agency of Alfred Clebsch (1833–72). He founded a mathematics seminar there ¨ ¨ modelled on Konigsberg’s. Clebsch had the same influence in Gottingen, where he arrived in 1868. The mathematics seminar founded in 1850 with the primary objective of training mathematics and physics teachers for gymnasia, finally flourished under his leadership. After his untimely ¨ death in 1872, Felix Klein (1849–1925) built Gottingen into one of the leading centres in the world for mathematical research. He was helped ¨ by David Hilbert (1862–1943), who came to Gottingen in 1895, and by Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909), who was appointed in 1902 to a newly established third full professorship in mathematics. Even Berlin, for many years the most important centre for mathematics in Germany, ¨ was surpassed by Gottingen around 1900. In the first years of its existence, the young University of Berlin, founded in 1810, had little more to offer than its older sisters. In the winter term of 1825/26, Jacobi gave a series of lectures on differential geometry that were on the level of the science of the time. He then went off ¨ to Konigsberg. When he returned to Berlin in 1845 as a member of the Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, much had changed. August Leopold Crelle (1780–1855) had begun (in 1826) the publication of the Journal fur die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Dirichlet had begun ¨ his teaching there in 1831. Like Jacobi in Konigsberg, Dirichlet discussed his own research areas in his courses, and he introduced his students to the latest advances. The high point of Berlin as a centre for mathematics came in the second half of the nineteenth century when Ernst Eduard Kummer (1810–93), Leopold Kronecker (1823–91) and Karl Weierstrass (1815–97) were full professors there. The first purely mathematics seminar was created officially in 1864 on the recommendation of Kummer and Weierstrass. In 1920, the University of Berlin received its first full 500

The mathematical and the exact sciences professor for applied mathematics, Richard von Mises (1883–1953), who founded and directed the Institute for Applied Mathematics. Following ¨ the example of Berlin and Gottingen, other German universities raised the level of instruction in mathematical sciences. The great mobility of the lecturers and the Lehrfreiheit of the professors played an important role in this homogenization. As in Berlin, mathematics seminars were founded ¨ ¨ in Bonn (1866), Tubingen (1869), Greifswald (1872), Wurzburg (1875) ¨ and elsewhere. In other universities the Konigsberg model of a combined mathematics and physics seminar prevailed, as in Munich (1856). At the German universities in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the teaching of Naturlehre or physics was frequently combined with that of mathematics or chemistry. The combination of mathematics and physics is encountered in Giessen, Berlin, Bonn, Breslau, Leipzig, ¨ Tubingen and Jena. There were full professorships in physics and chem¨ istry, for example, in Heidelberg, Erlangen, Halle and Wurzburg, where this combination was maintained even until 1870. At the University of Rostock, the philosophical faculty assigned physics, chemistry and botany ¨ to the same lecturer, while in Konigsberg, until the 1820s, the same full professor taught botany, zoology, mineralogy, chemistry and physics. At most of the universities, the collections of instruments for experimental physics were insufficient or even non-existent. Equipment had to be ¨ acquired by the professors at their own expense. In Gottingen, experimental physics developed through the efforts of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99), who, with his own funds, purchased all kinds of apparatus for his teaching. They were taken over by the university, which therefore already had a physikalisches Kabinett at the beginning of the nineteenth century.9 In Giessen, Georg Gottlieb Schmidt (1768–1837) established a physics cabinet on his own. Only in 1825 did he succeed in acquiring apparatus at the cost of the university. His successor, Heinrich Buff (1805–78), set up in 1838 a classroom and a laboratory in an outbuilding of his residence. In 1844, the state began to pay him an annual rent and the expenses of the furniture.10 In Leipzig, too, the first university collection of physics apparatus came from the private collection of professors. On the basis of these collections, in 1835, one of the first, if not the first, staatlich physikalisches Institut in Germany was founded.11 German Idealism influenced the natural sciences throughout the first third of the nineteenth century. Schelling’s idealistic and romantic 9

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The mathematical and the exact sciences had been working there since 1871. The largest physics institute of the new German Empire was built for Helmholtz (completed in 1878). It was a brilliant time for physics in Berlin, where Max Planck (1858–1947), who succeeded Kirchhoff in 1889, had several other winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics as colleagues. Almost all German universities built an institute for physics during the last quarter of the nineteenth century or the first ¨ ¨ few years of the twentieth century: Wurzburg in 1879, Tubingen in 1888, Leipzig in 1905, and so on. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, almost all the universities in Central Europe had a salaried post in chemistry, which was still situated, with few exceptions, in the medical faculty. Jena was the first place where the separation between chemistry and medicine lasted. In 1789, Goethe succeeded in getting Carl August, the Duke of Weimar, to finance courses in chemistry and pharmacy in the faculty of philosophy. Johann Wolfgang ¨ Dobereiner (1780–1849) brought the teaching of chemistry into its own. He equipped one of the earliest teaching laboratories and, beginning in 1820, before Liebig in Giessen, introduced student chemistry exercises, which served as the example for all of Germany.13 At the University of Erlangen, the anatomist Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt (1764–1816), who lectured on chemistry at the faculty of medicine, brought about the transfer of chemistry to the faculty of philosophy in 1796. In 1799, he received a new laboratory.14 In Halle, chemistry went definitively to the faculty of philosophy in 1799.15 The remaining universities slowly followed suit. Chemistry received its own independent chair within a medical faculty in 1817 with the appointment of Leopold Gmelin (1788–1853) as full professor in Heidelberg. Only in 1852, with the appointment of Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811–99) as his successor, was the chair transferred to the faculty of philosophy.16 In addition to Heidelberg with Bunsen, three centres led the development of teaching and research in chemistry in Germany in the nine¨ teenth century: Giessen with Justus von Liebig (1803–73), Gottingen with ¨ Friedrich Wohler (1800–82), and Berlin with August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818–92). In May 1824, the Grand Duke Ludwig I of Hessen, on the recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt and without consulting the faculty, appointed the 21-year-old Justus von Liebig to associate professor 13

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Paul Bockstaele in chemistry at the University of Giessen.17 This marks the definitive beginning in Germany of laboratory instruction in chemistry, which had ¨ Jakob Berzelius already reached a high level in France and also, with Jons (1779–1848), in Sweden. Liebig’s special educational methods emphasized courses and exercises intended to bring the students as quickly as possible to full participation in experimental work. From Liebig’s school came many famous chemists, who influenced the academic teaching of chemistry in Germany and elsewhere. ¨ The University of Gottingen had a chemistry laboratory in 1783. It was initially orientated primarily to the pharmaceutical and chemical needs of the medical faculty. Friedrich Stromeyer (1776–1835) established a teach¨ ing laboratory there. His successor, Friedrich Wohler, was, like Liebig, one of the great teachers of chemistry of the century. The presence of the chair of chemistry in the medical, and not in the philosophical faculty burdened him with many utilitarian activities, but, alongside his unremitting activity as a researcher, he did an astonishing amount of teaching. At the University of Berlin, the full professorship for chemistry was linked to membership in the Academy for the first few years of its existence. The first chair holder was Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743–1817). After his death, Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794–1863) came to teach in 1822, after a period of study with Berzelius in Stockholm. The second chair in chemistry was given to Heinrich Rose (1795–1864). After the almost simultaneous deaths of these two scholars, a new epoch dawned for chemistry in Berlin by the appointment of August Wilhelm von Hofmann, a student of Liebig. As a condition for the acceptance of the appointment, he demanded that an institute be built with modern teaching and research laboratories. It was dedicated in 1869. Meanwhile, chemical ¨ institutes were founded in Heidelberg in 1855, Wurzburg in 1866, Bonn in 1868, and so on. By the end of the nineteenth century, chemistry in the German universities had become a separate study area with specialization in inorganic and organic chemistry, physical chemistry and analytical chemistry. The universities in the neighbouring German-speaking countries, especially in Switzerland, benefited directly from developments in Germany owing to the high mobility of the professors. At the University of Zurich, which was founded in 1833 after the model of Berlin, almost all the professors of mathematics were German until well into the twentieth century. The teaching of chemistry was also in German hands for many years. The ¨ establishment in 1855 of the Eidgenossische Polytechnikum, later renamed ¨ Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH), in Zurich, gave new opportunities to the university with the founding of joint professorships 17

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The mathematical and the exact sciences in both institutions. Among the professors who taught at both the university and the ETH, were Rudolf Clausius (1822–88), Albert Einstein (1879–1955), Peter Debye (1884–1966) and Max von Laue (1879–1960). Already at the foundation of the ETH, the intention was to teach the full breadth of both mathematics and the natural sciences at the highest level. Consideration was also given to the training of teachers in these fields, and, in 1866, an Abteilung zur Bildung von Fachlehrern in mathematischer und naturwissenschaftlicher Richtung was founded with two subdivisions, one for natural sciences and one for physics and mathematics. The organizer of the latter division was the mathematician Erwin Bruno Christoffel (1829–1900), who had studied in Berlin. At the ETH, too, most of the professors of mathematics were of German origin until 1940. The University of Basle had been a leading centre of mathematical sciences during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries thanks to three generations of the famous Bernoulli family with six professors of mathematics and their student Leonhard Euler (1707–83). But in the first half of the nineteenth century interest in mathematics was meagre. In 1862, ¨ Carl Neumann (1832–1925) of Konigsberg, a son of Franz Neumann, was appointed associate professor. Discouraged by the insufficient mathemat¨ ical knowledge of the students, he accepted an appointment in Tubingen ¨ in 1865, where he introduced Konigsberg methods. After 1912 and until the 1950s, one of the two posts of full professor of mathematics remained in German hands. The full professorships of physics and chemistry were also mostly occupied by Germans. The universities of Vienna, Graz and Prague also participated in the exchange of professors in German-speaking areas. In 1867, Ernst Mach (1838–1916) went from Graz to Prague as professor of experimental physics. He worked there for almost 30 years until 1895, when he transferred to Vienna. Between 1868 and 1883, almost all Czech physics students were educated by him, and many prominent professors of physics, mathematics or astronomy at that time started their professional careers ´ (1848– as Mach’s assistants. Among his students were Cenek Dvoˇrak 1922), later professor at Agram (Zagreb) University, and Cenek Strouhal (1850–1922), the first professor of experimental physics at the Czech University of Prague, founded in 1882. In 1911, Albert Einstein who had been associate professor of theoretical physics at the University of Zurich, was appointed full professor at the German University of Prague, but one year later he returned to the ETH Zurich, before going in 1914 to Berlin as Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute. From Vienna came Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), successively professor at Graz, Vienna ¨ and Munich, Erwin Schrodinger (1887–1961), professor at Stuttgart, Breslau, Zurich, Berlin, Graz, Dublin and Vienna, and Wolfgang Pauli (1900–58), professor at Hamburg and Zurich. 505

Paul Bockstaele the exact sciences at british universities At both Oxford and Cambridge as well as at the Scottish universities, there had been chairs in mathematics since the seventeenth or the eighteenth centuries. What was taught at the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, was very much out of date. Mathematics was not practised in the universities for its intrinsic value nor, as in France, as a professionally, economically or militarily useful science. Appreciated as an intellectual exercise to help students to develop their ‘logical thinking’, it was accepted as a useful instrument for the education of young men to become gentlemen. At Oxford, the mathematical sciences were long refused a fair place in the curriculum, and they counted for nothing in the examinations. In addition to the study of the classics, the teaching in the colleges concentrated on the study of Euclid, algebra, conic sections, plane and spherical trigonometry, static, dynamics, hydrostatics, optics, fluxions and fluents, and Book I of Newton’s Principia. Students were often dissatisfied with this science and supplemented their knowledge by private instruction or self-study. They often used the works of French mathematicians or astronomers, particularly those of Lacroix, Laplace and Lagrange. In Cambridge they made the extra effort because the Mathematical Tripos was the only examination leading there to an honours degree until 1850. The candidates placed in the first class were called wranglers, and to finish as the first or senior wrangler was considered a great success. In this way, the honours examinations at Cambridge had become an institutionalized stimulus for the study of mathematics. Important for the teaching of mathematics at Cambridge was the foundation in 1812 by some undergraduates of the noteworthy but short-lived Analytical Society.18 The objective of the founders was ‘to reform British mathematics generally, starting with notation’. They encountered resistance. To reduce the university to a research centre for mathematics did not fit into the then prevailing ideas of education. Defensive reactions, manifested in the emphasis on geometry and elementary mathematics, can be found even after 1840. Mathematics began to flourish at Cambridge with the appointment of George Gabriel Stokes (1819– 1903) in 1849 as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a post he held until his death in 1903. He promoted the study of higher mathematics and of mathematical physics. At the Scottish universities, the teaching of mathematics remained unquestionably conservative and elementary until far into the nineteenth century. Many professors were competent mathematicians, but their students were insufficiently prepared for the study of higher mathematics. 18

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The mathematical and the exact sciences including the mathematicians Nicolaus Fuss (1755–1826) and Stepan Rumovskii (1734–1812). New universities were founded according to the German model, but all received a faculty of mathematical and exact sciences whose curriculum was unusually finely divided into pure and applied mathematics, theoretical and experimental physics, chemistry, mineralogy, astronomy, agriculture and botany. The number of educational personnel available in Russia did not allow the universities to fulfil the plan from the outset. The first to do so was the German-language University of Tartu (Dorpat). Its rector, Georg Parrot (1767–1852), a professor of physics, had founded the necessary lecturers by 1805. He himself laid the basis for the proper teaching of physics and provided a well-equipped physics laboratory. At the University of Vilnius, the faculty of physics and mathematics was subdivided into ten departments, each with a professorship: physics, chemistry, natural history, botany, agriculture, higher mathematics, applied mathematics, astronomy, practical astronomy and civil architecture. Again, lack of professors prevented filling all the vacancies. The teaching that was done used the books of Lacroix, Legendre, Biot and Delambre. However, the university was closed in 1832 by Tsar Nicholas I before it reached completion. At the University of Moscow, physics, mechanics, chemistry, astronomy and other courses were taught by foreigners. The University of Kazan had the good fortune of being able to appoint four eminent German scientists between 1808 and 1810: Johann Bartels (1769–1836) for pure mathematics, Kaspar Renner (1780–1816) for applied mathematics, Joseph Littrow (1781–1840) for astronomy, and Franz Xaver Bronner (1758– ¨ 1850) for physics. Bartels had been the teacher of Gauss in Gottingen, and in Kazan he had Nikolai Lobachevskii (1792–1856) among his students. In Kharkov, mathematics was taught by Timofei Osipovskii (1765–1832), one of the best mathematicians in Russia at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He wrote a handbook in three parts that introduced an entire generation of Russians to mathematics and he translated Laplace’s M´ecanique c´eleste into Russian. New problems arose around 1820 that disrupted the already difficult beginnings of science teaching in Russia. The universities became the scene of a sometimes bitter struggle between the Russian Government and the foreign professors. Control of the national educational systems had come into the hands of conservative bureaucrats, who encouraged a mixture of piety and mysticism in the universities. Science had to be saturated with Christian morality. The universities received instructions about teaching from the religious point of view. Theoretical and experimental physics could be used to demonstrate God’s omniscience and the limits of human capabilities. Censorship was applied even to handbooks of physics and chemistry. With the exception of Dorpat (Tartu), the effect 509

Paul Bockstaele on the universities was catastrophic. Some professors were officially dismissed or voluntarily resigned, and most of the foreigners left Russia. Many positions remained unoccupied, and the universities degenerated into a scientific wasteland. It took them almost a quarter of a century to recover completely from this disaster. The first step to recovery was taken when, in 1827, it was decided to send a few of the most promising students from Moscow, Kazan and Kharkov for three years to the University of Tartu (Dorpat) and then for two years abroad for further studies. The first group returned in 1834 from Western Europe, most having studied in Berlin. In the meantime, a number of young scholars who had worked in Paris had returned to Russia. Among them was P. A. Zateplinskiy (1794–1834), the first Russian to be promoted to doctor at the Paris faculty of sciences, who taught astronomy at the University of Kharkov from 1824 to 1834. There was also Mikhail Ostrogradskii (1801–62), who studied in Paris from 1822 to 1827. After his return to Russia. he taught mathematics, analytic mechanics and mathematical physics at several institutions in St Petersburg. The Russian universities could not satisfy the enormous demand for highly competent mathematicians, physicists or chemists in Russia, but they did train a large number of students who could start as postgraduate students under eminent scholars in the West. Thanks to the universities, Russia could begin to satisfy its needs in the 1860s with its own people, and imported scholars became rare. From then on, mathematics, mechanics and chemistry, in particular, experienced a striking emancipation at the universities and other educational institutions in Russia. An important role in the revival of the study and the teaching of mathematical sciences in Russia was played by Viktor Buniakovskii (1804–89). In 1825, he obtained his doctorate in analytical mechanics and mathematical physics at the faculty of sciences in Paris. In 1846, he was appointed professor of pure and applied mathematics at the University of St Petersburg. A year later, Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821–94) came to St Petersburg from Moscow as assistant professor and began teaching courses in higher algebra and number theory. In 1850, he was appointed extraordinary professor and, in 1860, ordinary professor. Together with Buniakovskii, he laid the foundations for what became known as the St Petersburg school of mathematics. Chebyshev’s work was continued by Andrey Andreevich Markov (1856–1922). For more than 25 years, from 1878 to 1905, he combined intensive research with teaching in higher algebra, number theory, integral calculus, elliptic functions, the calculus of finite differences, probability theory and applied mechanics. For physics, the University of St Petersburg could call upon academician Heinrich F. E. Lenz (1804–65), who had studied in Tartu (Dorpat) under Parrot. From 1836 to 1865, he taught general physics, 510

The mathematical and the exact sciences the theory of electricity and magnetism, and physical geography. In chemistry, Aleksandr A. Voskresenskii (1809–80), who had studied with Mitscherlich in Berlin and with Liebig in Giessen, regularly informed the students about the new discoveries and ideas in chemistry. He also taught at the St Petersburg Pedagogical Institute. His student Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834–1907) was appointed professor of general chemistry at the university in 1868. Through his agency, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov (1828–86) came from Kazan to St Petersburg in 1868, where he developed a school for organic chemistry. In Kazan, Butlerov had been a student of Nikolai Nikolaevich Zinin (1812–80), who had worked in Giessen with Liebig, and he was appointed there to extraordinary professor in chemistry in 1854 and to ordinary professor in 1857. With the appointment in 1834 of Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman (1796– 1866) to professor of applied mathematics at the University of Moscow, the foundation was laid for the teaching of both theoretical and applied mechanics. Pure mathematics flourished in the first third of the twentieth century with the school of function theory of Dmitrii Fedorovich Egorov (1869–1931) and Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin (1883–1950).20 Egorov was director of the Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics of the University of Moscow from 1921 to 1929. Luzin trained a pleiad of ‘Soviet mathematicians’. professionalization and scientific r e s e a r c h 1870–1939 Three kinds of academic approaches to the exact sciences may be distinguished: the French or Latin, which was primarily professionally orientated; the German, which gave precedence to scientific research; and the English, which saw mathematics and natural sciences as elements of an allround education. Over the nineteenth century, these differences blurred, and, by 1900, it was accepted everywhere that the universities were both training schools and institutes for scientific research. New social and economic needs and the increasing differentiation of the natural sciences in particular led, by the first half of the nineteenth century, to the disappearance of the encyclopaedic curriculum of the philosophy faculty. The strong growth of the mathematical and the physical and chemical sciences after 1870 brought ever-increasing specialization. Various branches of mathematics, physics, astronomy and chemistry developed into almost autonomous sub-disciplines, each with its own terminology and method. At most universities, this development led to the introduction 20

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Paul Bockstaele went on in Europe until 1939, preparations for war and war itself dealt a blow to science such that Europe has never recovered its pre-war dominance. Paris’s importance in chemistry was maintained by Berthollet, Dumas, Gay-Lussac and Michel-Eug`ene Chevreuil (1786–1889). They combined industrial and academic work in a stimulating way, but they did not succeed in preventing Germany from assuming leadership in chemistry. In Great Britain, chemical research was never centralized as in France. Although it had strong centres in Edinburgh and Manchester it could not stem the German advance. The increasing complexity of chemistry, which resulted in its division into new, more or less autonomous branches, also brought in more mathematics, in the discipline of physical chemistry. Its founders were Jacobus van’t Hoff (1852–1911), Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927) ¨ and Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932); its journal, the Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie, was founded in 1887. Another novel chemical sub-discipline was biochemistry. By the middle of the century, a few chemists, including Liebig, began to integrate their work with that of biological researchers. Physiologists at first made major, though incoherent, contributions to biochemistry. Only at the end of the nineteenth century did the pieces begin to fall together, and modern biochemistry arose as an inter-discipline between the animal and plant chemistry of the chemists and the physiological chemistry of the biologists and medical researchers. The definitive flourishing of biochemistry, however, only commenced after 1920. Biochemistry as an independent sub-discipline received a place in university curricula only after World War II. The harvest of scientific discoveries was the result of research concentrated in universities and polytechnic institutes. Between 1890 and 1914, well-organized academic laboratories were the sites of original, systematic research. Among the great research centres, alongside the Institute for Physics in Berlin and the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, the Laboratoire de Recherche Physique of the Sorbonne has a place. It was built and equipped as directed by Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921), who became its director in 1886. Important original research also came out of the physics laboratory of the University of Manchester, particularly under Rutherford. In the Netherlands, primarily the physics laboratory of the University of Leiden with Heike Kamerling Onnes (1853–1926) and Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853–1928) and the laboratory of Amsterdam with Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923) and Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943), were busy international centres. In 1891, Arrhenius was appointed professor of physics at the Technical University of Stockholm, a chair that he held until 1905, when he became 514

The mathematical and the exact sciences head of the section of physical chemistry of the Nobel Institute of the Academy of Sciences. During the years of his professorship, a stream of students came from Sweden and abroad to work with him in Stockholm. In 1912, Niels Bohr (1885–1962), after his studies at the University of Copenhagen, went to Manchester where he collaborated with Rutherford. In 1918, he became the first director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen. In a few years, his Institute became a Mecca for theoretical physicists the world over. Research into the physical sciences in Italy remained largely limited to theoretical physics. Important research centres developed only after 1927 at the universities of Rome and Florence and, after 1930, in Turin. The origins of theoretical physics should be sought in the mathematical physics taught in France and at Italian and Belgian universities from early in the nineteenth century. Its substance was the mechanics of fluids, elasticity, sound and optics. During the nineteenth century, it picked up thermodynamics, aerodynamics and potential theory. The parts of mathematical physics closest to ongoing experimental work developed into theoretical physics, which came into its own around the turn of the century with William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) and Franz Neumann. Initially, education in theoretical physics was generally seen as a supplement to that in experimental physics; consequently German universities introduced it through an extraordinary professorship junior to the ordinary professorship for experimental physics. By the turn of the century, almost all German universities had an extraordinary professorship for theoretical physics. By 1914, nine of them had been converted to ordinary professorships. By 1900, however, Germany was leading the field. Physics education at British universities was dominated for most of the nineteenth century by graduates of the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos.23 The candidates were required to present skills in the solution of problems in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, and later on after 1860 also in optics and electromagnetism. As late as 1914 in England and Scotland, almost half of the chairs in physics were occupied by men trained in the Mathematical Tripos. They propagated that confidence in worked out mechanical models that characterized British physics until World War I. After 1910, the influence of the Cambridge School waned as a result of the growing prestige of the Natural Sciences Tripos, which was founded in 1848, the foundation of research schools at municipal universities, particularly in London and Manchester, and the rise of physical theories irreducible to mechanics. Because physics had become a requirement 23

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the birth of biology The year 1802 was, in a sense, a turning point in the history of biology. In that year, the science of biology was formally born, simultaneously on both sides of the Rhine. In France, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), professor of the Mus´eum d’Histoire Naturelle of Paris, defined biology as follows: ‘All that is generally common to plants and animals, as all those features which are, without exceptions, proper to all of these creatures, should be the sole and wide subject of a particular science which has not yet been founded, which has even yet no name and which I shall call Biology.’1 In his famous Philosophie zoologique, in 1809, Lamarck returned to this new discipline, mentioning that he had collected a great amount of material for a book with the title Biologie. But, as he somewhat sadly put it, ‘this work will now remain, as far as I am concerned, unwritten’.2 Lamarck was a controversial figure, and his work was soon nearly forgotten. In Germany, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776–1864) was more fortunate. In 1802, when he was only 26 years old, he began publishing his major work on Biologie. The word ‘biology’ had been used occasionally, but in Treviranus’s work, which became quite popular in the German-speaking world, the concept was well defined:

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Many other events in biological – and geological – sciences could be picked up from the years around 1800. There was the histology of Xavier Bichat (1771–1802), which was announced in 1800 in his Trait´e des membranes and in 1801 in Anatomie g´en´erale. There was the new comparative anatomy of Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), which, of course, had its roots in the Renaissance but which became manifest in a new sense in Cuvier’s Lec¸ons d’anatomie compar´ee in the year VIII of the Revolution, i.e. 1800. The two Italian experimental physiologists and physicists, Luigi Galvani (1737–98) and Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), continued their dispute about the nature of electricity, especially ‘animal electricity’, until Galvani’s death; they paved the way for the rise of modern neurophysiology in the 1840s. As to geology, James Hutton (1726–97) had announced his uniformitarian theory in 1785 and in an enlarged form in 1795 in his book Theory of the Earth, but his ideas became more generally known only during the early years of the nineteenth century, when the ‘Neptunists’, headed by the influential German geologist and mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1750–1817), were in a long and sometimes bitter controversy with the ‘Vulcanists’ about the principal factor responsible for the formation of the earth’s crust; according to the Neptunists it was water, according to the Vulcanists it was fire. The beginning of the century was also the beginning of the era of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), who returned with his friend Aim´e Bonpland (1773–1858) from their great voyage to South America in 1804. Humboldt is nowadays mainly known as an explorer and as the founding father of plant geography, but during the first half of the nineteenth century he exercised great influence on all scientific thinking. Especially with his lectures in Berlin in the 1820s he raised among the public a new interest in the sciences, which soon led to a German hegemony in many fields, and not least in the biological ones. In his older days – he lived to be 90 – Humboldt became a symbol of science for the whole of Europe, comparable to Albert Einstein (1879–1955) a century later.

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Biology and the earth sciences Grand Hospice d’Humanit´e) in Paris, but Treviranus was a professor at the Bremen Lyceum, and Oken held several teaching posts in the universi¨ ties of Gottingen, Jena, Munich and Erlangen, before finally settling down at the University of Zurich. The fact that there were several universities and university-type colleges in the German-speaking world (including part of Switzerland, Austria, Bohemia, and even the Baltic provinces, notably the University of Dorpat (Turku)) provided a certain mobility for scientists: they could aspire to a better position in a better university, or, as in the case of Oken, change places when radical scientific or political ideas had made life and work difficult in the previous institution. A great move towards the ‘scientification’ of the German universities was effected by the founding of the University of Berlin in 1810, because its ideology included free scientific research as a necessary part of university life.7 Together with the mobility of the professors and other teachers it meant better possibilities for spreading new scientific ideas in receptive environments. And for the states, scientific achievements in the universities could become objects of national pride in a new way, when the value of the university was no longer counted in the bulk of learning but in the quantity of scientific innovations. a new physiology A famous example of the new German spirit was the case of Johannes ¨ Muller (1801–58). He studied at the University of Bonn in the spirit of the Naturphilosophie and received his medical degree in 1822. After some further studies in Berlin under the celebrated anatomist Karl Rudolphi (1771–1832) – one of the first to detach himself from Romantic idealism – he returned to Bonn and became a professor there, not yet 24 years old. ¨ After the death of Rudolphi, in 1832, Muller, who already had made himself a name in the field of physiology, wrote in a letter to Mr Altenstein, the Prussian Minister of Education: My friends in this country and abroad – as well as I myself – feel that I am destined to head a great institution. Here I will never find any opportunity to use all my capacities. When I now, in the full force of my young age, can sense what I could get done, I feel myself obliged and forced to turn to Your Excellency and recommend myself when this most important step will be taken, which for many years will determine the spirit which emanates from the splendid institutions of Berlin and which can with good reason be expected from them, judging from the most active life in other sciences. . . .8 7 8

See chapter 2, 47–52, and chapter 6, 169–75. ¨ ¨ ‘Brief, 7.1.1833’, in E. Du Bois-Reymond, Gedachtnisrede auf Johannes Muller (Berlin, 1860), 62.

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Anto Leikola He wanted to make Berlin as central in anatomy and physiology as Paris had been in zoological anatomy during Cuvier’s time, which had recently ¨ ended. Although the style of this boastful letter was rather unusual, Muller got the professorship, and he did what he had promised: Berlin became ¨ a European centre for physiology and comparative anatomy. Muller’s Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen,9 of which he had finished the first volume slightly before moving to Berlin, has been described as a milestone in European physiology, and its import to this science has been compared to that of Albrecht von Haller’s (1708–77) monumental Elementa physiologiae corporis humani in the previous century. And ¨ although Muller in the 1840s and 1850s moved away from physiology and concentrated on the comparative anatomy of lower animals, he had a ¨ number of students who adopted the experimental method, which Muller himself did not practise, and created the flourishing school of German ¨ physiology, rivalled only by Claude Bernard in France. Muller remained a vitalist in his theoretical views, but times were changing, and most of the students expressed a tendency towards a materialist interpretation of life processes. ¨ Among Muller’s students were Emil Du Bois-Reymond (1818–96), the ¨ pioneer of electrophysiology and Muller’s successor in Berlin; Carl Ludwig (1816–92), the inventor of the kymograph and other physiological instruments and the first professor of physiology in Leipzig, where he founded ¨ the first modern physiological institute; Ernst von Brucke (1819–92), who ¨ taught physiology in Konigsberg and then in Vienna – Sigmund Freud was one of his students – and who became especially noted for his studies of physiological phonetics, but who also worked on many other fields of physiology; and Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–94), whose name remains famous in energetics, physiological acoustics and optics, nerve physiology, and many branches of physics, such as energetics and hydro¨ dynamics, and who taught physiology first at Konigsberg, then at Bonn and Heidelberg, and finally physics in Berlin. All these brilliant physiologists had many students, not only from German-speaking countries but also from Scandinavia, where the new methods and attitudes were spread by such men as the Swede Frithiof Holmgren (1831–97) and the ¨ Finn Robert Tigerstedt (1853–1923). When the generation of Muller’s students passed away in the 1880s and 1890s, most of European physiology had been moulded by the German school, a fact that was to a great extent due to the fruitful combination of teaching and research in several universities.

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Biology and the earth sciences t h e c e l l t h e o ry ¨ One of the most gifted students of Muller was Theodor Schwann (1810– 82), the father of the general cell theory. He received his decisive stimulus from Matthias Schleiden (1804–81), who first studied law in Heidelberg ¨ and thereafter medicine and botany in Gottingen and Berlin. Being aware of Robert Brown’s (1773–1858) discovery of the plant cell nucleus, Schlei¨ zur Phytogenesis, where den published in 1838 a paper entitled Beitrage he formulated plant cell theory, i.e. that all plants are composed of cells, that each cell has an individual life, and that the life of the plant is actually a result of the life of its cells. Even before publication he could describe ¨ the cells to his younger friend Schwann, who had assisted Muller in Bonn ¨ and then, after some years of study at Wurzburg, followed his teacher to Berlin. There he invented the ‘muscular balance’ for measuring muscular force – a bold attempt to treat a ‘vital’ phenomenon simply as a physical one – discovered pepsin as the first physiological catalyst, and propounded the view, later confirmed by Pasteur, that alcoholic fermentation is the result of the activity of yeast, which he conceived as an organism, and that putrefaction is the result of microbial activity and not vice versa. After having learned from Schleiden about the plant cells, Schwann began working with histological preparations of animal tissues and found cells everywhere. Thus he could extend Schleiden’s theory to all living matter, and general cell theory has ever since remained one of the most fundamental paradigms of the biological sciences. But even before Schwann had published his epoch-making Mikroskopische Untersuchungen,10 he was severely criticized and even ridiculed by the leading chemists Friedrich ¨ Wohler (1800–82) and Justus von Liebig (1802–73), who held an opposite view about alcoholic fermentation, and his university career in Germany was at an end. He accepted an invitation to a professorship of anatomy in Louvain, Belgium, from where he later moved to Li`ege, but his creative genius was emptied and his mind turned to spiritual meditations; during his 40 years as professor in Belgium he achieved nothing that could even distantly be likened to the brilliant achievements of his youth in Berlin. ¨ It was Muller, however, who picked the new cell theory for the second volume of his Handbuch, and this lent the theory an authority which it might not otherwise have attained, at least not so rapidly. It was soon accepted practically everywhere, and new applications of it were found in embryology and reproduction and other fields of biology; it is strange how little controversy this fundamental breaking of the ‘unity of the living 10

¨ ¨ T. Schwann, Mikroskopische Untersuchungen uber die Ubereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachstum der Tiere und der Pflanzen (Berlin, 1839).

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Anto Leikola organism’ actually caused, especially if it is compared with the tremendous controversies occasioned by the other great change of paradigm in biology, the evolutionary theory, launched twenty years later. Amongst those who developed cell theory at the German universities ¨ are Albert von Kolliker (1817–1905), who explained that the egg and the ‘spermatozoon’, or ‘sperm animalcule’, are actually cells (in the case of the egg he followed Schwann’s opinion); Karl von Siebold (1804–85), who stated that protozoans are independent organisms consisting of one single cell; Jakob Henle (1809–85), who created modern histology by treating all animal tissues in the light of the cell theory; Franz von Leydig (1821– 1908), whose textbook11 compared, on the basis of the cell theory, verte¨ brate and invertebrate tissues; Karl von Nageli (1817–91), who was the first to discover chromosomes (‘cytoblasts’) in cell division; Robert Remak ¨ (1815–65), a student of Muller, who described the cleavage of the fertilized amphibian and bird egg as a division of cells; and Rudolf Virchow ¨ (1821–1902), another student of Muller, who founded cellular pathology and carried to a triumph the opinion that all cells are born from previous cells by division (‘omnis cellula e cellula’), contrary to what Schleiden and Schwann had thought. Their careers reflect, once again, the mobility of the German university professor. Henle, for instance, studied both at ¨ Bonn and at Heidelberg, then followed Muller to Berlin and became his assistant and close collaborator, obtained a professorship at Zurich and then at Heidelberg, and settled down finally in 1852 at the University of ¨ ¨ Gottingen. Kolliker, who was Swiss, studied first in Berlin under the guid¨ ance of Muller, Henle and Remak, became Henle’s follower at Zurich, ¨ and taught then for 50 years, from 1847 to 1897, at Wurzburg. Leydig ¨ ¨ studied at Wurzburg and Munich, became in 1857 professor at Tubingen and taught at Bonn from 1875 to 1887. Virchow received his medical degree in Berlin, occupied the first German professorship in pathology at ¨ Wurzburg from 1849 to 1856 and was invited to a similar post in Berlin, where he worked until his death in 1902, increasing interest in anthropology and archaeology. Anthropology was a field that attracted Schleiden, too: in the early 1860s he even worked for a couple of years as a professor of this field at the University of Dorpat (Tartu). These careers, and many others, show that in most cases there were good opportunities for scientific talent in the German-speaking world, and in the students, assistants and Privatdozenten the professors often had a circle from which new scientists were recruited. Difficulties arose sometimes from having too radical opinions, or too powerful adversaries – as in the case of Schwann – or an unsuitable birth – as in the case of Remak, who was a Polish Jew and therefore could not be appointed to a 11

F. von Leydig, Histologie des Menschen und der Tiere (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1857).

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Biology and the earth sciences permanent teaching post in Prussia until 1859, when his scientific work was nearly over. Remak’s first lectures twelve years earlier had been a real sensation, because he was the first Jew ever to lecture at the University of Berlin. But by and large the system worked well along the Humboldtian principles: research and teaching were intimately interwoven and they both enhanced each other. The result was a great rise in general scientific education, and a rapid progress of science in most fields. The Scandinavian countries followed very much the same pattern, although the mobility was necessarily more restricted: Denmark, Norway and Finland had each only one university (in Denmark Copenhagen, in Norway Christiania (Oslo), and in Finland Helsingfors (Helsinki)), and Sweden had two (Uppsala and Lund), whereas in the German-speaking world the number was already around twenty by the middle of the century. In Russia, several universities were founded in the early years of the nineteenth century, but practically all scientific work was done at the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences by academicians and professors with more or less German backgrounds and a German-type university education. Thus, for instance, Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), who became perhaps the most famous of the St Petersburg academicians in the biological sciences, made his medical studies at Tartu (Dorpat), pursued his ¨ studies in Berlin, Wurzburg and Vienna, taught anatomy, zoology and ¨ anthropology at Konigsberg from 1817 to 1834, and spent the rest of his working life in St Petersburg, from 1846, as an academician. During his ¨ Konigsberg years he discovered the mammalian egg and laid the foundations of modern embryology, whereas in St Petersburg he turned towards geography, ethnography, anthropology and pisciculture; after retirement he returned to his old university town of Tartu (Dorpat) and participated actively in the work of the Estonian Naturalists’ Society. In Mediterranean Europe, research on a high international level was relatively rare. Scientific development did, of course, occur, although sometimes with considerable delay. Thus, for instance, Baer’s embryology and Schwann’s cell theory became established in Spain only during the 1850s ´ through the influence of Mariano Lopez Mateos (1800–63), professor at the University of Granada; a previous textbook, compulsory in all medical faculties in Spain, was notably retrograde and hostile to all new ideas. Only during the last decades of the century did new important contributions to histology and cytology begin to spring from Mediterranean Europe: in the 1870s and 1880s Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), working at the University of Pavia, established the modern concept of the neurone as a nerve cell with all its outgrowths, and in the 1890s and 1900s Santi´ y Cajal (1852–1934), professor in Barcelona and thereafter in ago Ramon Madrid, continued Golgi’s work, for which they both received the Nobel Prize in 1906. 527

Anto Leikola claude bernard and louis pasteur As has been mentioned earlier, the situation in France was very different, at least until the revitalization of the universities in 1896. Most of the work in the biological sciences was concentrated in Paris, at the Acad´emie des Sciences, Mus´eum d’Histoire Naturelle and the Coll`ege de France. For biological and biomedical research, the medical schools must also be taken into account. Claude Bernard, the great master of French physiology, came to Paris in order to make a career as a playwright but was counselled to study medicine instead. He took his degree at the Facult´e de M´edecine ˆ and was working at the Hotel-Dieu hospital, where Franc¸ois Magendie (1783–1855), the leading physiologist of the country, and soon professor at the Coll`ege de France, ‘found’ him, and this encounter resulted in a collaboration of fifteen years. Magendie was above all an experimenter, but Claude Bernard, whose skill in experimentation was at least as good, was, in addition, interested in physiological theory. After the death of Magendie, Claude Bernard succeeded him at the Coll`ege de France. In 1865, during a period of illness, he wrote his Introduction a` l’´etude de la m´edecine exp´erimentale, which Henri Bergson (1859–1941) later compared to Descartes’ Discours de la M´ethode, and which Emile Zola used as a ‘guidebook’ in his ‘experimental novel’.12 From 1854 to 1868 Claude Bernard held a chair at the Facult´e des Sciences, thus giving courses in two separate institutions. Paul Bert (1833–86) took over his chair at the Facult´e, but then Claude Bernard received a professorship at the Mus´eum, where Pierre Flourens (1794–1867) – an influential neurophysiologist and Claude Bernard’s predecessor in the Acad´emie Franc¸aise – had earlier taught comparative physiology. The eminent physiologist thus floated between several institutions, which, however, were all in Paris, and of which none was a proper university. A career based on the German model was not possible in France. Another substitute for the university in Paris was the Ecole Normale Sup´erieure, which became the stronghold of Louis Pasteur, the other giant in nineteenth-century French biology. Claude Bernard initiated a new phase in physiology, leading from his celebrated concept of the milieu int´erieur towards the study of physiological regulation and the rapidly enlarging field of endocrinology, whereas Pasteur created the foundations of both microbiology and immunology. After initial studies at the Coll`ege Royal of Besanc¸on he came to Paris and entered into the Ecole Normale, where he studied chemistry under Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862). After having become an agr´eg´e in 1846 he was ordered to Dijon, soon thereafter 12

H. Bergson, ‘Discours au Coll`ege de France, le 30 d´ecembre 1913’, in R. Clarke, Claude Bernard et la m´edecine exp´erimentale (Paris, 1961), 197; E. Zola, Le roman exp´erimental (Paris, 1929), 11.

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Biology and the earth sciences to Strasburg and after five years to the new Facult´e at Lille. In 1854 he was called to the Ecole Normale, where he advanced to the Facult´e at the Sorbonne, although he remained there only one year and then retired, on a full salary, at the age of only 46. The time at the Ecole Normale was his most productive as a scientist, although the facilities for research were, at least in the beginning, rather poor. Claude Bernard made his most important physiological discoveries, including the role of gastric and intestinal juices in digestion, the mechanism of the absorption of fatty substances, the glycogenic function of the liver, and the regulation of blood pressure by vasomotor nerves, in a modest basement room, and Pasteur had at his disposal two attic rooms, where he performed most of his fermentation experiments. French society and the government of the time were not very interested in supporting scientific work, although later the situation, in great part through Claude Bernard’s and Pasteur’s activities, and the pride which France could take in their fame and achievements, improved considerably. To obtain proper facilities for his work, Pasteur appealed directly to the Emperor Napoleon III, condensing his request into the phrase: ‘It is time to free the experimental sciences from the misery into which they have been forced’.13 Although the Emperor was positive, in principle, a new appeal was needed. It contains a passage which illustrates the situation of scientific expenditure in Europe in 1868: ‘Already for thirty years great laboratories, provided with ample resources, have been founded in Germany, and every year new ones are founded. . . . England, America, Austria and Bavaria have spent much for the same purposes. And Italy has taken steps on the same road.’14 Pasteur got his new laboratory, but some years later, after the FrancoPrussian war, he had occasion to remind his countrymen that a revival of science was needed in France. Towards the end of Pasteur’s career, another new institution was created. Inspired by Pasteur’s spectacular success in treating rabies, the Acad´emie des Sciences decided that money should be raised for an institute for the preparation of rabies vaccine, and in 1888 the Pasteur Institute was inaugurated, with Pasteur himself as its first director. Soon it was enlarged to treat diphtheria as well, and the amount of theoretical study grew as well under the guidance of Pasteur’s students like Emile Roux (1853–1933), Alexandre Yersin (1863–1943), Albert Calmette (1863–1933) and others. Pasteur Institutes were founded in other countries, too, either privately or on a governmental basis, and in many cases they developed into important centres of microbiological and immunological research, sometimes only loosely connected to their original medical functions. 13

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Anto Leikola charles darwin and darwinism In Great Britain, the universities had long been in a state of stagnation, at least as far as scientific pursuits were concerned. University education was aimed more at the ideal of a gentleman than at scientific excellence, and mathematics and related fields, like astronomy, were the only sciences in which regular teaching occurred during the eighteenth century. Aptly enough, an exhibition about the scientific past of Cambridge, opened in the early 1980s, was named ‘Science as a minority interest’. In 1819, the Cambridge Philosophical Society was founded by Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873) and John Henslow (1796–1861), in order to promote the study of natural sciences at the University of Cambridge. There had been, in fact, the Woodward Professorship in geology since 1695, but Sedgwick was practically the first of its holders of any scientific importance, and even he, when appointed to the office in 1818, had not yet made any geological excursion and claimed himself completely ignorant of his field. Henslow, who had studied mathematics, chemistry and mineralogy, was appointed in 1822 to the chair of mineralogy, and three years later to the new chair of botany, whereafter he became known as a devoted botanist. The Botanical Gardens in Cambridge still carry his name. These two men were instrumental in Charles Darwin’s (1809–82) education in science, Henslow as his mentor in the botanical garden and fieldwork, and Sedgwick by taking the young student on a geological tour in north Wales in August 1831, some months before Darwin began his grand tour around the world. Neither geology nor botany belonged to the regular curriculum at Cambridge, and the situation was no different at Oxford. It is characteristic that when Darwin returned in 1836, he did not aspire to a Ph.D. or to a university chair but became instead a member and later the secretary of the Geological Society of London. This became his scientific milieu, and although he abandoned the secretary’s post before moving in 1842 to Down House for the rest of his life, he did not resign from membership; at that time he was also a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and even of the Royal Society, later also of the Linnean Society, where his epoch-making papers were read in 1858, together with Alfred Russel Wallace’s (1823–1913) similar paper on evolution and natural selection. Although Darwin never taught at any university, he was often referred to as ‘Professor Darwin’ in the German and Scandinavian press, evidently because living and working as a Privatgelehrter outside the university was rather uncommon in those countries, where the professor’s title gave a scientist much greater social prestige than in Britain or France. Darwin and Wallace were both ‘private men’. So had been James Hutton, the great eighteenth-century geologist, and Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875), who laid 530

Biology and the earth sciences the foundations of modern geology with his Principles of Geology.15 His work was a triumph of actualism – the principle that geological changes of the past can and must be explained through forces that act in the present time – and it was indispensable for the development of the young Darwin’s thought. Although Lyell’s teaching career was restricted to three years as professor at King’s College, he acquired an important position in science politics, and largely through his influence science curricula were enhanced at both Oxford and Cambridge. In 1827, less than 30 years old and still a practising lawyer, he had in public blamed the universities for their lack of interest in anything but classical scholarship. Although the British scientific culture was not as centralized as the French one and although France had no equivalent to Oxford and Cambridge, there was one important feature which both countries shared: the great public museums and gardens, which gave plenty of opportunities for descriptive and comparative research, or even, as in the Mus´eum of Paris, for experimental work. Darwin’s friend and supporter Sir Joseph Hooker (1817–1911), a first-rate botanist, became the director of Kew Gardens, like his father Sir William Hooker (1785–1865) – formerly professor of botany at Glasgow – before him. One of Darwin’s most important antagonists, Sir Richard Owen (1804–92), who has been described as the most distinguished vertebrate zoologist and palaeontologist in Victorian England, was for twenty years the Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and became in his old age the first director of the British Museum (Natural History), after having served as superintendent of the natural history collections of the British Museum since 1856. He was a well-known and popular lecturer, but regular university teaching was a field which he never entered. These examples show that the bitter scientific and ideological battles which followed the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1859 did not very much affect the British university world but took place in meetings of learned societies and other bodies, like the famous duel between Bishop Wilberforce (1805–73) and Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95), ‘Darwin’s bulldog’, at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in June 1860 at Oxford; even Huxley himself was no university man but a naval surgeon and then professor of natural history at the London School of Mines. But when the new doctrines reached German soil – and it happened very quickly – it became a matter for university teachers. Even the translator of the Origin,16 Heinrich Bronn (1800–62), a distinguished palaeontologist, was professor of 15 16

C. Lyell, Principles of Geology, 3 vols. (London, 1830–33; German trans. K. Hartmann, 3 vols., Weimar 1841–42). ¨ ¨ C. Darwin, Uber die Entstehung der Arten durch naturliche Zuchtwahl (Stuttgart, 1860).

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E. Haeckel, Die Radiolarien (Berlin, 1862); Generelle Morphologie der Organismen, ¨ ¨ 2 vols. (Berlin, 1866); Naturliche Schopfungsgeschichte (Berlin, 1868; 8th edn, 1889), translated into twelve languages, in English: The History of Creation (1906); Die ¨ Weltratsel (Bonn, 1899), in 1903 100,000 copies were sold. E. Haeckel, Der Monismus als Band zwischen Religion und Wissenschaft (Bonn, 1892).

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Biology and the earth sciences were not shaken, but the number of details in geology grew steadily, and new geological maps were published in various countries. More often than not these maps were produced by national geological surveys rather than by university people. Geology was, of course, connected with mining, and mining was connected with national wealth, so that there were several reasons for whole nations to undertake geological surveys. Geologists, however, could be Darwinist as well as anti-Darwinist. Lyell himself announced publicly his conversion to Darwinism only in 1864, and in consequence, he adjusted the tenth edition of his Principles to fit the Darwinian doctrines. Another geologist who was initially hostile to Darwinism but remained so during the rest of his life was Jean-Louis Agassiz (1807–73). Born in Switzerland, he studied at the universities of Zurich, Heidelberg and Munich, where he earned a doctorate both in philosophy and medicine. In 1832 he was appointed to a professorship ˆ at the College of Neuchatel, but in 1846 he went to the United States and taught at Harvard University until his death in 1873. Agassiz made important contributions to the study of fossil fish, but his great feat in geology was the creation of the concept of the Ice Age. Based on his studies of glacial formations not only in Switzerland but in the rest of the European Continent and Great Britain, he concluded that there had been a great glaciation covering most of Europe; later he found that the same was applicable to North America, too. Lyell and Darwin, among others, accepted Agassiz’s theory without difficulty, but Agassiz himself could never abandon the idea of fixity of species, partly because of his generally conservative religious views. In Germany, more than elsewhere, the debate on Darwinism was mixed with not only religious but also political issues. Darwinism, as it was understood by the Haeckelians, meant development and progress, also on a national scale, whereas the opposite party, headed by Virchow, claimed that it was not possible to draw such conclusions from a biological theory. Treating society as a kind of evolving organism would open the way to still more dangerous doctrines, like socialism, Virchow wrote, and although Haeckel denied this possibility, it is true that the socialists did cherish Darwinism as their ally. Darwinism was seen as an anti-religious doctrine promising progress and happiness for mankind like socialism. Later on, the emerging socialist countries, especially Soviet Russia, laid great emphasis on the theory of evolution, which however was conceived more in a Lamarckian-Haeckelian than in a true Darwinian sense. On the other hand, Darwin’s selection theory, in the form of socalled Social Darwinism, seemed to give legitimacy to the rudest forms of laissez-faire capitalism, as well as to national chauvinism, if the – originally Spencerian – slogan ‘survival of the fittest’ was applied to nations instead of individuals. 533

Anto Leikola In 1872, the German zoologist Johann Wilhelm Spengel (1852–1921) tried to compile a bibliography of books and articles on Darwinism in different European countries. Although it consisted of 34 pages with 315 names of authors, it was far from complete.19 In the Scandinavian countries, for instance, Spengel had found only three items, although the debate was in full swing there, especially in Sweden, but elsewhere in Scandinavia too. In Sweden, Professor Sven Lov´en (1809–95), a leading zoologist and department head at the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, pioneered in March 1860 a lecture on Darwinism at the annual meeting of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in a very favourable tone, and somewhat later Tycho Tullberg (1842–1920), the professor of zoology at the University of Uppsala, became a devoted supporter of the new doctrine. In Finland, the ¨ professor of zoology, Fredrik Vilhelm Maklin (1821–83), spoke on the subject in 1864 at the Finnish Society of Sciences with several critical remarks, but at the same time a young and unknown schoolteacher on the Finnish West Coast, Otto Alcenius (1838–1913), published at his own expense a booklet on the importance of Darwin’s theory to a natural plant system,20 and he even tried to construct a new plant system on an evolutionary basis. There were later some junior university biologists who became enthusiastic about Darwinism, and when one of them, Johan Axel Palm´en (1845–1919), who had published a doctoral thesis on the migration of birds,21 applying evolutionary theory to it, was appointed ¨ as Maklin’s successor in 1883, not even the theologians at the University of Helsingfors opposed his nomination. The Scandinavian universities in general tried to avoid mixing ideological questions with the recruitment of academic staff. It is well known that in France Darwinism gained practically no foothold for a long time. There had been and still was some debate on transformism in general – Lamarck had not been completely forgotten – but it was seldom associated with Darwin, although the Origin of Species was available in French in 1862. There was no enthusiast to propagate Darwinism in France, such as Huxley in England, or Haeckel in Germany, and as for the idea of general progress associated with Darwinism in Germany and elsewhere, it was an old French idea that required no Englishmen to teach it. The great names in French biology, Claude Bernard and Louis Pasteur, avoided the subject – Pasteur, if anything, was hostile to it – and Pierre Flourens, the long-term perpetual secretary of the Acad´emie 19

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Biology and the earth sciences des Sciences, wrote a whole book against Darwin. And when in 1909 a full-size statue of Lamarck was raised in Paris near the main gate of the Jardin des Plantes, it was given the inscription Au fondateur de la doctrine de l’´evolution. Although ‘transformism’ had by then and even earlier made its breakthrough in Lamarck’s homeland, Lamarckian explanations still had for a long time, practically until our own time, their stronghold in France, where modern genetics, remarkably enough, was introduced considerably later than in most European countries. In Italy, Darwinism was first introduced in 1864 by Filippo De Filippi (1814–67), a professor of zoology at Turin, through his lecture ‘L’uomo e le scimmie’, ‘Man and the Apes’, and an ardent dispute arose immediately. In the same year, the Origin of Species was translated into Italian by two biologists, Giovanni Canestrini (1835–1900), who worked as professor of zoology at the University of Padua, and Leonardo Salimbeni (1830–89), who taught natural history at the Collegio San Carlo at Modena. Especially Canestrini, who in addition to his teaching edited the first and then only zoological journal in Italy, remained a faithful follower of Darwin throughout his life and did much to propagate Darwin’s ideas, together with Michele Lessona (1823–94), another biologist and translator of the Descent of Man. In Italy, the cultural diversification within local universities and local academies was perhaps still more marked than in Germany, and thus the acceptance of the evolutionary theory happened more readily in some places than in others. It may be noted that Darwin was elected a foreign member of the highly respected Accademia dei Lincei in 1875, and four years later, the Academy of Sciences of Turin awarded Darwin a prize, which he subsequently donated to Anton Dohrn (1840–1909), founder of the Naples Zoological Station. In France, Darwin’s success was less honourable: from 1870 on, he was six times proposed for membership of the zoological section of the Acad´emie des Sciences, until finally in 1878 he was elected a member of the botanical section! It is self-evident that much of the criticism against evolution came from the Catholic direction, and evidently Darwinism did worse in the Catholicdominated universities, although the Church, as an institution, never took a clear and unequivocal stand on the matter. Its interest in furthering the natural sciences, albeit on its own terms, arose only later; in the nineteenth century it was, if not openly hostile, at least reluctant to promote the progress of science. In rigorously Catholic countries, like Spain, this meant a general stagnation of the sciences. As for Darwinism, it was hardly mentioned in public in Spain before the revolution of 1868. Then the censorship was abolished, new courses of science were introduced to the universities and new departments were created. Much of this was lost in the reactionary Restoration of 1874, but the discussion nevertheless continued, and the Descent of Man was translated into Spanish in 1876, 535

Anto Leikola one year before the Origin of Species and two years before Haeckel’s ¨ Schopfungsgeschichte. As in several other countries, much of the Darwinist controversy centred around the ideas of Haeckel, with Peregr´ın Casanova Ciurana (1849–1919), professor of anatomy at the University of Valencia, as the chief agent. In his letters to Haeckel he praised his German colleague for the ‘truth of his judgements and the loftiness of his thoughts’,22 and in 1877 he published a work on general biology in a true Haeckelian spirit.23 Both in the north and in the south of Europe, the evolutionary theory as a biological doctrine was accepted at most universities, i.e. by most university biologists, during Darwin’s lifetime, although the plausibility of the selection theory was still much argued during the 1880s and 1890s. August Weismann’s (1834–1914) attempts to show the non-inheritance of acquired characteristics did not convince everybody. Evidently, something was still lacking in the evolutionary theory before it could become the ‘modern synthesis’, to use Julian Huxley’s expression of the year 1940.24 That something was genetics, the science of inheritance. n e w f i e l d s f o r t h e n e w c e n t u ry Genetics is usually, and rightly so, considered as a science which belongs completely to the twentieth century, and if the birth of the concept of ‘biology’ can be regarded as the landmark between the 1700s and the 1800s, the rediscovery of Mendel’s laws, which was in fact the birth of Mendelism, can well be used to distinguish the 1900s from the 1800s. The road to genetics was, however, prepared during the last decades of the nineteenth century, especially through the cytological work done at German universities. Many histologists contributed in the 1870s and 1880s to the understanding of cell division and particularly to the role and behaviour of the chromosomes therein. Evidence accumulated that chromosomes may be the true carriers of heredity, although it was for a long time questionable whether they were permanent structures or constructed anew at each mitosis. Weismann, who worked for a long time as a professor at the University of Freiburg, developed a theory, according to which inheritance belonged only to the cell line leading from the fertilized egg to the germ cells, the Keimplasma, whereas the rest of the cells – practically the whole cellular mass of an individual – formed the ‘useless’ Soma, which disappeared with the individual. 22 23 24

P. Casanova, ‘Letter to Ernst Haeckel from January 2, 1876’, in T. F. Glick, Darwin in ˜ (Barcelona, 1982), 83. Espana ´ P. Casanova, Estudios biologicos, vol. I: La biolog´ıa (Valencia, 1877). J. Huxley, Evolution: The Modern Synthesis (London, 1940).

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Biology and the earth sciences Gregor Mendel’s (1822–84) discovery of the laws of heredity, which he published in the journal of the Brno Naturalists’ Society in 1866, remained unnoticed for several decades. The idea that heredity could be carried by small unchanging ‘elements’, as Mendel called them, was strange and seemed also to be contrary to the flow of evolution. Mendel had studied mathematics and sciences at the University of Vienna and taught these subjects in the Brno secondary school, but in his monastery he worked practically alone. We do not know to how many university scientists he ¨ sent his paper; at least Karl von Nageli (1817–91), who was professor of botany at Munich, and Anton Kerner (1831–1908), who held a similar chair at Innsbruck, did indeed receive it from Mendel. The journal itself had a relatively wide distribution but was evidently seldom read outside Moravia. Why Mendel did not send one of his 40 reprints to Darwin, in whose theory he was interested, can only be guessed. Anyhow, when Hugo ¨ de Vries (1848–1935), Carl Correns (1864–1933) – a student of Nageli – and Erich von Tschermak (1871–1962) in 1900 discovered ‘Mendelism without Mendel’, there was already a cytological explanation for the distribution of the hereditary units at hand. After 1900, the new science of genetics, as William Bateson (1861– 1926) baptized it in 1902, advanced at a very rapid pace. In 1901 De Vries developed his mutation theory, which seemed to reconcile Mendelism with Darwinism; in 1902 Correns, Walter A. Cannon (1871–1945) and Walter Stanborough Sutton (1877–1916) brought evidence that the genes are, in fact, located in the chromosomes, which, according to Theodor Boveri’s (1862–1915) experiments, could be functionally different from each other; in 1906 Bateson spoke about the gene linkage and created the concepts ‘allele’, ‘homozygote’ and ‘heterozygote’, and in 1907 Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866–1945) in the United States adopted the fruit fly, Drosophila, as the model animal of genetic study. Genetics was, right from the beginning, a truly international science, where different national schools were difficult to distinguish. Biological research in North America was matching that in Europe, as it had already begun to do in the field of general natural history, and more specifically, palaeontology, ecology and marine biology. Scandinavian contributions to this international exchange of experiences and ideas were brought by the Dane Wilhelm Johannsen (1857–1927), who discovered the constancy of variation in pure lines of descent and created the words ‘gene’, ‘genotype’ and ‘phenotype’; by the Swede Herman Nilsson-Ehle (1873–1949), who gave a Mendelian explanation to quantitative traits of organisms in the suggestion of ‘polygenes’; and by the Finn Harry Federley (1879–1951), who provided evidence of the individuality of chromosomes in moths at the same time that Morgan and his school were working on gene maps of the Drosophila. 537

Anto Leikola The study of experimental developmental biology, which as Entwicklungsmechanik tried to find causal explanations for phenomena of embryonic growth and differentiation, was initiated at the end of the nineteenth century by the pioneering experiments of Wilhelm Roux (1850–1924), Hans Driesch (1867–1941) and Hans Spemann (1869–1941), but only during the first decades of the twentieth century did it develop into a branch of biological science in its own right. Spemann’s influence in particular was considerable, and many students both from Germany and abroad poured into his laboratory at the University of Freiburg to learn the necessary operation techniques – and to teach them, in turn, to their own students. Spemann was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1936, but even his achievements, especially the discovery of the inductive phenomena in vertebrate embryology, would mark only a beginning in the most difficult task of elucidating the nature of the cellular interactions in a developing organism. If the beginnings of developmental biology can be traced to the end of the nineteenth century, the same would apply to a completely different branch of biological science, to which Haeckel in 1866 had given the name ‘ecology’. He defined it as the study of organisms’ relations to their environment, and somewhat later he paralleled it to the ‘economy of nature’, which, in fact, was a term used already by Linnaeus. Haeckel, however, hardly made any further contribution to ecology, but the same term appeared some 30 years later in Eugen Warming’s (1841–1924) textbook.25 Warming, who worked as professor of botany at the University of Copenhagen, noted that ‘ecological plant geography – in contrast to floral plant geography – teaches us how the forms and behaviour of plants and plant communities are adjusted to effective factors of their environment, such as the available amounts of heat, light, nutritives and water’.26 The other cornerstone in plant ecology was Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper’s (1856–1901) Pflanzengeographie auf physiologischer Grundlage (1898), which was translated into English in 1903, after the author’s untimely death. Schimper was the son of a geology and palaeontology professor at the University of Strasbourg. He studied there, was a fellow at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and made his career in Bonn and Basle. The influential botanist in Bonn, Eduard Strasburger (1844–1912), considered him as one of his most outstanding colleagues. He did not try to create a theory of ecology but made some remarkable discoveries, such as the similarity of physical and physiological dryness, and the distinction of edaphic and climatic factors in the growth of plants. Until World War II, 25 26

¨ E. Warming, Lehrbuch der Oekologischen Pflanzengeographie, ubersetzt aus dem ¨ Danischen (Berlin, 1896); English translation: Oecology of Plants (Oxford, 1909). Warming, Oecology (note 25), 2.

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Anto Leikola America. This, of course, led to different theories of the origin of oil and gas deposits, questions which could be combined with more fundamental problems of scientific geology: the origin of rocks, the formation of the mountain chains and the origin of continents. The origin of basalts and granites was subject to controversies between the Neptunists and the Vulcanists in the early nineteenth century. The invention of polarization microscopy in the 1860s by Henry Clifton Sorby (1826–1908) opened whole new worlds to mineralogists, and Karl Harry Ferdinand Rosenbusch’s (1836–1914) great monographs27 became an indispensable tool for every researcher in geology and mineralogy. Although most practical geology was done by the national geological surveys, Rosenbusch was typically a university man: he worked from 1869 until 1873 as Privatdozent in Freiburg, then as professor extraordinarius in Strasbourg, and from 1878 until 1908 as professor of mineralogy and geology in Heidelberg. But in spite of the great progress in descriptive mineralogy and petrology, widely different opinions were held as to the origin of granites. Rosenbusch himself, Eduard Suess (1831–1914) in Vienna, Auguste Michel-L´evy (1844– 1911) in Paris, Jakob Johannes Sederholm (1863–1934) in Helsinki, and Per Johan Holmquist (1886–1946) in Stockholm published around the turn of the century different theories on metamorphic rock, but the ‘granite controversy’ was far from settled during the first half of the twentieth century. Another great controversy which lasted nearly the whole century was the question of continental drift. The idea of the horizontal movement of whole continents was not very new – not to speak of the fabulous ‘lost continents’ in the style of Atlantis – and in the 1910s several Alpine geologists accepted the idea that the Alps had been born in a horizontal pressure from the African land mass. In his book Das Antlitz der Erde (1885–1909) Eduard Suess formulated a theory according to which all continents had once formed a single mass, the ‘Gondwanaland’, from which different parts – i.e. the present continents, notably the Americas, Australia and Antarctica – had been separated because of vertical sinking of those parts which nowadays form the Indian Ocean and South Atlantic. It was, however, Alfred Wegener (1880–1930) who took the possibility of drift into serious geological consideration. He, as many before him, had noticed how easily the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa would fit together, and he was bold enough to find in geological, palaeontological, climatological, zoogeographical and other literature several facts that would support the idea that these continents had drifted 27

K. H. F. Rosenbusch, Mikroskopische Physiographie der petrographisch wichtigen Mineralien (Stuttgart, 1873); idem, Mikroskopische Physiographie der massigen Gesteine (Stuttgart, 1877).

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Biology and the earth sciences apart. He even believed that geodetical measurements in Greenland had shown that the drift is continuing, and arrived at the estimate that the movement is some 10 to 30 metres per year – a figure which, in the light of modern measurements, would be a thousand times too high. After having collected material for five years he published in 1915 Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane, which nowadays, when the drift has been shown to be a reality, is considered a true classic in the field, despite its errors. Wegener, having grown up in Berlin, made a university career, first as lecturer at the Physical Institute at Marburg, from 1919 as professor of meteorology at the newly founded University of Hamburg, and from 1924 until his untimely death as professor at the University of Graz, where a special chair in meteorology and geophysics had been created for him. Before World War I, Wegener had already participated in two expeditions to Greenland, and in 1929 and 1930 he again led two Greenland expeditions and died there; his 50th birthday was the last time when he was seen by his companions. The controversy, which had been raging in the 1920s, nearly ceased in the 1930s, and Wegener’s theory was all but buried; but after World War II, when palaeomagnetism was added to the geologists’ tools and modern block tectonics was developed, new evidence began to show that Wegener had not been entirely wrong, after all. One of the most eminent supporters of the drift theory was Arthur Holmes (1890–1965), who worked as professor of geology at the University of Durham and later at the University of Edinburgh; with the help of radiochemical analysis Holmes established the most modern time scale for geological periods, arriving at an age of 4.5 billion years for the earth. During the twenty years between the two world wars, research was expanding in all fields, and the university patterns, with teaching intimately connected with research, became more similar in most parts of Europe. But even in Germany, where universities had traditionally been the bastion of research, science was no longer confined to the universities: the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Society – nowadays the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft – supported research in its own institutes which usually had no direct connection with the university system, except, of course, that the researchers had received their basic training in universities and that the directors usually were allowed to teach at neighbouring universities. In Russia, scientific power that had grown rapidly during the latter half of the nineteenth century, both in the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences and in the universities, and the Soviet revolution seemed at first to enhance this development. Later on, however, Stalinist pressure destroyed a large part of the country’s best science, especially in genetics, where the Lysenkoist pseudoscience was, on ideological grounds declared the only valid doctrine, with the result that some of the best geneticists left the country others, like Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (1887–1943), were expelled to Siberia. 541

Anto Leikola Similarly, the National Socialist regime in Germany forced many of the most creative scientists to abandon their work or to emigrate to America, where research received new vigour from these immigrants. select bibliography ´ A. La teor´ıa celular, Historia de un paradigma, Madrid, 1983. Albarrac´ın Teulon, ´ de la teor´ıa ¨ G. and Garc´ıa Ballester, L. La introduccion Ar´echaga, J., Olague, ˜ Granada, 1976. celular en Espana, Botting, D. Humboldt and the Cosmos, London, 1973. Bowler, P. J. The Fontana History of the Environmental Sciences, London, 1992. Burkhardt, R. W. The Spirit of System: Lamarck and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, Mass., 1977. Clarke, R. Claude Bernard et la m´edecine exp´erimentale, Paris, 1961. Coleman, W. Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function and Transformation, Cambridge, 1971. ¨ Danielsson, U. ‘Darwinismens intrangande i Sverige’, Lychnos, 1963–1964 (1965), 157–210; 1965–1966 (1967), 261–333. Summary: ‘The Penetration of Darwinism into Sweden’. Delaunay, A. (ed.) Pr´esence de Pasteur, Paris, 1973. Florkin, M. Naissance et d´eviation de la th´eorie cellulaire dans l’œuvre de Th´eodore Schwann, Paris, 1960. ˜ Barcelona, 1982. Glick, T. F. Darwin en Espana, Glick, T. F. (ed.) The Comparative Reception of Darwinism, Austin, Tex., 1974. Hughes, A. A History of Cytology, London, 1950. Kohn, D. (ed.) The Darwinian Heritage, Princeton, 1985. ¨ Koller, J. Johannes Muller – das Leben eines Biologen, Stuttgart, 1958. Leikola, A. ‘From Descriptive to Experimental Science: Some Trends and Changes in Finnish Zoology’, Eidema, 1 (1982), 190–205. ‘J. A. Palm´en, the Darwinist Reformer of Zoology in Finland’, Eidema, 1 (1982), 206–20. Montalenti, G. ‘Il darwinismo in Italia’, Belfagor, 38 (1983), 65–78. Morton, A. G. History of Botanical Science, London, 1981 Orel, V. and Armogathe, J.-R. Mendel un inconnu c´el`ebre, Paris, 1985. Raikov, B. E. Karl Ernst von Baer 1792–1876. Sein Leben und sein Werk, Leipzig, 1968. Sturtevant, A. H. A History of Genetics, New York, 1965. Szyfman, L. Lamarck et son e´ poque, Paris, 1982. Vallery-Radot, R. La Vie de Pasteur, 2nd edn, Paris, 1905. Worster, D. Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, 2nd edn, Cambridge, 1994.

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introduction The training of medical practitioners became a crucial question in Europe after 1800. Medical education was no longer exclusively the domain of the universities. It became the centre of an intriguing triangle, which influenced its development from all three corners. At the top of the triangle, the governmental authorities became increasingly involved in the organization of medical education, both financially and professionally. At the righthand corner, the rapidly developing sciences exerted their influence: new drugs, new methods for the better care and cure of patients were to come and the student should be well prepared to handle them. At the left-hand corner, the social demands of the new society required controlled hygiene and the prevention of epidemics, licensed practice by safe practitioners and protection against quackery. The process of interaction along the sides of the triangle shaped the cultural pattern in which medical education was able to develop during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this study, a choice was made to present medical education as a cultural process against the background of this triangular model. The whole period has been divided into: (1) the Romantic Era (1790–1830); (2) the New Learning (1830–70); and (3) the Growth of Medical Specialization (1870–1945), which includes the so-called Belle Epoque (1870–1914), the First World War and the inter-war period. Each period had its own ‘triangle’, with the top-most corner representing the political and economical situation which determined the waning or flourishing of medical education. The right-hand corner, the philosophy and state of the art of ∗

The author is indebted to Sir John Ellis for his encouragement and criticism. She also wishes to thank Professor Grigory A. Tishkin for his valuable comments on the passages dealing with Russia and the Baltic States.

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Antonie M. Luyendijk-Elshout science, contributed to the fame of the schools in the different countries. At the left-hand corner, the involvement of teachers and students in the condition of their patients, both inside and outside the hospital, became a mainspring for social reform. The leading countries in Europe were France, Great Britain, the AustroHungarian monarchy and Germany. They would contribute to the evolution of medical education into the model curriculum which was basically common to all European countries around 1940. This curriculum covered the basic sciences, theoretical medicine and clinical practice. After approximately six years, the student graduated and finished his training through a State Board Examination, which licensed him to enter general practice. In most countries specialized training for surgeons and other specialities took place after this examination. The costs of medical education rose rapidly from 1870 onwards. Investments had to be made in laboratory and hospital equipment. Most countries had state-controlled medical training courses by that time, some within the universities, others related to hospitals or medical institutes. Academic freedom of teaching and learning was an important issue, as were facilities for doing research. These goods were endangered by political circumstances, such as the Revolution of 1848 and the outcomes of the Russian Revolution in 1917. The impact of Nazism upon medical education in particular affected teachers, students and patients in a terrifying way. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, medical education was dominated by the effects of Enlightenment in a poor Europe, ravaged by Napoleonic wars. In 1945, medical educationalists were confronted with high quality techniques ‘for better or worse’ in a Europe ravaged by World War II. In between, the ‘intriguing triangle’ played its part. t h e r o m a n t i c e r a (1790–1830): t h e i n f l u e n c e of enlightenment By 1790, Enlightenment had brought new movements into the medical world. Physicians and surgeons had become more involved in the miserable conditions of the people; the care of the sick in the hospitals, the treatment of the insane in the asylums, the care of the wounded on the battlefields and the fight against epidemics, both in man and in cattle. The spirit of Enlightenment called for the improvement of man’s condition, both materially and spiritually. Not Christian Charity, but Reason should be the basis of help. Man’s world being no longer separated from nature, both nature and society should be studied in similar fashions. Man should get a better understanding of nature’s laws and their impact upon human institutions. Medicine should be reformed into a simple useful 544

Medicine system, based on the laws of nature, as far as these could be studied by observation. A French group, the so-called Id´eologues, followed the sensualist philosophy of Etienne Bonnot de Condillac (1715–80). They were guided by three great principles: freedom of conscience, tolerance and social reform. They advanced a philosophie laborieuse et bienfaisante, an industrious and beneficent philosophy.1 The Id´eologues were deeply impressed by ˆ Jacques Tenon’s (1724–1816) M´emoires sur les Hopitaux de Paris (1788), ˆ which revealed the appalling condition of the Paris hospitals, the Hotelˆ Dieu and the Hopital G´en´eral. They symbolized death and pollution, and the failure of medical care and nursing. Together with the detention houses and asylums for the insane, the Bicˆetre, la Salpˆetri`ere and la Piti´e, where unwanted persons were sent and disappeared, they were one of the main evils leading to the French Revolution in 1789.2 Two Id´eologues were to contribute to the reform of medical education in France and abroad: Pierre Jean George Cabanis (1757–1808) and Philippe Pinel (1745–1826). As physicians they were particularly attracted to a philosophy that emphasized the observation of man, using ‘le Regard’, the gaze, as the principal instrument for the acquisition of medical knowledge. Free from the burden of doctrinal systems the physician should observe his patients, thus creating a new medicine with new certainties.3 To realize this new medicine, clinical schools were indispensable, where progress in chemistry and biology could be combined with the results of clinical observation, in the search for analogies.4 With Cabanis and Pinel, philosophy was to play an active and often determining role in medical reform and in social restructuring. Their writings introduced new fundamental concepts into European medical education.5 They led to two main changes: the hospital 1 2

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G. Rosen, ‘The Fate of the Concept of Medical Police 1780–1890’, Centaurus, 5 (1959), 97–113. Also published in From Medical Police to Social Medicine: Essays on the History ¨ of Health Care (New York, 1974), 142–56. Cf. W. Ruegg, ‘Der Kranke in der Sicht der ¨ ¨ burgerlichen Gesellschaft an der Schwelle des 19. Jahrhunderts’, in W. Arlt and W. Ruegg (eds.), Der Arzt und der Kranke in der Gesellschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts, Studien zur Medizingeschichte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts 1 (Stuttgart, 1967), 35–49, on Frank’s notion of ‘medizinische Polizey’, 43. E. Lesky, Johann Peter Frank, Akademische Rede vom Volkselend als der Mutter der Krankheiten (Pavia 1790), Sudhoffs Klassiker der Medizin 34 (Leipzig, 1960). G. Rosen, ‘Cameralism and the Concept of Medical Police’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 27 (1952), 21–42. J. H. G. von Justi, Staatswirthschaft, oder systematische Abhandlung aller oekonomischen und Cameral-Wissenschaften, die zur Regierung eines Landes erfordert werden (Leipzig, 1758), vol. I, 173–6. After Rosen, ‘Cameralism’ (note 8), 133. Rosen, ‘Medical Police’ (note 6), 143.

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Antonie M. Luyendijk-Elshout associations, uniting the members in order to safeguard their professional and financial interests.16 Since France during the Revolution and the countries under French influence had dissolved the old guilds of surgeons and apothecaries, a new supervision of the medical profession was necessary, to prevent quackery and unqualified practice. Cabanis’ demand for one highly qualified educational training programme for all professional groups was not realized, but medical education underwent some drastic reform.17 The old Facult´e de M´edecine in Paris was closed in 1792. The new Ecole de sant´e opened in 1795 with a new curriculum, far better adapted to the acquisition of practical knowledge. It represented the new philosophy of medical education: ‘peu lire, beaucoup voir, beaucoup faire’, as stated by Antoine Franc¸ois de Fourcroy (1755–1809), the actual reorganizer of French higher education in November 1794 before the Convention.18 The most important innovation was the revived interest in clinical teaching in hospitals. ‘Beaucoup voir’ meant the observation of many patients and the two large infirmaries ˆ ˆ of Paris, the Hotel-Dieu and the Hopital G´en´eral, became the training centres for the young medical world throughout the century. The term ˆ Ancien interne des hopitaux de Paris had such an effect that it was explicitly mentioned on French doctors’ name plates when they opened their practice.19 In this new situation two important branches of medicine developed rapidly: pathological anatomy and surgery. Autopsy rooms already existed in hospitals where clinical teaching was carried out, for instance in Vienna and Edinburgh, but a new interest arose with the new concept of pathology. This was stimulated by Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682– 1771) in his famous work De sedibus et causis morborum per anatomen indigatis libri quinque, published in Venice in 1761. Morgagni’s work was the start of the search for the site of disease in the solid parts of the body, and no longer in the old humours of blood.20 The excellent opportunity for observation, which the Paris school offered, led to considerable innovations in pathology. It led to a classification of the membranes according to their properties and specific 16

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X. Bichat, Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort (Paris, 1800) and idem, Trait´e des membranes (Paris, 1800). See E. Haigh, ‘Xavier Bichat and the Medical Theory of the Eighteenth Century’, Medical History, suppl. no. 4 (1984). Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo abstrusos interni pectoris morbos detegendi (Vienna, 1761). See C. Coury, ‘Les D´ebuts de la percussion thoracique, de son inventeur Autrichien et son promoteur Franc¸ais’, in E. Lesky (ed.), Wien und die ¨ Geschichte der MediWeltmedizin: 4. Symposium der Internationalen Akademie fur ¨ Geschichte der Medizin der Universitat ¨ Wien 17. –19. zin veranstaltet im Institut fur ¨ Wien 9 (Vienna, Cologne and September 1973, Studien zur Geschichte der Universitat Graz, 1974), 64–73. R. Kervran, Laennec: His Life and Times (Oxford, London, New York and Paris, 1960) (translated from the French by D. C. Abraham Curiel). D. de Moulin, A History of Surgery: With Emphasis on the Netherlands (Dordrecht, Boston and Lancaster, 1988), 262. A. Richerand, Histoire de progr`es r´ecent de la chirurgie (Brussels, 1825). The term ‘histol¨ ogy’ was introduced by Carl Mayer in 1819, and immediately used by Johannes Muller. ¨ See B. Lohff, ‘Johannes Mullers Rezeption der Zellenlehre in seinem Handbuch der Physiologie der Menschen’, Medizinhistorisches Journal, 13 (1978), 246–58.

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Antonie M. Luyendijk-Elshout and Simon Andr´e Tissot (1728–97) for his concept of the construction of such a hospital at Pavia.26 Moreover, Pinel urged the grouping of selected patients into teaching wards, as had been done at Leiden, Vienna and Pavia.27 Pinel founded his nosology upon a Hippocratic system and his guidelines for his lessons were definitely based on Coan lines.28 Pinel’s therapy was fully in accord with his policy of waiting: materia medica should be of extreme simplicity, derived from ordinary plants and uncomplicated chemical substances – ‘all these have the very great advantage of reducing therapy to its simplest elements and showing clearly how nature proceeds when man does not interfere’.29 The vis medicatrix naturae was Pinel’s first principle. His ‘soft law in therapy’ was not only accepted in France, but also in Vienna.30 Actually, it was directed against the physiological medicine of Franc¸ois Joseph Victor Broussais (1772–1838) with its aggressive therapy and denial of a nosological system.31 The controversy between Pinel and Broussais was impressive, becoming one of the most fanatic medical polemics of the century, not least from the point of view of Broussais’ unlimited aggressiveness. This fight contributed to the acceptance of Pinel’s hippocratism in Vienna by Joseph Dietl (1804–78) and even led to therapeutic nihilism, not as a total rejection of the materia medica, but as the search for a rational pharmacology.32 The French never went as far as nihilism, but their famous physiologist, Franc¸ois Magendie (1783–1855), opened up a new era in drug therapy by testing through experiment the value of certain newly found chemically pure drugs (e.g. strychnine, emetine, quinine, iodine, bromine) and thereby contributing to the founding of experimental pharmacology.33 The concern of the Id´eologues was not only for hospitals in general, but also for insane asylums. Although Pinel’s book Trait´e m´edicophilosophique sur l’ali´enation mentale ou la manie (1801) was translated in 1806 into English and in 1801 into German, the most impressive 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

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Medicine concept of treatment of the insane came from the layman William Tuke (1732–1822), founder of ‘The Retreat’ at York. In this institution, medical treatment was subordinated to moral treatment on both a psychological and ethical basis. The general comfort of the patient, the limit of restraint, the encouragement of self-restraint were the instruments which the Quaker philanthropist Samuel Tuke (1784–1857) advocated in his ‘Description of the Retreat’ in 1813.34 Moral treatment was to become one of the most important issues in psychiatry during the first decades of the nineteenth century. It would lead to a new concept, moral insanity, some diseases of the psyche beginning in vice – in a deterioration of the moral sentiments.35 Although these disputes were academic, teaching of psychiatry as a medical discipline was an exception at the universities. Moral treatment, as described by Tuke and also by Pinel in a different context, would stimulate social and humanitarian reform of the care of the insane, but would not influence university teaching, as psychiatry was seldom taught at the universities. The content of medical learning changed considerably in the European universities during the Romantic era, not only through the patientdirected teaching in the hospitals but also by the new concepts of medicine. Various theories were based upon an incorporeal agent, acting in both health and disease. Vitalism originated in Montpellier, started by the m´edecin-philosophe Th´eophile de Bordeu (1722–76).36 His theories, which attributed a specific force to the organs of the body, were accepted by the French medical faculties. The rest of Europe stayed with the mechanical concept of the body introduced by Herman Boerhaave in the early eighteenth century. But around 1800 the theories of the Edinburgh doctor John Brown (1735–88) became popular in Europe, mainly in German and Italian medical faculties. The so-called ‘Brownianism’ (or ‘Brunonianism’) became one of the most powerful movements in the medical world. It simplified medical practice and it broke with the strict rules of therapy imposed by the eighteenth-century medical schools. Instead of rigorous bloodletting, purging and a complicated system of therapeutics, known as ‘antiphlogistic’, it offered the patient wine, camphor, musk and, above all, opium. The 34

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G. B. Risse, ‘The Brownian System of Medicine: Its Theoretical and Practical Implication’, Clio Medica, 5 (1970), 45–51. Ibid. K. E. Rothschuh, Konzepte der Medizin in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart (Stuttgart, 1978). Ackerknecht, ‘Broussais’ (note 31). G. B. Risse, ‘Kant, Schelling and a Science of Medicine’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 27 (1972), 145–58. Rothschuh, Konzepte (note 39), 386; N. Tsouyopoulos, ‘Die neue Auffassung der Medizin ¨ als Wissenschaft unter den Einflusz der Philosophie vom fruhen 19. Jahrhundert’, Berichte der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 1 (1978), 87–100.

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Medicine ¨ widely read.43 Muller combined a ‘realistic’ vitalism with active laboratory research when he became professor of anatomy and physiology in 1833 at the Anatomisch-Zoologisches Museum in Berlin. Under his guidance students were encouraged to use the new experimental and conceptual tools of chemistry and physics, with vitalistic explanation being used only as a last resort.44 the romantic era: organization of medical education The reform of medical education in France raised two main issues: (1) should medicine be taught in the great hospitals of central cities only, or should it be spread over the provincial faculties? (2) To what extent should the education of all workers in health care be elevated to university level? The second question had important political and financial implications and would not be answered for a long time. In most European countries, the university training of pharmacists and dentists would not be realized before the last decades of the century. But during and after the Napoleonic wars, the need for practitioners and army surgeons was urgent. Unqualified practice increased after the dissolution of the guilds in France and in the countries under its influence. The law of 10 May 1806 set up the Imperial University of France, which included the medical schools of Paris, Montpellier and Strasburg. In other cities, national secondary schools were founded. From 1803, French medical practitioners were divided into two categories, the Doctors in Medicine and Surgery and the ‘officiers de sant´e’, simple health officers.45 This situation continued until 1892. The basic principles of this system were adopted by the countries which had been under French rule during the Napoleonic expansion, especially the Low Countries, which were incorporated into the French Empire in 1810. Medical faculties, which could not affiliate with a municipal hospital, were closed.46 Others became secondary schools, such as the University of Utrecht. After 1813, when the Low Countries were united in a kingdom, several medical faculties were reactivated, but like most European countries they were still unable to raise the medical profession and health care to a higher rank. An attempt was made to found medical schools in provinces where a general hospital offered facilities for clinical 43 44 46

E. Benton, ‘Vitalism in Nineteenth Century Scientific Thought: A Typology and Reassessment’, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 5 (1974), 17–48. 45 Coury, ‘Teaching’ (note 18). Ibid., 29. G. Leg´ee, Cuvier et la r´eorganisation de l’enseignement sous le Consulat et l’Empire (Paris, 1974).

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G. van Swieten, Kurze Beschreibung der Heilungsart der Krankheiten, welche am ¨ Offtesten in den Feldlagern beobachtet werden (Vienna, 1758). This book was translated into several languages. ˆ (Paris, 1951). A. Monery, Le Val de Grace D. de Moulin (ed.), ’s-Rijkskweekschool voor Militaire Geneeskundigen te Utrecht (1822–1865), Nieuwe Nederlandse bijdragen tot de geschiedenis der geneeskunde en der natuurwetenschappen 26 (Amsterdam, 1988), Introduction. M. M. Levit, ‘Russia in the Period of the Decay of Feudalism During the First Half of the 19th Century’, The History of Medicine (Istoria meditsinij) (1981), 121. V. P. Grizkevitch, With Hypocrat’s Torch: From the History of Medicine in Byelorussia (Minsk, 1987), 175–88. Moulin, ’s-Rijkskweekschool (note 61), 3–14.

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J. Z. Bowers, ‘The History of Medical Education in Japan: The Rise of Western Medical Education’, in O’Malley (ed.), Medical Education (note 18), 391–416; chapter 6, 224. N. Kumar and H. Keswani, ‘Medical Education in India since Ancient Times’, in O’Malley (ed.), Medical Education (note 18), 329–66. O. Temkin, ‘Wunderlich, Schelling and the History of Medicine’, Gesnerus, 23 (1966), 188–95.

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Antonie M. Luyendijk-Elshout and history of medicine. Two important events took place which influenced medical education: Wilhelm von Humboldt’s (1767–1835) memorandum on medical teaching and the founding of the Friedrich-Wilhelms¨ in 1810 in Berlin. Universitat Humboldt believed implicitly in the unity of research and teaching in the universities for both the professors and students and was vehemently opposed to medical schools separated from the universities, with a great contempt for Fachhochschulen, including the P´epini`ere, the army medical training centre. This is one of the reasons why clinical schools in the French style did not come into existence in Germany, and why the University of Berlin became exemplary for other German universities. It offered both laboratory and clinical research throughout the century. It was to become the new centre of medical education in Europe.68 In Sweden, the two small universities, Uppsala and Lund, had been under attack by the liberal politicians, who wanted to close the universities and to centralize higher education in Stockholm. The newly founded ¨ Jacob Berzelius Karolinska Institutet had a brilliant spokesman in Jons (1779–1848), the great chemist. It had been planned as a purely practical school of applied medicine, after the French model. Stockholm had the large hospitals, and in Berzelius’ view, medical education should be concentrated there and abolish humanistic culture, which blocked the study of the modern natural sciences. But the Educational Committee decided in 1828 to keep the universities in the provinces. The great university controversy continued until 1873, when the Karolinska Institute received the right to award the Bachelor of Medicine degree, along with Uppsala and Lund.69 In Norway and Denmark, the universities of Oslo and Copenhagen maintained the old structure of their medical faculties until c. 1850. In 1826, the National Hospital of Oslo was opened, offering 100 beds for practical training. Copenhagen and Sweden were primarily influenced by Germany and France.70 Russia expanded at the beginning of the nineteenth century during the reign of Alexander I, which lasted from 1801 to 1825. Alexander re-established the old Swedish University in Estonia, Dorpat (Tartu), in 1802.71 The medical faculty was very modest at the beginning, but a man

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J. Topolskiego (ed.), Dziejc Polski (Warsaw, 1977), 443. L. Tochowicz et al., Outline of the History and the Structural Organisation of the Medical Academy in Cracow (Cracow, 1981), 16–20. R. Sikorski and L. Kowieski, ‘Reception and Assimilation of Innovative Medical Ideas in Poland in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries’, Clio Medica, 21 (1987–88), 95–103. ¨ ¨ J. Livescu, ‘Die Entstehung der rumanischen Universitaten’, in Plaschka and Mack (eds.), Wegenetz (note 75), 21–35; J. Sadlak, ‘The Use and Abuse of the University Higher Education in Romania 1860–1900’, Minerva. A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 29 (1991), 195–225.

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Medicine become prominent politicians, authors, legal advisors and professors at the University of Athens, which was founded in 1834. The medical faculty became a clear example of the German teaching system. Throughout the nineteenth century the foreign-trained doctors, the ‘Hesperia’ (trained in the West), were held in high esteem.80 The other countries of south-east Europe were still under Ottoman rule. The first medical school was founded in a military hospital in Istanbul in 1827. The teachers were Hungarian and Turkish. They instructed physicians and surgeons along the lines of the French military medical training centres. The surgeons were instructed in French, the physicians in Italian. In 1839, a medical faculty was founded in Galatasaray (Istanbul) by combining the two schools. This time the teaching programme was set up according to the model of the Vienna school. As professors, Austrian physicians were recommended by Metternich to the Ottoman ruler Sultan Mohammed II. In 1842, this school had a library with 1,300 books, written in French. It had a botanical garden with an Austrian curator and a museum with anatomical specimens, prepared by Joseph Hyrtl (1811–94), and many instruments for physics and also a dispensary. Clinical teaching, instruction in surgery and obstetrics, the last with a special course for midwives, were given in five wards at Galatasaray. Compared with the poor facilities present in the Balkan medical schools, Galatasaray was the best-equipped medical school in the south-east Mediterranean basin at the time.81 In the western part of the Mediterranean basin, Spain underwent the same reforms as Italy during the Napoleonic campaign. Various old universities, like Salamanca, lost their medical faculties or were totally closed down. The main centres for medical training were located in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. These three locations had practical medical training, installed in 1795, 1787 and 1797. In Madrid, the school was orien´ tated towards France. The leading surgeon, Jos´e Severo Lopez (1754– 1807), had close connections with Cabanis and other French scholars. Barcelona, and especially Valencia, traditionally looked to Vienna. These schools adopted the same teaching programmes, used translated Viennese textbooks, and adhered to the therapeutic and clinical concepts of Maximilian Stoll (1742–88) and his school. After 1817, new ordinances had to be passed for the reorganization of medical education in Spain. In 1822, the practical medical school of Madrid joined the transferred 80

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˜ J. M. Lopez Pinero, ‘The Relation between the “alte Wiener Schule” and the Spanish Medicine of the Enlightenment’, in Lesky (ed.), Wien (note 22), 11–26. F. Guerra, ‘Medical Education in Iberoamerica’, in O’Malley (ed.), Medical Education (note 18), 419–62. E. Lesky, ‘Johan Peter Frank als Organisator des medizinischen Unterrichtes’, Sudhoff’s ¨ Geschichte der Medizin, 39 (1955), 1–29. Archiv fur L. Belloni, ‘Italian Medical Education after 1600’, in O’Malley (ed.), Medical Education (note 18), 113. B. Lanza and M. L. Azzaroli Pucetti et al., Le Cere Anatomiche della Specola (Florence, 1979).

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Medicine approval in the universities, where Morgagni’s pathological anatomy was founded.87 Brownianism was not accepted in the traditional Italian faculties. The quest for certainty in medicine became urgent in all European countries. And this certainty could not be attained without a new scientific method, which would develop in the next period. t h e n e w l e a r n i n g (1830–1870) ¨ The ‘new physiology’, practised in the school of Johannes Muller in Berlin, initiated a modern scientific spirit in Germany. His pupils were coming to feel that vitalism was useless, even as a last resort. He had inspired them to study vital phenomena in terms of purpose, but that purpose itself could be best defined in an objective and even mathematical man¨ ner.88 Muller did not object to mechanistic explanations; the differences between vitalists and mechanists became ever more related to philosophical interpretations, rather than to programmes or methods of research.89 This can also be studied in his Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen (1834–40), in which he emphasized that progress in research is based on observation and experiment and does not rely on any of the established ¨ systems. Muller’s philosophy was holistic, in fact he occupied five chairs at the university, which had to be given to five successors! His broad view of the vital phenomena inspired various famous pupils, some rebellious, some obedient to the master. The spectacular development of the natural sciences contributed to a firm belief in progress. According to Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–72), the real revolutionary forces of history came from the truth of the natural sciences and not from politics.90 Therefore, opposition to groundless authority was the task of young, progressive researchers and natural science was its justification. Feuerbach’s philosophy inspired many young intellectuals, who wanted to protest against the a priori use of illusive and artificial idealism in science, political and clerical institutions.91 Among them were the so-called ‘scientific materialists’, Karl Vogt (1817–95), Jacob ¨ Moleschott (1822–93) and Ludwig Buchner (1824–99). In their work we find a far more radical criticism of Naturphilosophie and the ‘immaterial 87 88 89 90 91

L. Premuda, ‘Die anatomisch-klinische Methode: Padua–Paris–Wien–Padua’, Gesnerus, 44 (1987), 15–32. R. Shryock, The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved (New York, 1947), 200. T. Lenoir, The Strategy of Life: Teleology and Mechanics in Nineteenth-Century German Biology, Studies in the History of Modern Science 13 (Dordrecht, 1982), 276–80. F. Gregory, Scientific Materialism in 19th-Century Germany, Studies in the History of Modern Science 1 (Dordrecht and Boston, 1977), 9. F. Gregory, ‘Science versus Dialectic Materialism: A Clash of Ideologies in 19th-Century German Radicalism’, Isis, 68 (1977), 206–23.

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Ackerknecht, Virchow (note 96), 131. ¨ Letter from Wohler to Berzelius, 22 February–1828: O. Wallach, Briefwechsel zwischen ¨ ¨ J. Berzelius und F. Wohler (Gottingen, 1901; Wiesbaden, 1966), vol. I, 206. R. Morgue, La Philosophie biologique d’Auguste Comte (Lyon, 1909), 35. Morgue, Philosophie (note 103), 20–6; G. Canguilhem, ‘La Philosophie d’Auguste Comte et son influence en France au XIXe si`ecle’, in G. Canguilhem, Etudes d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences (Paris, 1968), 76–98.

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Ibid., 73. H. A. M. Snelders, ‘The Mulder–Liebig Controversy Elucidated by Their Correspondence’, Janus, 69 (1982), 199–221. E. Lesky, Die Wiener medizinische Schule im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, Studien zur ¨ Wien 6 (Graz and Cologne, 1965), 129–41. Geschichte der Universitat Ibid., 135. In the Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift from 1855, after Lesky, Wiener Schule (note 112), 132.

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Medicine down for visual standards for drivers, requested by the Railroad Companies in the USA.167 The eye-test type, introduced in 1862 by the Dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen (1834–1908), became a standard criterion.168 The pharmacists were among the first in the medical community to seek a uniform system that applied to the measurement, naming and dispensing of prescribed drugs.169 They pleaded for the metric system, applied in Germany since 1858, and the use of Latin names of drugs in prescriptions. Uniformity of measurements was urged in the sectional meetings of the new disciplines – otology, ophthalmology, pharmacology – and also by pathologists and internists. They wanted uniformity in clinical reports, as stated at the International Medical Congress in Geneva in 1877.170 After 1880, there was an overall quest for precision in medicine: precision in instruments, precision in diagnosis and precision in drug administration. the ‘modernization’ of medical education ¨ In spite of the great achievements of men like Johannes Muller, Virchow, Pasteur and Koch, whose researches led to the great discoveries of the Belle Epoque, medical education adapted slowly to the new demands of society. A quest for certainty had been the key-note to reform of medical education at the beginning of the century. In the early twentieth century, the quest was for safety, by requiring a guarantee of the adequacy of the doctor’s knowledge. Most countries demanded a licence to practise, approved by a state board, around 1900. Medical education was not exclusively a matter for the universities, though they were obliged to accept disciplines, such as pharmacy, dentistry and veterinary medicine, which previously had been taught in most countries in schools outside the universities. The registration of the medical profession would end unqualified practice and give the new society the safe general practitioners it required.171 It also wanted well-trained pharmacists, familiar with the new standards called for by the industrial production of drugs, new regulations and new laws. Finally, dentistry would obtain a higher standard and become ‘a more honourable profession’.172 167 168 169 170 171 172

Ibid., 215. H. Snellen, Optotypi ad visum determinandum, Reports from the Dutch Ophthalmic Hospital (Utrecht, 1862). Translated in many languages, eighteen editions until 1902. Davis, Medicine (note 160), 221. E. Seguin, ‘Uniformity in the Practice of Physic’, Medical Record, 13 (1876), 556; Davis, Medicine (note 160), 224. Newman, Evolution (note 58), 135. G. J. van Wiggen, In meer eerbare banen. De ontwikkeling van het tandheelkundig beroep in Nederland van 1865–1940, Nieuwe Nederlandse bijdragen tot de geschiedenis der geneeskunde en der natuurwetenschappen 23 (Amsterdam, 1987). This book

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discusses the problems of emancipation of dentistry as a qualified profession in the Netherlands. A. Flexner, Medical Education: A Comparative Study (New York, 1925), 18, 118. G. H. Brieger, ‘The Flexner Report: Revised or Revisited?’, Medical Heritage, 1 (1985), 1–25. R. P. Hudson, ‘Abraham Flexner in Perspective: American Medical Education 1865– 1910’, Bulletin for the History of Medicine, 46 (1972), 545–61.

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Medicine described a professor of medicine as primarily a student of problems, and a trainer of men, capable of finding their own way. To Flexner, the university was primarily a place for research and teaching. In his opinion, clinical practice, however important, was not sufficient justification for academic recognition, but rather a reason for exclusion from it.176 He saw the appointment of full-time clinical professors as the only effective way to create clinics in America comparable to those in Germany. Flexner praised abundantly Friedrich Althoff (1839–1908), the fertile administrator of the Prussian Kultus-Ministerium from 1882 to 1907, who forwarded research in the universities or in related institutes. In Flexner’s opinion, the Johns Hopkins medical school, modelled on German and English medical education in 1876, had been influential in promoting medical research by founding and developing the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in 1901. He much admired Theodor Billroth (1829–94), who had outlined in 1876 what a modernized medical faculty, based on the natural sciences, should accomplish in the field of research and teaching. He heavily criticized the French system, the clinical type of medical education, where practising surgeons and physicians appointed by non-university hospitals walked the wards, demonstrating to students, and where the basic sciences were taught by clinicians: anatomy by surgeons, physiology by agr´eg´es of internal medicine. The French tradition of centralizing medical education, especially in the Paris hospitals, prevented the growth of the basic sciences indispensable to the new laboratory medicine. During the period 1830–65, when France was tied to the splendour of the clinic, determined to remain general and refusing medical specialization, a kind of private teaching developed outside the faculties. ‘Free’ professors, not attached to the hospitals or the faculty, lectured on selected subjects such as the use of the microscope and histology at the Coll`ege de France or the Ecole Pratique.177 What did not seem to have come to Flexner’s attention were the profound changes in French medical teaching, induced by the defeat in the war of 1870. The professors of the faculty of medicine in Paris went abroad to study medical education in other countries. After much deliberation, new chairs were created for the specialized branches of medicine, and the basic disciplines, especially anatomy, were given their proper place in the curriculum, albeit an under-organized curriculum. These changes were put into effect by the law of 1892, which once and for all abolished the health officer and 176

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Medicine Flexner’s work and influence on medical education were nearly as well known in Europe as in America. In the 1920s and 1930s, his books were widely read in medical centres and elsewhere.183 As Brieger has stated, Flexner represented the heart of the progressive era; all-conquering science had made the union between science and medicine both inevitable and irreversible.184 It is no wonder that he played a powerful role in changing ideas and institutions in and outside Europe. During the first decades of the twentieth century the students who entered the universities to study medicine were in many respects different from their predecessors. The entrance requirements of the universities permitted only those well versed in the natural sciences and mathematics to matriculate in the medical faculties. Furthermore, they could expect practical courses in anatomy, physiology, bacteriology and clinical laboratory work. The student should not merely watch, listen and memorize, but practise, both in the laboratory and in the clinic. The first things he had to buy when he started his course were a microscope and a set of dissection knives. He had to dissect a fish or a rat to begin with, and later, in groups, the whole human body. He decerebrated a frog to study the reflexes in a practical course of physiology, handling rather complicated laboratory instruments, such as the kymograph, where muscle movements were registered along the lines of Carl Ludwig’s discoveries in physiology. He had to cut hardened tissue, stain the sections and study the cells, both normal and pathological. After 1900, he had to assist during operations, wearing a white coat and rubber gloves. He was expected to administer ether or chloroform on a mask for narcosis and to give injections. He would learn to read an electrocardiogram and to interpret X-rays. With each step in his curriculum, he would be confronted with technology. After finishing his training, he might decide to become a specialist. The training and registration of medical specialists became a new chapter in the history of medical education, but it would take some time before the powerful professors of the German and Central European countries would yield any of their generalized practice to specialized colleagues. The status of these professors was one of undisputed authority and they were careful to keep it this way. Prague was the first to accept a new special field, otology, in 1867.185 It was easier for the military-medical students, who in several countries joined the university training courses or had access to special facilities there after the abolition of the military-medical training-schools, like the 183 184 185

Ibid., 476. The University of Leiden has about ten copies registered, also German translations, in several departments. Brieger, ‘Flexner Report’ (note 174), 22; Neville Bonner, ‘Flexner as Critic’ (note 181), 476. ¨ Eulner, Spezialfacher (note 116), 29 (‘Introduction’ (Allgemeines)).

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T. Neville Bonner, ‘Pioneering in Women’s Medical Education in the Swiss Universities 1864–1914’, Gesnerus, 45 (1988), 461–74. T. Neville Bonner, ‘Rendez-vous in Zurich: Seven who Made a Revolution in Women’s Medical Education’, Journal of the History of Medicine, 44 (1989), 7–27. Neville Bonner, ‘Rendez-vous’ (note 194), 25. In 1887 Giuseppina Cattani received a lectureship in general pathology at the University of Turin, see chapter 5, 133. A. Vucinich, The Empire of Knowledge: The Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1917– 1970) (Berkeley and London, 1984), 73. Z. A. Medvedev, The Rise and Fall of T. D. Lysenko (New York and London, 1969), 83–5 (translated by M. Lerner, with the editorial assistance of L. G. Lawrence).

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G. D. Komkov, B. V. Levsin and L. K. Semenov, Geschichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften der UdSSR (Berlin, 1981), 376 (translated by Conrad Grau et al.). Vucinich, Empire (note 196), 358. 201 Ibid., 322–3. Grmek, ‘Medical Education’ (note 74), part II, note 57.

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tsov, the foremost specialist in this area.202 Not only the USSR, but also the other European countries were worried about the growing power of the Nazi ideology in Germany. Medical education in Germany between 1932 and 1945 was even more radically afflicted by Nazi ideology than the Russian medical education by Marxism. The reform of the medical curriculum was initiated by the National Socialist physicians, with the state leaving the medical faculties more or less undisturbed.203 The Nazi physicians wanted a new German medical care, based on biological principles: fortification of the health and defence power of the German population and care of healthy procreation of the eminent German race. The concept of ‘health’ in relation to economic and social factors was considered to be liberal or Marxist. For the Nazis ‘health’ meant political power. They attached more value to constitution, heredity (genetics!) and racial hygiene. The so-called hereditary biological elements, which had already played a role in German science from the early decades of the century, were now put forward as essential. Highly valued ‘blood’ should be protected, low-grade life should be destroyed. In 1933, Jewish and Communist students were excluded from the universities. The Nazis were more careful with the Jewish professors; those who were heroes of the First World War were left undisturbed at the beginning.204 Several changes in the curriculum were made, especially in favour of racial hygiene, eugenics and military medicine including the effects of gas warfare and protection against air raids. Furthermore, physical activities were advanced, and the students had to work in factories, hospitals and in special units in the army. Although an important part of the medical students was enthusiastic about the new life in the ‘Third Reich’, there were also protests and resistance among the populations of the German universities. In Berlin, where 120 Jewish teachers and co-workers at the medical faculty of the university were dismissed and persecuted, much protest arose among students and teachers.205 The reception of Nazi regulations for the destruction of low-grade life were received by the medical faculties with uneasiness, since it meant the extinction of chronic and mentally deficient patients in the psychiatric wards of the university hospital and a stringent screening of new-born babies in the maternity clinics for congenital malformations 202 203 204 205

Medvedev, Rise (note 197), 78–85 (chapter 4, Medical Genetics in 1937–1940). H. van den Bussche, ‘Im Dienste der Volksgemeinschaft’. Studienreform im National¨ sozialismus am Beispiel der arztlichen Ausbildung (Berlin and Hamburg, 1989), 193. ¨ der Albert Ludwigs Universitat ¨ Freiburg im BreisE. Seidler, Die Medizinische Fakultat gau. Grundlagen und Entwicklungen (Berlin, 1991), 305ff. (chapter 3). ¨ Gestern-Heute-Morgen (Berlin, 1960), ¨ G. Kruger (ed.), Die Humboldt Universitat. 110–18.

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¨ (note 204), 360; H. F. Spate ¨ and A. Thom, ‘Psychiatrie Seidler, Medizinische Fakultat ¨ die Gesamte Hygiene, im Faschismus – Bilanz der historischen Analyse’, Zeitschrift fur 26, 6 (1980), 553–60.

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Medicine issue in medical training. In most countries, the concept of ‘medical police’ was incorporated into the teaching programme. But there was still a long way to go before a better training of students in public health, such as hygiene, maternal and paediatric care, was requested. After 1830, the Humboldtian concept of education, not only for the university, but also for primary and secondary schools, would be the start of an upsurge of German higher education and lead to the unification of learning and research in the German universities. Berlin became ¨ a leading centre for medical education besides Wurzburg, Heidelberg and ¨ Gottingen. In France, research stayed outside the universities until the end of the century, but Claude Bernard founded experimental medicine a long time before he finally obtained a laboratory at the Sorbonne. His work was the great stimulus for new fields to be explored in pathology, physiology and pharmacology. Clinical medicine was refined by these new trends, new specialities would arise and medical education would require more investment to be provided by the authorities all over Europe. More students matriculated in the medical faculties and more accommodation was needed for both teaching and research. Not all European countries could afford these demands. The same holds true for those university hospitals which had no facilities for clinical research or could not deal with the new demands of surgery. Antiseptics were introduced into most European hospitals after they were recommended by Semmelweis and Lister, but the students were more familiar with the smell of carbolic acid than with the essence of its action. But England could be proud of Guy’s Hospital in London with outstanding teachers such as Thomas Addison (1793–1860) and Thomas Hodgkin (1798–1866). In Ireland, the Medical School of Dublin attracted many American students. France maintained its shining attraction in clinical teaching with Armand Trousseau (1801–67), who ˆ taught at the Hotel-Dieu hospital. After 1870, an international medicine flooded the world, affecting all continents. Great discoveries, especially in the field of microbiology and the surgical disciplines, gave medicine in this period an aura of heroism, which inspired many students to devote themselves to these disciplines. They moved from being passive listeners to lectures to being more active, both in the laboratories and in the wards. The new technology brought its dangers: society asked for safety in the course of medical treatment of patients and for precision in the preparation of drugs. Standardization of drugs and instruments became indispensable, as did a tight control of the administration of drugs and X-rays. An expanding Europe trained its young doctors in tropical medicine to be of service in the colonies, for both the European colonists and the indigenous population. Also, women were admitted to the curricula, but they had a long way to go before they found the recognition they deserved. 589

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introduction At the turn of the nineteenth century, the forms of instruction that were available for the training of engineers in Europe were a combination of apprenticeship and of basic scientific knowledge of a kind that was not necessarily related to practical ends. In general, technical subjects were regarded as inappropriate fields of activity for institutions of higher education. Advanced schools that did provide instruction in the applied sciences were few, and their main objective was to prepare state officials for the military or the civil service. By the end of the nineteenth century, this old nucleus of military and administrative schools had been swamped by the growth of new institutions, and, in the process, the emphasis had shifted from public service towards training for the industrial professions. The pattern of growth of these new forms of technical education was uneven: the number of institutions offering instruction for industrial careers and the number of students enrolled in them differed markedly from one country to another. The quality of the facilities, too, was very variable. The fact remains, however, that in the aftermath of the First World War, technical courses and degrees at university level were available in all the industrialized countries of Europe. Virtually everywhere, in fact, they constituted one of the most rapidly growing sectors of higher education. The process that led to the extraordinary proliferation of higher technical schools and courses was not a linear one. One of the most peculiar features of the sector was the diversity of the origins of its constituent ∗

This survey is largely based on the volume edited by R. Fox and A. Guagnini (eds.), Education, Technology and Industrial Performance in Europe, 1850–1939 (Cambridge and Paris, 1993). The chapter draws heavily on the essays of the contributors to this book and on discussions with them.

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Anna Guagnini institutions. The majority of the new schools were created outside the university system, in a variety of quite distinct institutional contexts, and they were admitted to the highest levels of the educational hierarchy only slowly. The upgrading of those schools was generally brought about by a gradual redefinition of their aims and by a reorganization of their programmes. In the course of this transformation, more uniform standards were adopted. Nevertheless, higher technical schools often retained characteristic marks of their heterogeneous background. In this survey special emphasis is placed precisely on this aspect, namely on the variety of the backgrounds from which higher education developed, not only in different national contexts, but also within the boundaries of individual nations. Without exception, the growth in the number and size of the institutions of higher technical education during the nineteenth century caused significant tension in the upper levels of the educational system. In all European countries, resistance to change was a deeply entrenched feature of higher education, and there is no doubt that the ‘utilitarian’ character of the new curricula continued to fuel hostility towards technological education long after engineering schools were accepted as a recognized part of the university system. Attitudes to those schools were also hardened by the rapidity with which they proliferated and by the heavy demands they made on financial resources. It was inevitable that the growth in enrolments and the ever-increasing sophistication of the programmes would cause internal problems and heighten the difficulty of preserving exacting standards in teaching and a serious commitment to research, while coping with the inexorable pressure towards specialization and the fragmentation of curricula. These were dominant themes in the history of higher technical education between the First and Second World Wars, and, in many respects, they remained unresolved after 1945. technical education for public servants Science has always drawn ideas from the world of practice, though it has done so with aims that have been predominantly theoretical. The second half of the eighteenth century was no exception to this trend; however, in this period, there were also new attempts to point the arrow in the other direction, by using theoretical knowledge to illuminate the problems of manufacture. In the process, experimental and mathematical research, stimulated by an interest in the scientific principles underlying machines and processes, yielded a considerable amount of knowledge that was relevant to practical questions, especially in mechanics and

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Technology hydrodynamics.1 The interaction was assisted by institutional developments. Throughout Europe, this was a period in which natural philosophers became increasingly involved in practical matters. Members of academies and scientific societies and the professoriate of institutions of higher education acted as consultants and advisors, and occasionally as the directors of public works and state-owned industries.2 The case of the chemist Claude-Louis Berthollet (1748–1822), who in the 1780s was director of dyeing at the royal tapestry works in Paris, the Gobelins, is only one of the many examples of the active role played by natural philosophers.3 The institutional seats of knowledge had other important links with sites of practice. Models of machines were, albeit on a small scale, an essential component of the natural philosopher’s world, as instruments for demonstration and experimental research. They acted as a focus for the bond between scholars and instrument-makers, and hence as a channel for the cross-fertilization between science and technology.4 The importance of this channel in the development of technology is perhaps best exemplified by the association between James Watt (1735–1848), the instrumentmaker who invented the separate condenser and other improvements in the steam engine, and the scientific community centred on the University of Glasgow.5 The conviction that science was the necessary foundation for the improvement and development of the useful arts had much support among natural philosophers. However, the aim of institutions devoted to the teaching of science was not to train practitioners in any of the useful arts; their main concern was theoretical, and the abstract notions that were formulated did little to guide the work of men who were engaged in the design and production of manufacts. It is true that some members of the scientific community did make contributions to technology. But these contributions were the fruit of personal research interests. The fact remains that there was little in the scientific curricula offered by the traditional centres of learning in the late eighteenth century that could help practising engineers and mechanics in the solution of their problems. The involvement of individual scientists in technical matters, at a private as well as a public level, continued throughout the nineteenth 1 2 3 4 5

On these themes see various chapters in C. Singer, C. E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and T. I. Williams, A History of Technology, vol. IV: The Industrial Revolution (Oxford, 1958). C. Gillispie, Science and Polity in France at the End of the Old Regime (Princeton, 1980). Gillispie, Science (note 2), chapter VI. L. Stewart, The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain (Cambridge, 1992). On Watt and the Glasgow scientific circle: D. S. L. Cardwell, The Rise of Thermodynamics in the Early Industrial Age (London, 1971).

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Technology The lineage of the French artillery schools was rather less distinguished. Originally they were attached to various battalions, and it was only in ´ 1802 that the sector was reorganized, when the Ecole du G´enie Militaire ´ was expanded to include an artillery section and renamed the Ecole de 6 l’Artillerie et du G´enie Militaire. At the turn of the century, schools for the preparation of technically trained military officers existed in most European countries. However, in the unsettled political climate of the period, the life of some of these institutions was ephemeral. Their organization improved in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, when the growing recognition of the impact of new technologies on military techniques and an awareness of the important contributions made by the French military schools in the field of science and technology combined to induce other governments to pay more attention to the provision for specialized military instruction. In 1816, the Prussian Ministry of War set up the Vereinigte Artillerie- und ¨ ¨ Ingenieurschule in Berlin, and the Hogre Artillerilaroverket och Artilleri¨ och Ing. Hogskolan was founded at Marieberg in Sweden in 1818. In Russia, Spain, Belgium, and the Italian states, too, existing schools of military architecture and artillery were reorganized from 1820, as part of the same movement. Clearly, the amount of technical instruction that these schools offered was limited, since time also had to be found for purely military subjects and drill. Also, the enrolments were low, for the military could only absorb a fixed number of recruits every year. Nevertheless, in the early decades of the nineteenth century, when few other institutions offered instruction of a kind that was relevant to technical matters, the schools played an important role in fashioning a new generation of educated technical experts. In fact, their influence far transcended the military sphere: engineers who had been trained for the army were often employed in the design and construction of public works. In Sweden, for example, the civil engineering sector remained under the supervision of military engineers until the mid-nineteenth century. Also quite separate from the university system were the mining schools, most of them founded in the later eighteenth century. At a time when, in most European countries, natural underground resources were the property of the state, the primary aim of these schools was to train the small number of civil servants who were employed as managers in stateowned mining enterprises. One of the earliest and most famous schools of ˇ this kind was the Bergakademie of Schemnitz (Banska Stiavnica), established in 1763, and situated at the centre of one of the most prosperous 6

R. Taton, ‘L’Ecole Royale du G´enie de M´ezi`eres’, in R. Taton (ed.), Enseignment et diffusion des sciences en France au dix-huiti`eme si`ecle (Paris, 1964), 559–615.

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Technology schools were established in Spain, France, Belgium, Sweden and in the Austro-Hungarian Empire; private enterprise also made its contribution, ´ with the opening of the Ecole des Mines at Mons in Belgium (1836) and of the Royal School of Mines in London (1851). But the most notable developments took place in civil engineering. This was largely the result of the expansion of schools for the training of recruits for the corps responsible for public works. The first initiative in this direction had already been launched in France in 1748, when special courses were set up in Paris for the employees of the Corps des Ponts et Chauss´ees. The courses were ´ later transformed into the Ecole des Ponts et Chauss´ees, and, like the corps to which they were attached, were administered by the Ministry of Commerce.10 ´ It was one of the distinctive features of the Ecole des Ponts et Chauss´ees that, until the end of the eighteenth century, the professorship was not made up of professional teachers. In fact, most of the teaching was done by officers from the corps and by the best students of the school. The first year of the three-year course was spent on general scientific subjects; in the second year, mechanics, hydraulics, geometry, surveying, strength of materials, and stereotomy were taught; and the final year was devoted mainly to instruction in practical projects. As in the case of military and mining schools, the limited number of career opportunities for highly qualified public officers imposed constraints on the enrolments. In fact, pupils were recruited, in small numbers, from among the younger members of the Corps des Ponts et Chauss´ees. In the first decades, the total number of the students in attendance was no more than twenty, about ten of whom graduated each year. By 1806 the number had risen to about 53, and in ´ 1850 it was 78. The character of the Ecole des Ponts et Chauss´ees was ´ modified when, in 1794, the Ecole polytechnique (founded in that year ´ as the Ecole Centrale des Travaux Publics), was established. According to the original plan, drawn up by Monge and subsequently endorsed by ´ Napoleon, this institution was to replace the Ecole des Ponts et Chauss´ees as a source of candidates for the highest ranks of the military and civil service. In the event, the whole system for the training of state officers was ´ reorganized. As a result, the Ecole polytechnique became the common preparatory school for students who sought admission to what now began ´ to be known collectively as e´ coles d’application: the Ecole de l’Artillerie ´ ´ et du G´enie Militaire, the Ecole des Ponts et Chauss´ees, and the Ecole des ´ Mines. In this way, the Ecole polytechnique became the cornerstone of the interlocking system of advanced technical schools that firmly established themselves at the top of France’s educational hierarchy, well ahead 10

´ A. Picon, L’invention de l’ing´enieur moderne. L’Ecole des Ponts et Chauss´ees, 1747–1851 (Paris, 1994).

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˜ Ilustrada. La Escuela de Caminos A. Rumeu de Armas, Ciencia y tecnolog´ıa en la Espana y Canales (Madrid, 1980). I. Gouz´evitch and D. Gouz´evitch, ‘Les contacts franco-russes dans le domaine de l’enseignement sup´erieur technique et l’art de l’ing´enieur’, Cahiers du monde russe et sovi´etique, 34 (1993), 345–68. I. Gouz´evitch, ‘Technical Higher Education in Nineteenthcentury Russia and France: Some Thoughts on a Historical Choice’, in A. Karvar and B. Schroeder-Gudehus, Techniques, Frontiers, Mediation. Transnational Diffusion of Models for the Education of Engineers, special issue of History and Technology 12 (1995), 109–17. For an account of the early history of this institution: A. M. Larionov, Istoriia Instituta Inzhenerov Putej soobshcheniia Imperatora Aleksandra I za pervoe stoletie sushchestvovaniia 1810–1910 (St Petersburg, 1910).

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Technology link, coupled with the strong influence of the French engineering schools, the thrust of the courses was essentially theoretical. Until the end of the nineteenth century, in fact, practical instruction was virtually absent from the syllabuses of the Italian engineering schools.15 The approach in Prussia was very different. Here, the Bauakademie was established in Berlin in 1799, as part of a general reorganization of all sectors of the educational system which culminated in the opening of the University of Berlin in 1810. The cultural context of the reform was fashioned by a dominant humanistic ideal and, in the sphere of higher education, by a total commitment to the cultivation and the advancement of knowledge, unsullied by utilitarian concerns. Science as an intellectual pursuit was compatible with such an approach, but its applications were regarded as alien to the realm of education. The reformers were clearly aware both of the importance of scientific and technical instruction as a factor in economic progress, and of the scientific achievements of the French engineering schools. But they dealt with the problem of technical training by developing a separate, less academic level of schools. Thus, in planning the Bauakademie, their aim was to some extent similar to that of the French schools, namely to prepare competent recruits for the civil service, who would be employed in major public works, in particular in road and canal construction and surveying. However, these were conceived as strictly technical careers, not stepping stones to the highest ranks of the civil administration. Hence the Bauakademie’s level and style of education was quite distinct from that of the university. The cultivation of science belonged to the university, whereas the instruction offered by the Bauakademie, as a technical institute, was essentially professional in character. And, crucially, the Bauakademie was not only independent of the university system; it also ranked below it.16 ´ Respect for the academic prestige of the French Ecole polytechnique was also evident among the promoters of higher technical education in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. However, the approach that the government adopted there was novel, differing even from the solution favoured in Prussia. The main features were two-fold. First, in 1815 the Bohemian 15

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G. C. Lacaita, Istruzione e sviluppo industriale in Italia, 1859–1914 (Florence, 1973); A. Guagnini, ‘Higher Education and the Engineering Profession in Italy: The Scuole of Milan and Turin, 1859–1914’, Minerva, 26 (1988), 512–48. W. Lexis, Die Technischen Hochschulen im Deutschen Reich (Berlin, 1904); K.-H. Mane¨ Technische Hochschule und Industrie. Ein Beitrag zur Emanzipation gold, Universitat, ¨ der Technik im 19. Jahrhundert unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Bestrebungen Felix Kleins, Schriften zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte 16 (Berlin, 1970). On the ¨ creation and development of the Bauakademie in Berlin: R. Rurup (ed.), Wissenschaft ¨ zur Geschichte der Technischen Universitat ¨ Berlin 1879–1979, und Gesellschaft. Beitrage 2 vols. (Berlin, Heidelberg and New York, 1979).

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Anna Guagnini Polytechnisches Landesinstitut of Prague and the Polytechnisches Institut of Vienna (opened respectively in 1806 and 1815), were recognized as institutions of higher education, though separate from the university system. Scientific disciplines loomed large in the syllabuses, in so far as they were regarded a necessary component of an engineer’s preparation. But equal prominence was given to the subjects that were more relevant to the professional activities of the students. Thus technical subjects were treated as extensively and systematically as possible, and were given the same dignity as the scientific disciplines.17 Secondly, and very characteristically, attention was paid to the instruction of students in subjects that were relevant to manufacturing practice, especially applied chemistry and mechanical engineering. This reflects the fact that the technical schools of Vienna and Prague also departed from the French model in the range of posts for which their students were trained: their objective was to prepare not only technical officers for the state corps, but also young men going on to careers in the private sector, whether in construction or in manufacturing. A similar solution was adopted two decades later in Belgium, a country that had deeply rooted cultural links with France but whose response shows clearly how models were adjusted to different circumstances. The influence of the French model was as deeply rooted here as it was in Spain and Italy; like the latter, Belgium was occupied by France in the first decade of the nineteenth century, and during that period the French administration set up technical corps that mirrored those already existing in France. But at the same time, Belgium was beginning to emerge as Europe’s second most industrialized region. The concern with the preparation of technically trained administrators, borrowed from the French tradition, was counterbalanced by an equal concern with the instruction of young men going on to industrial careers. A Corps des Ponts et Chauss´ees, first created in 1804 during the French occupation, was reorganized in 1831, when the country became independent. Four years later, plans were submitted to ´ the government for the creation of two new schools, the Ecole des Ponts ´ et Chauss´ees at Ghent and the Ecole des Mines at Li`ege. Originally, the aim of the new schools was to train technical officers for the civil service as well as employees for industry. However, by the time they were opened in 1838, each of them was subdivided into two ´ ´ separate institutions: the Ecole Sp´eciale du G´enie Civil and the Ecole ´ des Arts et Manufactures in Ghent; the Ecole Sp´eciale des Mines and ´ the Ecole des Arts et Manufactures in Li`ege. The e´ coles sp´eciales were 17

H. Gollob, Geschichte der Technischen Hochschule in Wien (Vienna, 1964); H. Sequenz (ed.), 150 Jahre Technische Hochschule in Wien 1815–1965, 2 vols. (Vienna and New ¨ seines York, 1965); C. Hautschek (ed.), Johann Joseph Prechtl. Sichtweisen und Aktualitat Werkes (Vienna and Cologne, 1990).

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Technology similar to the French e´ coles d’application, both in the privileged access which their students enjoyed with regard to entry to the civil service, and in the theoretical bias of their courses. The syllabuses of the two e´ coles des arts et manufactures, on the other hand, had a more practical bent, characterized by a less sophisticated programme of mathematics and by extensive studies of manufacturing practices. Inevitably, the e´ coles des arts et manufactures had a lower status than the e´ coles sp´eciales; but the fact remains that in Belgium state-supported institutions for the training of technical officers and for industrial engineers were created simultaneously and as part of the same educational structure. By 1840, therefore, Belgium had a two-tier system of higher technical schools.18 The country in which the continental drive towards the creation of schools for state-employed technical officers was least effective was Britain. Her industrial successes had gone hand in glove with the dramatic development of her means of communication – canals, turnpikes, bridges, docks, and, from the 1820s, the railway network. However, the control of these initiatives remained largely in private hands. In keeping with its generally laissez-faire policy, the government did not regard itself as responsible for assessing the qualifications of the technical men in charge of these works, nor for providing relevant instruction. Regardless of whether any such form of education was available before the midcentury, the training of technical experts was controlled by strict and well-established rules that had their roots within the engineering community. Experience and practical knowledge were by far the most important qualifications for young men who aspired to the highest ranks of the engineering profession, whether in private practice, or as employees in industrial concerns. The lengthy process of apprenticeship (usually seven years), or, for those who could afford it, premium pupilage (shorter but expensive) with some well-established firms or freelance engineers, were the only recognized routes to positions of real technical responsibility.19 These professional values and norms were codified in the statutes of the professional associations that began to represent the elite of the engineering community, from as early as 1771, when the Institution of Civil Engineers was established. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, founded in 1847, adopted a similar attitude towards professional qualifications.20 In both cases, admission was based on experience and the candidate’s professional success; by comparison, scientific education and academic degrees carried virtually no weight. This does not necessarily mean that the 18 19 20

J. C. Baudet, ‘The Training of Engineers in Belgium, 1830–1940’, in Fox and Guagnini (eds.) Education (note *), 93–114. C. More, Skill and the English Working Class, 1870–1914 (London, 1980). R. A. Buchanan, The Engineers: A History of the Engineering Profession in Britain 1750– 1914 (London, 1989).

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Anna Guagnini institutions under-estimated the importance of fostering the advancement and diffusion of technical knowledge. In fact, they were actively engaged in supporting research, organizing meetings, and promoting selfeducation and the exchange of information between members. What was conspicuously absent was any attempt to replace experience with higher education. Clearly, this attitude left little scope for the development of engineering schools. It is not surprising, therefore, that the few early attempts to establish special higher courses for engineers in the late 1820s and 1830s did not prove successful. The University of Durham and the newly established London colleges (University College and King’s College) created engineering chairs and set up special programmes for engineers. However, enrolments were low; it was only in the last decade of the century that formal education, as a partial alternative to apprenticeship, began to be recognized as a relevant qualification for admission to the engineering association.21

the emergence of industrial engineering, 1830–1850 All the state-controlled schools mentioned so far offered at least some instruction in subjects, such as chemistry and applied mechanics, that were relevant to manufacturing practices. And occasionally students from those schools found their way into industry. However, most European governments were reluctant to become involved in schemes for the training of technical experts for industry. For its part, industry did not subject the various central authorities to the pressure that might have led them to take more account of industrial developments. In the first decades of the nineteenth century, in fact, hardly any manufacturers put the case for higher technical instruction with an industrial orientation. Such exceptions as there were tended to be found in the chemical industry, where by the 1840s a few manufacturers, most notably though not only in Germany, were already beginning to engage young men educated in the universities.22 The training in analytical methods and laboratory techniques which these men had received made them particularly suitable for the supervision of assaying and testing operations. However, such demand as there was, was largely satisfied by the universities. Here, the University of Giessen, where Justus von Liebig opened his 21 22

H. Hale Bellott, University College London, 1826–1906 (London, 1929); F. J. Hearnshaw, The Centenary History of King’s College 1828–1926 (London, 1929). L. F. Haber, The Chemical Industry During the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1958).

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Technology teaching and research laboratory in 1825, was a particularly successful example.23 Despite these early developments, it cannot be stressed too strongly that, before 1850, a close link between academic science and industrial practice was unusual. In manufacturing sectors other than chemistry, such as metallurgy, textiles and mechanical engineering, theory and practice were even further apart, although from time to time scientists and university professors were consulted by manufacturers on specific problems. These intermittent contacts were sufficient to ensure that, throughout the first half of the century, a considerable amount of research was carried out by scientists (many of them French), who applied rigorous experimental methods to the study of technical problems. The problems included the efficiency and safety of steam engines and other machinery, the strength and elasticity of materials, and the classification of kinematics, subjects that were treated in such pioneering works as Jean Nicole Pierre Hachette’s (1769–1834) Trait´e e´ l´ementaire des machines (1811) and G´erard Joseph Christian’s (1776–1832) Trait´e de la m´echanique industrielle, 3 vols. (Paris, 1822–5). The fact remains, however, that although these books made a significant contribution to the assessment of contemporary practices in the rapidly advancing sphere of manufacturing techniques, in the design of machines, mills and engines, and in metallurgy, the pace was still set by men of experience rather than by men of science.24 It is not surprising that, in the light of the dominant emphasis on experience, apprenticeship was still regarded by manufacturers (in Britain even more than on the Continent) as the best form of training for industrial careers. This was true not only with respect to skilled workers, but also for young men aspiring to more senior positions – as foremen, draughtsmen and, from the mid-century, as technical supervisors in large industrial concerns. At best, a formal education in science and its applications (but also in other subjects such as mechanical drawing and foreign languages) was regarded as complementary to apprenticeship. This was the spirit that guided the Mechanics’ Institutes, large numbers of which provided popular lecture courses and libraries for working people in the main manufacturing centres of Britain in the 1830s and 1840s. Elsewhere, in less industrialized countries, efforts were made to set up networks of trade schools with the aim of preparing skilled workers. Pupils were taught the rudiments of mathematics and mechanics, and drawing, and they received basic manual instruction in a variety of crafts and trades. None of these 23

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Anna Guagnini schools was remotely associated with higher education; they were also far inferior in status to the schools that trained technical experts for the public sector. Among the schools that belonged firmly in the elementary sector of education were the e´ coles d’arts et m´etiers that were privately established in France before the Revolution by the Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1747–1827). The first of these schools was opened in 1780 at Liancourt and transferred to Compi`egne in 1799. It was followed five years later by the school at Beaupreau (replaced, in 1815, by the school at Angers), and in 1843 by a third one, at Aix. In 1845, the total number of students enrolled in these schools was 400 and thereafter, in the last quarter of the century, it rose significantly to between 850 and 900. Initially, the e´ coles offered little more than basic craft training. It was only in 1832, when they were transferred to the Ministry of Commerce, that algebra, elementary descriptive geometry, mechanics and drawing were included in the programme and admission standards were raised. However, workshop instruction was retained as a distinctive element in their programme. And even when, from the mid-nineteenth century, their syllabus became gradually more sophisticated, the e´ coles d’arts et m´etiers remained loyal to their original practical bias and proudly aloof from higher education.25 The middle-level technical schools, the Gewerbeschulen, that were opened by the governments of the German states in the 1820s and 1830s were also of an unequivocally vocational character. Their purpose was explicitly to foster economic development, and the schools were administered by the ministries of commerce of the various states. Prussia took the lead in 1821 with the establishment in Berlin of a Gewerbeinstitut.26 As indicated above, the capital of Prussia already had a school for technical officers but the aim of the new two-year course (extended to three years in 1830) was specifically to train technical staff for industry. Students were recruited at an average age of fourteen from provincial trade schools, and were offered basic instruction in mathematics and science. In a manner reminiscent of the e´ coles d’arts et m´etiers in France, workshop training was a prominent feature of the syllabus, and a good deal of time was devoted to drawing. In other German states, where schools for civil servants did not exist, the objectives of the Gewerbeschule were initially less specialized.27 They were intended to prepare low-level civil servants and merchants, as well as technical employees for private industry. In fact, the majority of the 25 26 27

C. Rodney Day, Education for the Industrial World: The e´ coles d’arts et m´etiers and the Rise of French Industrial Engineering (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1987). ¨ Rurup (ed.), Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft (note 16). Manegold, Technische Hochschule (note 16); K. Gispen, New Profession, Old Order: Engineers and German Society, 1815–1914 (Cambridge, 1989).

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Technology students who attended the Gewerbeschule in the first half of the century went on to positions in the public services, and it was only from the 1840s that the number of students who found positions in the private sector began to grow. It was very characteristic of these schools that, in order to adapt the preparation to a variety of different occupations, most of them introduced specialized sections of mechanical and chemical engineering, forestry and architecture. Concern with the training of skilled workers was also the primary reason that led the Swedish Government to create a technical institute in Stockholm in 1826. Here scientific teaching was limited in scope, and much time was devoted to practical instruction. Although mathematics and scientific subjects had acquired a more prominent place in the syllabus by 1850, the self-image remained strongly coloured by a commitment to technical training. It was only 50 years after the institute’s foundation that ¨ a new denomination, Kungl. Tekniska Hogskola (KTH), officially sanctioned the school’s move into the sphere of higher education. In sharp contrast with this state-supported school, it was private initiative that led, in 1829, to the opening of Sweden’s other major technical school, Chalmers Institution (in Gothenburg). The programme of this school was deeply marked by the belief that scientifically based education was a prerequisite for the understanding of technology. In this respect, it started on a path very different from that of the KTH.28 ´ The circumstances that led to the opening of the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris in 1829 were similar to those that paved the way for the foundation of Chalmers Institution. But in the case of the ´ Ecole Centrale, the consequences of the development of high-level technical schools for industrial engineers were more far-reaching. The school was established by a wealthy businessman, in association with a chemist ´ and a former pupil of the Ecole polytechnique. Right from the start, the school set for itself ambitious objectives: its aim was to form a new generation of industrial leaders who would have a thorough understanding of the scientific foundation of manufacturing practices. Despite its high fees, the school proved highly successful: by 1840, it had more than 125 students, and between 1845 and 1855 the figure exceeded 200. Moreover, the school’s reputation and the novelty of its aims attracted foreign students in large numbers: in the period up to 1864, about a quarter of the total enrolments came from abroad. The courses extended over three years, and, for the students who attended on a full-time basis, the programme was intensive. The first year was devoted to general scientific 28

¨ ¨ (Stockholm, 1970); T. Althin, KTH 1912–62. Kungl. Hogskolan i Stockholm under 50 ar ¨ G. Ahlstrom, ‘Technical Education, Engineering, and Industrial Growth: Sweden in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’, in Fox and Guagnini (eds.), Education (note *), 115–40.

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Anna Guagnini subjects, with a strong emphasis on geometry; in the second and third years, the syllabus was focused on applied subjects such as mechanical engineering, building construction, highway engineering, analytical and industrial chemistry, and steam engines, along with detailed descriptive accounts of a variety of manufacturing practices – among them textile, pottery, and paper-making. In sharp contrast with the programme of the e´ coles d’arts et m´etiers, however, the surveys of technical subjects were not supported by any significant practical instruction.29 The absence of workshop training, and the deliberately unspecialized ´ character of the syllabus, remained distinctive features of the Ecole Centrale for many years. Where significant changes did occur was rather in the school’s academic standards. In 1856 it ceased to be privately owned and was placed under the responsibility of the French Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. It was as a result of this move that stricter admission procedures (including a competitive entrance examination, in the man´ ner of the Ecole polytechnique) were adopted. The examinations were ´ directed at candidates who had prepared for admission to the Ecole polytechnique, but failed the final test. The programme of study also became more demanding, with a view to achieving the standards of the older engineering schools. This strategy was eventually successful. By the end ´ of the century, the Ecole Centrale was recognized, for official purposes, ´ as a school comparable in status with the Ecole polytechnique and the e´ coles d’application. ´ Like these other schools, the Ecole Centrale soon acquired a considerable international reputation, and its example was used to advance the case for advanced industrially orientated technical education in other European countries. Whether they were inspired by the model of the tech´ nical schools of Vienna and Prague, or by the Parisian Ecole Centrale, one of the main arguments of the campaigners – especially in those countries that ranked below the industrial pace-makers – was that the availability of well-trained technical employees was bound to stimulate development. But in reality the mechanism of interaction between education and industry was far more complex. The case of Spain highlights the obstacles that were encountered in the attempt to implement this mechanism. In 1850 a Royal Decree established a three-level system of higher education, comprising elementary, secondary and higher technical schools. Initially only Madrid had a higher technical school, but between 1855 and 1857 five similar institutions, called Escuelas Superiores de Ingenieros Industriales, were opened in 29

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Technology ´ Barcelona, Seville and Vergara. Admission criteria were Valencia, Gijon, high. Students were enrolled on completion of a three-year course in the science faculty of a university; alternatively, they had to prove, in an examination, that they had a comparable level of scientific education. The plan was ambitious, but it failed: by 1867, all the escuelas except that in Barcelona had closed. It was only in the relatively advanced economic environment of the Catalan capital that this kind of institution managed to find a favourable niche. The founding of the next higher technical school in Spain – in Bilbao, the capital of the Basque Country and a wellestablished mining and metallurgical centre – did not occur until the end of the century.30 By contrast, a combination of public support and of thriving economic ¨ circumstances paved the way to the success of the Swiss Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH). When, in 1855, the Swiss Federal parliament decided to found a Polytechnic School in Zurich, the organizers opted for a solution similar in many ways to the Austrian and German polytechnics, but on a grander scale. In order to adjust the courses to a range of career options, different sections were established as schools of civil, construction and mechanical engineering, applied chemistry (including pharmacy) and forestry, with a sixth section for general education. On entry, the candidates, who were at least seventeen years old, were expected to have a general background in mathematics, algebra, descriptive geometry and physics. The courses were fairly advanced, especially those of three years in the sections of mechanical, construction and civil engineering; they included calculus, geometry, experimental physics, and chemistry, as well as a substantial dose of technical subjects, including practical exercises. Soon, high teaching standards, the variety of the courses, and the low fees made the ETH a magnet for foreign students. In 1862, the total number of regular pupils was 225, plus more than 200 free auditors.31 t h e f e r m e n t o f i n i t i a t i v e s , 1850–1890 In setting a high level for its new school, the Swiss parliament opted for a trend that was beginning to win support in other countries. Since the 30

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Anna Guagnini mid-century, other technical schools that were originally set up to train skilled workers such as, for example, the French e´ coles d’arts et m´etiers, had already upgraded their syllabuses. But the process was especially marked in the German states. Here, in the 1860s, the Gewerbeschulen were transformed into polytechnische Schulen; then, in the late 1870s, following a new phase of reorganization, they became Technische Hochschulen, whereupon they were transferred from the Ministry of Commerce to the Ministry of Education and granted the same academic autonomy as the universities.32 In the course of this process, workshoptraining gradually lost its original prominent role in the syllabus, more attention was paid to the teaching of scientific disciplines, and higher standards of proficiency in the sciences were required on entry. At the same time, efforts were made to appoint teachers with good scientific credentials, and to create for them an environment similar to the science faculties of the universities. In particular, teachers were given the possibility of adjusting their courses, to a certain extent, to their own interests; at the same time, students were allowed some flexibility in the choice of their programme. The period from 1850 to 1880 was also characterized by a considerable expansion in the number of students attending German technical schools. The transformation and expansion of technical instruction, coming as they did at a time when the departments of chemistry in the German universities were acquiring an ever-growing reputation as a source of industrial expertise, were observed abroad with a mixture of interest and concern. From the mid-nineteenth century, Germany’s economy entered a period of remarkable growth, characterized by the vigorous expansion of her industries, especially in metallurgy, mechanical engineering and chemistry. The government’s commitment to education in general, and particularly to technical education, was perceived by contemporaries as the mark of a determination to foster further progress, and as one of the decisive factors of Germany’s industrial leap forward. In the countries where this development was perceived as a threat, as well as in those where it provided an example for emulation, the advocates of technical education harped constantly on Germany’s success in their approaches to public authorities and entrepreneurs. With the benefit of hindsight, it may be argued that the impact of education on industry was often overestimated by the advocates of technical education, as were the merits of the German model. But it is beyond question that the arguments and the intense lobbying were effective in turning the attention of a growing number of manufacturers and of local authorities, especially those in the industrial areas, towards the state of 32

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Technology the provision for technical instruction in their own countries. As a result, the last quarter of the nineteenth century saw a spurt of new initiatives in other European countries. This was the case in Britain, where very little had been done in the mid-nineteenth century. Royal support prompted the creation of engineering chairs in Scotland, at the University of Glasgow (1840), and at Queen’s University, in Ireland (1851). However, in England the provision for higher technical education made virtually no progress in this period. The only significant exception were two institutions, namely the Royal College of Chemistry and the Royal School of Mines, that were opened in London in 1845 and 1851 respectively. Both of these schools played an important role in the development of a scientific community in England, but their contribution as a source of technical employees for industry was less satisfactory than the promoters had expected.33 It was only in the 1870s, following a series of parliamentary enquiries in which the link between education and industrial progress in Germany was almost obsessively highlighted, that the campaign promoted by the advocates of technical education began to pay dividends. The result of their efforts did not consist in the opening of specialized technical schools, but rather followed the lines adopted in London by King’s College and University College. Thus, new chairs of engineering were established in the university colleges that had been recently established in the main provincial towns. These colleges were created in the second half of the nineteenth century with a view to providing locally institutions of higher education.34 Their status was inferior to the ancient Oxbridge institutions, and most of them were formally chartered as independent universities only in the twentieth century. In fact, originally they were not even entitled to award degrees; instead, they prepared students for the degrees offered by the University of London. But in their attempt to steer a middle course between the ancient universities’ traditional liberal style of education on the one hand, and a more modern approach on the other, they yielded to the growth of new branches of professional education, above all medicine and the sciences, pure and applied. Chemistry departments, often with a marked emphasis on technical applications, began to develop in the 1860s. They were followed soon after by engineering courses. Owen’s College (later 33

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Anna Guagnini to become the University of Manchester) created a professorship of engineering in 1868.35 In the two decades that followed, a dozen other chairs were established in England and Scotland. Even in Cambridge a professorship of mechanism was transformed in 1891 into a chair of engineering, while Oxford followed the example by creating a new chair of engineering science in 1907.36 Initially, both civil and mechanical engineering were taught by the same professor. But gradually, separate chairs were established, other technical courses were inaugurated, new and more specialized courses were added, and departments were formed. These departments were not self-contained engineering sections, in so far as they depended on the science departments for the teaching of such subjects as mathematics, physics and chemistry. However, engineering certificates were offered to those students who went through a complete programme, lasting for two or three years. The colleges tried hard to encourage students to opt for a systematic course of instruction, but the number of certificates that were awarded indicates how difficult it was to persuade them. The fact is that the certificates were not academically as prestigious as the normal university degrees, and did not carry any professional qualification. Students preferred to attend individual classes, and prepare for the examination held on a variety of individual subjects by such examining boards as the City and Guilds of London Institute and the Science and Arts Department. However, two significant exceptions to the pattern of the engineering departments described above, both planned from the beginning as selfcontained institutions, were launched in London. In 1871, as a result of a growing demand for technical personnel to be employed in the colonial service, and especially in the Indian Public Works Department, the Royal Engineering College was opened. The school admitted a limited number of students to its three year-course (until its closure in 1906, 1,623 pupils were admitted), but had good facilities and a competent teaching staff.37 The other major initiative was the opening in South Kensington of two schools, which in 1907 merged into the Imperial College of Science and Technology. In 1878 eleven Livery Companies and the London City Corporation founded the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education. Three years later their joint efforts resulted in the opening of a lower-level technical school, Finsbury Technical School, followed in 1884 by a more advanced one, the Central 35

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Technology Institution (Central Technical College from 1893). Divided into three sections (civil, mechanical and electrical), the latter was destined for the instruction of advanced but eminently ‘practical’ technical experts. Although the school admitted occasional students, the main focus was on the instruction of full-time students. Considerable attention was paid to the teaching facilities and, by contemporary standards, its workshops and laboratories were particularly well equipped.38 Self-contained were also a number of lower vocational schools that were established in the 1880s in the main industrial towns, and that gradually rose in intellectual standing, just as the German Gewerbeschulen had done in the mid-nineteenth century. The Manchester Technical School, for example, from its humble origins as an evening school, became the faculty of technology of the University of Manchester in 1904. France was another country in which the initiatives in the area of higher technical education were less vigorous than those in Germany. This is not to say, however, that attempts to promote the diffusion of technical knowledge were not carried out. In the main centres of industrial and agricultural activity throughout France, in fact, numerous initiatives were launched with a view to faster instruction relevant to the local economy. From the beginning of the century, the larger municipalities sponsored instruction in applied subjects. Academies and other independent societies also played their part. In 1857, for example, the Soci´et´e des Sciences, ´ de l’Agriculture et des Arts in Lille inaugurated a successful Ecole des Chauffeurs to instruct operatives of steam engines, and in Bordeaux the town’s Soci´et´e Philomatique steadily expanded its programme of public lectures to embrace not only instruction in basic literacy and arithmetic but also more advanced subjects, such as the chemistry of wine manufacture, foreign languages and economics.39 But no example could match that of the Soci´et´e Industrielle de Mulhouse, which, from its foundation in 1826, emerged as a main focus both for the intellectual interests of the region’s industrial elite and, in collaboration with the town council, for the education of artisans in specialized schools of design, spinning, weaving and commerce.40 Despite the importance of this pattern of expansion for the regional economies of France, the fact remains that what was done was constrained by indifference. The courses did not lead to formal qualifications, and they certainly did not elicit either formal recognition or offers of material 38 39

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J. Lang, City and Guilds of London Institute. Centenary 1878–1978 (London, 1978). R. Fox, ‘Learning, Politics, and Polite Culture in Provincial France’, Historical Reflections/ R´eflexions historiques, 7 (1980), 543–64; also printed in R. Fox, The Culture of Science in France, 1700–1900 (Aldershot, 1993). R. Fox, ‘Science, Industry, and the Social Order in Mulhouse, 1798–1871’, British Journal for the History of Science, 17 (1984), 127–68.

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Weisz, Emergence; R. Fox, ‘Science, University, and the State in Nineteenth-Century France’, in G. L. Geison (ed.), Professions and the French State, 1700–1900 (Philadelphia, 1984), 66–145; Paul, Knowledge.

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A. Guagnini, ‘Higher Education and the Engineering Profession in Italy: The Scuole of Milan and Turin, 1859–1914’, Minerva, 26 (1988), 512–48. R. Garrabou, Enginyers (note 30); Tu`ebols, ‘Industrialization’ (note 30), 141–70.

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For a study of the evolution of a particular field of mechanical engineering: S. Timoshenko, History of Strength of Materials (New York, 1953). ¨ W. Konig, Elektrotechnik – Entstehung einer Industriewissenschaft (Berlin, 1993); A. Grelon, ‘Les enseignements de l’´electricit´e’ and ‘La formation des hommes: du tournant du si`ecle a` la premi`ere guerre mondiale’, in F. Caron and F. Cardot (eds.), Histoire g´en´erale de l’´electricit´e en France, vol. I: Espoirs et conquˆetes, 1881–1918 (Paris, 1991), 254–92 and 802–49; A. Guagnini, ‘The Formation of Italian Electrical Engineers: The Teaching Laboratories of the Politecnici of Turin and Milan, 1887–1914’, in F. Cardot (ed.), Un si`ecle d’´electricit´e dans le monde. 1880–1980. Actes du Premier Colloque International sur l’Histoire de l’Electricit´e (Paris, 1987), 283–99.

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V. Dwelshauvers-Dery and J. Weiler, Referendum des Ing´enieurs. Enquˆete sur l’Enseignement de la M´ecanique (Li`ege, 1893).

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¨ ¨ Rurup (ed.), Wissenschaft (note 16); Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (note 31).

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Technology and the social importance of technical progress, they sought to demonstrate that their institutions and the universities should enjoy equal recognition and status. Clearly, in doing so they also aspired to enhance their own academic position. The benefits that they sought were not only financial and social: they also hoped to obtain more time and better facilities for their research and to attract better students. In their attempt to raise the status of higher technical education, the teachers found allies in the associations of former pupils of technical schools and, in some cases, also in the professional engineering associations. From their modest origins, often as societies for the former pupils of individual technical schools, these associations had developed by the end of the nineteenth century into powerful nation-wide agencies. Their aim was primarily to protect the corporate interests of the communities that they represented, and to enact strict controls over the use of professional titles. Another aim was to associate their members’ rising economic power with some sort of social recognition. Hence they were particularly concerned with the status of the academic qualification that gave access to the title. In Germany the cause of the technical schools was greatly supported by the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI). Established in 1865, the VDI played a vital role in the development of the Technische Hochschulen and of their educational policy.48 The association’s strategy in support of its members and of the profession changed significantly over the three decades that followed: although in the 1870s the VDI took an active part in supporting the ‘scientification’ of the syllabuses, in subsequent decades it turned against this approach and campaigned vigorously in favour of a more practical orientation. But even in this later phase, the VDI strenuously backed the schools in their attempts to be fully admitted to the sphere of higher education. In the event, the Technische Hochschulen achieved their objective: in 1899 they obtained university status. This entailed the right of conferring the doctorate and therefore gave access to academic careers. It entailed also the passage of the schools’ teaching staff to the same ranks as the university professoriate. In Belgium too the engineering associations were among the promoters of the decree that in 1890 granted the technical schools of Brussels, Louvain, Ghent and Li`ege the right to bestow diplomas of ing´enieur civil des mines and ing´enieur des constructiones civiles, qualifications comparable to those offered by the traditionally more prestigious e´ coles sp´eciales of Ghent and Li`ege. As a result of the same decree, the diplomas awarded 48

¨ K.-H. Ludwig and W. Konig (eds.), Technik, Ingenieure und Gesellschaft. Geschichte des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure 1856–1981 (Dusseldorf, 1981); Gispen, New Profession (note 27).

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J. C. Baudet, ‘Pour une histoire de la profession d’ing´enieur en Belgique’, Technologia, 7 (1984), 35–62. See texts in note 41.

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Technology and physics before being admitted to the engineering course. As the scuole expanded, attempts were made to overcome this state of dependence by setting up internal preparatory courses, specifically tailored to suit the needs of engineering students.51 In Milan the objective was achieved as early as 1862, but similar efforts by other Italian engineering schools remained unsuccessful until the end of the century. Clearly, the timing and characteristics of the process that led to the upgrading of higher technical schools varied considerably in different European countries. But one feature was common to virtually all those cases. The transformation of the schools into university-level institutions, from the 1880s onwards, encountered tenacious opposition from the academic elites, not only the professors of the traditional liberal disciplines but also those in the pure sciences. Despite the changes in the syllabuses, the close association with utilitarian pursuits was still regarded as hard to reconcile with the ideals of higher learning. The hostility was as strong in the industrialized countries as it was in the late comers. Even in France, where the top of the educational system was occu´ pied by the Ecole polytechnique, ostensibly an engineering school, higher technical education did not enjoy the respect its spokesmen felt was its due. The abstract, theoretical orientation that characterized the syllabus of that school, with its strong emphasis on mathematics, proved at least as impermeable to the development of industrially orientated curricula as those based on the humanities. As for Germany, although the development of her technical schools won the admiration of contemporary commentators throughout Europe, this should not be taken to indicate a more favourable attitude on the part of that country’s traditional educational elite towards modern curricula. On the contrary, the resistance to the upgrading of the Technische Hochschulen in the 1890s was only surmounted thanks to the personal intervention of the Kaiser himself, as part of his more general engagement in support of scientific and technical education. research and diversif ication Despite the opposition of the traditional academic elites, in most European countries engineering schools had achieved by the turn of the century a standing comparable to the universities. The success was not, however, a definitive or complete one. On the contrary, in the two decades before the First World War, the higher technical schools had to toil hard to sustain their academic reputation. One of the main challenges was posed, 51

Lacaita, Istruzione (note 15); A. Guagnini, ‘Academic Qualification and Professional Functions in the Development of the Italian Engineering Schools, 1859–1914’, in Fox and Guagnini (eds.), Education (note *), 171–95.

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This is an issue that looms large in works such as Paul, Knowledge; M. Anderson, The Universities and British Industry, 1859–1970 (London, 1972); C. Divall, ‘A Measure of Success: Employers and Engineering Studies in the Universities of England and Wales, 1897–1939’, Social Studies of Science, 20 (1990), 65–112.

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H. Albrecht, Technische Bildung zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis. Die Technische Hochschule Braunschweig 1862–1914 (Hildesheim, 1987), 347.

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Anna Guagnini Kaiser-Wilhelm-Society. Founded in 1911, and known since 1946 as the ¨ Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaft,56 this institution was to play a central role in the development of German research in the inter-war period. In Britain it was primarily the pressure of experimental physicists that led to the opening of the National Physical Laboratory in 1902. The early history of the National Physical Laboratory is coloured by persistent recalcitrance on the part of government to sustain its activity. Before 1914, funds for the equipment of the laboratories remained, far below the expectations that were held at the time of its foundation. Once again it was private donations that made it possible to purchase instruments as in the case of the electrical instruments offered by the Drapers’ Company, and the tank for testing of ship models offered by Alfred F. Yarrow (1842–1932).57 The importance of technology for defence as well as for a country’s economic welfare was an argument that was repeatedly used in order to promote the cause of research. In the event, it was the argument that proved most effective, for it was the First World War that brought technology most dramatically to the fore. The loathsome impact of gas on warfare was perhaps the most visible sign of the role played by technology. But in a variety of other sectors, such as aviation, radio-communications and pharmaceuticals, technology won field honours. In all these fields, the stringency of military needs accelerated the advancement of new technologies. The war brought about the recognition of the importance of more comprehensive plans for the organization of technology, and of the public responsibility for the promotion of its development. Already during the conflict, most European countries began to lay plans for the co-ordination of initiatives in industry, education and the military. The war had the effect of giving the appearance of purpose and vision to these efforts, the result of which was the organization of national research councils. However, the initial ferment of initiatives tended to subside when the drudgeries of tackling the problems of such a complex system as research emerged, and especially when the high costs of this enterprise became apparent. Once again, the scale of the intervention and of the results varied remarkably throughout Europe, but the pattern was similar. In Britain, the Committee for Scientific and Industrial Research (later to become the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) was 56

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Forschung im Spannungsfeld. From its ‘Prehistory’, written by B. vom Brocke (p. 91), are taken the comments on the fundamental research, leading to Nobel prizes and carried out in the PTR, mentioned before. R. Moseley, ‘The Origins and Early Years of the National Physical Laboratory: A Chapter in the Pre-History of British Science Policy’, Minerva, 16 (1978), 222–50; E. Pyatt, The National Physical Laboratory: A History (Bristol, 1983).

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H. Melville, The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (London, 1962). T. Shinn, ‘The Genesis of French Industrial Research 1880–1940’, Social Science Information/Information sur les sciences sociales, 19 (1980), 607–40; Paul, Knowledge. R. Maiocchi, ‘Il ruolo delle scienze nello sviluppo industriale italiano’, in Storia d’Italia. Annali, vol. III: G. Micheli (ed.), Scienza e tecnica nella cultura e nella societa` dal Rinascimento ad oggi (Turin, 1980), 863–999; A. Russo, ‘Science and Industry in Italy Between the Two World Wars’, Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 16 (1986), 281–320.

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A very detailed survey of the state of engineering education in Europe is W. E. Wickenden, ‘A Comparative Study of Engineering Education in the United States and in Europe’, in Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (ed.), Report of the Investigation of Engineering Education 1923–1929 (Pittsburgh, 1930), 748–1015.

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introduction When we see the word epilogue, we expect a single pithy conclusion. The subject of this volume does not allow such a tightly drawn summary, however. The situation at individual European universities, the developments in the different disciplines and the expansion of the higher education system described in previous chapters lasted too long and were too disparate to allow a smooth transition to a new period and context, as will be discussed in the fourth volume. Although National Socialism and its twelve-year reign of terror were of immense significance for the international learned world and its development, it would be wrong to suggest that ‘seizure of power’ by the Nazis was the decisive stage in the change of direction taken by universities and the world of learning, the effects of which are still being felt. Of course, it was a not unimportant contributory factor in the events and changes described in this chapter, but in many respects the subsequent outbreak and course of the Second World War was far more significant. However, even this period, this historical date, is too narrow to describe the conditions that brought about a transition in the university and scientific world in the immediate post-war period. It could be argued that it was general political trends dating back much earlier that culminated in this extreme response. This epilogue attempts to sketch out the reasons for the historical transition from the successful, research-friendly nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with their faith in learning and awareness of their own values, to the post-war world. Very few specific events, intentional actions and precise data can be cited. In the same way, few historical turning points are genuinely new beginnings or end on a specific date. Such transitions remain blurred, retaining a mixture of old and new, and this applies 637

Notker Hammerstein equally to knowledge and its institutions. Innovations generally take a long time to catch on – they reveal themselves slowly and only gradually gain general acceptance. There is also a need for a specific conjunction of events and people, as described by Thomas Kuhn, notwithstanding the possible and actual objections to such systematizing attempts at modelling. The previous chapters have shown how universities, colleges, technical colleges, academies, i.e. institutions of the tertiary education sector, developed at a leisurely pace, with the exception of individual scientific results and chance inventions and discoveries. Finally all these institutions base their conceptions of themselves in tradition. They derive their certainty from standardized, tried and trusted knowledge, and such knowledge is worth passing on. Only then is it possible to turn to the new. Universities and learning do not generally change in a revolutionary manner – they feel their way slowly forward from the proven to the novel, only then allowing it to shock, provoke, drive ahead and change. Nevertheless, to return to the question of the transition or turning point of our epilogue, the editors have agreed that the period around the end of the Second World War marks the conclusion of the developments which started at the beginning of the nineteenth century and are described in this volume. This was more marked, deeply felt and more of a source of change than even the First World War, although in itself a traumatic event, and is certainly more applicable than the period around 1900. Victory over Hitler’s Germany and the subsequent defeat of Japan brought a period spanning and a half centuries in the history of European universities and learning to a close. Previously a few details here and there had been changed. Now a new broom swept through the system. Of course, this does not mean that a deep caesura occurred between 1944 and 1946. It had been clear for some time that certain aspects would have to be redesigned and rearranged to suit the new world, in the attempt to create a new world order and a new system of world government, and that other aspects of proven tradition would have to be retained. In this respect, the data presented in this chapter may appear rather arbitrary. The arguments set out below in favour of the editors’ chosen cut-off point may demonstrate the extent to which this idea holds. The main difficulty in this plan is a problem that has applied to all the previous chapters of the volume: our knowledge of events is still inadequate and requires considerable improvement. There is little broadly based prior work, much lies gathering dust in the archives, and there are still many gaps despite an abundance of important and useful work. This shortfall cannot be made up by specialist investigations, however good they might be, since such studies, particularly those concerning the history of the natural sciences and medicine, do not always allow the general historian to pursue the line of argument. A major problem when writing the 638

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Notker Hammerstein an essential mainstay of modern administrations, diplomacy and economics, and helped to establish a world view. Consequently, the sciences and national education systems played a central role in the life of the state and their standing grew. Naturally, the situation, particularly with respect to state provision and financing, differed greatly from one country to the next. But it became increasingly clear in Europe and the United States that knowledge, the universities, scientific education and training had become extraordinarily important for many occupations, for national prosperity and for a country’s international reputation. When the Nobel prizes were introduced in 1901, it soon became clear, even at the international level, where the modern centres of research were located. It was possible to derive a league table of countries, as it were. As has long been the case with international sporting competitions, the Nobel prizes started to be viewed as less spectacular but equally highly esteemed honours and as indicators of particularly good, forward-looking and, in this case, scientifically successful state systems.1 Nevertheless the old ideal which states that science is supranational, scientists are committed to work that is of relevance, and universities and the sciences are largely free of politics continued to hold sway. Open-mindedness, and thus as far as possible freedom from interference by the Church, a particular world view or national ties, was internationally regarded as the prerequisite for scholarly discovery and the identification of scientific truths. The Second German Empire unquestionably assumed a leading position in this international contest. The universities and scholarly institutions enjoyed extraordinary freedom, even though the German state had few modern ideas and was neither liberal nor open, and its policy for learning was to a certain extent absolutist and bureaucratic (this can be seen with hindsight and was not experienced at the time).2 Its glittering success in the field of research and science was noted abroad. Many foreigners came to Germany to complete their education, which generally enhanced their employment prospects when they returned home. Another consequence was the development of private and personal contacts and the sealing of friendships. Such graduates came to admire the academic freedom they discovered and attempted to reap benefits that would help them to advance back in France, the United States,3 Russia and even England. 1

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B. vom Brocke, ‘Wissenschaft und Militarismus’, in W. M. Calder III (ed.), Wilamowitz nach 50 Jahren (Darmstadt, 1985), 649–719, quotations 651; 657; Idem, ‘La guerra degli intellettuali tedeschi’, in V. Cal`ı, G. Corni and G. Ferrandi (eds.), Gli intellettuali e la Grande guerra (Bologna, 2000), 373, 408 (with recent bibliography).

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¨ osi-Janze, ¨ M. Szoll Fritz Haber 1868–1934. Eine Biographie (Munich, 1998). E. Kolb, Die Weimarer Republik (Munich, 1993). B. Schroeder-Gudehus, Deutsche Wissenschaft und internationale Zusammenarbeit 1914– 1928. Ein Beitrag zum Studium kultureller Beziehungen in politischen Krisenzeiten (Geneva, 1966).

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Cripps implied that it would be essential to co-ordinate closely and integrate those sciences and their institutions that were of importance for the war and survival. ‘I think that our main difficulty with regard to the proper utilization of the scientists in this war has been our failure to realize, at a sufficiently early stage, that this was going to be a truly scientific war, and that the battle would not be won merely by the physical ascendancy of our race but rather by the ingenuity of those who have been trained in our secondary schools, technical colleges’. Although this was all determined by the situation in which Britain found itself, i.e. subject to the needs of the war, he still felt that ‘There is in reality no difference in the principles that should be applied in time of war and in time of peace’.23 This was a frequently recurring idea and described the conviction, which was increasingly shared without reservation, that science and research – and therefore the universities and research institutions – would be the decisive factor in the future and would determine whether the modern world survived. Thus, the danger of scientific stagnation remained in the foreground and led to consideration of and promising measures to overcome this problem. The inherently limited and none too open structure of the English universities, which was bound up with tradition, had made it impossible to keep in the country many of those scientists who had left Germany to escape the Nazis for political or racial reasons. Their potential could only be used to a limited extent for scientific innovation, or to broaden and enhance research capacity. Many such scientists therefore emigrated to the United States, where they enriched and extended scientific research in every field. This volume is not the place to list the successful research carried out in the various scientific disciplines. The war at sea and in the air, the deployment of troops in regions with different climates, the news and propaganda efforts and much more led to a wealth of significant achievements that were of immense benefit to the post-war period. The importance of promoting science and ensuring that up-and-coming talent was utilized as widely as possible was recognized during a period of absolute selfreliance, and science’s enhanced reputation was not just a temporary phenomenon. The effects continued in the post-war years with the result that, since then, efforts have been made to promote or even guarantee a broader and more open talent base. In 1944, the state education system was reorganized by the Education Act, which remained in force for many years.24 23

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G. Neave, ‘War and Educational Reconstruction in Belgium, France and the Netherlands’, in R. Lowe (ed.), Education and the Second World War (London and Washington, 1992), 84–127. ¨ sie grussen”. ¨ G. Simon, ‘“Ihr Mann ist tot und lasst Hans Ernst Schneider alias Schwerte im Dritten Reich’, Sprache und Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, 77 (1996), 82–114. E. G. Groeneveld, The Dutch Universities Between 1940 and 1945: Teachers and Students under German Occupation (Cracow 1979).

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Epilogue: Universities and war in the twentieth century the exception of the Delft Technical College, where 25.6 per cent signed the declaration, the Dutch universities caused a spectacular failure of any policy of Germanization and were closed. The situation in Belgium was very similar. The University of Brussels was closed in 1942 because it refused to be used as a ‘Germanic stronghold against Latin Western Europe’. Louvain was originally allowed to remain an extraterritorial university, as it were, since it was run by the Catholic Church, although in later years its teaching was largely limited to theologians. Ghent, on the other hand, which was regarded by some Germans as the premier centre of Flemish science (as early as March 1941, Flemish was prescribed as the sole language of science!), proved to be as unenthusiastic about the planned Germanization as the Dutch institutions. Those who believed in a state education system and the adherents of an ecclesiastical system, although traditionally sworn enemies, declared a truce in the interests of an anti-German policy that would also ensure the future of the rising generation of academics and which would provide important experience for the post-war period.39 As in France with its R´esistance, Belgium also had its resistance groups, some of which were associated with the government in exile, which appeared to promote less antagonistic reconstruction in the post-war period. The forced mobilization of Belgian students from November 1942 on (in the Service du Travail Obligatoire) led to the formation of active underground resistance groups, as in the Netherlands. Again mirroring events in the Netherlands, Belgium also saw the establishment of underground universities which attempted to increase student numbers, which the Nazis had intentionally kept low, in order to impart an independent, liberal education.40 In 1943 and increasingly in 1944, the continuing war and the lack of trained specialists and academics led to attempts to use Dutch scientists in the armaments industry and for research. The results were modest, and it was hard to find suitable people, not least because most Dutch academics were hostile to the Germans.41 This did mean, however, that the country gained some insight into the importance of academic training. 39

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Notker Hammerstein The pro-German scientists in both the Netherlands and Belgium were not only a tiny minority, they also reinforced the general anti-German attitude. It is likely that they only occasionally denounced anti-German views and persons to the German police authorities. Over time, this caused the centres of higher education to become centres of political resistance, although generally covert, which were not afraid to carry out attacks of their own. As already described for France and England, the discovery that internal conflicts must and could be overcome when fighting an external enemy continued beyond 1945. This is easy to understand given that, under German occupation, the universities were unable to carry out their own, far-reaching research. At the end of the war, there was a lot of catching up to do. In e a s t e r n a n d c e n t r a l e u r o p e the Germans’ action against academics and universities was even more drastic. In October 1938, Hitler issued a secret command ordering that the rest of Czechoslovakia be ‘finished off’. As a result, attempts were made to force education to go over to ‘Germanic’ principles to ensure the country’s permanent absorption into the German Reich.42 Preference was to be given to proGermans and those of German origins, and Czechs were to be permanently excluded from academic training. The German University in Prague was converted into a ‘National Socialist University’ as early as the winter term of 1938/39 (it would subsequently be incorporated into the group ¨ of Reichs-Universitaten) and was open above all to Germans from the Sudetenland and the Reich. In March 1939, a meeting attended by representatives of the German Science Ministry was held in Berlin to discuss the status of the ‘Protectorate’. There it was stated that all Czech institutions of higher education should be run as ‘German establishments’, i.e. subject to the rules of the Third Reich. At the start of the winter term in the same year, there was a series of arbitrary arrests of allegedly rebellious Czech students in Prague and Brno.43 The National Socialists thus started their systematic strategy to exterminate the country’s intelligentsia. All Czech universities and academies were closed (ten in all). The veterinary college in Brno, the agricultural institute and mining academy were allowed to train the necessary professionals to a limited extent. However, Czech applicants either had to support National Socialism or give up any hope of academic training and careers. The rest of Czechoslovakia was to be permanently Germanized, especially in its intellectual life according to the model of the Sudetenland. 42 43

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Epilogue: Universities and war in the twentieth century The action against the Poles was even more cruel. On 6 November 1939, a wave of arrests taking in leading Polish academics took place at the Jagiellonian University of Cracow, causing consternation throughout the country.44 The aim of this Sonderaktion, which was organized and carried out by the SS and the Gestapo, was to eliminate the so-called Slavic intelligentsia. 183 Polish academics were sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and it was only due to international solidarity that a few were rescued over the years. On the same day, academics and students were taken away and shot at the Catholic University of Lublin. The operation was repeated in September, and similar operations affected nearly every institution of higher education in the country. The German civil authorities also systematically destroyed a large number of laboratories and the lecture theatres in Cracow and other universities. In the meantime, ¨ the ‘alte Kampfer’, Hans Frank (1900–46; Hitler’s legal representative during the Weimar Republic and technical head of Nazi jurisprudence), took over as leader of the general government for the occupied Polish territories. Valuable instruments and materials were frequently stolen. The Polish Academy of Sciences was also required to close down. In April 1940, an ‘Institute for German Ostarbeit’ was established in Cracow, with offices at other locations. This was designed to place scientific training under German control throughout Central and Eastern Europe.45 In Cracow and other university towns in Eastern Europe, an underground university grew up, but not until 1942, since the Germans viewed any gathering of Poles as a potential threat. Contrary to the occupying power’s intention of restricting use of the Jagiellonian library to Germans, it became a lively, underground centre for learning and education which did not stop until the library was closed entirely and all the books were transferred to Germany in the summer of 1944. Characteristically, the areas of Poland occupied by the Soviets did not fare much better. The Soviet Union pursued similar plans to the ´ Nazi government and instituted measures in Lemberg (Lwow) and Vilnius to prevent academic teaching altogether. Although the teaching staff remained in post, the universities were converted to the Soviet model and downgraded to academies of lower rank beneath the Soviet academy. 44

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Notker Hammerstein When the Germans conquered this area in 1941, they were initially welcomed as liberators. The Poles soon saw, however, that the Polish intelligentsia had an even worse enemy in Hans Frank. As he wrote in his diary, ‘No Pole should rise any further than a master craftsman and no Pole will have the opportunity of reaching higher education in a general government-run institute’.46 Thus, it was only in the underground that a few academics could attempt to gather students around them and give them a half-way adequate education. This worked to a certain extent, but could not replace a normal education. Nevertheless, it symbolized the unbroken will of the Polish intelligentsia to resist and assert the nation’s intellect, despite severe trials and considerable sacrifice. As the Germans advanced into the b a l k a n s and then into the s o v i e t u n i o n , they pursued a similar and sometimes even more radical occupation policy, and left desolation in their wake. d e n m a r k a n d n o r w a y were occupied as early as 1940 and had only limited freedom to pursue their own research and education policies. Professors and researchers, who had come of age in the German university tradition, and had adapted it with characteristic, but insignificant modifications, attempted to maintain Humboldt’s ideals even while their countries were being marched over by the German victors. As in the Netherlands and Belgium, the occupying forces initially attempted to play their trump card of common German ancestry and interests, but once again very few academics fell in with their views. Most kept their distance or expressed tacit resistance towards the occupiers. In December 1943, the University of Oslo was forcibly closed. 65 professors and 1,500 students were arrested, some only temporarily, and many were deported to Germany. Large numbers were sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp, whereas others, particularly the medical students, went to the SS training camp at Sennheim. The ‘Ahnenerbe’ (‘Ancestral Heritage’), the SS institute for scientific and scholarly studies, attempted to make up for the acute lack of up-and-coming scientists in Germany in this way and soon started to transfer numbers of Norwegian students from Buchenwald. 36 of these were even allowed to study in Freiburg. The training they received at Sennheim was given by lecturers from Strasburg and Freiburg and was, as Heinrich Himmler (1900–45) put it, intended to proceed ‘in a strictly scientific manner and without political tendencies’ in order to ‘illuminate our common German features’.47 46

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D. Langewiesche and H.-E. Tenorth (eds.), Handbuch der deutschen Bildungsgeschichte, vol. V: 1918–1945. Die Weimarer Republik und die nationalsozialistische Diktatur (Munich, 1989), particularly 209ff.; K. Sontheimer, ‘Die deutschen Hochschullehrer in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik’, in Schwabe, Deutsche Hochschullehrer, 215–24. H. Seier, ‘Die Hochschullehrerschaft im Dritten Reich’, in Schwabe, Deutsche Hochschullehrer, 247–96; H. Mommsen, Beamtentum im Dritten Reich (Stuttgart, 1966). ¨ Frankfurt am Main, vol. I, 171ff.; H. Seier, ‘Universitats¨ und Hammerstein, Universitat Hochschulpolitik im nationalsozialistischen Staat’, in K. Malettke (ed.), Der National¨ ¨ sozialismus an der Macht (Gottingen, 1984); M. Gruttner, ‘Wissenschaft’, in W. Benz ¨ et al. (eds.), Enzyklopadie des Nationalsozialismus (Munich, 1998), 135–53.

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Hammerstein, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (note 41). P. Lundgreen (ed.), Wissenschaft im Dritten Reich (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1985); M. ¨ Stolleis and D. Simon (eds.), Rechtsgeschichte im Nationalsozialismus (Tubingen, 1989); Meinel and Voswinckel (eds.), Medizin (note 47); F. R. Hausmann, ‘Deutsche Geisteswissenschaft’ im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Die ‘Aktion Ritterbusch’ (1940–1945) (Dresden, 1998).

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L. Stern (ed.), Die Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften in der Zeit des Imperialismus, vol. III: Die Jahre der faschistischen Diktatur 1933 bis 1945 (Berlin <East>, 1979); M. Renneberg and M. Walker (eds.), Science, Technology and National-Socialism (Cambridge, 1994). K. Macrakis, Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany (New York and Oxford, 1993); Forschung im Spannungsfeld. Hammerstein, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (note 41).

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Major E. W. B. Gill, ‘German Academic Scientists and the War’, Paper, Control Com¨ Zeitmission for Germany, 28 August 1945. Irving Papers. Archive of the Institut fur geschichte Munich.

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¨ Figures taken from Ludwig, Technik (note 56), 258–9; K. Zierold, Forschungsforderung in drei Epochen (Wiesbaden, 1968), 263. G. W. Gellermann, Der Krieg, der nicht stattfand (Koblenz, 1986), 208ff.; B. J. Bernstein, ‘America’s Biological Warfare Program in the Second World War’, The Journal of Strategic Studies, 11 (1988), 292–317.

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See chapter 6; E. Shils, ‘The Order of Learning in the United States from 1865 to 1920: The Ascendancy of the Universities’, Minerva, 16, 2 (1978), 159–95. D. D. Henry, Challenges Past, Challenges Present: An Analysis of American Higher Education since 1930 (San Francisco, Washington and London, 1975), 38ff.

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K. T. Kompton, ‘Organisation of American Scientists for the War’, Nature, 151 (29 May 1943), 601–6. ¨ Zeitgeschichte, M. Walker, ‘Legenden um die deutsche Atombombe’, Vierteljahrshefte fur 38 (1990), 45–74.

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Notker Hammerstein century. Although initially viewed with distrust and regarded as peripheral by the other sciences, the natural sciences and many medical disciplines earned increasingly high esteem. Thus mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry and other such fields were recognized as the new leading sciences and gradually drove the sciences of antiquity – history and philosophy – to the sidelines. And some of the humanities, which promised through planning and scientific methods to be able to analyze and shape both the present and the future, such as sociology, psychology and certain forms of economics, were also recognized as sciences to a certain degree. Nationalism, which also started in the nineteenth century and experienced its first, dreadful upsurge during the First World War, culminated in the Nazi reign of terror during the Second. Its horrifying excesses, which went many times beyond the imagination of civilized Europe in the twentieth century, encouraged examination of the need for a new world order which would enable people to live together in a world less marked by national differences. Many different forms of world order were discussed, but the basic conviction harked back to the classical ideal of a res publica litteraria, this time open to as many people as possible – if not all. It also reflected the experience of a new commonality, which was regarded as self-evident by those who had taken part in the war. Just as understandably and characteristically, intellectuals and academics often demonstrated this unity of purpose with reference to the model of the Soviet Union, i.e. a state system that was supposedly founded on scientific leadership and planning. Even during the war, the Western side often discussed whether the USSR, which usually kept its scientific discoveries to itself, would reinforce this behaviour in the conviction that it was excluded, and would thus have to prepare and arm itself for a new and final world war. Experience of the excesses of nationalism did not give rise to demands to iron out national differences concerning education and the universities, or even eliminate them altogether. However, the conviction that increasing numbers of people should be able to participate in academic training and research created a modified type of university teacher and student. The distinguished, bourgeois professor gradually gave way to an older and more experienced partner, who was confident in both laboratory and seminar. In their clothing and habits, both teachers and students started to imitate their American role models. Even during the war, increasing numbers of women were allowed into higher education, largely out of need. And the general experience that intelligence was not the sole province of a specific class or nationality meant that social differences became less important in the universities and research institutions after 1945. Thus

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The following list1 shows in chronological order of their foundation: (1) All universities in existence (even briefly) between 1812 and the end of 1944; universities are regarded as comprising all institutions of higher education founded or recognized as universities by the public authorities of their territory and authorized to confer academic degrees in more than one discipline. For this reason British colleges which prepared students for academic degrees granted by the University of London are not included. For universities founded before 1800, see volume II for their institutional development before the nineteenth century. In as much as information is available, changes after 1800 in the organization of the traditional four faculties are listed. (2) Other important institutions of higher learning, such as technical, commercial, ecclesiastical and other specialized academies, which 1

List prepared by Ulrich Herrmann, Bochum and the editor, on the basis of J´ılek, Historical Compendium, initiated by the Editorial Board as a preparatory handbook for the History of the University in Europe and published by the CRE; Minerva, Jahrbuch der gelehrten Welt, 1 (1891–92)–33 (1938). For the history and constitution of individual universities before 1892 see also vol. II (1892–93), until 1910 Minerva, Handbuch der gelehrten Welt, vol. I. Strasbourg, 1911. Information on some countries or universities was gra¨ ¨ ciously checked and completed by Rudiger vom Bruch (Berlin), M. Kohler (Cologne), Eva¨ Maria Felschow (Giessen), Ulrich Hunger (Gottingen), Anna Guagnini (Bologna), Daniela Novarese (Messina), Gian Paolo Brizzi (Perugia), Giuliana Limiti (Rome), Agostino Sottili (Milan), Carlo Bo (Urbino), Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Zacharaow (Russia), Jos´e Luis Peset and Mariano Peset (Spain).

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¨ Walter Ruegg were in existence during this period and which did not become part of a university. The right to confer academic degrees applies only partially to this category, with some institutions conferring no academic degrees at all, such as the French grandes e´ coles, and others obtaining this right later on in their existence. They are included in this list if they were recognized by the public authorities of their territory as scientific institutions of higher learning open only to secondary graduates (with the exception of priest academies). In some countries they received the title of universities; but they appear in the list of universities only if they include besides their specialities at least one other classical faculty. Soviet institutions of higher learning other than universities are only listed in the context of partial or complete dissolution of universities. The foundation date is taken from the date on which the public authorities recognized the status of a university or of another institution of higher learning. The alphabetical list helps to identify quickly all institutions of higher learning in the chronological list. The following abbreviations will be used for common academic and other items: agr.: agriculture; c.: century; cat.: category; Cath.: Catholic; chem.: chemistry; e´ c.: e´ cole <de>; eco.: economics (and commerce); eng.: engineering; ev.: evangelical; f.: founded; fac.: faculty , facolta` , facult´e <de(s)>; Hon.: Honours; inst.: institute ; math.: mathematics; med.: medicine; min.: mining; orth.: orthodox; pharm.: pharmacy; phil.: arts and sciences; philos.: philosophy; pol.: political sciences; pr´ep.: pr´eparatoire; Prot.: Protestant; sc.: sciences; sch.: school ; tech.: technology, engineering; theol.: theology, th´eologie; Univ.: ¨ Universitat, ¨ University , Universidad, Universidade, Universita, Universit´e, Universiteit; vet.: veterinary medicine universities ` Nazionale 1802. Regia 1805. BOLOGNA (end 12 c.). Univ. <ersita> Pontificia 1815. Closed 1831/32, 1849–53, remaining board of examinations. Univ. prim’ordine 1859/60 (cat. A 19233 ). Fac. philos. and philology (lettere e filosofia 1868), law, math. (scienze fisiche, matematiche et naturali 1868), med. and surgery, 1859, incorporating th

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R. Decreto 21 August 1933 n. 1592, transforming into fac. all sch. pharm. and vet. R. Decreti 20 June 1935 n. 1071, 28 November 1935 n. 2044, 7 May 1936 n. 882, transforming into fac. the other sch. and inst. ˜ Peset, Universidad Espanola, 461–90. For the distribution of faculties among the ten ˜ ‘L’Universit´e espagnole a` la Spanish universities in existence after 1845 see J.-L. Guerena, ˜ E.-M. fin du XIXe si`ecle. Approche sociologique du corps professoral’, in J.-L. Guerena, Fell, J.-R. Aymes (eds.), L’Universit´e en Espagne et en Am´erique latine du Moyen-Age a` nos jours, vol. I: Structures et acteurs, Actes du colloque de Tours 12–14 janvier 1990 (Tours, 1991), 227–9.

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A chronological list of 183 professors in concentration camps 1939. Five underground fac. attended by c. 800 students 1942–44. VIENNA (1365). Fac. Prot. theol. 1819. Univ. reorganized according to Prussian univ. model 1848–51. Philos. fac. undivided until 1975. ERFURT (1379). Studium generale 1379. Closure of the univ. 1816. HEIDELBERG (1385). Ruperto-Carola 1803. Fac. Cath. theol. transferred to Freiburg 1807, fac. sciences and math. 1890. COLOGNE (1388). Suppressed 1798. Handelshochschule (Trade ¨ academy) 1901. Academy for practical med. 1904. Hochschule fur kommunale und soziale Verwaltung (College for local administration and social work) 1912. Municipal univ. recognized by the state 1919. Fac. eco. and soc. sc., med., law, philos., the latter undivided until 1955. FERRARA (1391). Suppressed 1804. Univ. Pontificia 1812. Libera Univ. 1860. Fac. law, med. and surgery (closed 1923, first two-year courses reopened 1937), mathematical, physical, natural sc., sch. pharm. 1860 (fac. 1933). State univ. 1942. ´ any ´ P´eter univ. 1920. Transfer of fac. eco. to BUDAPEST (1395). Pazm Technical Univ. 1934. ¨ ¨ 1802. Fac. law and WURZBURG (1402). Julius-Maximilian-Universitat med. transferred from Bamberg 1803, philos. fac. divided into sections of philol. and hist., sciences and math. 1873 (fac. philos., fac. sciences 1937). TURIN (1404). Suppressed 1792. Re-established 1800. Closed 1821–23 and 1830–48. Univ. prim’ordine 1862 (cat. A 1923). Incorporating as fac. sch. pharm., vet. med. (f. 1860) 1933, inst. eco. and commerce (f. 1906), agr., teacher training 1935. ´ med. in Marseille. Fac. th´eol. in Aix AIX-EN-PROVENCE (1409). Ec. 1808 (suppressed 1885), lettres, droit in Aix 1846, sc. in Marseille 1854. Univ. d’Aix-Marseille 1896. LEIPZIG (1409). Reorganized 1830. Vet. academy Dresden incorporated as fac. 1923, philos. fac. divided into dep. philology and history, math. and sc. 1925. SAINT ANDREWS (1411). Incorporation of Univ. College Dundee (f. 1881) 1897. PARMA (1414). Suppressed 1831–54. Univ. second’ordine 1860. Prim’ordine, fac. law, med. and surgery, math. and sc. (suppressed 1923), 1887 (cat. B 1923). Incorporating sch. pharm., vet. as fac. 1933. ROSTOCK (1419). Fac. law and eco. 1923. Undivided philos. fac. until 1945. LOUVAIN/LEUVEN (1425). Suppressed 1797. State univ. 1816. Suppressed 1835. Cath. univ. in Malines 1834. Transferred to Louvain 1835. ´ droit 1804, m´ed 1806. Fac. lettres 1808 (supPOITIERS (1431). Ec. pressed 1815, re-established 1854), sc. 1854. 677

¨ Walter Ruegg CAEN (1432). Ec. droit 1804 (fac. 1808). Fac. m´ed., sc., lettres 1808. BORDEAUX (1441). Ec. m´ed. 1807. Fac. th´eol 1808 (suppressed 1885), sc., lettres 1838, droit 1870, m´ed. et pharm. 1874. CATANIA (1444). Univ. second’ordine 1862. Prim’ordine 1877 (cat. B 1923). Incorporating as fac. sch. pharm., inst. eco. and commerce (f. 1919) 1935. BARCELONA (1450). Re-established 1837. Fac. letras y filosof´ıa, law, math. and sc., med., pharm. 1857. GLASGOW (1451). Reformed by The Univ. (Scotland) Acts 1858 and 1889, degree of Bachelor of Sc. 1872. Queen Margaret College for the Higher Education of Women 1883. Chair in naval architecture 1885, in German language and literature 1887. Fac. sc. 1889. Chairs in modern history, pathology 1893, political eco. 1896, Scottish hist. and lit. 1913. GREIFSWALD (1456). Under Swedish administration 1637–1815. Prussian univ., philos. fac. undivided until 1945. FREIBURG IM BREISGAU (1457). Cath. theol. fac. transferred from Heidelberg 1807. Alberto-Ludoviciana 1818. Fac. sc. and math. 1910. BASLE (1459). Philos. fac. divided into philos.–historical and philos.– scientific sections 1866 (both fac. 1937). POSZONY/PRESSBURG/BRATISLAVA (1465). Queen Elizabeth Univ. 1912. Fac. law 1914, med. 1917, philos. 1918. Transferred to Budapest and P´ecs, in Bratislava Komenski (Comenius) Univ. 1919. Fac. med. 1919, law, philos. 1921. Slovak Univ. 1939 incorporating fac. Prot. theol. (f. as Lyzeum 1606, theol. Acad. 1881, autonomous state fac. 1934), fac. Cath. theol (f. 1936), sc. 1940. GENOA (1471). Closed 1821–23, 1830–35. Univ. second’ordine 1862. Prim’ordine 1885 (cat. A 1923). Incorporating as fac. sch. pharm. 1933, inst. eng. (f. 1871), eco. and commerce (f. 1884) 1935. SARAGOSSA (1474). Fac. med. suppressed 1843. Re-established 1876. Theol. 1854, suppressed 1868, letras y filosof´ıa, law 1857, sc. 1887. COPENHAGEN (1475). Fac. sc. 1850. ¨ TUBINGEN (1476). Incorporation of Cath. Univ. Ellwangen (f. 1812) as Cath. theol. fac. 1817. First establishment in Germany of fac. sc. (1863), and eco. (1882). UPPSALA (1477). Fac. arts divided into sections of liberal arts and sc. 1876. ¨ SIGUENZA (1489). Closed 1807. Definitively suppressed 1824. ABERDEEN (1495). King’s College (f. 1505), Marischal College (f. 1593). United as Univ. of Aberdeen 1860. Fac. arts, divinity, law, med. 1889, sc. 1894. ´ DE HENARES (1499). Transferred to Madrid 1836/37. ALCALA VALENCIA (1500). Closed 1810–12. Fac. letras y filosof´ıa (prep. studies for law), sc., law, med. 1857. 678

A chronological list WITTENBERG (1502). Transferred to Halle 1817. SEVILLA (1505). Fac. theol. 1854 (suppressed 1868), law, med. (in Cadix), letras y filosof´ıa 1857. TOLEDO (1521). Suppressed 1807, last fac. suppressed 1857. SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (1526). Fac. theol. 1854, suppressed 1868, law, med. and pharm., letras y filosof´ıa (prep. studies for law), sc. (idem for med.) 1857. ¨ 1920. Philos. fac. undivided MARBURG (1527). Philipps-Universitat until 1964. GRANADA (1531). Fac. law, pharm., med., letras y filosof´ıa (including science section 1857), associating sch. Arabic studies 1932. MACERATA (1540), Univ. Pontificia. Second’ ordine 1824 (cat. B 1923). Fac. theol. 1860, sc., vet. 1862, all fac. except law suppressed 1880. ˜ ONATE (1540). Suppressed 1807. Re-established 1815. Definitively suppressed 1842. ¨ ¨ (Albertina) 1860. Fac. sc. KONIGSBERG (1544). Albertus Universitat 1938. Univ. suppressed 1944. MESSINA (1548). Suppressed 1679. Collegio Carolino (for nobles) granted right to confer doctoral degrees in philos. and theol. 1789. Univ. status 1838. Second’ordine 1862. Prima classe 1885 (cat. B). Fac. philos. suppressed 1923. Incorporating as fac. inst. pharm. 1933, vet., teacher training (f. 1920), 1936. OSUNA (1548). Suppressed 1807. Re-established 1814. Ceased to exist 1820. ORIHUELA (1552). Suppressed 1807. Re-established 1815. Ceased to exist 1824. BURGO DE OSMA (1555). Suppressed 1807. Definitively suppressed 1841. ROME Gregoriana (1556). Suppressed 1773. Re-established 1824. Fac. canon law. 1876. Schola Superior Litterarum Latinarum 1924, associating Inst. Biblicum (f. 1909), Inst. Orientale (f. 1917) 1928, fac. missiologia, church history 1932. MILANO (1556). Accademia scientifico-letteraria 1859. Univ. (cat. A 1924), incorporating as fac. sch. vet. (f. 1891), agr. (f. 1880) 1935. ¨ ¨ JENA (1558). Sachsische Gesamtuniv. 1815. Thuringische Landesuniv. 1920. Fac. math. and sc. 1924. Friedrich-Schiller Univ. 1934. DOUAI (1559). Fac. lettres 1808 (suppressed 1815, re-established 1854), droit 1865. Both transferred to Lille 1887. OLOMOUC (1570). Lyzeum 1782. Univ. 1827. Gradual closure. Theol. fac. turned into independent institution 1851/60, ‘fac. Cyril and Methodius’ (Cyrilometodejka´ fakulta) 1921. OVIEDO (1574). Fac. law, letras y filosof´ıa (prep. studies) 1857, sc. and math. sch. pol., soc. sc. 1895, letras y filosof´ıa (autonomous fac.) 1899. 679

¨ Walter Ruegg LEIDEN (1575). Incorporated into the Univ. imp´eriale (fac. math. and sc.) 1811. Rijks Hoogeschool 1815. Rijks Univ. 1876. PALERMO (1578). Univ prim’ordine 1862 (cat. A 1923). Integrating as fac. sch. pharm. 1933, inst. eng. (f. 1860) eco. and commerce 1935. WILNA/VILNIUS (1578). Cesarski uniwersitet imine Aleksandra I 1803. Suppressed 1832 (fac. theol., med. continuing to exist as academies, transferred to Kiev 1840). Polish Stephan Batorego Univ. fac. humanities, theol., law, social sc., med., art 1919. Suppressed 1939. EDINBURGH (1582/83). Fac. divinity, law, med., arts, science, music 1896, amalgamation fac. divinity and New College (f. 1848 by the Free Church of Scotland) 1929, Heriot-Watt College (f. as Edinburgh School of Arts and Mechanics Institute 1821, renamed Watt Institution and Sch. Arts 1854, amalgamated with the George Heriot’s Hospital and renamed Heriot-Watt College 1885, granted rank of ‘central institution’ with classes in art, trade, technical subjects, mining, printing, mycology 1902), affiliated as associated college 1933. FERMO (1585). In decline in the 2nd part of 18th c. Re-established as Univ. Pontificia 1804/1816. Univ. second’ordine 1824. Suppressed 1826. Chairs in civil, criminal and canon law in existence until 1860. FRANEKER (1585). Suppressed 1811. Rijks Athenaeum 1815. Closed 1843. GRAZ (1585/86). Lyzeum 1782. Univ. 1827. Fac. med. 1863, theol. fac. suppressed 1939, philos. fac. undivided until 1975. ESCORIAL (1587). Suppressed 1837. Colegio de Estudios Superiores Maria Cristina 1892. Closed 1931–44. DUBLIN Trinity College (1592). Associating the Church of Ireland Training College 1921/22. CAGLIARI (1606). Univ. second’ordine 1862. Fac. law., med. and surgery, math. and sc., sch. pharm. (fac. 1933). Prim’ordine 1902 (cat. A). Fac. filos. e lettere 1923. GIESSEN (1607). Fac. Cath. theol. 1830–59, philos. fac. divided into two sections (Abteilungen) 1: philos., philology, history, art history, 2: math., sc., eco., each section chaired by a dean, but holding common fac. meetings 1922. GRONINGEN (1612). Incorporated into Univ. imp´eriale (fac. math. and science) 1811. Suppressed 1813. Rijks Hoogeschool 1815. Rijksuniversiteit 1876. PADERBORN (1614/16). Suppressed 1818. SASSARI (1617). Univ. second’ordine. Fac. law, med. and surgery, sch. pharm. (fac. 1933) 1877. Prim’ordine 1901 (cat. B 1923). Fac. vet. 1934. SALZBURG (1619). Fac. med. 1804. Lyzeum 1810. Fac. theol. 1850. Closed 1938. 680

A chronological list ´ sant´e 1795. Protestant seminary 1801. Ec. ´ STRASBOURG (1621). Ec. pharm. 1803, droit 1804, fac. droit, lettres, sc., th´eol. protestante 1808. Kaiser-Wilhelms-Univ. 1871/2. Fac. math. and sc., Cath. theol. 1903. Univ. de Strasbourg 1919. Fac. pharm. 1921. Univ. transferred to Clermont-Ferrand. Replaced by German univ. 1940–44. ¨ MUNSTER (1629). Theol. -philos. Academy for teacher training 1818. ¨ Univ. rights 1827. Univ., fac. law and eco. 1902. Westfalische WilhelmsUniv. 1907. Fac. ev.-theol. 1914, med. 1925, philos. fac. remaining undivided until 1948. DORPAT/TARTU (1632). Suppressed 1710. Only German-speaking univ. in Russia 1802. Inst. education 1820–59. Philos. fac divided into Hist. -philol. and Physico-math. Fak. 1850. ‘Russification’ of the univ. 1893. Evacuation to Voronez 1918. Estonian univ., fac. theol., med., law, math. and sc., agr., vet. 1919. ´ secondaire within Univ. imp´eriale 1811. Rijks UTRECHT (1636). Ec. Hoogeschool, fac. math. and sc. 1815. Rijksuniv. 1876, fac. vet. (sch. f. 1820, univ. status 1917) 1925. ˚ HELSINGFORS/HELSINKI (1640). Swedish Academia Aboensis 1640. Imperial univ. 1811. Transferred to the new capital Helsingfors 1828. Philos. fac. divided into sections of humanities and of sc. and math., each section chaired by a dean 1852, section of eco. and agr. 1896 (fac. agr. and forestry 1924), fac. soc. and pol. sc. 1944. KIEL (1665). Prussian Christian-Alberts-Univ. 1867. Staatswissenschaftliches Seminar (seminary of eco.) 1899. Transformed into Inst. ¨ Weltwirtschaft (Inst. world economy) 1914. Inst. maritime studies fur 1937. Both associated with univ. Philos. fac. undivided until 1963. ´ LEMBERG/LWOW (1661). Suppressed 1805. (Austrian) Universitas Francisci 1817. Fac. med. 1894. (Polish) John Casimir Univ. 1919. (Soviet) Univ. J. Franko 1944. INNSBRUCK (1668). Fac. med. 1869, science 1938. LUND (1668). Philos. fac. divided into sections of humanities, math. and sc. 1876. URBINO (1671). Univ. Pontificia second’ordine 1824. Libera Univ. Provinciale 1862. Fac. law, physics and math. (suppressed 1894), sch. pharm. (fac. 1934), midwifery 1892 (dissolved 1923). Univ. libera 1923. Fac. teacher training 1937. ´ m´ed. 1806. Fac. th´eol. (suppressed 1885), sc., BESANC ¸ ON (1691). Ec. ´ pr´ep. m´ed. et pharm. 1843. lettres 1808. Ec. HALLE (1693). Closed 1806–08. Univ. Halle-Wittenberg 1817. Fac. sc. (including agr. and pharm.) 1924. BRESLAU/WROCLAW (1702). Incorporating Univ. Frankfurt an der ¨ 1910. Fac. sc. Oder 1811. Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat 1937. 681

¨ Walter Ruegg DIJON (1722). Ec. droit 1806 (fac. 1808). Fac. lettres, sc. 1808, fac. pr´ep. m´ed. et pharm. 1843. ST PETERSBURG/PETROGRAD/LENINGRAD Academic Univ. (1724). Imperial Univ. Fac. history and philology, physics and math., law 1819, oriental languages 1854. Main teacher-training college incorporated 1859. Univ. closed 1861–62. Petrograd Univ. 1914. State Univ. 1919/20. Fac. soc. sc. (including dep. archaeology and art history, linguistics and literature, social education, law, eco.) and physico-mathematics (including dep. math. and astronomy, physics and astrophysics, chem., biology), workers fac. (Rabfac.) 1920. Temporary dissolution of univ. into disciplinary institutes 1930–32. Restoration of univ., fac. math. and mechanics, physics, chem., biology, geology and geography, history 1934.9 Univ. evacuated to Saratov 1944. CAMERINO (1727). Suppressed 1808. Univ. Pontifical State 1816. Di second’ordine 1824. Libera Univ. 1861. Fac. law, med. and surgery (suppressed 1923). Incorporating sch. pharm. as fac. chem. and pharm., sch. vet. as fac. 1933. ¨ GOTTINGEN (1737). Incorporating Univ. Helmstedt 1809. GeorgAugust-Univ. 1866. Fac. math. and sc. 1922. ERLANGEN (1743). Friedrich Alexander Univ. 1900. Fac. sc. 1927. MOSCOW (1755). Imperial Univ., fac. history and philology, physics and math., law, med. 1804. Inst. education 1804–59. Moscow First State Univ. fac. med., physics and math., social sc., Rabfac. (the first in Soviet Russia, integrating Schanjawskij People’s Univ., f. 1908) 1919/20. Fac. med. converted into Inst. Med. I. M. Secenova 1930. Univ. re-established. Fac. like St Petersburg 1934. ´ m´ed. NANCY (1768). Fac. lettres 1802 (closed 1815, reopened 1854). Ec. ´ 1809 (fac. 1872), Ec. nationale des eaux et forˆets 1824. Fac. sc. 1854. Inst. colonial 1862. Fac. droit 1864. MODENA (1772/73). Suppressed 1796. Re-established 1814. Univ. second’ordine, fac. law, med. and surgery, physical, math. natural sc. 1862, sch. pharm., 1876 (fac. 1933), vet. 1878–1924 (cat. B 1923).10 ´ m´ed. 1803, droit 1806. Fac. lettres 1808 (closed RENNES (1803). Ec. 1815–38), sc. 1840. KASAN (1804). Imperial Univ. Fac. like Moscow 1804. Inst. education 1812–59. Kazanskij (later State) Univ. Fac. like Moscow 1918. W. I. Lenin Univ. 1930. Univ. dissolved. into Inst. med., chem. -techn. 1930, eco., law 1931, airplane construction 1932. Univ. re-established, fac. biology, geology, physics and math., chem. 1934. 9 10

In 1919–20 Rabfac. (workers fac. ) were introduced in all univ.; in 1930–31 all univ. were dissolved into separate disciplinary inst., but in 1932–33 restored (without med. fac.). C. G. Mor and P. di Pietro, Storia dell’Universita` di Modena (Florence, 1975), vol. I, 169–75.

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A chronological list CHARKOV (1804). Imperial Univ. Fac. like Moscow 1805. Inst. education 1811–59. State Univ. 1918. Univ. dissolved into inst. education, med., pharm. 1932/33. Re-established, fac. physics and math., chem., geology, geography, biology, eco. 1934. State Univ. A. M. Gorkogo 1944. ´ m´ed. 1805. Fac. lettres 1808 (closed CLERMONT-FERRAND (1805). Ec. ´ 1815–53), sc. 1854. Ec. droit 1913. Inst. chimie et technologie indusˆ trielle (f. 1911 at Puy de Dome) 1920 (incorporated into fac. sc. 1930). LYON (1808). Fac. th´eol. 1808 (suppressed 1885), lettres, sc. 1808 (both ´ m´ed. 1808 (fac 1874). Fac. droit 1875. closed 1815–33). Ec. ROUEN (1808). Fac. lettres 1808 (closed 1815), th´eol. 1808 (suppressed ´ m´ed. 1821, e´ c. pr´epar. sc. et lettres 1854. 1885). Ec. BERLIN (1810). Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. 1810. Sch. agr. (f. 1806, Hochschule 1881) and sch. vet. (f. 1790, Hochschule 1887). Incorporated as fac. agr. and vet. 1934. Divided into two fac., math. and sc. fac. 1936. LJUBLJANA (1810) Univ. de Laibach within Univ. Imp´eriale 1810. Suppressed 1813. Univ. Kingdom Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia 1919. CHRISTIANIA/OSLO (1811). Fac. history and philos., math. and sc. 1860. WARSAW (1816). Main school, renamed Royal Univ. Fac. theol., law and public administration, med., philos., fine arts 1817. Closed 1831. Warsaw Main School 1862. Imperial Univ., fac. like Moscow 1869. Closed 1905–08. (Polish) Univ. 1915. Fac. Cath. theol. 1918, Prot. theol. Dep. Orth. theol. 1922, Fac. humanities, math. and physical sc., pharm., vet. 1926 (dep. 1920). Univ. closed 1939, c. 300 underground lectures for c. 4,000 students. ` LIEGE (1816). F. by the Dutch king. Fac. philos. and lettres, law, med., sc. 1816. (Belgian) Univ. 1835. ´ g´enie civil et d’arts et manuGHENT (1816/17). Until 1835 like Li`ege. Ec. factures 1835, teacher training 1847. Univ. suppressed 1914–19. Flemish Van Bissig Univ. 1916–18. Flemish inst. agr. 1920. Univ. teaching bilingual 1923, Flemish 1930. ´ m´ed. 1817. Fac. sc. 1854, Fac. mixte m´ed. et pharm. LILLE (1817). Ec. 1875. Fac. droit et lettres transferred from Douai to Lille 1887. BONN (1818). Maxische Akademie 1777. Closed 1798. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. 1818. Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule Poppelsdorf (teacher-training college 1847, academy of agr. 1861) incorporated as fac. agr. 1934. Fac. math. and sc. 1936. CORFU (1823). Ionian Academy. Fac. theol., med. 1823 (closed 1828– 43). Sch. education of priests 1828. Fac. civil eng. 1837 (closed 1857), pharm. 1841. Academy suppressed following the incorporation of Corfu into Greece 1864. 683

¨ Walter Ruegg MUNICH (1826). Univ. Ingolstadt transferred to Landshut 1800, to Munich 1826. Philos. fac. divided into sections of philos., philology and history, of math. and sc. 1865 (fac. philos. sc. 1937), fac. vet. (academy f. 1790) 1914. DURHAM (1832). Univ. College. Chairs theol., math. Greek opened 1833. College med. and surgery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (f. 1832) incorporated as Medical Sch. 1852. Durham College physical sc. 1871, known since 1904 as Armstrong College (both affiliated to become King’s College 1937). Fac. commerce 1913. Ph.D. degree 1918. ZURICH (1833). Reformed theol. academy 1525. Chairs in ethics and sc. 1558, in Swiss history and politics 1715. Inst. med. and surgery 1802. Political inst. 1806. Univ. 1833. Philos. fac. divided into sections of philos., philol. and hist., of math. and sc. 1859 (fac. philos. I and II 1902), fac. vet. med. 1902. BERN (1834). Reformed theol. academy 1528. Political inst. 1787, inst. med. 1797. Academy 1805. Univ. 1834. Philos. fac. divided into sections of philol. and hist., math. and sc. (fac. 1921), fac. (old) Cath. theol. (following the declaration of papal infallibility) 1874, fac. vet. 1900. BRUSSELS Free University (1834). Univ. libre de Bruxelles f. by Freethinkers and Freemasons reacting against the re-establishment of the ´ Cath. univ. in Louvain. Fac. philos. et lettres, droit, sc., m´ed. 1834. Ec. ´ pharm. 1842. Fac. sc. appliqu´ees 1873. Ec. sc. politiques 1889. Inst. physiologie 1894, sociologie 1901. KIEV (1834). Theol. academy 1632. Gymnasium in Kremenec 1805. Lyzeum 1818. Transferred to Kiev 1832. Imperial Univ. St Vladimir. Fac. hist. and philos., law, chairs in Greek and Roman Cath. theol. 1834. Inst. education 1834–59. Univ. closed 1839–40. Academy med. and surgery Vilna incorporated as fac. 1842. Univ. replaced by Inst. med., law, Inst. for People’s Education with fac. for workers providing professional instruction, social education (separate inst. 1930), 1920. Ukrainian state univ. 1934. LONDON (1836). Univ. College 1826. King’s College 1828. Univ. London, f. 1836 by Royal charter as examining institution conferring degrees in art, law and med. 1836, enlarged by many colleges, schools and institutes according to the University of London Act 1898. MADRID (1836). Univ. Alcala´ de Henares. Transferred to Madrid as Univ. ˜ 1836. Fac. theol. 1854 (suppressed 1868), letras y central de Espana filosof´ıa, law, sc., med., pharm. 1857. Monopolizing (until 1970) right to confer doctoral degrees. ATHENS (1837). Sch. pharm., philological seminar 1841/42. Fac. math. and physical sc. (including pharm.) 1904. BELFAST (1845). Belfast Academical Institution 1814. Med. fac. 1835. Queen’s College chartered 1845, opened 1849, associated with colleges 684

A chronological list at Cork and Galway in the Queen’s Univ. of Ireland 1850. Constituent college of Royal Univ. of Ireland (RUI), a purely examining body in 1879. Replacing Queen’s Univ. 1882. RUI replaced by National Univ. of Ireland, Queen’s College constituent member of re-established Queen’s Univ. 1908/09. Fac. sc. 1909, commerce, applied science and technology 1921, agr. 1924, theol. 1926. Sch. dentistry 1920. MANCHESTER (1851). Owens College 1851, incorporating Manchester Sch. of Med. 1872. Constituent college (1880) together with colleges in Liverpool (1884) and Leeds (1887) of Victoria Univ. Chair in education (the first in any English univ.). College 1899 (fac. 1914). Victoria Univ. of Manchester without associated colleges 1903, but incorporating Owens College 1904. Fac. arts, science, law, med., music, theol., commerce. DUBLIN (1854). Royal College of St Patrick in Maynooth (theol. seminary) 1795. Cath. Univ. of Ireland, f. in Dublin, with John Henry Newman as Rector 1854, as Univ. College Dublin constituent college of RUI 1882 (see Belfast). IASI (1860). Academy 1640. Academia Mihaileana 1835. Univ., fac. law, Orth. theol. (suppressed 1864), philos. and lettres, sc. 1860, med. ´ 1879, agr. 1932 (the latter transferred to the Ecole polytechnique 1937). BUCHAREST (1864). Academy in St Sava 1694. Coll`ege national de Saint-Sava 1818. Univ., fac. droit, philos. et lettres 1864, med. 1869, Orth. theol. 1884, vet. 1921, pharm. 1923. ODESSA (1864). Lyc´ee Richelieu, f. by Tsar Alexander I (also Duc de Richelieu) 1817. Imperial Univ. of New Russia, fac. history and philos., math. and sc. 1864, med. 1897 (autonomous inst. 1920). Univ. replaced by Inst. People’s Education, Fac. professional instruction, social education 1920. Dissolved in inst. 1930. State Univ. reopened, Fac. biology, chem., physics and math. 1933, geology and geography, history and philology 1940. AGRAM/ZAGREB (1869). Jesuit Academy 1669. Regia Scientiarum Academia 1776. Franz-Joseph I-Univ. 1869. Fac. law and eco., Cath. theol., philos. 1874. Univ. Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia, fac. med., agr. and forestry, vet., technol., philos., the latter divided into a section of philos. and history and a section of math. and sc. 1919. GENEVA (1872). Acad´emie de Gen`eve 1559, divided into fac. th´eol., lettres, droit, sc. with graduation rights 1809. Univ. 1872. Fac. med., 1874, eco. and soc. sc. 1914. Institut universitaire des hautes e´ tudes ´ de traduction et d’ interpr´etation 1942. internationales 1927. Ec. KOLOSVAR/CLUJ (1872). Unitary college 1556. Jesuit college 1581. Interdenominational college 1776. (Hungarian) Franz Joseph-Univ., 685

¨ Walter Ruegg fac. law and eco., philos., math. and sc., med. (sch. 1775) 1872. Transferred to Szeged. (Romanian) Univ. Victor Babes 1919. CZERNOWITZ (1875). Franz-Josefs-Univ., fac. theol., law and eco., philos., math and sc. 1875. Univ. suppressed 1918. (Romanian) Univ. 1919–40. ANGERS (1875). Fac. libres, droit 1875, lettres 1876, sc. 1877, theol. 1879. Univ. cathol. de l’Ouest 1896. LILLE (1875). Fac. libres, lettres, sc., med., law 1875. Univ. cathol., fac. theol., pharm. 1877, fac. catholiques 1880. LYON (1875). Fac. libres, law 1875, th´eol. cathol., lettres, sc. 1876, th´eol. 1878, canon law 1933, philos. 1935. PARIS (1875). Fac. libres (Institut cathol. 1880), law, lettres, sc. 1876, theol. 1878, philos. canon law 1895. TOULOUSE (1877). Institut cathol. 1877. Fac. libre, lettres 1878. Fac. ´ sc. 1882. canoniques, th´eol., philos. et droit 1879. Ec. ´ AMSTERDAM (1877). Athenaeum illustre amstelodamense 1632. Ec. secondaire de l’ Univ. imp´eriale 1811. Municipal Academy with univ. status, without graduation rights. Fac. math. and sc. 1815. Full univ. status 1877. Fac. commercial sc. 1922 (eco. 1935). STOCKHOLM (1877). Public lectures 1863. Private Stockholms hoegskola, chairs math., sc. 1877. Examination rights 1904. Fac. math. and sc., law and eco. 1906, humanities 1919. TOMSK (1878). Opened, fac. med. 1888, law 1898, history and philology, physics and math. 1917. History and philology suppressed, law separated as inst. and transferred to Irkutsk 1921. Divided into inst. med. 1930, education 1931. Univ. re-established, fac. physics and math., biology, chem., geology and geography 1934. AMSTERDAM Free University (1880). Fac. arts, theol., law 1880. Degrees legally recognized 1905. Fac. math. and sc. 1930. LlVERPOOL (1881). Private foundation of Univ. College, integrating as fac. Liverpool Sch. Med. and incorporated by royal charter 1881. Constituent college of Victoria Univ. (Manchester) 1884. dep. law, fisheries laboratory 1892, sch. architecture 1895, dep. secondary education 1899. Univ. awarding degrees in arts, sc., med., law, eng., surgery, architecture incorporated 1903. FRIBOURG (1889). Chair in civil law 1763. Acad´emie de droit 1818. Fac. de droit 1882. Univ. 1889. Fac. law, philos. 1889, Cath. theol. (controlled by Dominicans) 1890. sc. 1896. LAUSANNE (1890). Reformed theol. Academy 1537. Fac. lettres, sc., law, theol. 1837. Sch. eng. (f. 1853) incorporated as technol. fac. 1869. ´ sc. sociales et politiques 1901, Inst. police Univ., fac. med. 1890. Ec. ´ de hautes e´ tudes sup´erieures commerciales 1911, scientifique, 1909, Ec.

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A chronological list all sch. and inst. associated to fac. law, the first becoming independent 1930. CARDIFF (1893). Univ. of Wales, an organization located in Cardiff, consisting of Colleges of Wales in Aberystwyth (f. 1872), North Wales in Bangor (f. 1884), South Wales and Monmouthshire in Cardiff (f. 1884). Univ. College Swansea 1920. Welsh National Sch. Med. (Cardiff) 1931. BIRMINGHAM (1900). Birmingham Royal Sch. Med. and Surgery 1828, incorporated as Queens College 1842, integrating Sydenham College 1886, united with Mason Science College (f. by Sir Joseph Mason 1875), incorporated as Mason Univ. College 1898. Univ. Birmingham 1900. Ph.D. degree 1917. ¨ unun-i ¨ ISTANBUL (1900). Madrassa 14xx, Darulf Osmani (House of Sci¨ unun-i ¨ ence), 1863. Suppressed 1871. Imperial Univ. (Darulf Sultani) 1874 lectures in law, given in French. Closed 1881. Imperial Univ. ¨ unun-i ¨ (Darulf Shahane), dep. theol., arts, math., sc., philology 1900. ¨ ununu), ¨ Istanbul Univ. (Istanbul Darulf fac. law, med., arts, sc. 1924, Islamic theol. 1925. Reorganized without the latter 1933. NOTTINGHAM (1903). Cambridge Univ. extension lectures introduced 1873 into the People’s College (f. 1798). Anonymous grant for a building donated 1875. Univ. College Nottingham f. 1881, incorporated 1903. LEEDS (1904). Yorkshire College of Science 1874. Yorkshire College (including chairs in arts) 1878, merged 1884 with Leeds Sch. Med. (f. 1831). Constituent college of Victoria Univ. in Manchester 1887. Univ. dep. fuel and metallurgy 1906. Hon. sch. law 1920. SANTANDER (1904). Seminar (SJ) donated by Marqu´es de Comillas for training of Latin-American priests 1890. Univ. pontificia Comillas 1904. Reorganized 1935. Fac. philos., theol. and canon law. SOFIA (1904). Higher School, dep. history and philology, math. and physics 1889, law 1892 (fac. 1894). Univ. status 1904. Fac. med. 1918, agr. 1921, theol., vet. 1923. SHEFFIELD (1905). Merger of Sheffield Sch. Med. 1828, Firth College 1879, Sheffield Technical Sch. 1884 into Univ. College 1897. Incorporated as Univ., fac. arts, pure science, med., applied science, architecture, education 1905. BELGRADE (1905). Sch. of teacher training 1808. Lyzeum 1838. College level, chairs in philos., law, technical sc. 1863. Univ. status 1905. Univ. Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia, fac. philos., law, SerboOrthodox theol., agr., med. 1919. ROME Institutum Pontificum Internationale ‘Angelicum’ (1908). Collegio di San Tommaso 1580. Fac. theol. with graduation rights for external students 1727, fac. philos. 1892, canon law 1896. Univ. status 1908.

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¨ Walter Ruegg BRISTOL (1909). Merger of Bristol Medical Sch. (f. 1833) and Univ. College (f. 1876), 1893. Univ., fac. arts, science, eng., med. 1909, law 1933. ˆ NEUCHATEL (1909). Academy, f. by Frederick William III, King of Prusˆ 1838. Suppressed 1848. Re-established by sia and Prince of Neuchatel the canton, fac. law, lettres, sc. 1866, reformed theol. 1873, medical prep. studies 1896. Univ. 1909. SARATOW (1909). Imperial Nikolai-Univ., med. fac. 1909. Saratow State Univ., fac. med., edu., soc. sc., law (suppressed 1924), eco. (suppressed 1926) 1920. Univ. divided into inst. med., law, education, eco. and finance, soviet development, planning, technol. 1930/31. Univ. reestablished, fac. biology, chem., physics and math., geology 1934. REYKJAVIK (1911). Theol. seminary 1847, med. sch. 1876. Univ. Iceland, fac. theol., law, med., philos. 1911. PORTO (1911). Sch. navigation 1762, Royal sch. eng. and navigation 1779, Royal navy and commercial academy 1805, sch. surgery 1825, pharm., med. 1836. Academia Politecnica 1837. Universidade do Porto 1911. Philos. 1918 (suppressed 1925). DEBRECZEN (1912). Calvinist College 1538. Stefan Tisza Univ., fac. theol., law, philos. 1912. FRANKFURT AM MAIN (1914). Academy of soc. and commercial sc., f. by Wilhelm Merton 1901. Merged with Senckenberg med. and science insts. (f. 18th c.), into autonomous Univ., recognized by the Prussian State, fac. law, med., philos., sc., eco. and soc. sc. 1914. JohannWolfgang-Goethe-Univ. 1932. MURCIA (1915). Ineffective suppression 1929. ROSTOV ON THE DON (1915). Don University for students and teachers evacuated from Warsaw 1915. Don State Univ., fac. edu. (including physics and math.), soc. sc. (including law and eco.), med. 1920. Univ. divided into inst. med., eco. and finance, edu. 1930/31. Re-established, fac. geology, physics and math., chem., biology, evacuated to Osch (Khirgizia) 1942. Returned to Rostov 1944. Å BO (TURKU) (1917). Åbo Academy, f. by Swedish-speaking donors, fac. sc., humanities, pol. sc. 1917, opened 1919, chemical technol. 1920, theol. 1924, associating higher commercial school 1927. PERM (1917). Dep. of Univ. St Petersburg 1916. Autonomous 1917. State Univ., fac. med., agr., edu. 1920. Divided in inst. according to fac. 1930. Reopened, fac. biology, chem., physics and math., geology 1932. TIFLIS (1918). Georgian Univ. (private) 1918. State Univ, fac. education (former fac. philos., sc.), med., soc. sc. 1920. Univ. divided into inst. edu., med., agr., 1930. Univ. re-established, fac. math, biology, geography, geology, 1933, Georgian linguistics, literature and history 1934, physics 1935. 688

A chronological list JEKATERINOSLAW/DNJEPROPETROWSK (1918). Higher med. sch. for women 1916. Univ., fac. history and philology, physics and math., law 1918. Univ. divided into inst. social edu., professional edu., physical, chem. math. sc. 1930. Univ re-established, fac. physics and math., chem., geology, biology, eco. 1933. Univ. suppressed 1941–44. NISNIJ-NOWGOROD/GORKIJ (1918). State univ., fac. med., mechanics, chem. 1920. Univ. divided into inst. med., mechanics, 1930. Reestablished, fac. biology, chem., physics and math. 1932. SMOLENSK (1918). State univ., fac. med., edu. (both autonomous inst. 1930) 1918. Communist univ. 1930. PETROGRAD/LENINGRAD (1918). Communist Zinov’ev University 1921. I. V. Stalin University 1926. MOSCOW II (1918). Higher studies for women 1872 (suspended 1886– 1900). Second State Univ., fac. med., chem. and pharm., edu. 1918. Univ. disbanded, fac. transformed into inst. 1930. IRKUTSK (1918). State univ., fac. med., soc. sc., edu. 1918. Univ. disbanded, fac. transformed into inst. soviet development 1930/31. Reopened as East Siberian State Univ., fac. biology, geology and geography, physics and math. 1931. TASCHKENT (1918). Turkestan People’s Univ. 1918 (first Middle-Asiatic univ.). Fac. med., agr., irrigation eng., physics and math., soc. sc. 1923. Univ. disbanded into inst. med., industry, edu., agr., eco. and finance, irrigation eng., 1930/31. Univ. reopened, fac. biology, physics and math., chem. 1932. WORONESH (1918). Univ. transferred from Tartu (Dorpat) to Woronesh. Fac. med., history and philology, physics and math., law (soc. sc. 1919) 1918. Univ. divided into inst. med., edu., eco. 1930/31. Univ. reopened, fac. biology, chem., physics and math., geology and geography 1932. WARSAW Free Polish Univ. (1919). Private College 1906. Fac. math. and sc., humanities, political and soc. sc., pedagogy 1919, administration 1921, social and educational work 1925, municipal administration ´ 1927. 4 facs. in Lodz 1928. Free Univ. of Poland 1933. Univ. closed 1939–45, underground lectures. BAKU (1919). State University (teaching in Russian and Turkish), fac. med., history and philology (both autonomous inst. 1930), physics and math. 1919. S. M. Kirow Univ., fac. soc. sc., chem., biology, physics and math. 1934. BRNO (1919). Masaryk-Univ., fac. law, med. 1919, sc. 1920, philos. 1921. Suppressed 1939–45. HAMBURG (1919). Colonial Inst. 1895. Univ. (Hansische Univ. 1933– 45), fac. law and eco., med., philos., sc. 1919. Inst. environmental research 1926. 689

¨ Walter Ruegg POZNAN (1919). Fac. eco. and law, philos. 1919, med. 1920, agr. and forestry 1922, Fac. philos. divided into humanist fac. and fac. math. and sc. 1924. Univ. closed, underground lectures 1939–44. Reichsuniv. Posen, open to Germans only, 1941–44. RIGA (1919). Polytechnic 1862. Univ. of Latvia, fac. agr. and forestry, chem., civil and mechanical eng., architecture, philology and philos., theol., med. and dentistry, vet., math. and sc., law, eco. 1919. MOSCOW (1919). Communist M. Sverdlov-Univ. LUBLIN Cath. Univ. (1920). F. by Warsaw episcopate 1918, confirmed by papal brief, fac. theol., canon law, law and eco. and soc. sc., humanities 1920. Authorized by government to award degrees 1938. Closed, underground lectures 1939–44. TURKU (1920). Private Finnish Univ. 1920. Fac. sc., humanities 1922, med. (financed by the state) 1943. MILAN Univ. Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (1920). Libera Universita` 1924, associating inst. teacher training 1925. Fac. law, lettere e filosofia 1926, pol., eco. and commercial sc. (sch. 1926) 1932, statistics (sch. 1932) 1944. SAMARA/KUJBYSHEW (1920). Municipal univ., fac. med. 1920. Transformed into inst. 1930. JEKATERINOSLAW/SWERDLOWSK (1920). Min. inst. 1916. State Univ., fac. med. (inst. 1925), chem. and metallurgy, mining and geology 1920. Transformed into Ural Polytechnic 1925. Univ. reopened, fac. physics and math., chem., geology 1931. Renamed A. M. Gorkij Univ. 1936. EREWAN (1920). Fac. med., agr., eng., soc. sc. (all transformed into inst. 1930) 1920. Univ. reopened, fac. history and philology, eco., chem., physics and math., biology, geology and geography, law 1933. MINSK (1921). Belarus State Univ., fac. med., edu., soc. sc. 1921. Divided into inst. med. 1930, law, eco., edu., polytechnics 1931. Univ. reopened, fac. biology, chem., physics and math. 1934. MOSCOW (1921). Communist Univ. for Western national minorities. MOSCOW (1921). Communist Univ. for Eastern populations. VALLETTA (1921). Jesuit College 1592. Sch. of anatomy 1674. Univ. status 1769. Univ. of Malta 1921. Fac. literature, sc., eng. and architecture, law, theol., med. PECS (1921). Studium generale 1367. Ceased to exist c. 1400. Academy ¨ (Raab) 1777. Transferred to P´ecs 1785/1802. of phil. and law in Gyor Univ. of Poszony/Bratislava transferred to P´ecs 1921, fac. Prot. theol., law and pol. sc., med., philos. (suppressed 1940) 1923. SZEGED (1921). Univ. Kolosvar/Cluj transferred to Szeged, fac. law and pol. sc., med., philos. 1921. 690

A chronological list KAUNAS/KOWNO (1922). Private inst. with higher studies 1920. Lithuanian State Univ., fac. theol. and philos., humanities, law, sc., med., technol. 1922. Suppressed 1939. (Soviet) State university 1940. WLADIWOSTOK (1923). Univ. of the Far East, fac. oriental languages (inst. f. 1899), edu., eng., agr. 1923. Univ. disbanded, fac. eng., agr. transformed into inst. 1930. Univ. reopened, fac. oriental languages, physics, chem. 1932. Univ. closed 1939, students transferred to Tomsk, Swerdlowsk, Woronesh. NIJMEGEN (1923). Cath. Univ., fac. philos., theol., law 1923. BARI (1923). Jesuit college 1580 (dissolved 1767). Royal college 1770. Lyceum granting lower degrees 1816. Univ. (Cat. B 1923), fac. med. and surgery 1923, law 1925, pharm. (sch. f. 1923) 1933, eco. and commerce (inst. f. 1886) 1935. MILAN (1924). Accademia scientifico-letteraria 1859. Univ., fac. law, lettere e filosofia, med., sc. 1924, vet. (sch. f. 1891) 1933, agr. (inst. f. 1870) 1935. TRIESTE (1924). Higher commercial sch., f. by Baron Pasquale Revoltella 1877. Inst. eco. and business admin. 1920. Univ. degli studi economici e commerciali (cat. B 1924). Univ. degli Studi, fac. law and pol. sc. 1938, naval. eng. 1942, lettere e filosofia 1943. THESSALONIKI (1925). Law sch. 1907–12. Greek univ. 1925. Fac. philos. 1926, law and eco. 1927/29, math. and sc. 1928, agr. and forestry 1937, theol., med. 1941/42. READING (1926). Univ. Extension College, set up to provide Oxford extension lectures in science and arts 1892. Reading College 1898. Univ. College 1902. Univ., fac. letters, science, agr. and horticulture 1926. SAMARKAND (1933). State Univ. of Uzbekistan, fac. med., eco., physics and math., chem., sc. and biology, humanities 1933. AARHUS (1934). Private Univ., subsidized by city and state 1928. Univ. status, fac. humanities, med., law and eco. 1934. ALMA-ATA (1934). Cossack State S. M. Kirow Univ., fac. chem., physics, biology 1934. SALAMANCA Univ. Pontificia (1940). Fac. theol., canon law. other important institutions of higher learning BRAUNSCHWEIG, Tech. (1745), Collegium Carolinum for the study of technics and science 1745 (military academy during the French wars), restored 1814; dep. eng., trade and humanities, Herzogliche Polytechnische Hochschule 1862, Technische Hochschule Carolo-Wilhelmina 1877, graduation rights 1900, dep. aeronautics 1936. 691

¨ Walter Ruegg ´ ´ STIAVNICA, ˇ SCHEMNIZ/SELMECBANYA BANSKA Min. (1763), ´ Sch. of min. at Schemnitz/Selmecbanya 1735, Academy of min. 1770, Academy of min. and forestry 1836, Royal Hungarian college of min. and forestry, dep. min., non-ferrous metallurgy, iron and steel eng., mechanical eng., architecture, forestry; disbandment of the College, min., metallurgy and forestry transferred to Sopron and then to Miskolc, while non-Hungarian elements remained as a professional school 1919/20. FREIBERG, Min. (1765), Saxonian Academy of Min. 1765, Technische Hochschule 1899, doctoral degrees 1905. ST PETERSBURG, Min. (1773), Mining sch. 1773, Mining Inst. 1834, reorganized 1866. VIENNA, Vet. (1777), Pferdekuren- und Operationsschule (sch. of equine med. and surgery) 1765, (teaching) vet. hospital 1777, univ. dep. of ¨ vet. 1812; autonomous 1852, K. K. Militar-Tierarznei-Institut und ¨ Tierarztliche Hochschule (military vet. inst. and vet. Hochschule) 1897, ¨ graduation rights 1908, Tierarztliche Hochschule 1919. COPENHAGEN, Vet./agr. (1777), Private vet. college 1773, royal charter in 1777, Kongelige Veterinaer- og Landbohøjskole 1858, fac. basic science, dairy and food science 1921. KASSA/KASCHAU/KOSICE, Law (1777); Studium generale 1657, Universitas Cassoviensis 1660, Academie regia, chairs in law and philosophy 1777, Royal Law Academy 1850, closed 1919. ¨ HANOVER, Vet. (1778), Tier-Arzneischule 1778, Tierarztliche Hochschule 1887, doctoral degree 1910. ´ PARIS, Tech. (1794), Ecole Centrale des Travaux Publics 1794. ´ PARIS, Tech. (1795), Bureau des dessinateurs 1747, Ecole des ponts et ´ chauss´ees 1775, Ecole nationale des ponts et chauss´ees 1794/95. ´ PARIS, Tech. (1795), Ecole polytechnique. ´ PARIS, Phil. (1794), Ecole normale (School for higher teacher training) 1794, closed after four months of tumultuous activities 1794, replaced by a Pensionnat normal (housing candidates for professorships study´ ing at the Coll`ege de France, the Ecole polytechnique, the Mus´eum d’histoire naturelle) 1808, closed and replaced by regional ecoles nor´ ´ ´ males 1822, Ecole pr´eparatoire 1826, Ecole Normale 1830 (Ecole Normale Sup´erieure 1845), associated with the university for academic examinations 1903; Ecole normale sup´erieure de jeunes filles in S´evres 1881. ST PETERSBURG, Tech. (1797), Orthodox Seminary. KASAN, Theol. (1798). Orthodox Seminary. MOSCOW, Med. (1798); schools in military hospitals 1708, 1733, Academy med. and surgery 1798, dep. med., pharm., vet. 1808. 692

A chronological list BERLIN, Tech. (1799). Bauakademie 1799. Technische Schule 1821, Gewerbeinstitut 1827, – akademie 1866, Technische Hochschule 1879; Habilitation rights conferred 1884, doctoral degrees 1899; incorporating min. academy (f. 1770) 1913/16; organized along fac. lines 1922, fac. general sc. (including math., physics, eco.), civil, mechanical (including electrotech., naval aerotech.) eng. KALINKIN, Med. (1802), med. -surgery sch. 1783, Imp. medico-surgical Inst. 1802. ST PETERSBURG, Agr. (1803), Imperial Inst. of Forestry 1803. BAMBERG, Theol. (1803), theol. Academy with univ. rights 1648, Hochs¨ Philosophie. u. Theologie 1803, with sch. med. -surgery 1809; chule fur Philos. -Theol. Hochschule f. trainee priests 1923, closed 1939–45. ST PETERSBURG, Med. (1808), two med. sch. in military hospitals 1733, Academy med. and surgery 1798, opened 1800, Imperial Academy 1808, dep. med., pharm., vet. ST PETERSBURG, Tech. (1809), Inst. road and water eng. Emperor Alexander I 1809, reorganized 1842, special Inst. 1866. PISA, Phil. (1810), Scuola Normale (Superiore) adopting the Paris model 1810, suppressed 1813, re-established 1846, reorganized 1928/33. MOSCOW, Eco. (1810), Academy of commercial sc., f. by Society of Moscow wholesale traders and merchants. GRAZ, Tech. (1811), Joanneum f. by Archduke Johann for edu. in natural and technical sc. 1811, Technische Hochschule 1864, sch. civil, mechanical eng., chem., agr. 1871/2, K. u. K. Technische Hochschule 1874, graduation rights 1901. ˇ EPERJES/PRESOV, Theol. (1811), Studium generale 1665, Law academy of the reformed church 1811, Academy of ref. theol., associating fac. law and public administration, teacher-training college 1873, Academy suppressed 1919. MOSCOW, Theol. (1814), Hellenic-Slavonic theol. sch. 1685, SlavonicGreek-Latin Academy 1701, Orthodox Seminary 1814. PRAGUE, Tech. (1815), Professorships in military and civil eng., associated with a chair of eng. at the univ. 1717, Polytechnic at the univ. along ´ polytechnique 1806, independent 1815, reorganized the lines of the Ec. 1829–32, divided into sections 1836; German and Czech Polytechnics 1868; Deutsche Technische Hochschule 1879 (suppressed 1945) and Ceska´ vysoka´ sˇ kola technicka´ 1879; Czech Polytechnic 1920, closed 1939–45. MOSCOW, Phil. (1815), Lazarow Inst. Oriental languages 1815. VIENNA, Tech. (1815), Polytechnisches. Inst. 1815, Technische Hochschule 1872, dep. civil, mechanical eng., architecture, chem., math. and physics (fac. 1928), graduation rights 1901.

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¨ Walter Ruegg WARSAW, Agr. (1816), Inst. at Marimont near Warsaw 1816, transferred to Nowaja Alexandrija 1861. STOCKHOLM, Med. (1816), Collegium medicorum, right to examine medical practitioners (later also to teach) 1663, Kongliga Karolinska Medico-Chirurgiska Institutet 1810, Karolinska Institutet 1816. ´ des mines, 1783, closed 1790, re-established PARIS, Min. (1816), Ec. 1794, sch. for iron and coal in Geiserlautern (Saarland), for copper ´ des mines in Paris 1816. and salt in Pesey (Savoy) 1802–1814/5; Ec. HOHENHEIM, Agr. (1818), Royal College of agr. edu. and research 1818, Academy 1847, Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule 1904. KIEV, Theol. (1819), Sch. of Slavonic, Latin and Polish Writ f. 16th c., Orthodox seminary 1819. KARLSRUHE, Tech. (1825), Weinbrenner’s Bauschule (Sch. of architecture 1800), Tulla’s Ingenieurschule (Sch. of eng. 1808), Polytechnic along the lines of the Ecole polytechnique 1825, Polytechnische Hochschule 1865, Technische Hochschule, dep. architecture, civil, mechanical, electrical eng., chemistry (incl. pharm.), general edu. 1885, graduation rights 1889. BREDA, Mil. (1826), Military school 1826, closed 1830–36, transferred temporarily to Bandoeng (Dutch East Indies) 1940. STOCKHOLM, Tech. (1827), Modeellkammaren and Mekaniska skolan (vocational schools) 1798, Academy 1813, Kungliga Teknologiska ¨ Institutet 1827, Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan 1876, graduation rights 1927. DRESDEN, Tech. (1828), Eng. academy 1742, Artillery sch. 1766, Military academy 1816, Technical college 1828, Polytechnische Schule 1851, Polytechnikum 1871, Technische Hochschule, dep. architecture, civil, mechanical, chemical eng., general sc. 1890, graduation rights 1900, incorporating teacher-training college 1924, college forestry (f. 1786) incorporated as faculty 1941. DEN HELDER, Mil. (1829), Royal Naval Inst. at Medemblik 1829, attached to Military Academy at Breda 1850–54, transferred to Willemsoord near Den Helder 1854, closed 1940–45. STUTTGART, Tech. (1829), Military academy 1773, Hohe Karls-Schule 1775, univ. status 1781; suppressed 1794, United grammar, modern and vocational school 1829, Polytechnic 1840, Technische Hochschule, dep. architecture, civil, mechanical, chemical eng., math. and sc., general edu. 1876, inst. electrical eng., physics and chemistry 1895, X-rays 1922. COPENHAGEN, Tech. (1829), Danmarks Tekniske Højskole 1829. HANOVER, Tech. (1831), Gewerbeschule (secondary level vocational ¨ school) 1828, Hohere Gewerbeschule 1831, Polytechnische Schule

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A chronological list 1847, Technische Hochschule 1879, doctoral degrees 1899, fac. general sc., civil, mechanical eng. 1922. NAMUR, Phil. (1831), Coll`ege (1831) and Fac. univ. Notre Dame de la Paix (SJ), fac. philos. et lettres, sc. 1833, candidature degree 1929. MOSCOW, Tech. (1832), Polytechnic, dep. mechanics, technology 1832, Moskovskoje Techniceskoje ucilisce 1912, Moskovskoje vysscheje techni ceskoje ucilisce 1920. MADRID, Tech. (1835), Escuela de ingenieros de caminos, canales y puertos. MADRID, Min. (1835), Escuela de ingenieros de minas. CHEMNITZ, Tech. (1836), Sch. technical drawing 1796, Kgl. Gewerbeschule (Royal crafts school) 1836, Gewerbeakademie 1900, Staatliche ¨ Technik 1929. Akademie fur LEOBEN, Min. (1840), Mining academy at Vordernberg 1840, at Leoben 1849, Bergakademie 1861, Montanistische Hochschule, graduation rights 1904, affiliated to Technische Hochschule Graz 1935–37. WARSAW, Vet. (1840), Vet. Inst. 1840, transferred to Nowtscherkassk 1915. DELFT, Tech. (1842), Royal academy for civil eng. 1842, Royal polytechnic, dep. technology, civil, structural, naval, mechanical and min. eng. 1864, Technische Hogeschool 1905. ST PETERSBURG, Theol. (1842), Roman Catholic Seminary transferred from Wilna to St Petersburg. ST PETERSBURG, Tech. (1842), sch. architecture 1842, Inst. civil eng., dep. architecture, civil eng. 1882. MADRID, Tech. (1844), Escuela de Arquitectura. ´ LEMBERG/LWOW, Tech. (1844), Realschule (Modern sch.), the first in Galicia 1817, divided into technical and commercial disciplines 1835, Academy 1844, Technische Hochschule 1872, suppressed 1939. MOSCOW, Agr. (1845), Academy of agr. at Petrovskoje Razumowskoje 1845, agr. inst., dep. agr., hydrotechnics 1891, fisheries 1913. ´ VILLAVICIOSA DE ODON, Min. (1846), Escuela de ingenieros de montes 1846, transferred to El Escorial 1870. DORPAT/TARTU, Vet. (1848), Inst. vet. 1848. BRNO, Tech. (1849), (German) Polytechnic 1849, Technisches lnstitut 1867/70, K. u. K. Deutsche Technische Hochschule, sch. civil, mechanical, chemical eng., general studies 1873, suppressed 1945, Czech Polytechnic 1899, suppressed 1939–45. CHARKOW, Vet. (1850), Inst. vet 1850. MADRID, Tech. (1850), Escuela de ingenieros industriales. SALZBURG, Tech. (1850), Univ. 1620/5, Lyzeum 1810, sections of philos. (suppressed 1850), Tech., turned into fac. 1850, closed 1938–45.

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¨ Walter Ruegg VIENNA, Theol. (1850), Protestant theol. college 1819/20, fac. 1850, graduation rights 1861. BUDAPEST, Vet. (1851), chair in vet. at med. univ. fac. 1786; autonomous status 1851, Hungarian vet. academy 1890, integrated into Polytechnic Univ. 1934. ANTWERP, Eco. (1852), Institut sup´erieur de commerce de l’Etat. KAMPEN, Theol. (1854), Reformiert-theol. Hochschule (Reformed theological college) 1854. ¨ ZURICH, Tech. (1855), Eidgenossische Polytechnische Schule (Eidgen¨ ossiche Technische Hochschule 1911), dep. (Abteilungen) architecture, civil, mechanical, chem. eng., forestry general education 1855, dep. physics and mathematics 1866, agr. 1871, military sc. 1899, pharmacy 1908, electrical eng. 1935 (all dep. excepting ‘general education’ since doctoral degrees 1908/9). ARANJUEZ, Agr. (1855), Escuela general de agricultura 1855, transferred to Madrid 1869. BUDAPEST, Tech. (1856), Institutum geometrico-hydrotechnicum, 1782, vocational sch. 1846, Joseph Polytechnicum 1856, Polytechnic Joseph ´ Univ. 1871, Polytechnic and economic Univ. Jozsef Palatin 1934, suppressed 1945. MILAN, Tech. (1862), Reale Istituto tecnico superiore, incorporating Scuola di applicazione per ingegneri cvili 1862, section of architecture 1865 (fac. 1933), sch. electrical eng. 1897, research laboratory on paper 1897, on textiles, on fuel 1908, R. Politecnico di Milano 1923. RIGA, Tech. (1862), Polytechnic Inst. Emperor Alexander II along the lines of German Technische Hochschule, dep. agr., chem., civil mechanical eng., architecture, trade 1862, teaching in German, from 1870 in Russian until 1917, incorporated into Latvian univ. 1919, suppressed 1939, Riga Polytechnic 1944/45. ST PETERSBURG, Tech. (1862), technical sch. 1828, Technological Inst. Emperor Nicholas I, dep. mechanics, chem. 1862. CLAUSTHAL, Min. (1864), Sch. for higher officials supervising the Oberharz mines 1775, reorganized as min. school 1810, divided into Bergschule and Bergakademie 1864, the latter granted graduation rights 1897, university status 1912, suppressed 1939–45. ST PETERSBURG, Agr. (1864), agr. inst. ‘Gory Gorezklije’ at Gorki 1843, transferred to St Petersburg 1864. ST PETERSBURG, Phil. (1867), Imperial Inst. History and Philosophy (college for teacher training) 1867. VENICE, Eco. (1868), Studium generale 1470 remaining ineffective because of Padua, Istituto universitario di economia e comercio e di lingue e letterature straniere 1868, Istituto superiore di architectura 1926.

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A chronological list ´ PARIS, Phil. (1868), Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, sections in history and philology, math., physics and chem., natural sc. (the latter three only nominal) 1868, religion 1886. MUNICH, Tech. (1868), Central polytechnic 1827, Polytechnische Schule 1868, dep. general science, architecture, civil, mechanical eng., chem., agr. 1872, Bayerische Technische Hochschule 1877, graduation rights 1901, incorporating Handelshochschule (Trade academy, f. 1910), as dep. ec. 1922, Brewing and agr. school (f. 1803 in Weihenstephan) as dep. brewing 1928. AACHEN, Tech. (1870), Polytechnic, f. thanks to David Hansemann 1865, opened 1870, Technische Hochschule, dep. (Abteilungen) architecture, civil, mechanical eng., chem., min. and metallurgy, math., natural and general sc. 1879/80, graduation rights 1899, lectures suspended 1939/40. ´ libre des sc. politiques. PARIS, Pol. (1872), Private f. Ec. VIENNA, Agr. (1872), Sch. forestry in Mariabrunn 1813, Hochschule ¨ Bodenkultur (culture of the soil) in Vienna 1872, incorporating fur agr. section of Mariabrunn sch. as department 1878, graduation rights 1906. VIENNA, Phil. (1873), Oriental Academy 1867, Inst. of oriental languages (Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Serbian, Russian, Bulgarian) 1873, Public Inst. of oriental languages (including Modern Greek, Albanian, Romanian, Spanish) 1920. KASAN, Vet. (1873), Vet. inst. 1873. NESHIN (Ukraine), Phil. (1875), Gymnasium, f. by Prince Bezborodko 1805, Lyzeum 1832, Historical-philosophical Inst. (status of univ. fac.) 1875. DARMSTADT, Tech. (1877), Building sch. 1812, merged with Modern sch. 1821, Higher vocational sch. 1836, Polytechnic 1868, Hessische Technische Hochschule 1877, graduation rights 1899. WAGENINGEN, Agr. (1877), Rijkslandbouwschool (State agr. sch.) 1877, dep. agr., colonial agr. 1880, forestry 1885, colonial forestry 1890, State college agr. and forestry 1896. State college of agr., horticulture and forestry 1904, Rijkslandbouwhogeschool (agr. Univ.) 1918. CHARKOW, Tech. (1885), Inst. technology Emperor Alexander III, dep. mechanics, chem., 1885. ATHENS, Tech. (1887), Sunday-school for technical education of foremen in building construction 1836, section of Fine Arts college 1843, Sch. industrial arts, fac. civil eng., mechanics, geometry 1887, reorganized, fac. architecture, chem., topography, mechanical, electrical, civil eng. 1915, Techn. Univ. 1929.

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¨ Walter Ruegg NAPLES, Phil. (1888), Collegio dei Cinesi, f. by Matteo Ripa, former missionary in China, 1708–23, recognized by papal bull 1732. Istituto universitario orientale 1888. ST PETERSBURG, Tech. (1891), technical sch. of Post and Telegramme Office 1868, Electrotech. Inst., dep. electrotechnics, electromechanics, telegraph and telephone technology 1891. LONDON, Tech. (1893), City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education 1878, Finsbury Technical School 1884, Central Technical College 1893. PRIBRAM, Min. (1894), Min. sch. 1849, univ. status as Bergakademie ´ 1894, Montanistische Hochsch. 1904, Vysoka´ skola banska v Pr´ıbrami 1919, suppressed 1939–45. MOSCOW, Tech. (1896), Imp. Sch. of Eng. (civil eng.) 1896. SALFORD, Tech. (1896), Working Men’s College 1858, Royal Salford Technical Institute 1896. TOMSK, Tech. (1896), Inst. Technology Emp. Nicholas II, opened 1900, dep. mechanics, chem. 1900, min. 1901, road construction 1902. ST GALLEN, Eco. (1896), Academy of commerce, transports and administration 1896, Handelshochschule 1911, graduation rights 1938. ST PETERSBURG, Med. (1897), med. training for women 1872, closed because of political unrest 1887, Semi-state Med. Inst. for Women 1897, State Inst., med. fac. rights 1904. KIEV, Tech. (1898), Polytechnical Inst. Emperor. Alexander II, dep. eng., mechanics, chem., agr. 1898. BRUSSELS, Phil. (1898), the Catholic institute for philosophy (1858) becomes Fac. univ. Saint-Louis 1898. LEIPZIG, Eco. (1898), Handels-Hochschule, f. by Chamber of commerce 1898, incorporated 1920. VIENNA, Eco. (1898), Handelshochschule 1872, suppressed 1877, K. u. ¨ Welthandel (World Trade K. Exportakademie 1898, Hochschule fur College) 1919, graduation rights 1930. ¨ VIENNA, Pol. (1898), Akademie der morgenlandischen Sprachen (Academy of Near Eastern languages) for Foreign Office staff 1754, ¨ Politik und Konsularakademie 1898, Internationale Lehranstalt fur Volkswirtschaft (International Inst. of pol. sc. and eco.) 1920. WARSAW, Tech. (1898), Polytechnical prep. Sch. 1826, suppressed by Russian authorities like all other sch. in Warsaw 1832, Polytechnic 1898, Politechnika Warszwska, dep. agr., chem., civil, mechanical eng. 1915, electrotechnical eng. 1920, geodesy 1921, construction eng. 1933, Polytechnic closed 1939, gradually opened as State College of Technology, dep. construction-, machine-, electrical- eng., chemistry 1941/42, closed, then destroyed 1944/45.

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A chronological list JEKATERINOSLAW/ SWERDLOWSK, Min. (1899), Wysscheje gornoje Ucilisce (College of mining and foundry) 1899. MONS, Eco. (1899), Institut sup´erieur de commerce et de sc. consulaires 1896; becomes Fac. univ. 1899; univ. statute 1921. ST PETERSBURG, Tech. (1902), Polytechnic Inst. Emperor Peter the Great, dep. metallurgy, naval eng., electromechanics, eco. 1902, civil eng., mechanics 1907. MANCHESTER, Tech. (1902), Manchester Mechanics’ Institution 1824, Technical sch. 1883, Manchester Municipal Sch. (College 1918) of Technology 1902. MILAN, Eco. (1902), Universita` Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, private university, f. by Ferdinando Bocconi 1902, graduation rights 1906. POZNAN, Phil. (1903), Royal Academy for further scientific education. DANZIG, Tech. (1904), Technische Hochschule 1904, closed 1944–45. BERLIN, Eco. (1906), Handelshochschule, f. by Berlin corporation of merchants 1906, incorporated as Wirtschaftshochschule 1926. MOSCOW, Eco. (1906), Commercial Academy of the Society for the Promotion of Commercial Knowledge, dep. trade, technology, eco. 1906. TURIN, Tech. (1906), Scuola di applicazione per gli ingegneri 1859, Museo industriale for the promotion of technical education 1862, Istituto di cultura tecnica superiore 1906, sch. eng. 1923 (fac. 1935), R. Politecnico 1935, incorporating inst. architecture as 2nd faculty 1935. MONTAUBAN, Theol. (1907), Reformed theol. Academy 1598, closed 1685, theol. fac. of Univ. Toulouse 1808, Fac. libre de th´eol. protestante 1907. ¨ MANNHEIM, Eco. (1907), Hohere Handelsakademie 1757, closed 1817, ¨ Stadtische Handelshochschule 1907, approved 1908 by the Grand Duke, graduation rights 1929, incorporated into Heidelberg Univ. 1933–34. NOWOTCHERKASAK, Tech. (1907), Don Polytechnical Inst. Alexej, dep. mechanics, chem., min., agr. HELSINKI, Tech. (1908), Technical sch. 1847, polytechnical sch. 1872, ¨ Polytekniska Institutet 1879, Tekniska Hogskolan 1908. ¨ STOCKHOLM, Eco. (1909), Private Handelshogskolan i Stockholm 1909. ISTANBUL, Tech. (1909), Imperial naval college eng. 1773, Civilian Technical Sch. 1883, Higher Sch. eng., dep. construction, highway and railway eng., hydraulics, architecture 1909, electrical eng. 1934, mechan¨ ical eng. 1940, Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, fac. architecture, civil, mechanical, electrical eng. 1944. MOSCOW, Med. (1909), Moscow Medical Sch. for Women, private, but recognized by the state.

699

¨ Walter Ruegg CHARCOW, Med. (1909), Charkow Medical Sch. for Women (state institution). BRESLAU, Tech. (1910), dep. mechanical and electrotechnical eng., chem. and min., general sc. ¨ TRONDHEIM, Tech. (1910), Norges tekniske hogskole. WOLOGDA, Agr. (1911), Inst. of dairy industry for women. HELSINKI, Eco. (1911), Private commercial sch. 1898, teaching in Finnish, Helsinki sch. eco., in part financed by the state 1911. ISTANBUL, Tech. (1912), Private Robert College, chartered by State of New York for liberal arts studies 1863, Sch. eng., dep. civil, mechanical and electrical eng. 1912. KESZTHELY, Agr. (1912), Agr. sch. 1797, suppressed 1848, National sch. forestry 1865, Academy 1906, univ. status 1912. ROTTERDAM, Eco. (1913), Nederlandsche Handelshoogeschool, f. by Rotterdam Association of Higher Business Studies 1913, recognized by law as Nederlandsche Economische Hoogeschool, fac. eco. 1937, univ. status 1939. WORONESH, Agr. (1914). MURCIA, Law (1915), Univ. conferring baccalaureate 1783, ceased to exist c. 1804; univ. with fac. law and prep. classes 1915. ISTANBUL, Eco. (1915), Higher trade school in Babiali 1883, then in Beyazit, reorganized 1915 on the lines of an Ecole de hautes e´ tudes commerciales. ST PETERSBURG, Tech. (1915), Higher technological studies for women 1906, Polytechnic, dep. architecture, construction, electromechanics, chem. 1915. CHARCOW, Eco. (1916), Commercial Academy, f. by the Society of Charcow Merchants for higher commercial training 1912, Public inst., dep. trade, ec. 1916. JEKATERINOSLAW/DNJEPROPETROWSK, Tech. (1916), Private Polytechnic, f. by A. A. Press and. G. Rabinovitsch for the Jewish population, dep. mechanics, electrotechnics 1916. MOSCOW, Tech. (1916), Moscow polytechnic for women (private, but state controlled) civil eng. ROSTOW, Med. (1916), med. training for women 1906, Med. Sch. 1916. KIEW, Med. (1916), med. training for women 1906, Med. Sch. 1916. UTRECHT, Vet. (1917), State Vet. Sch. (Rijksveeartsenijschool) 1820, Univ. status 1917. PRAGUE, Theol. (1919), Autonomous Hus Fac. Prot. theol. 1919, closed 1939–45. BUCHAREST, Tech. (1920), Sch. eng. 1851, private sch. civil eng. 1861, State sch. 1881, Polytechnic 1920, incorporating Sch. architecture (f. 1897) as fac. 1938. 700

A chronological list JAROSLAWL, Law (1920), Private Jaroslawl Sch. Higher Learning 1803, Demidov Lyzeum 1833, Demidov Lyzeum with fac. rights 1874, Univ. 1920. ¨ Leibesubungen ¨ COLOGNE, Sport (1920), Deutsche Hochschule fur (gymnastics) 1920, suppressed 1934. MONS, Min. (1920), Min. sch. of the Hainaut 1837, Fac. polytechnique 1920. NAPLES, Eco. (1920), Istituto superiore navale, f. by Chamber of Trade, Industry and Agr. 1920, Istituto universitario navale 1931. ´ libre SOFIA, Eco. (1920), Private Svoboden Univ. along the lines of the Ec. des sc. po. in Paris, linked to Inst. balkanique du Proche Orient, fac. diplomatic and consular affairs, financial administration, commerce 1920; higher state sch. for financial and administrative science 1940. ´ de commerce Saint-Ignace (Jesuits) 1852; ANTWERP, Eco. (1921), Ec. right to grant degrees 1901; extended to licence en sc. commerciales, consulaires et maritimes, university statute 1921. BUCHAREST, Agr. (1921), Sch. agr. 1854, univ. status 1921. BAMBERG, Theol. (1923), Theol. academy with univ. status 1648, College, dep. philos., theol. 1803, sch. med. and surgery 1809, Philos. -Theol. Hochschule for trainee priests 1923, closed 1939–45. DILLINGEN, Theol. (1923), Diocesan Collegium literarum 1549, studium generale 1553, first Jesuit univ. in Germany 1564, Lyzeum 1803, Philos. Theol. Hochschule 1923. ¨ DUSSELDORF, Med. (1923), Med. sch. 1708, Collegium anatomicum chirurgicum 1747, fac. med. within Academy of Sc., created by the French 1807, suppressed 1815, Academy of practical med. 1907, univ. status 1923, graduation rights 1935. ¨ EICHSTATT, Theol. (1924), Episcopal seminary Collegium Willibaldinum 1563, suppressed 1602, Jesuit seminary 1619, suppressed 1807, ¨ episcopal seminary 1837, Lyzeum 1843, Bischofliche Philos. -Theol. Hochschule 1924. PERUGIA, Phil. (1926), Univ. italiana per gli stranieri. BIRMINGHAM, Tech. (1927), The Birmingham and Midland Inst. 1854, Municipal Technical Inst. 1895, Central Technical College 1927. ATHENS, Agr. (1929), Higher school of agr. 1910, university status 1929. LISBON, Tech. (1930), Sch. vet. 1830, Higher inst. agr. 1852, Higher inst. eco. and finance 1913, Higher inst. eng., Inst. agr. 1911, Universidade T´ecnica de Lisboa 1930. ROME, Theol. (1931), Theol. and philos. fac. of the Gregoriana devoted to the training of Roman priests 1773, fac. civil and canon law 1853; transferred to the Lateran 1913, Ateneo del Pontificio Seminario Romano Maggiore 1931. 701

¨ Walter Ruegg POSZONY/PRESSBURG/BRATISLAVA, Theol. (1934), Lutheran Lyceum 1606, Ev. and theol. academy 1881, State fac. Prot. theol. 1934, incorporated into the Slovak univ. at Bratislava 1940. MAASTRICHT, Theol. (1934), Jesuit sch. theol. at Culemborg 1850, transferred to Maastricht 1852, pontifical graduation rights 1932, Jesuit fac. theol. Collegium Canisium 1934, co-operating with the philos. fac. in Nijmegen. NIJMEGEN, Phil. (1934), Lectures in philos. (S. J) 1845, philos. fac. at Velp 1866, at Nijmegen 1929, pontifical graduation rights 1932, Collegium Berchmanianum 1934. ´ libre des sc. pol., e´ co. et soc. 1930, ATHENS, Pol. (1936), Private Ec. State sch. pol. sc., univ. status, sections of pol. and historical sc., eco. and soc. sc. 1936/37. SVISTOV, Eco. (1936), Higher sch. commerce Dimiter Apostolov Cenov, based on the model of the Berlin Handelshochschule, dep. financial administration and banking, co-operatives and insurance. TRNAVA, Theol. (1936), Cath. theol. fac. 1936, incorporated into Slovak (=Comenius) univ. at Bratislava 1940. IASI Tech. (1937), dep. chem. and electricity 1912, Institutul Politechnic ‘Gheorghe Asachi’ 1937. BRATISLAVA, Tech. (1939), Slovak technical univ. in Kosice 1937, not opened, transferred to Bratislava 1939. TILBURG, Eco. (1939), Private Cath. teacher-training college in Amsterdam 1912, transferred to s’Hertogenbosch 1913, associated with local Higher commercial sch. 1916, both transferred to Tilburg 1918, Cath. College eco. 1938, univ. status 1939. FULDA, Theol. (1939), Pontifical seminary succeeding the monastic sch., f. in the 8th c., 1548, academic Lyzeum 1803, episcopal seminary with fac. philos. 1814, closed 1874–86, Philos.–Theol. Hochschule 1939. SAROM, Theol. (1940), Theol. Inst. in Turin 1904, Pontificio Ateneo Salesiano 1940. ´ d’administration at the Coll`ege de France 1848, PARIS, Pol. (1944/45), Ec ´ nationale d’administration 1944/45. Ec. a l p h a b e t i c a l l i s t o f tow n s w i t h i m p o rta n t institutions of higher learning Aachen, Tech. (1870) Aix-En-Provence (1409) Aarhus (1934) Alcala´ De Henares (1499) Alma-Ata (1934) Aberdeen (1495) Amsterdam (1877); Free Univ. Åbo/Turku (1917) Agram/Zagreb (1869) (1880) 702

Alphabetical list Angers (1875) Antwerp, Eco. (1921) Aranjuez, Agr. (1855) Athens (1837); Tech. (1887); Agr. (1929); Pol. (1936) Baku (1919) Bamberg, Theol. (1803); Theol. (1923) ˇ Banska´ Stiavnica, see Schemnitz Barcelona (1450) Bari (1923) Basle (1459) Belfast (1845) Belgrade (1905) Berlin, Tech. (1799); (1810); Eco. (1906) Berne (1834) Besanc¸on (1691) Birmingham (1900); Tech. (1927) Bologna (end 12th c.) Bonn (1818) Bordeaux (1441) Bratislava/Poszony/Pressburg (1465); Theol. (1934); Tech. (1939) Braunschweig, Tech. (1745) Breda, Military (1826) Breslau/Wroclaw (1702); Tech. (1910) Bristol (1909) Brno (1919); Tech. (1849) Brussels (1834); Phil. (1898). Bucharest (1864); Tech. (1920); Agr. (1921) Budapest (1395); Vet. (1851); Tech. (1856) Burgo de Osma (1555) Caen (1432) Cagliari (1606) Cambridge (1209–25) Camerino (1727) Cardiff (1893) Catania (1444)

Charkow (1804); Vet. (1850); Tech. (1885); Med. (1909); Eco. (1916) Chemnitz, Tech. (1836) Christiania/Oslo (1811) Clausthal, Min. (1864) Clermont-Ferrand (1805) Cluj see Kolosvar Coimbra (1308) Cologne (1388); Cologne, Sport (1920) Copenhagen (1475); Vet./Agr. (1777); Tech. (1829) Corfu (1823) Cracow (1364/1400) Czernowitz (1875) Danzig, Tech. (1904) Darmstadt, Tech. (1877) Debreczen (1912) Delft, Tech. (1842) Den Helder, Mil. (1829) Dijon (1722) Dillingen, Theol. (1923) Dorpat/Tartu (1632); Vet. (1848) Douai (1559) Dresden, Tech. (1828) Dublin, Trinity College (1592); Univ. of Ireland (1854) Durham (1832) ¨ Dusseldorf, Med. (1923) Edinburgh (1582/83) ¨ Theol. (1924) Eichstatt, Eperjes/Preˇsov, Theol. (1811) Erewan (1920) Erfurt (1379) Erlangen (1743) Escorial, El (1587) Fermo (1585) Ferrara (1391) Florence (1349) Franeker (1585) Frankfurt am Main (1914) Freiberg, Min. (1765) 703

¨ Walter Ruegg Freiburg im Breisgau (1457) Fribourg (1889) Fulda, Theol. (1939) Geneva (1872) Genoa (1471) Ghent (1816/17) Giessen (1607) Glasgow (1451) ¨ Gottingen (1737) Granada (1531) Graz (1585/86); Tech. (1811) Greifswald (1456) Grenoble (1339) Groningen (1612) Halle (1693) Hamburg (1919) Hanover, Vet. (1778); Tech. (1831) Heidelberg (1385) Helsingfors/Helsinki (1640); Tech. (1908); Eco. (1911) Hohenheim, Agr. (1818) Huesca (1354) Iasi (1860); Tech. (1937) Innsbruck (1668) Irkutsk (1918) Istanbul (1900); Eco. (1915); Tech. (1909); Tech. (1912) Jaroslawl, Law (1920) Jekaterinoslaw/Swerdlowsk (1920); Min. (1899) Jekaterinoslaw/Dnjepropetrowsk (1918); Tech. (1916) Jena (1558) Kalinkin, Med. (1802) Kampen, Theol. (1854) Karlsruhe, Tech. (1825) Kasan (1804); Theol. (1798); Vet. (1873) Kassa/Kaschau/Kosice, Law (1777) Kaunas/Kowno (1922) Keszthely, Agr. (1912)

Kiel (1665) Kiev (1834); Tech. (1898); Theol. (1819); Med. (1916) Kolosvar/Klansenburg/Cluj (1892) ¨ Konigsberg (1544) Lausanne (1890) Leeds (1904) Leiden (1575) Leipzig (1409); Eco. (1898) ´ (1661); Tech. Lemberg/Lwow (1844) Leningrad, see St Petersburg Leoben, Min. (1840) Li`ege (1816) Lille (1817); Lyon (1875) Lisbon (1290); Tech. (1930) Liverpool (1881) Ljubljana (1810) London (1836); Tech. (1893) Louvain (1425) Lublin. Cath. Univ. (1920) Lund (1668) Lyon (1808); (1875) Maastricht, Theol. (1934) Macerata (1540) Madrid (1836); Min. (1835); Tech. (1835); Tech. (1844); Tech. (1850) Manchester (1851); Tech. (1902) Mannheim, Eco. (1907) Marburg (1527) Messina (1548) Milan (1556); (1920); Tech. (1862); Eco. (1902) Minsk (1921) Modena (1772/73) Mons, Eco. (1899); Min. (1920) Montauban, Theol. (1907) Montpellier (early 13th c.) Moscow (1755); (1918); (1919); (1921); (1921); Med. (1798); 704

Alphabetical list Eco. (1810); Theol. (1814); Phil. (1815); Tech. (1832); Agr. (1845); Tech. (1896); Econ. (1906); Med. (1909); Tech. (1916) Munich (1826); Tech. (1868) ¨ Munster (1629) Murcia (1915); Law (1915) Namur, Phil. (1831) Nancy (1768) Naples (1224); Phil. (1888); Eco. (1920) Neshin (Ukraine), Phil. (1875) ˆ (1909) Neuchatel Nijmegen (1923), Phil. (1934) Nisnij-Nowgorod/Gorkij (1918) Nottingham (1903) Nowotcherkasak, Tech. (1907) Odessa (1864) Olomouc (1570) ˜ Onate (1540) Orihuela (1552) Orl´eans (c. 1235) Oslo, see Christiania Osuna (1548) Oviedo (1574) Oxford (early 13th c.) Paderborn (1614/16) Padua (1222) Palermo (1578) Paris (beginning 13th c.); (1875); Phil. (1794); Tech. (1794); Tech. (1795); Min. (1816); Phil. (1868); Pol. (1872); Pol. (1944/45) Parma (1414) Pavia (1361) P´ecs (1921) Perm (1917) Perugia (1308); Phil. (1926) Petrograd, see St Petersburg Pisa (1343); Phil. (1810)

Poitiers (1431) Porto (1911) Poszony/Pressburg/Bratislava (1465); Theol. (1934); Tech. (1939) Poznan (1919), Phil. (1903) Prague (1348); Tech. (1815); Theol. (1919) Preˇsov, see Eperjes Pribram, Min. (1894) Reading (1926) Rennes (1803) Reykjavik (1911) Riga (1919); Tech. (1862) Rome (1303); Gregoriana (1556); Angelicum (1908); Theol. (1931) Rostock (1419) Rostov On The Don (1915); Med. (1916) Rotterdam, Eco. (1913) Rouen (1808) Saint Andrews (1411) Salamanca (1218/19); (1940) Salford, Tech. (1896) Salzburg (1619); Theol. (1850) Samara/Kujbyshew (1920) Samarkand (1933) Santander (1904) Santiago de Compostela (1526) Saragossa (1474) Saratow (1909) Sarom, Theol. (1940) Sassari (1617) ´ Schemnitz/Selmecbanya/Bansk a´ ˇ Stiavnica, Min. (1763) Sevilla (1505) Sheffield (1905) Siena (1246) ¨ Siguenza (1489) Smolensk (1918) Sofia (1904); Eco. (1920) St Gallen, Eco. (1896) 705

¨ Walter Ruegg St Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad (1724); (1918); (1773); Theol. (1797); Agr. (1803); Med. (1808); Tech. (1809); Tech. (1842); Tech. (1862); Agr. (1864); Phil. (1867); Tech. (1891); Med. (1897); Tech. (1902); Tech. (1915) Stockholm (1878); Med. (1816); Tech. (1827); Eco. (1909) Strasbourg (1621) Stuttgart, Tech. (1829) Svistov, Eco. (1936) Szeged (1921) Taschkent (1918) Thessaloniki (1925) Tiflis (1918) Tilburg, Eco. (1939) Toledo (1521) Tomsk (1878); Tech. (1896) Toulouse (1233); (1877) Trieste (1924) Trnava, Theol. (1936) Trondheim, Tech. (1910) ¨ Tubingen (1476) Turin (1404); Tech. (1906)

Turku (1920) Uppsala (1477) Urbino (1671) Utrecht (1636); Vet. (1917) Valencia (1500) Valladolid (end 13th c.) Valletta (1921) Venice, Eco. (1868) Vienna (1365); Vet. (1777); Tech. (1815); Theol. (1850); Agr. (1872); Phil. (1873); Pol. (1898); Eco. (1898) ´ Min. Villaviciosa De Odon, (1846) Vilnius (1578) Wageningen, Agr. (1877) Warsaw (1816); Agr. (1816); Vet. (1840); Tech. (1898); Free Polish Univ. (1919); Free Univ. of Poland (1933) Wittenberg (1502) Wladiwostok (1923) Wologda, Agr. (1911) Woronesh (1918); Agr. (1914) ¨ Wurzburg (1402) Zurich (1833); Tech. (1855)

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NAME INDEX

Abbe, Ernst (1840–1905), German physicist and entrepreneur 577 Abel-R´emusat, Jean-Pierre (1788–1832), French Sinologist 446 Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg (Baron Acton, 1834–1902), Italian-German-British historian 404, 459–62, 463, 465, 472 Adams, Herbert Baxter (1850–1901), American historian 171 Addison, Thomas (1793–1860), British physician 589 Adelung, Johann Christoph (1732–1806), German philologist 449 Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund (1903–69), German philosopher 487 Agassiz, Louis (1807–73), Swiss-born American naturalist and geologist 533 Alcenius, Otto (1838–1913), Finnish scientist 534 Alexander I (1777–1825), Russian Tsar 35, 123, 508, 558 Alexander Nikolayevich (1818–81), Russian grand duke 285 Alexander II (1818–81), Russian Tsar 67, 303, 305, 315, 335 Alexander III (1845–94), Russian Tsar 324 Alexander of Oranje-Nassau (1851–1884), prince of the Netherlands 302 Ali, Mohammed (1769–1849), viceroy of Egypt 191 Altenstein, Karl Freiherr vom Stein zum (1770–1840), Prussian Minister of Education 523 Althoff, Friedrich (1839–1908), Prussian civil servant 135–7, 581

Amp`ere, Andr´e Marie (1775–1836), French physicist 496 Andersen, Hans Christian (1805–75), Danish poet 146 Andler, Charles (1866–1933), French Germanist 328 Andrae, Tor (1885–1947), Swedish ev. theologian 445 Angelesco, Constantin I (1869–1948), Romanian Minister of Education 95 Arago, Dominique Franc¸ois (1786–1853), French astronomer and politician 153 Ard`eche, Paul Matthieu Laurent de l’ (1799–1877), French historian 280 Aristotle (384–322 BC), Greek philosopher 19, 394, 400, 449 Arndt, Ernst Moritz (1769–1860), German prose writer and poet 24, 273 Arrhenius, Svante (1859–1927), Swedish physical chemist 514 Artin Pasha, Yacoub (1842–1919), Egyptian politician and writer 191 As´ın y Palacios, Miguel (1871–1944), Spanish scholar of Islam 444 Auenbrugger, Leopold von (1722–1809), Austrian physician 549 Aulard, Franc¸ois Alphonse (1849–1928), French historian 476 ˆ Auzoux, Louis Thomas J´erome (1797–1880), French anatomist 572 Averro¨es (Ibn Ruschd, 1126–98), Muslim philosopher and scientist 400 Baader, Franz Xaver von (1765–1841), Catholic philosopher 399 Back, Rasmus (1787–1832), Danish philologist 450

707

Name index Bacon, Francis (1561–1626), British philosopher, scientist and statesman 19, 489 Baer, Karl Ernst von (1792–1876), Prussian-Estonian embryologist 527 Baeumer, Klemens (1853–1924), German philosopher 399 Baeyer, Adolf von (1835–1917), German chemist 642 Bails, Benito (1730–97), Catalonian mathematician and architect 494 Balicki, Zygmunt (1858–1916), Polish politician and writer 314 Balzac, Honor´e de (1799–1850), French poet 147 Barbusse, Henri (1873–1935), French writer 338 Bartels, Johann (1769–1836), German mathematician 509 Barth, Karl (1886–1968), Swiss ref. theologian 406, 413 Bartsch, Karl (1832–88), German philologist 433–4 Bastian, Adolf (1826–1905), German ethnologist 488–9 Bastiat, Fr´ed´eric (1801–50), French economist 485 Bateson, William (1861–1926), British biologist 537 Baudoin de Courtenay, Jan (1846–1929), Polish Slavist 452 Baur, Ferdinand Christian (1792–1860), German ev. theologian 411–12 Becker, Carl Heinrich (1876–1933), German Orientalist and minister 141–2, 348, 434–5, 445 Becker, Karl (1879–1940), German general 663 Bellini, Vincenzo (1801–35), Italian composer 30 Bello, Andr´es (1791–1865), Venezuelan scholar 180 Benecke, Georg Friedrich (1762–1844), German Germanist 429 Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832), British philosopher, economist and jurist 479, 547 Bergson, Henri (1859–1941), French philosopher 455, 477, 528 Bernard, Claude (1813–78), French physiologist 13, 18, 151, 521, 524, 528–9, 534, 566–7, 569, 571, 589 Bernoulli family, Swiss merchant family with several mathematicians and physicians (17th–18th c.) 505

Bert, Paul (1833–86), French physiologist and politician 528 Berthelot, Marcellin (1827–1907), French chemist 151 Berthollet, Claude Louis (1748–1822), French chemist 496, 514, 595 ¨ Jacob (1779–1848), French Berzelius, Jons chemist 504, 558, 566 Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (1784–1846), German astronomer 499–500 Betancourt y Molina, August´ın de (1758–1824), Spanish engineer 601–602 Bezout, Etienne (1730–83), French mathematician 150, 494 Bianchi, Tommaso (1804–34), Italian priest 30 Bichat, Xavier (1771–1802), French physician 520, 521, 522, 549 Billroth, Theodor (1829–94), German surgeon 570, 574, 581 Biot, Jean-Baptiste (1774–1862), French physicist and astronomer 150, 497, 509, 528 Bismarck, Otto von (1815–98), German statesman 298, 300, 306, 444 Blach`ere, R´egis (1900–73), French Arabist 445 Blackwell, Elisabeth (1821–1910), Anglo-American physician 585 Blainville, Henri Ducrotay de (1778–1850), French zoologist 522 Blake, William (1757–1827), British poet, artist, engraver and publisher 272 Blanqui, Louis Auguste (1805–81), French revolutionary socialist 30, 283 Bloch, Marc (1866–1944), French historian 478 Blucher von Wahlstatt, Gebhard Leberecht ¨ Furst (1742–1819), Prussian field marshal 468 Blum, L´eon (1872–1950), French statesman 338 Boas, Franz (1858–1942), German-born American anthropologist 171 Bobrikoff, Nikolai Ivanovich (1839–1904), Russian general 335–6 Bobrowski, Stefan (1841–63), Polish student leader 305 ¨ Bockh, Philipp August (1785–1867), German Classicist 15, 19, 174, 418–19, 420, 422–5, 429, 436, 451, 466 Boerhaave, Herman (1668–1738), Dutch physician 549, 551 Bohr, Niels (1885–1962), Danish physicist 515 Boissier, Gaston (1823–1908), French Latinist 428

708

Name index Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844–1906), Austrian physicist 505 Bonald, Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de (1754–1810), French political philosopher and statesman 400 Bonpland, Aim´e (1773–1858), French botanist 520 Booth, Charles (1840–1916), British sociologist and businessman 486 Bopp, Franz (1791–1867), German philologist 426, 430, 436, 450–2 Bordeu, Th´eophile de (1722–76), French physician and philosopher 551 Born, Max (1882–1970), German physicist 174, 513 Bossut, Charles (1752–68), French mathematician 596 Bothe, Walther (1891–1957), German physicist 627 Boulanger, Georges (1837–91), French general and politician 97 Bourdieu, Pierre (1930–2002), French sociologist 142, 252 Bousset, Wilhelm (1865–1920), German ev. theologian 412 Boveri, Theodor (1862–1915), German zoologist 537 Brandes, Georg (1842–1929), Danish philosopher 160, 336 Brashman, Nikolai Dmitrievich (1796–1866), Russian mathematician 511 Breasted, James Henry (1865–1935), American Egyptologist 171 Brentano, Lujo (1844–1931), German economist 136 Breul, Karl (1860–1932), German Germanist 441 Brockliss, Laurence (b. 1950), British historian 12 Brongniart, Adolphe (1801–76), French botanist 522 Brongniart, Alexandre (1770–1847), French mineralogist and geologist 522 Bronn, Heinrich (1800–62), German palaeontologist 531–2 Bronner, Franz Xaver (1758–1850), German-Swiss writer and professor 509 Broussais, Franc¸ois Joseph Victor (1772–1838), French physician 550, 552, 556 Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan (1881–1966), Dutch mathematician 513 Brown, John (1735–88), British physician 551, 552 Brown, John (1800–59), American abolitionist 150

Brown, Robert (1773–1858), British botanist 525 ¨ Brucke, Ernst von (1819–92), Austrian physiologist 524 Brugsch, Heinrich (1827–94), German Egyptologist 446 ¨ Bucheler, Franz (1837–1908), German Classicist 425 ¨ Buchner, Ludwig (1824–99), German physician and philosopher 455, 563–4, 573 Buckle, Henry Thomas (1821–62), British historian 150, 460–1 Buff, Heinrich (1805–78), German physicist 501 Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de (1707–88), French mathematician and naturalist 149, 522 Buhl, Frants (1850–1932), Danish theologian and Semitist 445 Bultmann, Rudolf (1884–1976), German ev. theologian 413 Buniakovskii, Viktor (1804–89), Russian mathematician 498, 510 Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm (1811–99), German chemist 503, 516 Buonaiuti, Ernesto (1881–1946), Italian church historian 402 Buonarotti, Filippo (1761–1837), Italian-born French revolutionary 278 Burckhardt, Jacob Christoph (1818–97), Swiss historian of art and culture 464, 468 Burdach, Karl Friedrich (1776–1847), German physiologist 559 Burdach, Konrad (1859–1936), German Germanist 431 Burkitt, Francis Crawford (1864–1935), British Orientalist 413, 443 Bury, John Bagnell (1861–1927), Irish historian 472 Butlerov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1828–86), Russian chemist 511 Butterfield, Herbert (1900–79), British historian 472 Buzzetti, Vincenzo (1777–1824), Italian theologian 402 Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord (Lord Byron, 1788–1824), British poet 282 Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georges (1757–1808), French physician 545, 548, 561, 567 Caetani, Leone (1869–1935), Italian scholar of Islam 445 Cairnes, John Elliot (1823–75), Irish economist 481

709

Name index Calmette, Albert (1863–1933), French bacteriologist 529 Canestrini, Giovanni (1835–1900), Italian zoologist 535 Cannon, Walter A. (1871–1945), American neurologist and physiologist 537 Cantor, Georg (1845–1918), German mathematician 512 Carlos III (1716–88), king of Spain 178 Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881), British historian and philosopher 469 Carnegie, Andrew (1835–1919), American industrialist and philanthropist 62 Carr-Saunders, Alexander Morris (1886–1966), British sociologist and demographer 486 Casanova Ciurana, Peregr´ın (1849–1919), Spanish anatomist 536 Casati, Gabrio (1798–1893), Italian Minister of Education 96, 118, 562 Cassell, Gustav (1866–1945), Swedish economist 483 Cassirer, Ernst (1874–1945), German philosopher 453, 455 Castelar y Ripoll, Emilio (1832–99), Spanish writer and politician 302 Castro y Pajares, Fernando de (1814–74), Spanish philosopher 302 Cattani, Giuseppina (1859–1914), Italian professor of medicine 133 Cavaignac, Godefroy (1801–45), French revolutionary 288 Cavendish, Spencer Compton, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833–1908), British politician 62 Cavendish, William, 7th Duke of Devonshire (1808–91), British university Maecenas 507 Cavour, Camillo Benso, conte di (1810–61), Italian statesman 29 Chadwick, Edwin (1800–90), British physician and social reformer 547 Challemel-Lacour, Paul Armand (1827–96), French politician and writer 69 Champollion, Jean-Franc¸ois (1790–1832), French Egyptologist 444 Chang Po-lin (Zhang Boling, 1876–1951), Chinese university founder 219 Chaptal, Jean Antoine (1756–1832), French chemist 496 Charles X (1757–1836), French King 280 Charlier, Carl (1862–1934), Swedish astronomer 517 Chateaubriand, Franc¸ois Ren´e Viscount de (1789–1848), French poet 400

Chebyshev, Pafnuty Lvovich (1821–94), Russian mathematician 510, 513 Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (1860–1904), Russian poet 132, 157 Chetverikov, Sergei S. (1880–1959), Russian geneticist 539 Chevalier, Michel (1806–79), French economist 485 Chevalier, Hippolyte Guillaume-Sulpice see Gavarni, Paul Chevreuil, Michel-Eug`ene (1786–1889), French chemist 514 Christian, G´erard Joseph (1776–1832), French engineer 607 Christoffel, Erwin Bruno (1829–1900), German mathematician 505 Chulalongkorn, Rama V. (1853–1910), king of Siam 210 Churchill, Winston (1874–1965), British statesman 484, 649 Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106–43 BC), Roman writer and politician 428 Clapeyron, Emile (1799–1864), French engineer 601–602 Clark, Austin H. (1880–1954), American zoologist 649 Clark, Jonas Gilman (1815–1900), American university founder 170–1 Clausius, Rudolf (1822–88), German physicist 505 Clebsch, Rudolf Friedrich Alfred (1833–72), German mathematician 500 Clements, Frederic Edward (1874–1945), American botanist 539 Cobet, Carolus Gabriel (1819–89), Dutch Hellenist 427–8, 445 Codreanu, Corneliu (1899–1938), Romanian politician 353–4 Coit Gilman, Daniel (1813–1908), American educator and university president 168 Colbert, Jean-Baptiste (1619–83), French statesman 442 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834), British writer 272 Collingwood, Robin George (1889–1943), British philosopher 473 Comte, Auguste (1798–1857), French philosopher 455, 461, 484–5, 521, 566 Conant, James B. (1893–1978), American educator and scientist, university president 667 Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de (1715–80), French philosopher 545 Constant, Benjamin (1767–1830), Swiss writer 30

710

Name index Correns, Carl (1864–1933), German botanist 537 Corvisart, Jean-Nicolas (1755–1821), French physician 549 Cousin, Victor (1792–1867), French philosopher and politician 8, 98, 99, 149, 279, 455 Cowell, Edward (1826–1903), British Sanskritist 452 Creighton, Mandell (1843–1901), British angl. theologian 463, 471 Crelle, August Leopold (1780–1855), German mathematician and engineer 500 Cremer, Jacob Jan (1827–80), Dutch writer 301–2 Creuzer, Georg Friedrich (1771–1858), German Classicist 414 Cripps, Stafford (1889–1952), British politician 649–50 Croce, Benedetto (1866–1952), Italian philosopher 71–2, 440, 453, 455, 473 Cumont, Franz (1868–1947), Belgian archaeologist and philologist 414 Cunningham, William (1849–1919), British economist 471 Curie, Marie (1867–1934), Polish-born French physicist 133 Curtius, Ernst Robert (1886–1956), German Romanist 435 Cuvier, Georges Baron (1769–1832), French zoologist and statesman 17, 450, 520, 522–4 Czermak, Johann Nepomuk (1828–73), Austrian physician 573 Czihak, Jacob, German scientist 560 d’Hulst, Maurice (1841–96), French Cath. theologian, bishop, university founder and president 404 Da¸browski, Jan Henryk (1755–1818), Polish general 272 Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), Italian poet 434 Darmesteter, Ars`ene (1846–88), French philologist 463 Darwin, Charles (1809–82), British naturalist 455, 459, 460–1, 530–2, 533–5, 536, 537, 539 Daumier, Honor´e (1808–79), French caricaturist, painter and sculptor 147 Debye, Peter (1884–1966), Dutch-American physical chemist 505, 513 Dekker, Eduard Douwes, see Multatuli Delambre, Jean Baptiste (1749–1822), French astronomer 509

Delescluze, Charles or Louis Charles (1809–71), French journalist and radical republican 283 Denifle, Heinrich (1844–1905), Austrian-German church historian 399 De Ram, Xavier (1804–65), rector of Louvain University 121, 401 Descartes, Ren´e (1596–1650), French philosopher and scientist 416, 419, 528 Dieffenbach, Johann Friedrich (1795–1847), German surgeon 18 Dietl, Joseph (1804–78), German-Austrian physician 550, 560 Diez, Friedrich (1794–1875), German Romanist 433–4, 436, 452 Dilthey, Wilhelm (1833–1911), German philosopher 417, 451, 455, 465 Dirichlet, Gustav Lejeune (1805–59), French-German mathematician 498, 500 ¨ Dobereiner, Johann Wolfgang (1780–1849), German chemist 503 Dobzhansky, Theodosius (1900–75), Russian-American biologist 539 Dodd, Charles Harold (1884–1973), British theologian 413 Dodds, Eric Robertson (1884–1973), British Classicist 422 Dohrn, Anton (1840–1909), German zoologist 535 ¨ Dollinger, Ignaz von (1799–1890), German church historian 395–6, 399, 403–4, 461 Dreyfus, Alfred (1859–1935), French army officer 97, 151 Driesch, Hans (1867–1941), German biologist 538 Droysen, Johann Gustav (1808–84), German historian 467–98 Dubois, Paul-Franc¸ois (1793–1874), French philosopher 149 Du Bois-Reymond, Emil (1818–96), German physiologist 524 Dumas, Jean-Baptiste (1800–84), French chemist 498, 514 Duncan, Andrew (1744–1828), British medical reformer 547 Dupuytren, Guillaume (1777–1835), French surgeon and pathologist 549 Durkheim, Emile (1858–1917), French sociologist 414, 453, 485–6 Duruy, Victor (1811–94), French historian and politician 12, 55, 103, 375, 415, 442 ´ Cenek (1848–1922), Czech Dvoˇrak, physicist 505 Eckstein, Ferdinand von (1790–1861), Danish writer 400

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Name index Ed´en, Nils (1871–1945), Swedish historian and politician 156 Edison, Thomas A. (1847–1931), American inventor 575, 577, 618 Egorov, Dmitrii Fedorovich (1869–1931), Russian mathematician 511, 513 Ehrle, Franz (1845–1934), German Jesuit, cardinal, prefect of Vatican library and medievalist 399 Eichhorn, Karl Friedrich von (1781–1854), German jurist 460 Einstein, Albert (1879–1955), Swiss-German-American physicist 505, 513, 520 Eliot, Charles William (1834–1926), American educator 169, 170 Ellis, Havelock (1859–1939), British psychologist 576 Elton, Charles (1900–91), British biologist 539 Ely, Richard Theodore (1854–1943), American political scientist 171 Engels, Friedrich (1820–95), German philosopher 460 Ernout, Alfred (1879–1973), French Latinist 421 Ernst Georg August (1771–1851), king of Hanover 286 Eucken, Rudolf (1846–1926), German philosopher 154 Euclid (c. 365–c. 300 BC), Greek mathematician 506 Euler, Leonhard (1707–83), Swiss mathematician 505 Fabrizi, Nicola (1804–85), Italian jurist and leader of the Risorgimento 28 Falconer, Robert Alexander (1867–1943), Canadian theologian and Classicist 176 Falloux, Fr´ed´eric, comte de (1811–86), French Minister of Education 95 Fanti, Manfredo (1806–65), Italian general and patriot 28 Faure, Edgar (1908–88), French jurist and politician 85, 120 Febvre, Lucien (1878–1956), French historian 477–9, 484 Fechner, Gustav (1801–87), German physicist and philosopher 498 Federley, Harry (1879–1951), Finnish zoologist 537 ´ (1880–1959), Hungarian Fej´er, Lipot mathematician 512 Ferdinand VII (1784–1833), Spanish king 284 Fermi, Enrico (1901–54), Italian-born US physicist 175, 513

Ferstel, Heinrich Freiherr von (1828–82), Austrian architect 104 Feuerbach, Ludwig (1804–72), German philosopher 412, 563–4 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762–1814), German philosopher 8, 22, 24, 25, 48, 49, 273, 307, 410, 455 Filippi, Filippo De (1814–67), Italian zoologist 535 Firth, Charles Harding (1857–1936), British historian 474 Fischer, Emil (1852–1919), German chemist 642 Fisher, Herbert Albert Laurens (1845–1940), British historian 476 Fisher, Ronald Aylmer (1890–1962), British statistician and geneticist 539 Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht (1801–88), German Orientalist 445 Flexner, Abraham (1866–1959), American university reformer 580–1, 582–3, 590 Flourens, Pierre (1794–1867), French physiologist 528, 534 Follen, Karl (1795–1840), German revolutionary 275, 278 Fontana, Felice (1720–1805), Italian scientist 562 Fontanes, Louis de (1757–1821), French writer and politician 88 Forel, August (1848–1931), Swiss neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and entomologist 576 Fortoul, Hippolyte (1811–56), French Minister 90 Foster, Michael (1836–1907), British physiologist and educator 582 Fourcroy, Antoine-Franc¸ois de (1755–1809), French chemist and politician 495–8, 548, 600 Fraenkel, Eduard (1881–1970), German Classicist 422, 427 Franco, Francisco (1892–1975), Spanish general and statesman 72–3, 98, 355 Francoeur, Louis Benjamin (1773–1849), French mathematician 497 Frank, Hans (1900–46), German jurist 657–8 Frank, Johann Peter (1745–1821), German physician 546–7, 559, 562 Frank, Joseph (1771–1842), German physician 559 Franz Ferdinand (1863–1914), archduke of Austria 337 Franz-Joseph I (1830–1916), emperor of Austria and king of Hungary 298 Fraunhofer, Joseph (1787–1826), German physicist 516

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Name index Frazer, James George (1854–1941), British anthropologist, folklorist and Classicist 414, 488 Fred´ericq, Paul (1850–1920), Belgian historian and politician 467 Frederick VII (1808–63), king of Denmark 290 Frederick William III (1770–1840), king of Prussia 18 Frederik Wilhelm IV (1795–1861), king of Prussia 292 Freeman, Edward Augustus (1823–92), British historian 469, 472 Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939), Austrian psychiatrist 479, 487, 524, 576 Fries, Jakob Friedrich (1773–1843), German philosopher 273 Frisch, Ragnar (1895–1973), Norwegian economist 484 Fritz, Kurt von (1900–80), German Classicist 100 Froude, James Anthony (1818–94), British historian 469 Fukuzawa, Yukichi (1835–1901), Japanese writer, educator and publisher 224 Fuss, Nicolaus (1755–1826), German mathematician 509 Gabrieli, Francesco (1904–96), Italian Orientalist 445 Galvani, Luigi (1737–98), Italian physician and physicist 520 Gandhi, Mahatma (1869–1948), Hindu statesman 205 Garc´ıa, Juan Justo (1752–1830), Spanish mathematician 494 Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807–82), Italian patriot and politician 29, 150 Gatterer, Johann Christoph (1727–99), German historian 466 Gause, Georgyi Frantsevitch (1910–86), Russian mathematician 539 Gavarni, Paul, pseudonym of Hippolyte Guillaume-Sulpice Chevalier (1804–66), French lithographer and painter 147 Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis (1778–1850), French physicist and chemist 150, 497, 514 Gegenbaur, Carl (1826–1903), German anatomist 532 Geijer, Erik Gustaf (1783–1847), Swedish historian 145, 148 Gentile, Giovanni (1875–1944), Italian philosopher and politician 71, 118, 455 Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne (1772–1844), French naturalist 17, 521, 522

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore (1805–61), French zoologist 522 Gervinus, Georg Gottfried (1805–71), German literary historian 431, 464, 468 Gessner, Conrad (1516–65), Swiss physician and naturalist 449 Geyl, Pieter (1887–1966), Dutch historian 477 Gibb, Hamilton (1895–1971), British Orientalist 445 Gilbert, Ludwig Wilhelm (1769–1824), German physicist and chemist 502 Gilbert, William Schwenck (1836–1911), British playwright 147 Giles, Herbert Allen (1845–1935), British Sinologist 447 Gioberti, Vincenzo (1801–52), Italian philosopher and politician 153 Gmelin, Leopold (1788–1853), German chemist 498, 503 Goeje, Micha¨el Jan de (1836–1909), Dutch Orientalist 445 Goercke, Johannes (1750–1822), German military physician 556 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749– 1832), German poet 23, 466, 503, 521 Goldziher, Ignaz (1850–1921), Hungarian Orientalist 445 Golgi, Camillo (1843–1926), Italian physician and cytologist 527 Gordon, Charles George (1833–85), British general 192–3 ¨ Goring, Hermann (1893–1946), German politician 662, 663 ¨ Gorres, Joseph von (1776–1848), German historian 399–400, 404, 430 Grabmann, Martin (1875–1949), German Cath. theologian 399 Green, John Richard (1837–83), British historian 472, 476 Gregory XVI (1765–1846), pope 398 Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863), German Germanist 426, 430, 433, 436, 449, 450, 452 Grimm, Wilhelm (1786–1859), German Germanist 430, 433, 436, 449, 452 Gronbech, Vilhelm Peter (1873–1918), Danish historian 414 Groot, Jan Jacob Maria de (1854–1921), German Sinologist 447 Groves, Leslie (1896–1970), American general 668 Guesde, Jules (1845–1922), French politician 317 Guizot, Franc¸ois Pierre Guillaume (1787–1874), French historian and politician 97, 149

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Name index Gunkel, Hermann (1862–1932), German ev. theologian 412 Gustavus II Adolphus (1594–1632), king of Sweden 84 Haar, Alfred (1885–1933), Hungarian mathematician 512 Haber, Fritz (1868–1934), German chemist 643 Hachette, Jean Nicole Pierre (1769–1834), French engineer 607 Haeckel, Ernst (1834–1919), German zoologist and philosopher 143, 159, 455, 532–6, 538 Hagen, Friedrich von der (1780–1856), German Germanist 430 Hahn, Otto (1879–1968), German chemist 663, 665 Hahnemann, Samuel (1755–1893), German physician 552 Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson (1892–1964), British-American geneticist and physiologist 539, 582 Hal´evy, Elie (1870–1937), French philosopher and historian 476 Hall, Granville Stanley (1844–1924), American university president 168–9, 170–1 Haller, Albrecht von (1708–77), Swiss biologist 524 Halphen, Louis (1880–1950), French historian 477 ¨ Hardenberg, Karl August, Furst von (1750–1822), Prussian statesman and administrator 22 Hardy, Godfrey Harold (1877–1947), British mathematician 539 Hare, David (1775–1842), British-born Hindu watch-maker and silversmith, founder of colleges in India 198, 199 Harnack, Adolf von (1851–1930), German ev. theologian 61, 408, 412, 413, 642 Harper, William Rainey (1856–1906), American university president 169, 171, 228 Hase, Karl Benedikt (1780–1864), German Classicist 426 Haupt, Moritz (1808–74), German Classicist and Germanist 431 Haushofer, Karl (1869–1946), German army officer and political geographer 483 ¨ Ren´e Just (1743–1822), French Hauy, mineralogist 496 Hayek, Friedrich August von (1899–1992), Austrian-born British economist 484

Hefele, Karl Joseph von (1809–83), German Cath. theologian 399 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831), German philosopher 30, 130, 398, 412, 419, 426, 451, 455, 462, 468, 473 Heidegger, Martin (1889–1976), German philosopher 455 Heiler, Friedrich (1892–1967), German scholar of religious studies 414 Heine, Heinrich (1797–1856), German writer 282 Heinroth, Johann Christian August (1773–1843), German physician 551 Heisenberg, Werner (1903–76), German physicist 174 Helmholtz, Hermann von (1821–94), German physicist and physiologist 19, 503, 508, 524, 627 Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm (1802–69), German ev. theologian 411 Henle, Jakob (1809–85), German pathologist 526 Henslow, John (1796–1861), British botanist 530 Herder, Johann Gottfried von (1744–1893), German theologian and philosopher 411 Herg´e, pseudonym of Georges R´emi (1908–75), Belgian comic-strip artist 148 Herlez, Charles de (1832–99), Belgian Sanskritist 447 Hermann, Gottfried (1772–1848), German Classicist 424, 431 Hermes, Georg (1775–1831), German Cath. theologian and philosopher 398 Herriot, Edouard (1872–1957), French statesman 89 Hess, Rudolf (1894–1987), German politician 348 Hesse, Ludwig Otto (1811–74), German mathematician 500 Hettner, Hermann (1821–82), German historian of literature and art 432, 451 Hewins, William Albert Samuel (1865–1931), British mathematician and politician, director of the London School of Economics 481 Hilbert, David (1862–1943), German mathematician 500 Hildebrandt, Georg Friedrich (1764–1816), German physician 503 Himmler, Heinrich (1900–45), German politician 658, 665 Hindenburg, Paul von (1847–1934), German field marshal and president of the Weimar Republic 348

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Name index Hintze, Otto (1861–1940), German historian 465 Hippocrates (c. 460–c. 370 BC), Greek physician 550, 567 Hirschfeld, Magnus (1867–1935), German sexologist 576 Hitler, Adolf (1889–1945), German politician 89–91, 94, 98, 100, 175, 348, 349, 357, 358, 359, 477, 487, 513, 656, 657, 660, 662, 665 Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawney (1864–1929), British sociologist and philosopher 486 Hodgkin, Thomas (1798–1866), British physician 589 Hodˇza, Milan (1878–1944), Czech politician 323 Hoff, Jacobus van ’t (1852–1911), Dutch physical chemist 514 Høffding, Harald (1843–1931), Danish philosopher 336 Hofmann, August Wilhelm von (1818–92), German chemist 503–4, 508 Holmes, Arthur (1890–1965), British geologist 541 Holmgren, Frithiof (1831–97), Swedish physiologist 524 Holmquist, Per Johan (1886–1946), Swedish mineralogist 540 Homer (fl. 850 BC), Greek poet 430 Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1817–1911), British botanist 531 Hooker, William Jackson (1785–1865), British botanist 531 Horkheimer, Max (1895–1973), German philosopher and sociologist 487 Hort, Fenton John Anthony (1828–92), British angl. theologian 413 Huet, Franc¸ois (1814–69), French-born Belgian jurist 292 Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm (1762–1836), German physician 16, 552 Huggins, William (1824–1910), British astronomer 516 Hugo, Gustav (1764–1844), German jurist 460 Hugo, Victor (1802–85), French writer 150–1, 282 Humboldt, Alexander von (1769–1859), German scientist and explorer 5, 17, 18, 149, 426, 503, 520–1 Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1767–1835), German philologist, philosopher, politician and educational reformer 45, 67, 72, 75, 88, 152, 163, 250, 287, 410, 424, 426, 430, 455, 456, 495, 527, 558, 589, 639, 658, 659

Husserl, Edmund (1859–1939), German philosopher 453, 455 Hutton, James (1726–97), British geologist 520, 530 Huxley, Julian (1887–1975), British biologist 536 Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–95), British zoologist 218, 531, 534 Hyrtl, Joseph (1811–94), Austrian anatomist 561 Isabel II (1830–1904), queen of Spain 302 Jackson, Thomas Graham (1835–1924), British architect 104 Jacob, Edgar Pierre (1904–87), Belgian comic-strip artist 147 Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jacob (1804–51), German mathematician 499–500 Jacoby, Felix (1876–1959), German Classicist 427 Jagi´c, Vratoslav (1838–1923), Croat Slavist 436 Jahn, Friedrich Ludwig (1778–1852), German pedagogue 273, 275 Janiszewski, Zygmunt (1888–1920), Polish mathematician 513 Jaur`es, Jean (1859–1914), French philosopher and politician 317 Jenner, Edward (1749–1823), British physician 547 Jennings, Ivor (1903–65), British jurist 208 Jevons, William Stanley (1835–82), British economist 483–4 J`eze, Gaston (1869–1953), French jurist 100 Joan of Arc (c.1412–31), French national heroine 328 Johannsen, Wilhelm (1857–1927), Danish botanist 537 John Paul II (b. 1920), pope 403 Jolly, Julius E. (1849–1932), German Indologist 205 Jones, William (1746–94), British Orientalist and jurist 443, 445, 450 Jorga, Nicolae (1870–1940), Romanian politician 94 Joseph II (1741–90), emperor of Austria 556 Jussieu, Antoine (1686–1758), French botanist 522 Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de (1748–1836), French botanist 522 Justi, Johann Heinrich Gottlob (1717–71), German cameralist 546

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Name index Kaelble, Hartmut (b. 1940), German historian 257 Kahn-Freund, Otto (1900–79), German jurist 486 Kamerling Onnes, Heike (1853–1926), Dutch physicist 514 Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804), German philosopher 8, 22, 48, 148, 394, 453, 639 Kapteyn, Jacobus Cornelius (1851–1922), Dutch astronomer 516 Karamzin, Nikolai Mikhailovich (1766–1826), Russian historian 146 Carl August (1757–1828), duke of Weimar 503 Karsten, Gustav (1820–1900), German physicist 502 ¨ Kastner, Abraham Gotthelf (1719–1800), German mathematician and writer 494 Keats, John (1795–1821), British poet 272 Kekkonen, Urho (1900–86), Finnish politician 344 Keller, Adalbert von (1812–83), German philologist 433, 434 Kennedy, Alexander Blackie William (1847–1928), British engineer 619 Kerner, Anton, Ritter von Marilaun (1831–1908), Austrian botanist 537 Keynes, John Maynard (1883–1946), British economist 481 Khinchin, Aleksandr Jakowlewitsch (1894–1959), Russian mathematician 513 Kingsley, Charles (1819–75), British writer and historian 469 Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert (1824–87), German physicist 499, 502–3, 508, 516 Kjell´en, Rudolph (1864–1922), Swedish political scientist and politician 483 Klaproth, Martin Heinrich (1743–1817), German chemist 504 Klein, Felix (Christian Felix, 1849–1925), German mathematician 174, 500, 642 Klugmann, James (Norman John, 1912–77), British Communist politician and writer 358 Knies, Karl (1821–98), German economist 480 ´ Kogalniceanu, Mikael (1817–91), Romanian politician and historian 560 ¨ Kolliker, Albert (1817–1905), Swiss-German embryologist 526, 572 Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolayevich (1903–87), Russian mathematician 285, 513 Kol
tsov, Nikolai Konstantinovich (1872–1940), Russian biologist and geneticist 585, 587

Kos’ciuszko, Tadeusz (1746–1817), Polish army officer and statesman 24, 272 Kossuth, Lajos (1802–94), Hungarian politician 293 Kotzebue, August von (1761–1819), German writer 275, 409 Kowalewsky, Sonia (1850–91), Russian mathematician 133 Krafft-Ebing, Richard Freiherr von (1840–1902), German neuropsychiatrist 576 Kraus, Karl Christian Friedrich (1781–1832), German philosopher 302 Kronecker, Leopold (1823–91), German mathematician 500 Krzyzanowski, Adrian (1788–1852), Russian astronomer 498 Kuhn, Thomas S. (1922–96), American historian of science 638 Kume, Kunitake (1839–1931), Japanese historian 226 Kummer, Ernst Eduard (1810–93), German mathematician 500 La Caille, Nicolas Louis de (1713–62), French mathematician 494 Lachmann, Karl (1793–1851), German Classicist 394, 421, 430 Lacroix, Sylvestre Franc¸ois (1765–1843), French mathematician 497–8, 506–7, 509 Laennec, Ren´e Th´eophile (1781–1826), French physician 549 Lafitte, Jacques (1767–1844), French revolutionary 288 Lagrange, Albert (1855–1938), French Cath. theologian 401 Lagrange, Joseph Louis (1736–1813), French mathematician 17, 496–8, 506, 600 ˆ Lalande, Joseph J´erome de (1732–1807), French astronomer 496 Lallemand, Nicolas (d. 1820), French revolutionary 279 Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste (1744–1829), French biologist 519, 522, 534–5 Lam´e, Gabriel (1795–1870), French mathematician and physicist 601–602 Lamennais, F´elicit´e Robert de (1782–1861), French Cath. theologian and writer 400, 401 La Mettrie, Julien Offray de (Lamettrie, 1709–51), French physician and philosopher 150 Lamprecht, Karl (1856–1915), German historian 143, 464

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Name index Lanson, Gustave (1857–1934), French historian of literature 416, 442 Laplace, Pierre Simon Marquis de (1749–1827), French mathematician and astronomer 17, 498, 506–7, 509 La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Franc¸ois Alexandre Fr´ed´eric Duc de (1747–1827), French educator and social reformer 608 Laski, Harold (1893–1950), British political scientist, educator and politician 482 Laue, Max von (1879–1960), German physicist 174, 505 Laval de Montmorency, Franc¸ois Xavier de (1623–1708), Canadian bishop 177 Lazarus, Moritz (1824–1903), German philosopher and psychologist 453 Leclerc, Georges-Louis see Buffon, comte de Lefebvre, Georges (1874–1959), French historian 476 Legendre, Adrien Marie (1752–1833), French mathematician 509 Legge, James (1815–97), British missionary and Sinologist 447 Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646–1716), German philosopher and mathematician 522 Lejeune-Dirichlet, see Dirichlet Lelewel, Joachim (1786–1861), Polish historian 150, 287 Lenz, Heinrich Friedrich Emil (1804–65), Baltic physicist 510 Leo XIII (1810–1903), pope 189, 396, 402–4 Lepsius, Richard (1810–84), German Egyptologist 446 Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729–81), German poet and critic 430 Lessing, Theodor (1872–1933), German writer and philosopher 348 Lessona, Michele (1823–94), Italian biologist 535 Leubuscher, Rudolf (1821–61), German psychologist 565 Lexis, Wilhelm (1837–1914), German economist and social scientist 378 Leydig, Franz von (1821–1908), German physiologist 526 Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph (1742–99), German physicist and writer 501 Liebig, Justus von (1802–73), German chemist 50, 498, 502–4, 508, 511, 514, 525, 566, 568, 606 Lightfoot, James Barber (1829–89), British Angl. theologian 413

Linde, Carl von (1842–1934), German engineer 619 ¨ Lorenz (1827–1908), Finnish Lindelof, mathematician 155 Lindemann, Cherwell Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount (1886–1957), German-British physicist 649 Linnaeus, Carolus (Carl von Linn´e, 1707–78), Swedish botanist and explorer 450, 538, 568 Lippmann, Gabriel (1845–1921), French physicist 514 Li Shu-hua (Li Shuhua, 1889–1979), Chinese politician 218 Lister, Joseph (1827–1912), British surgeon 570, 589 Li Teng-hui (Li Denghui, 1873–1947), Chinese university president 220 Littr´e, Emile (1801–81), French lexicographer and philosopher 412 Littrow, Joseph (1781–1840), Russian astronomer 509 Lobachevskii, Nikolai (1792–1856), Russian mathematician 509 Lodge, Richard (1855–1936), British historian 475–6 Loescher, Hermann (1831–92), German-Italian publisher 428 ¨ Lofstedt jr., Einar (1880–1955), Swedish Latinist 421 ¨ Lofstedt sr., Einar (1831–84), Swedish historian 420 Loisy, Alfred (1857–1940), French Cath. theologian 401 ¨ Lonnrot, Elias (1802–84), Finnish writer, folklorist and philologist 148 ´ Lopez, Jos´e Severo (1754–1807), Spanish surgeon 561 Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853–1928), Dutch physicist 514 Lot, Ferdinand (1866–1952), French historian 92 Lotka, Alfred James (1880–1949), Austrian-American mathematician 539 Lou Chia-lun (Lou Jialun, 1896–1969), Chinese university president 218 Loudon, James (1841–1916), Canadian university president 176 Louis Philippe of Orl´eans (1773–1850), French king 281, 284, 522 Lov´en, Sven (1809–95), Swedish zoologist 534 Lubac, Henri de (1896–1991), French Cath. theologian 403 Ludwig I of Hessen (1753–30), Grand Duke of Hessen-Darmstadt 503

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Name index Ludwig II of Bayern (1845–86), King of Bayern 396 Ludwig, Karl (1816–92), German physiologist 524, 583 Luther, Martin (1483–1546), German theologian and reformer 26, 66 ¨ Lutzow, Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von (1782–1834), Prussian major general 273 Luzin, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1883–1950), Russian mathematician 511, 513 Lyapunov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1857–1918), Russian mathematician 513 Lyell, Charles (1797–1875), British geologist 530–1, 532–3 Lysenko, Trofim (1898–1976), Russian biologist and agronomist 92, 541, 586 Ma Chien-chiung (Ma Jianzhong, 1844–1900), Chinese university founder 219 Ma Hsiang-po (Ma Xiangbo, 1840–1939), Chinese university founder 219 Maas, Paul (1880–1964), German Classicist 427 Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800–59), British historian 199, 463, 469, 472 Mach, Ernst (1838–1916), Austrian physicist 505 Mackinder, Halford John (1861–1947), British political geographer 483 ¨ Maklin, Fredrik Vilhelm (1821–83), Finnish zoologist 534 Magendie, Franc¸ois (1783–1855), French physiologist 528, 550 Magnes, Judah Leon (1877–1948), Israeli statesman and rabbi 191 ˆ Emile (1852–1964), French art Male, historian 477 Malinowski, Branislaw (1882–1942), British anthropologist 488–9 Mann, Thomas (1875–1955), German writer 576 Mannheim, Herman (1889–1969), German jurist 486 Mannheim, Karl (1893–1947), German sociologist 486 Manning, Henry Edward (1808–92), British Cath. theologian 404 Marheineke, Philipp (1780–1846), German ev. theologian 407 Maria Theresia (1717–80), empress of Austria 559 Marie, Joseph Franc¸ois (1738–1801), French mathematician 494

Mariette, Auguste Edouard (1821–81), French Egyptologist 444, 446 Maritain, Jacques (1882–1973), French philosopher 352, 403 Markov, Andrey Andreevich (1856–1922), Russian mathematician 510, 513 Markowski, Jozef (1758–1829), Polish chemist 498 Marouzeau, Jules (1878–1964), French Latinist 421 Marshall, Alfred (1842–1924), British economist 481 Marx, Karl (1818–83), German philosopher and politician 363, 412, 455, 460–1 ´ s Garrigue (1850–1937), Masaryk, Tomaˇ Czech philosopher and first President of Czechoslovakia 155, 322 Mascagni, Paolo (1755–1815), Italian anatomist 562 Maspero, Gaston (1846–1916), French Egyptologist 444, 446 Maspero, Henri (1882–1945), French Sinologist 446 Massignon, Louis (1883–1962), French Orientalist 445 ´ Mateos, Mariano Lopez (1800–63), Spanish physician 527 Matteucci, Carlo (1811–68), Italian Minister of Education 37, 118 Maurras, Charles (1868–1952), French writer 100, 338 Mauss, Marcel (1882–1950), French sociologist and anthropologist 414 Maxwell, James Clerk (1831–79), British physicist 507 Mazurkiewicz, Stefan (1888–1945), Polish mathematician 513 Mazzini, Giuseppe (1805–72), Italian propagandist and revolutionary 29–31, 150 McMillan, Conway (1867–1929), American botanist 539 Mechelin, Leopold von (1839–1914), Finnish jurist 155 Medici, Lorenzo de’ (1449–92), Florentine statesman 27 Meillet, Antoine (1866–1936), French linguist 451 Meinecke, Friedrich (1862–1954), German historian 479 Mendel, Gregor (1822–84), Austrian botanist 536–7 Mendeleev, Dmitrii Ivanovich (1834–1907), Russian chemist 511

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Name index Menger, Carl (1840–1921), Austrian economist 483 Menshikov, Aleksander Sergeievich (1787–1869), commander of the Russian forces 153 Mercier, D´esir´e (1851–1926), Belgian Cath. theologian 327 ¨ Metternich, Klemens Wenzel Furst von (1773–1859), Austrian statesman 24, 27, 50, 152, 153, 275, 280, 288, 293, 409, 561 Meyer, Paul (1840–1917), French Romanist 442 Meynert, Theodor (1833–92), German psychiatrist 569 Michelet, Jules (1798–1874), French historian 30, 99, 149, 289, 290, 476 Michel-L´evy, Auguste (1844–1911), French geologist 540 Michelson, Albert Abraham (1852–1931), American physicist 171 Mickiewicz, Adam (1798–1855), Polish writer 149, 277, 289 Mignet, Auguste (1796–1884), French historian 280 Miklosich, Franz von (1813–91), Slovenian Slavist 436, 452 Miljukov, Pavel Nikolaievich (1859–1943), Russian historian and politician 155 Mill, John Stuart (1806–73), British economist 218, 455, 479, 588 Minkowski, Hermann (1864–1909), German mathematician 500 Mises, Richard von (1883–1953), Austrian mathematician and engineer 501, 513 Mitscherlich, Eilhard (1794–1863), German chemist 504, 511 Moeller van den Bruck, Arthur (1876–1925), German writer 347 Moleschott, Jacob (1822–93), Dutch physiologist 563–4, 573 Mommsen, Theodor (1817–1903), German historian 61, 69, 425, 428, 466 Monge, Gaspard (1746–1818), French mathematician 496–8, 507, 596, 599, 600 Monod, Gabriel (1844–1912), French historian 463, 476, 477 Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de La Br`ede et de (1689–1755), French political philosopher 218 Montgomery Watt, William (b. 1909), British scholar of Islam 445 Mookerjee, Ashutosh (1864–1924), Hindu lawyer, mathematician, educator and author 204

Morgagni, Giovanni Battista (1682–1771), Italian anatomist and pathologist 548, 563 Morgan, Thomas Hunt (1866–1945), American zoologist and geneticist 537 Mosca, Gaetano (1858–1941), Italian jurist and political theorist 482 Mosley, Oswald (1896–1980), British politician 340 Moyano Samaniego, Claudio (1809–90), Spanish Minister of Education 118, 302 Mudrov, Matvej Jakovlevic (1772–1831), Russian physician 559 Mulder, Gerardus Johannes (1802–80), Dutch chemist 568 ¨ Muller, Detlef K. (b. 1942), German historian of education 255 ¨ Muller, Johannes (1801–58), German physiologist 17–19, 523–6, 532, 549, 552–3, 563–4, 579 ¨ Muller, Karl Otfried (1797–1840), German classical historian 466 ¨ Muller, Max (1823–1900), German linguist 414, 427, 489 Multatuli, pseudonym of Dekker, Eduard Douwes (1820–87), Dutch writer 301–2 ¨ Munzenberg, Willi (1889–1940), German politician and publicist 358 Murray, Gilbert (1866–1957), British Classicist 422 Mussolini, Benito (1883–1945), Italian statesman 37, 89, 98, 100, 341, 355, 482, 513 Myrdal, Gunnar (1898–1987), Swedish economist and politician 484 ¨ Nageli, Karl von (1817–91), Swiss-German botanist 526, 537 Namier, Lewis (1888–1960), British historian 475 Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte 1769–1821), French emperor 25, 149, 240, 272, 300, 307, 381, 396, 444, 466, 477, 485, 495, 497, 522, 544, 588, 597, 602, 652 – on education and universities 3, 31, 39, 44–5, 52, 55, 61, 72, 74, 93, 97, 108, 120, 124, 129, 139, 159, 178, 186, 251, 454, 560 Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napol´eon Bonaparte 1808–73), French emperor 69, 296, 300, 529 Neander, August (1789–1850), German ev. theologian 407 Nehru, Jawaharlal (1889–1964), Hindu statesman 205

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Name index N´enot, Henri-Paul (1845–1934), French architect 104 Nernst, Walther Hermann (1864–1941), German physicist 174 Neumann, Carl (1832–1925), German mathematician 505 Neumann, Franz (1798–1895), German physicist and mineralogist 499–500, 502, 505, 515 Neumann, Salomon (1819–1908), German physician and politician 565 N`eve, F´elix (1816–93), French Orientalist 452 Newman, John Henry (1801–90), British Angl., later Cath. theologian 93, 404 Newton, Isaac (1643–1727), British mathematician, physicist and astronomer 493, 506 Nicholas I (1796–1855), Russian emperor 152, 303, 509, 573 Nicholas II (1868–1918), Russian emperor 154 Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (1776–1831), German historian 15, 465, 466 Niemczewski, Zachariasz (1766–1820), Polish mathematician 498 Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844–1900), German philosopher and Classicist 455, 468 Nilsson, Martin Persson (1874–1967), Swedish Classicist and historian 414, 420–1 Nilsson-Ehle, Herman (1873–1949), Swedish botanist 537 Nobel, Alfred (1833–96), Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist 575 ¨ Noldeke, Theodor (1832–1930), German Orientalist 445 Norden, Eduard (1868–1941), German Classicist 425, 429 Oken, Lorenz (1779–1851), German scientist 521, 523 Ono, Azusa (1852–86), Japanese statesman and university founder 226 Orioli, Francesco (1785–1856), Italian philosopher 27 Ørsted, Anders Sandøe (1778–1860), Danish jurist and politician 154 Ørsted, Hans Christian (1777–1852), Danish physicist 154 Ortega y Gasset, Jos´e (1883–1955), Spanish philosopher of culture 354 Oscar I (1799–1859), king of Sweden and Norway 290

Osenberg, Werner (1900–72), German engineer 664 Osipovskii, Timofei (1765–1832), Russian mathematician 509 Osler, William (1849–1919), Canadian physician 582 Ostrogradskii, Mikhail Vasilevich (1801–62), Ukrainian mathematician 498, 510 Ostwald, Wilhelm (1853–1932), German chemist 514 Otto I (1815–67), king of Greece 43 Otto, Rudolf (1869–1937), German ev. theologian, philosopher and historian 414 Owen, Richard (1804–92), British anatomist and palaeontologist 531 Painlev´e, Paul (1863–1933), French mathematician and statesman 156, 629 Palm´en, Johan Axel (1845–1919), Finnish zoologist 534 Pareto, Vilfredo (1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist 486 Paris, Alexis Paulin (1800–81), French literary historian 442 Paris, Gaston (1839–1903), French Romanist 442 Park, Robert (1864–1944), American sociologist 171 Parrot, Georg Friedrich (1767–1852), Estonian physicist 509, 510 Pasha Artini, Yacoub, see Artin Pasha Yacoub Pasquali, Giorgio (1885–1952), Italian philologist 428 Pasteur, Louis (1822–95), French chemist and microbiologist 13, 18, 92, 151, 525, 528–9, 534, 577, 579 Pattison, Mark (1813–1884), British educational reformer 168, 427 Pauli, Wolfgang (1900–58), Swiss-American physicist 505 Paulsen, Friedrich (1846–1908), German philosopher 20, 454, 457 Pavlov, Ivan Petroviˇc (1849–1936), Russian physiologist 573, 585 Pearson, Karl (1857–1936), British mathematician 513 Pedro II (1825–91), emperor of Brazil 182 Percival, John Thomas (1803–76), British physician 575 Perkin, Harold, British historian 369 Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich (1746–1827), Swiss educational reformer 22

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Name index Petrarca, Francesco (1304–74), Italian poet 29, 434 Pfeiffer, Rudolf (1889–1979), German Classicist 427 Pfleiderer, Otto (1839–1908), German ev. theologian 414 Pigou, Arthur Cecil (1877–1959), British economist 481 ´ Pilsudski, Josef Klemens (1867–1935), Polish statesman 352 Pinel, Philippe (1745–1826), French physician 545, 549–51 Piper, Ferdinand (1811–89), German ev. theologian and archaeologist 409 Pirogov, Nikolai (1810–81), Russian surgeon and anatomist 573 Pius IX (1792–1878), pope 396, 398, 401, 402, 403 Pius X (1835–1914), pope 317, 396, 401 Pius XI (1857–1939), pope 338, 356 Pius XII (1876–1958), pope 403 Planck, Max (1858–1947), German physicist 503, 627–8, 642 Plato (c. 427–c. 347 BC), Greek philosopher 395, 422, 451 Plekhanov, Georgiy Valentinovitch (1856–1918), Russian historian 473 Poggendorf, Johann Christian (1796–1877), German physicist 502 Poincar´e, Henri (1854–1912), French mathematician 516 Poinsot, Louis (1777–1859), French mathematician 150 Poisson, Sim´eon Denis (1781–1840), French mathematician and physicist 497–8, 507 Pollard, Albert Frederick (1860–1948), British historian 474 Pompe van Meerdervoort, Johan Lidius Catharinus (1829–1908), Dutch naval surgeon in Japan 556, 572 Popper, Karl (1902–94), Austrian-born British philosopher 478 Powicke, Frederick Maurice (1879–1963), British historian 475 Prichard, James Cowles (1786–1848), British physician and ethnologist 551 Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Miguel (1870–1930), Spanish general and statesman 72–3, 354 Princip, Gavrilo (1895–1918), Serbian nationalist 293 Prothero, George Walter (1848–1922), British historian 471–2, 475 Proust, Marcel (1871–1922), French writer 157, 416

Puschkin (Pushkin), Aleksandr Sergeevich (1799–1837), Russian poet 275 Quinet, Edgar (1803–75), French historian 99, 149, 289 Rabelais, Franc¸ois (1494–1553), French writer 147 Rade, Martin (1857–1940), German ev. theologian 414 Rait, Robert Sangster (1874–1936), British historian 475–6 Ram, (Pierre Franc¸ois) Xavier de (1804–65), Belgian historian and university rector 401 ´ y Cajal, Santiago (1852–1934), Ramon Spanish histologist 527 Ranke, Leopold von (1795–1886), German historian 174, 463–5, 466–9, 477 Rankine, William John Macquorn (1820–72), British engineer 618 Rashdall, Hastings (1858–1924), British historian 462 Ratzel, Friedrich (1844–1904), German geographer and ethnographer 483 Rayleigh, John William Strutt, third baron (1841–1919), British physicist 507 Reinisch, Leo (1832–1919), Austrian Egyptologist and Africanist 446 Reitzenstein, Richard (1861–1931), German Classicist 395 Remak, Robert (1815–65), German physician 526–7 Remsen, Ira (1846–1927), American chemist 171 Renan, Ernest (1823–92), French historian 93, 151, 399–400, 412, 415, 417–18, 424, 443 Renner, Kaspar-Fridrich Fedorovic (1780–1816), Russian mathematician 509 Reuleaux, Franz (1829–1905), German engineer 618 ´ (1858–1934), Ribera y Tarrago, Julian Spanish scholar of Islam 444 Ricardo, David (1772–1823), British economist and banker 460, 481 Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de (1585–1642), French statesman and cardinal 102 Riesz, Frigyes (1880–1956), Hungarian mathematician 512 Ritschl, Albrecht (1822–89), German ev. theologian 412

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Name index Robert de Sorbon (1201–74), French theologian 107 Robespierre, Maximilien de (1758–94), French revolutionary and statesman 34, 284 ´ Jos´e Enrique (1871–1917), Rodo, Uruguayan philosopher, educator and essayist 182 Rokitansky, Carl Freiherr von (1804–78), Austrian physician 568, 569 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882–1945), president of the USA 668 Roscher, Wilhelm (1817–94), German economist 480 ¨ Roschlaub, Andreas (1768–1835), German physician 552 Rose, Heinrich (1795–1864), German chemist 504 Rosenberg, Alfred (1893–1946), German politician 659 Rosenbusch, Karl Harry Ferdinand (1836–1914), German geologist 540 Rosmini-Servati, Antonio (1797–1855), Italian Cath. theologian 402–3 Rossi, Giovanni Battista de (1822–94), Italian art historian 403 Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712–78), Swiss-French philosopher 4, 546 Roux, Emile (1853–1933), French bacteriologist 529 Roux, Wilhelm (1850–1924), German zoologist 538 Rowntree, Benjamin Seebohm (1871–1954), British sociologist and philanthropist 486 Roy, Rammohun (1772–1833), Hindu religious, social and educational reformer 199 Rudolphi, Carl Asmund (1771–1832), German anatomist 18, 523 Ruge, Arnold (1802–80), German philosopher 455 Rumovskii, Stepan (1734–1812), Russian mathematician 509 Runeberg, Johan Vilhelm (1804–81), Finnish professor of rhetoric 148 Russell, William (1741–93), British historian 199 Rutherford, Ernest (1871–1937), British physicist 508, 514–15 Rydberg, Viktor (1828–95), Swedish writer and journalist 126 Sacy, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de (1758–1835), French Orientalist 443, 445, 450

Sagnac, Philippe (1868–1954), French historian 477 Saint-Amand Bazard (1791–1832), French revolutionary 279 Saint-Simon, Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de (1760–1825), French philosopher and social theorist 30, 484 Saintsbury, George (1845–1933), British literary historian 415 ´ Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira (1889–1970), Portuguese politician 91, 156, 341, 648–9 Salimbeni, Leonardo (1830–89), Italian teacher of natural history 535 Sambuc, Jules Th´eophile (1804–34), French revolutionary 281, 283 Sanctis, Francesco De (1817–83), Italian literary critic 69 Sand, Karl Ludwig (1795–1820), German theology student 275, 409 Sangnier, Marc (1873–1950), French writer 317 ´ (1814–69), Spanish Sanz del R´ıo, Julian scholar of law 302 Sapalski, Franciszek (1791–1838), Polish mathematician 498 Sarraut, Albert (1872–1962), French politician 211 Saussure, Ferdinand de (1857–1913), Swiss linguist 452 Savigny, Friedrich Karl von (1779–1861), German jurist 14–15, 426, 430, 450, 460, 466 Say, Jean Baptiste (1767–1832), French economist 484–5 Sbert, Antonio Maria (1901–80), Spanish student leader 354 Scaliger, Joseph Justus (1540–1609), French-Dutch Classicist 449 Scelle, Georges Auguste Jean Joseph (1878–1961), French university professor 89, 100 Schaumann, Eugen (1875–1904), Finnish nationalist 336 Scheler, Max (1874–1928), German philosopher 365 Schelling, Friedrich W. J. von (1755–1854), German philosopher 398–9, 455, 501–2, 552 Schiller, Friedrich von (1795–1805), German writer 148, 297–8, 477–8 Schimper, Andreas Franz Wilhelm (1856–1901), German botanist 538–9 Schirach, Baldur von (1907–74), German politician 349 Schlegel, August Wilhelm von (1767–1845), German literary historian 430, 452

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Name index Schlegel, Friedrich von (1772–1829), German writer and critic 430, 450 Schlegel, Gustav (1840–1903), Dutch Sinologist 447 Schleiden, Matthias (1804–81), German botanist 521, 525, 526 Schleiermacher, Friedrich Ernst Daniel (1768–1834), German ev. theologian and philosopher 24, 25, 395, 414, 422, 453, 455 – reformer of the University of Berlin 5, 48, 49, 152, 163, 406, 639 ¨ Schlozer, August Ludwig von (1735–1809), German historian and philologist 148 Schmidlin, Joseph (1878–1944), German Cath. theologian 399 Schmidt, Georg Gottlieb (1768–1837), German mathematician 501 Schmoller, Gustav von (1838–1912), German economist 480 ¨ Schonlein, Johann Lukas (1793–1864), German physician 17 Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788–1860), German philosopher 455 ¨ Schrodinger, Erwin (1887–1961), Austrian physicist 174, 505, 513 Schumpeter, Joseph Alois (1853–1950), Austrian social scientist 480, 484 Schwann, Theodor (1810–82), German physiologist 521, 567–8 Schwarzschild, Karl (1873–1948), German astronomer 517 Scott, Walter (1771–1832), British writer 282 Secchi, Angelo (1818–78), Italian physicist 516 Sechenov, Ivan M. (1839–1905), Russian physiologist 573 Sederholm, Jakob Johannes (1863–1934), Finnish geologist 540 Sedgwick, Adam (1785–1873), British geologist 530 Seeley, John Robert (1834–95), British historian 469–70, 482 Seeliger, Hugo von (1849–1924), German astronomer 517 Semmelweis, Ignaz (1818–1865), German-Hungarian physician 569, 589 Semper, Gottfried (1803–79), German architect 104 ¨ Serturner, Friedrich Wilhelm (1783–1841), German pharmacist 578 Seyss-Inquart, Arthur (1892–1946), Austrian politician 654 Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), British playwright 199, 452 Shaw, George Bernard (1856–1950), Irish writer 576

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797–1851), British writer 147 Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822), British writer 272 Siebold, Karl von (1804–85), German physician and zoologist 526 Siemens, Werner von (1816–92), German engineer 19, 627 ´ Sierpinski, Wacl
aw Franciszek (1882–1969), Polish mathematician 513 Simmel, Georg (1858–1918), German sociologist and philosopher 487 Simon, Jules (1814–96), French politician and philosopher 99 Simpson, George Gaylord (1902–84), American palaeontologist 539 Skoda, Joseph (1805–81), Austrian physician 562 ¨ Skrodzki, Karol (Jurgen Karl, 1787–1832), Polish physicist and university rector 498 Small, Albion Woodbury (1854–1926), American sociologist 171 Smith, Adam (1723–90), British economist 11, 148, 484 Smith, Arthur Lionel (1850–1924), British historian 474, 475 Snellen, Herman (1834–1908), Dutch ophthalmologist 579 Snellman, Johan Vilhelm (1806–81), Finnish philosopher and statesman 148, 336 Snouck Hurgronje, Christiaan (1879–1936), Dutch scholar of Islam 445 ¨ Soderblom, Nathan (1866–1931), Swedish ev. theologian and historian 414 Sombart, Werner (1863–1941), German sociologist 136, 480, 487 Sonnenschein, Carl (1876–1929), German Cath. theologian 320 Sorby, Henry Clifton (1826–1908), British geologist 540 Spartacus (d. 71 BC), Roman slave and revolutionary 150 Speer, Albert (1905–81), German politician and architect 665 Spemann, Hans (1869–1941), German zoologist 538 Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903), British philosopher 218, 316, 456 Spengel, Johann Wilhelm (1852–1921), German zoologist 534 Speransky, Mihail Mihajloviˇc count (1772–1839), Russian statesman 125 Stael, Madame de (1766–1817), French writer 452

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Name index ˚ Stahlberg, Kaarlo (1862–1952), Finnish jurist and statesman 155 Staiger, Emil (1908–87), Swiss Germanist 432 Stalin, Joseph (1878–1953), Soviet dictator 92, 586 Stas, Jean Servais (1813–91), Belgian chemist 498 Stein, (Heinrich Friedrich) Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum (1757–1831), German statesman 22 Stein, Mark Aurel (1862–1943), British archaeologist and geographer 205 Steinthal, Hajim (1823–99), German linguist 452 Stendhal (pseudonym of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783–1842), French writer 29 Stephen, James (1789–1859), British colonial administrator; historian 470 Stokes, George Gabriel (1819–1903), British mathematician 506 Stoll, Maximilian (1742–88), German physician 561 Strasburger, Eduard (1844–1912), German plant cytologist 538 Strauss, David Friedrich (1808–74), German ev. theologian 30, 411–12 Strindberg, August (1849–1912), Swedish writer 150 Stromeyer, Friedrich (1776–1835), German chemist 504 ˇ ek (1850–1922), Czech Strouhal, Cenˇ physicist 505 Strutt, John William see Rayleigh Stubbs, William (1825–1901), British historian 473–4 ˇ ur, ´ Ludov´ıt (L’udov´ıt, 1812–56), Slovak St student leader, linguist, politician and writer 288 Suess, Eduard (1831–1914), Austrian geologist and palaeontologist 540 Sullivan, Arthur Seymour (1841–1900), British composer 147 Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925), Chinese statesman 223 Susini, Clemente Michelangelo F. (1754–1814), Italian sculptor 562 Suslova, Nadezhda (1843–1918), Russian physician 585 Sutton, Walter Stanborough (1877–1916), American biologist 537 Swieten, Gerard van (1700–72), Dutch-Austrian 556, 559 Sybel, Heinrich von (1817–95), German historian 463, 471

Tagore, Rabindranath (1861–1941), Hindu writer and philosopher 207 Taine, Hippolyte (1828–93), French philosopher and historian 151 Tait, James (1863–1944), British historian 475 Takata, Sanai (1860–1938), Japanese political scientist and university founder 226 Tanaka Fujimaro (1845–1909), Japanese politician 224, 228 Tansley, Arthur G. (1871–1955), British botanist 539 Tarde, Gabriel de (1843–1904), French sociologist 485–6 Tawney, Richard Henry (1880–1962), British economic historian 473, 482, 488 Tegn´er, Esaias (1782–1846), Swedish bishop 148, 159 Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (1881–1955), French theologian and palaeontologist 221, 403 Tenon, Jacques (1724–1816), French physician 545 Thalamas, Franc¸ois (1867–1953), French historian 328 Th´enard, Louis Jacques (1777–1857), French chemist 496, 497–8 Thibaudet, Antoine (1874–1936), French literary historian 134, 157 Thibert, F´elix, French producer of artificial medical models 572 Thierry, Augustin (1795–1856), French historian 460 Thiers, Adolphe (1797–1877), French historian 280 Thomas Aquinas (1224/1225–74), Italian-French theologian and philosopher 402 Thomson, Joseph John (1856–1940), British physicist 508 Thomson, William, Lord Kelvin of Largs (1824–1907), British physicist 156, 508, 515 Thun und Hohenstein, Count Leo von (1811–88), Austrian statesman 51 Tigerstedt, Robert (1853–1923), Finnish physiologist 524 Tiso, Jozef (1887–1947), Slovakian politician 353 Tisserand, Franc¸ois Felix (1845–96), French astronomer 516 Tissot, Simon Andr´e (1728–97), Swiss physician 550 Tobler, Adolf (1835–1910), Swiss Romanist 434

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Name index Toller, Ernst (1893–1939), German writer 346 Tolstoy, Leo (1828–1910), Russian writer 333 ¨ Tonnies, Ferdinand (1848–1923), German sociologist 486 Topelius, Zacharias (1818–98), Finnish-Swedish historian 146 Tout, Thomas Frederick (1855–1929), British historian 475 Traube, Ludwig (1818–76), German physician 429, 565 Traugutt, Romuald (1826–64), Polish revolutionary 306 Treitschke, Heinrich von (1834–96), German historian 307, 468–9, 478, 482 Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876–1962), British historian 472 Treviranus, Gottfried Reinhold (1776–1864), German physician 519, 523 Troelstraa, Pieter Jelles (1860–1930), Dutch writer 341 Troeltsch, Ernst (1865–1923), German ev. theologian 395, 412 Trousseau, Armand (1801–67), French physician 589 Trubetskoi, Sergei Nikolaievich (1802–1905), Russian university rector 155 Trubetzkoy, Nikolai Sergejewich (1890–1938), Russian linguist 452 Ts’ai, Yuan-P’ei (1867–1940) 218 Tschermak, Erich, Edler von Seysenegg von (1871–1962), Austrian botanist 537 Tuke, Samuel (1784–1857), British psychiatrist 551 Tuke, William (1732–1822), British psychiatrist 551 Tullberg, Tycho (1842–1920), Swedish zoologist 534 ¨ Turck, Ludwig (1810–68), Austrian physician 573 Tyler, Edward Burnett (1832–1917), British anthropologist 414 Tytler, Alexander Fraser (1747–1813), British historian 199 Ubaghs, Gerhard (1800–75), Belgian philosopher and theologian 401 Ulyanov, Alexander (1866–1887), Russian revolutionary and brother of Lenin 324 Ulyanov, Vladimir Iljisch see Lenin Usener, Hermann (1834–1905), German Classicist 425

Valenciennes, Achille (1791–1864), French zoologist 522 Vallejo, Jose Mariano (1779–1846), Spanish mathematician 498 Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas (1763–1829), French chemist 495–6 Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovich (1887–1943), Russian plant geneticist 541 Verdi, Giuseppe (1813–1901), Italian composer 30 Vico, Giambattisto (1668–1744), Italian philosopher and jurist 418, 451 Victoria (1819–1901), queen of Great Britain and Ireland 192, 197 Vidal de la Blache, Paul (1845–1918), French geographer 477 Villemain, Abel-Franc¸ois (1790–1870), French literary historian 149, 236 Virchow, Rudolf (1821–1902), German physician 19–20, 489, 526, 532, 533, 564–6, 568–9, 572, 579 Vogel, Hermann Karl (1841–1907), German astronomer 516 Vogt, Karl (1817–95), German geologist 69, 563–4 Volta, Alessandro (1745–1827), Italian physicist 520 Volterra, Vito (1860–1940), Italian mathematician and physicist 539 Voronoff, Serge (1866–1959), Russian-French physiologist 577 Voskresenskii, Aleksandr A. (1809–80), Russian chemist 511 ´ Alexander Boleslav´ın Vrchovsky, (1812–43), Slovak student 287–8 Vries, Hugo de (1848–1935), Dutch botanist and geneticist 537 Waals, Johannes Diderik van der (1837–1923), Dutch physicist 514 Wach, Joachim (1898–1955), German-American theologian 414 Wachler, Johann Ludwig Friedrich (1767–1838), German historian 462 Wade, Thomas (1818–95), British Sinologist 447 Waentig, Karl Heinrich (1843–1917), German university officer 136 Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823–1913), British zoologist 530 Walras, Marie Esprit L´eon (1834–1910), French economist 483–4, 486 Walter von der Vogelweide (c. 1170–c. 1230), German poet 430 Walzer, Richard (1900–75), German Hellenist and Arabist 427

725

Name index Ward, Adolphus William (1837–1924), British historian, linguist 475 Warming, Eugen (1841–1924), Danish botanist 538–9 Waterhouse, Alfred (1830–1905), British architect 104 Watt, James (1735–1848), British engineer and inventor 595 Webb, Beatrice (1858–1943), British historian and social reformer 482 Webb, Sidney (1859–1947), British politician 482 Weber, Max (1864–1920), German sociologist and economist 60, 127, 136–7, 252, 465, 466, 480, 487–8 Wegener, Alfred (1880–1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist 540–1 Weierstrass, Karl (1815–97), German mathematician 500 Weinberg, Wilhelm (1861–1937), German geneticist 539 Weismann, August (1834–1914), German zoologist 536 Wellhausen, Julius (1844–1918), German ev. theologian 395, 443 Wennerberg, Gunnar (1817–1901), Swedish writer 125 Werner, Abraham Gottlob (1750–1817), German geologist 520 Westcott, Brooke Foss (1825–1901), British theologian 413 Westermann, Dietrich H. (1875–1956), German Africanist 448–9 Wette, Wilhelm Martin Leberecht, De (1780–1849), German ev. theologian 99, 407, 409 Whewell, William (1794–1866), British philosopher 498 Wicksell, Knut (1851–1926), Swedish economist 483 Wieger, Leon (1856–1933), French Sinologist 221 Wien, Wilhelm (1864–1928), German physicist 627 Wiesengrund, see Adorno Wilamowitz-Moellendorf, Ulrich von (1848–1931), German Classicist 413, 425, 435, 642 Wilberforce, Samuel (1805–73), British bishop 531 Wilberforce, William (1759–1833), British politician and philanthropist 150 Willem of Oranje-Nassau (1840–79), prince of the Netherlands 302

William I (1772–1843), king of the Netherlands 39, 497 Wilson, Woodrow (1856–1924), American statesman, president of the USA 155, 184 Windelband, Wilhelm (1848–1915), German philosopher 171 ¨ Alfred Prince zu Windischgratz, (1787–1862), Austrian field marshal 294 ¨ Wit-Dorring, Johann von (1800–63), German student leader 278 ¨ Wohler, Friedrich (1800–82), German chemist 503–4, 525, 566 Wolf, Friedrich August (1759–1824), German Classicist 394, 418, 420, 422, 424, 466 Wolff, Christian (1679–1754), German philosopher 494 Wood, Charles (1800–85), British statesman and entrepreneur 200 Wordsworth, William (1770–1850), British writer 272 Wright, Sewall (1889–1988), American geneticist 539 Wulf, Maurice de (1867–1947), Belgian philosopher and historian 399 Wunderlich, Carl Reinhold August (1815–77), German internist 557, 573 Wundt, Wilhelm (1832–1920), German physiologist and psychologist 453, 488 Wurtz, Adolphe (1817–84), French chemist 105 Wysocki, Piotr (1797–1874), Polish revolutionary 283 Xaver of Saxony, Prince (1730–1806), German university founder 598 Yarrow, Alfred F. (1842–1932), British ship engineer 628 Yen, Fu (1853–1921), Chinese university president 217 Yersin, Alexandre (1863–1943), Swiss-born French bacteriologist 529 ´ Zarata, Antonio Gil de (1793–1861), Spanish university reformer 118 Zateplinskiy, P. A. (1794–1834), Russian astronomer 510 Zeeman, Pieter (1865–1943), Dutch physicist 514 Zeiss, Carl (1816–88), German mathematician, physicist and entrepreneur 577

726

Name index Zeller, Carl (1842–98), Austrian opera composer 147 Zeller, Eduard (1814–1908), German ev. theologian and philosopher 395 Zeuss, Johann Kaspar (1806–56), German Celticist 452

Zielinski, Tadeus (1859–1944), Polish Classicist 428 Zinin, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1812–80), Russian chemist 511 Zola, Emile (1840–1902), French writer 302, 328, 528

727

SUBJECT INDEX

Aachen (Germany), technical school, 625, u n i v e rs i t y , 58 Aarhus (Denmark), u n i v e rs i t y , 110–26 Aberdeen (United Kingdom), u n i v e rs i t y , 36 Aberystwyth (United Kingdom), u n i v e rs i t y , 36 Åbo, see Turku academic freedom, 94–8, 169–70 Academies, Acad´emie des Inscriptions et des Belles Lettres, 642, Acad´emie des Sciences in Paris, 17, 522, 529, 642, Academy of Mining in Slovakia, 495, Academy of Sciences in Berlin, 16, Academy of Sciences in Poland, 657, Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, 541, 586, Bergakademie of Schemnitz, 597, Berlin Academy, 642, British Academy, 642, Export Academy in Vienna, 41, International Academy of Science, 643, Leopoldina, 522, Medical Academy in Moscow, 556, Medical Academy in St Petersburg, 556, 559, 573, Medical Academy in Vilnius, 556, Oriental Academy in Vienna, 442, Soviet Academy of Sciences, 666 academies and learned societies, 16–17, 156, 447, 594–5, see also specialized schools accommodation: board and lodging, 102, halls of residence, 104, 105–7, student houses, 107, 110 Adelaide (Australia), u n i v e rs i t y , 214 admission of students, admission rates, 235–7, requirements for admission,

116–17, 377–8, university access, 130–1, 238, 242, 244, 254–7 aesthetics, 439 Africa, French colonies, 193–6, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 191–8 African Studies, 448–9 Agram (Zagreb) (Croatia), student movements, 337, u n i v e rs i t y , 41, languages, 64–5 agriculture, 72, 188, 512, Agricultural Research Committee, 646 Aix-en-Provence (France), u n i v e rs i t y , buildings, 102, finance, 111 Alcala´ (Spain), 37 Alexandria (Egypt), u n i v e rs i t y (Faruk the First University), 192 algebra, see mathematics Algeria, 195 Algiers (Algeria), u n i v e rs i t y , 195 Allahabad University, 200 American, 436 Amsterdam (Netherlands), u n i v e rs i t y , 38, mathematics, 513, physics, 514 anatomy, 18, 493, 520, 581, anatomical collections, 557, 571–2, chairs, 557, 572, morbid anatomy, 571, neuroanatomy, 569, textbooks, 568 Angers (France), Catholic Institute, 91, 397 Anglican colleges, 54, 202, 215 Ankara (Turkey), u n i v e rs i t y , 44 anthropology, 460, 488–9, 526 antiquity, 11, 419–20, 421, 422–5 Antwerp (Belgium), medicine, 554 apprenticeships, 607 Arabic Studies, 186–91, 443 Arabic world, 443 archaeology, 414, 526

729

Subject index archaeology, Christian, 409 Argentina, 183, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 179 arts, 17, 34, 66, 93, 366, 454, artes liberales, 393, theology and, 393–5 Aslib, 648 assistants and amanuenses, 144 astronomy, 107, 493, 498, 499, 510 astrophysics, 516 Athens (Greece), u n i v e rs i t y , 43, 561, finance, 87 atomic weapons, 668 Auckland (New Zealand), u n i v e rs i t y , 215 Austro-Prussian War (1866), 300 Australia, u n i v e rs i t i e s , models, 163 Austria, careers, 383, Catholicism, 299, 323, 330–1, 350, gymnasien and colleges, 51, human rights, 313, Jews, 313, 320–1, 350, languages, 330, nationalism, 313, 322–3, 350–1, students, 51, u n i v e rs i t i e s , autonomy, 51, buildings, 104, engineering, 41, enrolments, 245, finance, 86–7, foundations, 41, mining, 41, models, 51–2, philosophy, 19, 51, women, 248 Austria-Hungary, 287–8, 292–5, 350, languages, 64–5, mining schools, 598, student movements, 298–9, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 118, faculties, 454, finance, 86–7, medicine, 559, models, 64–5, theology, 397–9 Ayn Warak, first college in the Lebanon, 187 Baghdad (Iraq) institutions of higher learning, 186–7 Balkan countries, careers, 384 Baltic states, u n i v e rs i t i e s , buildings, 103 Baltimore (United States), 580–1, u n i v e rs i t y (The Johns Hopkins University), 168, 170, 171 Bamberg (Germany), u n i v e rs i t y , medicine, 552 Bangor (United Kingdom), u n i v e rs i t y , 36 ˆ Banska Stiavinca (Schemnitz) (Slovakia), Bergakademie, 597–8 Barcelona (Spain), 610, engineering, 617, specialist schools, 72, u n i v e rs i t y , 37 Bari (Italy), specialist schools, 71, u n i v e rs i t y , 37 Basle (Switzerland), u n i v e rs i t y , 38, astronomy, 516, mathematics, 505 Bavaria, u n i v e rs i t i e s , faculties, 454 Beijing (China), 220–1, institutions, 218–19, u n i v e rs i t y , 217–18, 222

Beirut (Lebanon), 187, u n i v e rs i t y (American University of Beirut), 187–8 Belfast (United Kingdom), Presbyterian College, 85, u n i v e rs i t y (Queen’s University), engineering, 613 Belgium, careers, 383, Catholicism, 310, 327, 341, CIE, 357, First World War, 642, languages, 24–5, 39, 65, 301, 316, 318, 319, 327, 340–1, mining school, 599, revolution, 282, Second World War, 653, social emancipation, 318–19, specialized schools, 604–5, student associations, 316, 341, student movements, 291–2, 301, 310, 327–8, 655, students, 310, technical schools, 604–5, 621, u n i v e rs i t i e s , admission, 254, arts, 454, Catholic universities, 91, enrolments, 245, medicine, 553–4, mobility, 65–6, models, 65–6, officials, 121, reforms, 39–40, 65–6, research, 656, theology, 397 Belgrade (Serbia), student movements, 337 Bengal (India), colleges, 207 Berkeley (United States), u n i v e rs i t y , 668 Berlin (Germany), 16, 411, Bergakademie, 598, Institute for Oriental Studies, 447, Institute for Physics, 514, Kapp Putsch, 346, seminars and institutes, 60, 408–9, 505, student associations, 297, 329, student movements, 273, 274, 292, 307, 319, 320, technical institute, 505, u n i v e rs i t i e s , medicine, 556, u n i v e rs i t y , 7, 12, 14, 16, 20, 34, 58, 124, 149, chemistry, 503, 504, finance, 60, 86, 111, German studies, 430, history, 465, humanities, 418, languages, 435, 436, 444, mathematics, 500–1, medicine, 558, 564, 587, mobility, 67, models, 21, 33, 47–53, 57–61, 74, 171, philology, 420, 425, philosophy, 453, physics, 501, 502, 505, physiology, 523–4, professors, 49, 137, research, 523, state control, 99, theology, 405, 406–8, see also Helmholtz, Hermann von; Humboldt, August von; Humboldt, ¨ Wilhelm von; Muller, Johannes; Schleiermacher, Friedrich; Schwann, Theodor; Virchow, Rudolf Bern (Berne) (Switzerland), 395, u n i v e rs i t y , 38, 247, professors, 69 Besanc¸on (France), u n i v e rs i t y , buildings, 102, finance, 111 Bilbao (Spain), 611, 617 biology, 343, 519–20, 528–9, cell theory, 19, 525–7, genetics, 536–8, 539, positive

730

Subject index biology, 566, research, 521–3, 585, see also botany Birmingham (United Kingdom), u n i v e rs i t y , 36, finance, 85 Bohemia (Czech Republic), 353 Bolivia, 183 Bologna (Italy), u n i v e rs i t y , 133, dissolution of, 27, freedom, 20–1, status, 27, student movements, 27 Bombay (India), 199, 202, medical school, 557, u n i v e rs i t y , 200–1 Bonn (Germany), student associations, 297, u n i v e rs i t y , astronomy, 516, chemistry, 504, languages, 433, mathematics, 501, philology, 425, see also Strasburger, Eduard books, 142–3, availability, 106, see also libraries; textbooks Bordeaux (France, Gironde), Soci´et´e Philomatique, 615, u n i v e rs i t y , astronomy, 516, theology, 396 Bosnia, nationalism, 337 botany, botanical gardens, 17, 35, 107, 522, chair of, 557 Bratislava (Poszony) (Slovakia), 287, 288, student movements, 352, u n i v e rs i t y , 41, buildings, 103, languages, 64 Braunschweig, see Brunswick Brazil, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 181–2 Breslau (Wroclaw) (Poland), student associations, 329, u n i v e rs i t y , astronomy, 516, languages, 437, mathematics, 501, physics, 505 Bristol (United Kingdom), u n i v e rs i t y , 36 Brno (Czech Republic), 287, 656, student movements, 293, 321, 352, u n i v e rs i t y , 41 Brunswick (Braunschweig) (Germany), 58, student movements, 306 Brussels (Belgium), social emancipation, 318, 319, student movements, 301, 341, u n i v e rs i t y , 40, 282, 655 Bucharest (Romania), u n i v e rs i t y , 42, 560 Buda, see Budapest Budapest (Hungary), 293, student movements, 322, u n i v e rs i t y , 41, astronomy, 516, finance, 84, 87, 111, languages, 64, mathematics, 512, medicine, 559 Buenos Aires (Argentina), u n i v e rs i t i e s , 183 buildings and other properties, 102–5, 149–50, ‘Cathedrals of Science’, 104, finance, 110, 117, medical, 570, see also laboratories

Bulgaria, specialist schools, 43–4, u n i v e rs i t i e s , foundations, 42, 43–4 bureaucratization, 6–9 Burma, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 208–9 business schools, see specialized schools Caen (France), u n i v e rs i t y , buildings, 103 Cairo (Egypt), museums, 444, u n i v e rs i t i e s , Al Azhar University, 164, 191, American University of Cairo, 192 Calcutta (India), 202, 443, colleges, 198–9, medical schools, 557, u n i v e rs i t y , 200–1, 204, 205 California, University of, see Berkeley Calvinism, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 39 Cambodia, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 210–11 Cambridge (United Kingdom), 127, Cavendish Laboratory, 507, 508, student movements, 272, 325, 326, 339, u n i v e rs i t y , 11, 125, access, 244, admission, 92, 116, 243–5, 247, 250, 264–5, astronomy, 516, buildings, 102, colleges, 139, degrees, 247, engineering, 614, examinations, 54, Extension Programme, 309, finance, 62, 64, 84, 111–12, 117, foreign students, 205, history, 469–74, humanism, 54, income, 108, languages, 443, 444, 447, mathematics, 506, medicine, 582, MML, 441, natural sciences, 507, 515, 530, officials, 97, 118–19, physics, 514, 515–16, physiology, 582, privileges, 95, professors, 139, 151, 155, reforms, 61–4, 308, research, 11–12, 62, sciences, 531, social sciences, 481, 482, state control, 95, students, 264–5, theology, 413 Cambridge (United States), u n i v e rs i t y (Harvard University), 166, 169, 172 cameralism, 546 Canada, colleges, 176–7, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 175–7, models, 163 Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), u n i v e rs i t y , 196, 197 Cape Town (South Africa), u n i v e rs i t y , 196, 197 Cardiff (United Kingdom), u n i v e rs i t y , 36 Carlsbad conference (1819), 152 Casablanca (Morocco), 196 Catholic associations, 315, 319, 323, student associations, 297, 330–1, 357 Catholic countries and states, 50–1

731

Subject index Catholic universities, 39, 91, 92, 113, 121, 299, 310–11, 379, 397, 403, colleges, 202, Darwinism, 535–6, institutes, 91, 397, 404 Catholicism, 131, 299, 323, 330–1, 350, modernism and, 401–5, Reformed Catholicism, 399, student associations, 297, 330–1, 357, theology, 395–400 Central America, u n i v e rs i t i e s , models, 163 Cernowitz, see Czernowitz Ceylon, 207–8 chair of, aesthetics, 439, anatomy, 557, 572, Arabic, 393, botany, 557, chemistry, 495, 496, 497, 503, 504, 557, economics, 480, Egyptology, 445, 446, engineering, 613, English studies, 435, Greek, 134, 393, Hebrew, 393, Latin, 134, 421, linguistics, 453, materia medica, 557, mathematics, 506, medicine, 579–80, metallurgy, 495, mineralogy, 495, 497, obstetrics, 557, ophthalmology, 562, oriental languages, 393, 443, 444, oriental studies, 442, pathology, 572, pharmacy, 557, philology, 421, 422, 433, 438–40, philosophy, 420, 457, physics, 496, 502, 515, poetry, 134, practical medicine, 557, rhetoric, 134, Romance Studies, 433, Sanskrit, 452, Sinology, 447, Slavonic Studies, 436–7, sociology, 486, surgery, 557, theoretical medicine (Institutiones), 557, veterinary medicine, 562 chairs or professorships, 71, 89–90, 119, 128–30, 172, see also professors chancellor, 97, 119 Charkov (Ukraine), u n i v e rs i t y , 35, finance, 87 chemistry, 379, 494–5, 497–8, 499, 501, 502, 503–4, 510, 514, 571, 578, agricultural chemistry, 512, bio-chemistry, 514, chair of, 495, 496, 497, 503, 504, 557, industrial, 606–7, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute, 643, laboratories, 504, 507, organic chemistry, 566, physical chemistry, 514, Royal College of Chemistry, 508, 613 Chicago (United States), u n i v e rs i t y , 166, 169, 170, 171, 172, 668 Chile, 183, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 180 China, ‘Boxer Indemnity’, 222, colleges, 218, foreign languages, 216–17, Fudan College, 220, languages, 221, missionary colleges, 220–1, private institutions, 219–20, research, 221–2, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 216–23, autonomy, 222–3

Christiania, see Oslo Christianity, 410–11, 412–13 civil engineering, 599–600 Clark University, see Worcester Clart´e movement, 338, 343 Classicism, 276 Clermont-Ferrand (France), u n i v e rs i t y , 630 clinical schools, 554 Cluj, see Kolozsvar Coimbra (Portugal), u n i v e rs i t y , 181, buildings, 102, medicine, 562 colleges, 3–4, 7–8, 9, 10, 11, 20, 36, 43, 51, 54, 62, 63, 85, 139, 155, 164–77, 192–3, 197, 198–9, 200, 201–3, 207, 215, 218, 247, 308, 315, 380, 505, 507, 508, 513, 531, 614 colleges, national, 99 Cologne (Germany), u n i v e rs i t y , 19, 61 Colombia, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 179 communications studies, 487 Communism, 87, 98, 100, 131, 338–9, 352, 357–8 Congress of Europe (1818), 152 congresses, 130 Copenhagen (Denmark), u n i v e rs i t y , 40, 66, 265, astronomy, 516, finance, 84, medicine, 558, see also Warming, Eugen ´ Cordoba (Argentina), u n i v e rs i t y , 182 ´ Cordoba (Spain), specialist schools, 72 corporatism, 325–37 councils, academic, 119–20, 129, 130, 647 Cracow (Poland), 657, student movements, 283, 290, 298, 305, 334, 351, students, 314, u n i v e rs i t y , 41, 42, 657, astronomy, 516, languages, 64, mathematics, 498, medicine, 560, theology, 398 Croatia, 293, languages, 64–5, student movements, 322, 337, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 41 Czech Republic, Catholicism, 331, Fascism, 352–3, Jews, 321, languages, 299, 330, nationalism, 313, 322–3, 331, student movements, 293, 294–5, 321, 352, technical schools, 41, 603–4, 625, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 41, 287, 352, 656, finance, 87, languages, 65, medicine, 559, physics, 505 Czechoslovakia, CIE, 357, nationalism, 356, parliament, 156, Second World War, 656, u n i v e rs i t i e s , buildings, 103 Czernowitz (Bukowina), u n i v e rs i t y , 41, 330

732

Subject index Dakar (Senegal), 196 Damascus (Syria), 186–7 Danzig, see Gdansk Darmstadt (Germany), technical university, 58 Darwinism, 530–6 Debrecen (Hungary), u n i v e rs i t y , 41, languages, 64 degrees, 38–9, 46, 95, 120, 241–2 degrees: bachelor (baccalaureate), 7–8, 190, 241, 366, doctor, doctorate, 8, 137–8, 366, 625–6, engineering science, 622, honorary degrees, 158, master of arts, 366, Master of Surgery, 582, medical degrees, 582 Delft (Netherlands), student movements, 302, 655 demography, 460 Denmark, constitutionalism, 154, public education ministries, 88, Second World War, 658, students, 266, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 40, 66, 265, admission, 265, astronomy, 516, finance, 84, medicine, 558 dialectical materialism, 460 dialectics, 393 Dijon (France), u n i v e rs i t y , finance, 111 dissertations or theses, 8, 13, 370, 424, 441 documentation, 648 Dominican institutions, 212 Dorpat, see Tartu Dresden (Germany), technical university, 58 dress, 132, 159, 281, 285, 286, 324 Dublin (Ireland), Medical School, 589, Royal College of Physicians, 555, u n i v e rs i t y (Trinity College), 11, 36, mathematics, 507, physics, 505, professors, 155 Durham (United Kingdom), u n i v e rs i t y , 36, engineering, 606 ecology, 538–9 econometrics, 484 economics, 459, 460, 479, 480–2, chair of, 480, specialized schools, 62, 205, 339, 481–2, 486 Edinburgh (United Kingdom), Royal College of Physicians, 555, u n i v e rs i t y , 36, chemistry, 514, medicine, 549, models, 175, philology, 415, reforms, 11, state control, 95 education, costs of, 250–4, history of, 462, phases of, 257, pre-university, 239–40,

242–3, 246, 247–8, 255–6, 650, 669, progressiveness, 257, public education ministries, 88–90, 96, 109 Egypt, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 191–2, Egyptian University (Fuad the First), 191–2 Egyptology, 444 electro-technology, 512 engineering, 41, 71, 602, 606, 613, 614, 615, 617, 623, 625–6, chair of, 613, civil engineering, 599–600, electrical engineering, 618, Engineering Advisory Committee, 650, engineering science, 622, industrial engineering, 611, marine, 44, textbooks, 607 England, careers, 374, Church of England, 166, education, 243, 255, 256, costs, 251, students, 264–5, theology, 413, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 127, access, 244, admission, 243, chairs, 89, Dissenters, 99, 166, dress, 132, enrolments, 245, finance, 118, foreign students, 205, languages, 447, oriental studies, 444, professors, 130–1 English studies, 435 Enlightenment, 411, 544 enrolments, 245 Erasmus University, see Rotterdam Erlangen (Germany), u n i v e rs i t y , 34, chemistry, 503, natural sciences, 501, theology, 411 ethnopsychology, 453 European models, 4–15, 53–5, 163–4, see also Humboldtian model; Napoleonic model evolutionism, 459, see also Darwinism examinations, 22, 54, 140, 142, 366–7, 370, 373 faculties, faculty of arts, 123, 248, 393–4, 454, 493, faculty of humanities, 145, faculty of law, 50, 124, 129, 132, 145, 248, 262, letters, 129, mathematics, 133, 454, medicine, 50, 124, 129, 145, 158, 262, 494, 557–8, 570–5, 579–80, missionary studies, 399, philosophy, 48, 50, 51, 132, 248, 262, 453, 493, 511, physics, 133, science, 123, 129, 454, 497, theology, 50, 113, 123, 129, 145, 158, 248, 262, 393, 396, 405–9 Fascism, 94, 341, 343, 351–2, 358–9 finance, 11, 46, 56, 62, 64, 115, education costs, 250–4, expenditure, 107–10, fees, 45, 52, 68, 116, 118, financial dependence, 84–8, gifts, 56, 112, sources of, 111–14, 117–18, state and, 74

733

Subject index Finland, Darwinism, 534, languages, 335, 336, 337, 343–5, nobility, 159, parliament, 155, Second World War, 659, student associations, 344, student movements, 276, 289, 295–6, 335–7, 344–5, students, 24, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 40, 123, 284, buildings, 104, enrolments, 245, law, 303, officials, 159, professors, 154, 155, 158 First World War (1914–18), 337, 638, 641–5, 652, 669, research institutions, 628–9 Florence (Italy), u n i v e rs i t y , 27, 37, physics, 515 Fort Hare (South Africa), u n i v e rs i t y , 198 France, academies and specialized schools, 34–5, 57, 159, 240, 596–7, 598, 599–600, 615–16, 623, 630, aristocracy, 157, arts, 34, baccalaureate, 240, 244, buildings, 103–4, careers, 45, 127, 374, 375–6, 381, Catholicism, 95, 401, Coll`ege de France, 99, 288, 455, 496, 567, coll`eges, 34–5, 240, colonies, 179, 193–6, 211, Communism, 338–9, Darwinism, 534–5, e´ coles des arts et m´etiers, 496, Edgar Faure Act (1968), 5, education, 152, 240, 242–3, 252, 255–6, costs, 251, examinations, 373, French Revolution, 24, 34, 240, 280, 476–7, 495, July, 281, parliament, 156, politics, 151, 153, public education ministries, 88, 89–90, research, 629, 652–3, Restoration, 86, scholarships, 251, sciences, 34, 495–9, Second World War, 651–3, 669, seminaries, 399–400, social emancipation, 317–18, student associations, 338–9, student movements, 278–80, 288–9, 296, 300–1, 328, students, 262–4, Third Republic, 307–8, Universit´e Saint-Joseph, 188–9, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 4–5, 114, 118, access, 242, 244, admission, 116, 240–3, 246, 247, arts, 56, 93, 248, 454, autonomy, 83, 85, biology, 521–2, buildings, 102, Catholic faculties, 57, Catholic universities, 91, colleges, 7–8, 10, Communism, 98, degrees, 7–8, 46, 95, 120, 241–2, dress, 132, engineering, 626, examination, 140, 142, faculties, 186, 249, 262–4, 497, finance, 45, 46, 56, 85–6, 115, halls of residence, 105–7, historiography, 476–9, income, 108, Jews, 98, languages, 441–2, law, 34, 248, 249, 262, letters, 249, mathematics, 495–9, medicine, 18–19, 34–5, 249, 545–6, 553, 574, 581–2, mobility, 205,

498–9, models, 4–6, 44–7, natural sciences, 16–17, officials, 57, 85, 121, philology, 416–17, 421, 425–6, political dependence, 93, professors, 7–8, 46, 56–7, 116, 139–40, 142, 153, 156–7, 288, reforms, 34–5, 55–7, 307–8, 669, religious discrimination, 93, replacements, 3, research, 12, 91–2, 522, resistance, 99, Romance philology, 12, scholarships, 109, sciences, 57, 113, 249, social sciences, 484–6, state control, 95, 97, statutes and decrees, 93, 97, student movements, 24, 93, 100, student numbers, 101, students, 56, teachers, 108, theology, 6, 396, women, 248, women, 247 Franco-Prussian War (1870), 300, 306–7, 616, 652 Franeker (Netherlands), u n i v e rs i t y , 39 Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany), 285, 292, u n i v e rs i t y , 61, Jews, mathematics, 19, natural sciences, 19 Fredericton, see New Brunswick Freiberg (Germany), mining school, 597–8 Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany), student associations, 297, u n i v e rs i t y , 34, 397, buildings, 104, theology, 399 Freiburg/Fribourg (Switzerland), u n i v e rs i t y , 38 Galicia (Austria), 42, 314, 334 Gdansk (Poland), 58 genetics, 536–8, 539 Geneva (Switzerland), specialist schools, 69, u n i v e rs i t y , 38, 69, 70, professors, 69, sciences, 497 Genoa (Italy), medicine, 562, specialist schools, 71 geography, 460, 477, 479, 483, plant geography, 520 geology, 493, 520, 530–1, 532–3, 539–41 geopolitics, 483 Georgia (United States), u n i v e rs i t y , 165 Germany, academies and specialized schools, 58, 238–9, 243, 262, 608–9, 611–12, 621, 623, 625, 631, careers, 374, 375–7, 381–2, Catholicism, 312, 329, commercial colleges, 380, Darwinism, 533, education, 22–3, 242–3, 255–6, German Student Day, 347, Jews, 275, 312, 313, 320, 347, 349, 587, journals, 431, laboratories, 504, museums, 488, nationalism, 24, 94, 273, 297–8, 311, 312–13, 328–30, 345–51, 478, 513–14,

734

Subject index 587–8, 641–2, parliaments, 153, Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, 627, princes, 50, protest movements, 99, Protestantism, 312, public education ministries, 88, research, 541, 627–8, 661–5, Restoration, 152, 153, Romanticism, 275, schools, 22–3, 120, seminaries, 397, social emancipation, 319–21, student associations, 296–8, 311–12, 345, student movements, 272–6, 285–7, 292–3, 295, 306–7, 311–13, students, 168, 258, 261–2, unification, 285, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 5–6, 7, 114, 118, 124, access, 238, 242, admission, 235–40, 246, 247, 254, 257–62, 377, autonomy, 59, 292–3, biology, 522–3, buildings, 103, 104, business, 61, disappearance, 3, engineering, 613, faculties, 249, 261–2, 454–5, finance, 60, 86, 115, German studies, 430, 432, Greek studies, 23, humanism, 59, humanities, 249, 417–20, laboratories, 105, languages, 429–30, law, 129, 249, 262, 394, mathematics, 19, 494, 499, medicine, 17–18, 22, 129, 249, 262, 546, 570, 587–8, mobility, 205, 526, models, 4–6, 21, 33, 47–53, 57–61, 167–75, 228, natural sciences, 17, 19, non-professorial staff, 59–60, officials, 50, 97, philology, 415, 421–8, philosophy, 19, 129, 248, 262, 499, physics, 515, physiology, 563–5, professors, 8–9, 49, 59–60, 89, 116, 119, 128–9, 131, 134–9, 152, 153, 157–8, reforms, 33–4, research, 60, 292, resistance, 100, sciences, 113, 249, 499–505, 659–61, social sciences, 479–80, 486–7, state control, 91, 94, 96, 98, student movements, 24, 26, 94, students, 57, teaching, 128, theology, 129, 248, 249, 262, 394, 395–6, 397–9, 430, women, 248, Weimar Republic, 94, women, 247 Ghent (Belgium), languages, 341, 655, social emancipation, 318, student movements, 301, 327, technical school, 604–5, u n i v e rs i t y , 39, 65, 282, 655, mathematics, 497, sciences, 497 Giessen (Germany), u n i v e rs i t y , 34, 50, chemistry, 498, 501, 503–4, 606, mathematics, 500, 501, natural sciences, 501, theology, 399 ´ (Spain), 610 Gijon Glasgow (United Kingdom), 11, u n i v e rs i t y , 36, astronomy, 516, engineering, 613, history, 475, Latin, 421, physics, 508, sciences, 595, social composition, 63

Gothenburg (Sweden), Chalmers Institution, 609, u n i v e rs i t y , 40 ¨ Gottingen (Germany), 394, aristocracy, 429, student associations, 297, student movements, 274, u n i v e rs i t y , 34, 94, 123, buildings, 103, chemistry, 503, 504, history, 466, mathematics, 500, 512, 513, natural sciences, 501, professors, 52, 152, 286, 468, state control, 99, theology, 412 graduates, 117, 119, 363–5, 371–2, 387, numbers of, 234–5, overproduction of, 59, 235, 254, 256, 376–9, 384 Grahamstown (South Africa), u n i v e rs i t y (Rhodes University College), 197 Granada (Spain), u n i v e rs i t y , 37 grants, 64, 96, 118, 646, 651 Graz (Austria), Catholicism, 331, nationalism, 313, 323, 331, 350, student movements, 295, 299, technical school, 351, u n i v e rs i t y , 19, 41, 351, buildings, 105, engineering, 41, geology, 541, physics, 505 Greece, careers, 383, student movements, 277, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 43, 114, finance, 87, foundations, 42, medicine, 560 Greek, 23, 134 Greifswald (Germany), student associations, 297, u n i v e rs i t y , 34, finance, 86, mathematics, 501 Grenoble (France), Institut Electronique, 616, u n i v e rs i t y , buildings, 103 Groningen (Netherlands), u n i v e rs i t y , 39, astronomy, 516, sciences, 497 Haifa (Israel), 191 Halifax (Canada), u n i v e rs i t y (Dalhousie University), 175 Halle (Germany), 34, 411, student associations, 297, student movements, 274, 306, u n i v e rs i t y , 34, 466, buildings, 103, chemistry, 503, natural sciences, 501, theology, 405 halls of residence, see accommodation Hamburg (Germany), 447, u n i v e rs i t y , 61, physics, 505 Hanover (Germany), technical university, 58, 348 Hanoi (North Vietnam), u n i v e rs i t y , 211 Harderwijk (Netherlands), u n i v e rs i t y , 39 Harvard University, see Cambridge (United States) Hebrew universities, 190

735

Subject index Heidelberg (Germany), student associations, 297, student movements, 307, u n i v e rs i t y , 34, buildings, 103, chemistry, 503, 504, finance, 86, mathematics, 19, 500, natural sciences, 19, physics, 500, 501, 502 Helsinki (Helsingfors) (Finland), 40, 285, languages, 289, philanthropy, 146, student movements, 303, u n i v e rs i t y , 66–8, 125, 126, 276, 289, buildings, 104, privileges, 125, professors, 152, 158, 336 Hermesianism, 400 Higher Polytechnical Schools, 10 Hindu institutions, 198–9 history, authenticity, 463–76, critical history, 459–63, historiography, 14, 476–9, historicism, 477–9, journals, 462–3, literary history, 431–2 honorary titles, 159 Hong Kong (East Asia), u n i v e rs i t y , 216 hospitals, 545, 548, 549, 589 humanism, 54, 59, 393, 394, 416, 429, 449, 571 humanities, 145, 249, 417–20, 441, 670 Humboldtian model, 4–6, 21, 33, 47–53, 57–61, 64–70, 74, 171, 456 Hungary, careers, 65, Janos Bolyau Institute, 512, Jews, 41, 65, nationalism, 313, public education ministries, 90, student movements, 293–4, students, 51, 323, Treaty of Trianon, 65, women, 65, u n i v e rs i t i e s , administration, 90, buildings, 103, finance, 86–7, foundations, 41, languages, 65, 439, law, 51, 65, mathematics, 512, models, 51–2, 64–5, state control, 94, 98, see also Austria-Hungary Ias¸i (Romania), u n i v e rs i t y , 42, 560 ideological discrimination, 92–3 Imperial Physical-Technical Institute in Berlin, 60 inclusiveness, 235–46 India, colleges, 201–3, languages, 199–200, 206, medical schools, 557, mobility, 205–6, research, 204–5, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 198–207, 227, models, 163, teachers, 205, 206, women, 207 Indo-China, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 210–11, models, 163 Indonesia, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 211–12 industrial engineering, 611 industries, 493, 615, 616, 618, 663, medicine and, 576–8 Innsbruck (Austria), 300, languages, 330, nationalism, 313, 350, u n i v e rs i t y , 41, theology, 398

insignia, 26, 273 institutes, see seminars and institutes internationalism, 642, 645 Iraq, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 186 Ireland (Hibernia), u n i v e rs i t i e s , 11, 36, finance, 85, mathematics, 507, medicine, 85, 555, 589, models, 214, physics, 505, professors, 155 Islam, 44, 442, 444, 445, Islamic institutions, 199 Istanbul (Turkey), mathematics, 513, medicine, 561, u n i v e rs i t y , 44 Italy, Casati Law, Legge Casati, 70, 96, Catholicism, 70, 355–6, 402, Darwinism, 535, engineering, 617, Fascism, 94, 355–6, graduates, 560, languages, 300, public education ministries, 88, research institutions, 629, schools of commerce, 71, Second World War, 659, secret societies, 278, seminaries, 397, technical schools, 602–3, 622, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 10, 114, 118, 119, admission, 248, autonomy, 47, 70, 71, buildings, 102, decrees, 96, distribution, 70, enrolments, 245, finance, 87, income, 108, mathematics, 512, medicine, 562, models, 13, officials, 121, oriental studies, 444, philology, 415, 427–8, political dependence, 94, professors, 71, 140, reforms, 36–7, 47, 70–2, resistance, 100, sciences, 497, social sciences, 482, 486, state control, 96, 98, status, 56, student movements, 26–31, students, 70, 71, 72, theology, 70, 397, women, 248 Japan, languages, 225, private universities, 226, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 223–6, 227, models, 163 Jena (Germany), 577, Catholicism, 329, student associations, 297, student movements, 273, 274–5, u n i v e rs i t y , 34, 125, chemistry, 503, mathematics, 501, see also Haeckel, Ernst Jerusalem (Palestine), u n i v e rs i t y , 189–91 Jesuits, 113, 179, 188–9, 202, 213, 559 Jews, 19, 65, 67, 126, 320–1, 350, 352, 379, 663, access, 131, 333, 349, 527, associations, 312, 330, exclusions, 275, 313, 320, 347, 587, numerus clausus, 41, 65, 349, purges, 98, students, 41, 42, 275, support for, 654 Johannesburg (South Africa), u n i v e rs i t y (Witwatersrand), 197 Johns Hopkins University, see Baltimore journalism, 148

736

Subject index journals, 11, 338, 441, Asiatic studies, 443, 445, chemistry, 514, ethnopsychology, 453, history, 462–3, 478, mathematics, 500, 512, 513, medicine, 547, philology, 425, philosophy, 149, 431, 456, physics, 502, research, 172, Slavonic studies, 436 ¨ Kaliningrad, see Konigsberg Karlsruhe (Germany), technical university, 502, u n i v e rs i t y , buildings, 103 Kazan (Russia), 35, 513, student movements, 304, 324, u n i v e rs i t y , 52, astronomy, 516, officials, 98, sciences, 509 Kharkov (Russia), u n i v e rs i t y , astronomy, 510, mathematics, 509 Khartoum (Sudan), u n i v e rs i t i e s , Gordon College, 192–3, Kitchener School of Medicine, 193 Kiel (Germany), u n i v e rs i t y , 19, 34, 50, 274, 502 Kiev (Ukraine), academies, 36, students, 52, 304, 305 knowledge, international identity, 130, professions and, 365–9 Kolozsvar (Romania), u n i v e rs i t y , 41, languages, 64 ¨ Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) (Russia), student associations, 297, u n i v e rs i t y , 34, mathematics, 499–500, natural sciences, 501, physics, 499–500, 502 Korea, 225 ´ see Cracow Krakow, laboratories, 18, 104–5, 144, 514, astronomy, 516, chemistry, 504, 507, physics, 507, 508, 514, 628, 646, physiology, 571, technology, 619–20 laboratory exercises, 502, 503 laicization, 6–9 Landshut (Germany), 34 languages, 24–5, Arabic, 187, 191, 443, Chinese, 444, 446–8, Croatian, 65, Czech, 64–5, Dutch, 319, 341, English, 435–6, 439, Finnish, 289, 335, 336, 337, 343–5, Flemish, 24, 39, 65, 301, 316, 318, 341, French, 439, German, 439, Hungarian, 64–5, Italian, 300, Japanese, 447, Latin, 428, 571, Manchurian, 444, Medieval and Modern Languages (MML), 441, modern, 438–42, Nordic, 439, oriental, 35, 413, 430, 442–53, Persian, 443, Polish, 64–5, Romance, 438, 439, Sanskrit, 414, 444, 452, sciences of, 393, semitic, 413, 442, 443,

Slavonic, 436–8, Tartar, 444, Turkish, 443 Latin, 421, 571 Latin America, 4, academies and institutions, 179–80, positivism, 178, 180, private universities, 180, student movements, 182–5, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 177–85, reforms, 182–5 Lausanne (Switzerland), u n i v e rs i t y , 38, 70 law, 65, 187, 480, national standards, 90 law, jurisprudence, 460, 480 law, Roman law, 14–15 League of Nations, 339, 342, 357 Lebanon, Jesuits, 188, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 186, 187–9, Universit´e Saint-Joseph, 188–9 lectures, 50, 138, 467–8 Leeds (United Kingdom), 315, u n i v e rs i t y , 36 legal guarantees, 94–8 Leiden (Netherlands), student associations, 315, u n i v e rs i t y , 39, 292, languages, 443, oriental studies, 447, physics, 514, sciences, 497 Leipzig (Germany), student associations, 297, 329, student movements, 307, 319, u n i v e rs i t y , 34, astronomy, 516, buildings, 103, finance, 86, mathematics, 501, natural sciences, 501, oriental studies, 445, physics, 503, professors, 49, theology, 405 Lemberg (Lvov) (Ukraine), student movements, 334, students, 314, u n i v e rs i t y , 41, 42, 657, engineering, 41, languages, 64 Leoben (Austria), nationalism, 313, u n i v e rs i t y , 41 ´ (Spain), specialist schools, 72 Leon libraries, 105, 144, 173–4, book availability, 106 Li`ege (Belgium), student movements, 301, technical school, 604–5, u n i v e rs i t y , 39, 282, mathematics, 497, sciences, 497 Lille (France), Catholic Institute, 91, 397, Institut Industriel, 616, Soci´et´e des Sciences, 615 linguistics, 452, 453 literacy, 462 literary history, 429 literature, literary history, 431–2 Liverpool (United Kingdom), 315, u n i v e rs i t y , 36, social sciences, 486 Ljubljana (Laibach) (Slovenia), 330, nationalism, 314, 322 logic, 479

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Subject index Lombardy (Italy), u n i v e rs i t i e s , engineering, 602 London (United Kingdom), Central Technical College, 62, City and Guilds, 614, colleges, 54, Geological Society, 530, Guy’s Hospital, 589, Imperial College, 62, 614, Inns of Court, 205, King’s College, 54, 200, 508, Linnean Society, 530, London School of Economics, 62, 205, 339, 481–2, 486, Royal College of Chemistry, 508, 613, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, 555, 582, Royal College of Science, 62, Royal College of Surgeons, 531, Royal Engineering College, 614, Royal Geographical Society, 530, Royal School of Mines, 62, 599, 613, Royal Society of London, 530, student movements, 339, technical institutes, 614–15, u n i v e rs i t y , 36, 54, 126, 127, 202, 203, engineering, 606, 625–6, foreign students, 205, history, 474, languages, 441, 444, medicine, 555, 574, models, 165, 198, 200–1, 214, physics, 508, statistics, 513, University College, 54, 200, 508, 513 Louvain (Belgium), languages, 341, social emancipation, 318, student movements, 301, 310, 327–8, students, 291, u n i v e rs i t y , 39, 282, 397, 655, mathematics, 497, officials, 97, oriental studies, 447, sciences, 497, theology, 401–2 Lublin (Poland), u n i v e rs i t y , 657 Lund (Sweden), u n i v e rs i t y , 40, 66, 125, buildings, 103, economics, 483, finance, 84, 87, philology, 420, stellar statistics, 517 Lutheran universities, 132 Lutheranism, 158, 407 ´ Lvov (Lwow), see Lemberg Lyon (France), Catholic Institute, 91, 397, u n i v e rs i t y , buildings, 103, theology, 396 Madras (India), medical school, 557, u n i v e rs i t y , 200 Madrid (Spain), specialist schools, 72, student movements, 354, technical school, 601, u n i v e rs i t y , 37, 73, 302, 354, buildings, 103, halls of residence, 107, medicine, 561, theology, 396 Mainz (Germany), seminary, 397, 399 Malaya, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 209 Malines (Belgium), 39 Manchester (United Kingdom), u n i v e rs i t y , 36, chemistry, 514,

engineering, 614, 615, finance, 85, history, 475, physics, 508, 514, 515 Manila (Philippines), u n i v e rs i t i e s , 212–13 Mannheim (Germany), u n i v e rs i t y , 61 manufacturing industries, 618 Marburg (Germany), student movements, 346, u n i v e rs i t y , 19, 34, 50, buildings, 104, philology, 421, professors, 34 Marieberg (Sweden), military school, 597 materialism, 563–4 mathematical sciences, 393 mathematics, 19, 495–501, 505, 506–7, 508, 510, algebra, 494, applied, 494, arithmetic, 494, calculus, 494, classical analysis, 512, faculty of mathematics, 133, 454, functional analysis, 512, geometry, 494, logic, 513, mathematical analysis, 497, nationalism and, 513–14, probability, 513, research, 512–14, set theory, 512, 513, teaching, 494, topology, 513 Maynooth (Ireland), Royal Catholic College, 85 mechanics, 510, 605, 607–8 medicine, Brownianism, 551–2, 563, chairs, 557, chemistry, 578, degrees, 582, dermatology, 569, faculty expansion, 570–5, histology, 572, homeopathy, 552, 577, insane asylums, 550–1, medical education, 543–4, 553–63, medical instruments, 577–8, Medical Research Committee, 646, medical schools, 34–5, 220, 585, 586–7, medical students, 587–8, military surgeons, 555–7, modernization, 579–85, morbid anatomy, 569, 571, national standards, 90, pathology, 567–70, physiology, 563–70, practical medicine, 557, 573–5, professionalization, 588, Reform Movements, 565–6, Romanticism and, 544–53, specialization, 575–9, 583, vivisection, 576, see also Flexner, A. Medieval and Modern Languages (MML), 441 Melbourne (Australia), 214, u n i v e rs i t y , 214 metallurgy, 495 Mexico, 181, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 179 Michigan (United States), u n i v e rs i t y , 167, 174 Middle East, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 186–91 Milan (Italy), u n i v e rs i t y , 37, engineering, 71, 617, 623 military schools, 595–7 military service, 583–4

738

Subject index military technology, 493, 596–7, 662 mineralogy, 493, 495, 497 mining schools, 10, 62, 495, 597–8, 599, 600, 613 missionary colleges, 186, 201–2, 220–1 missionary studies, 399 mobility, 65–6, 67, 69–70, 74–5, 205–6, 526, foreign students, 74–5, 205, 278, 498–9, 510, 584–5 Modena (Italy), u n i v e rs i t y , 27–9 modernism, Catholicism and, 401–5 monographs, 172, 540 Mons (Belgium), 599 Montpellier (France), medical schools, 34, 553, see also Bordeu, Th´eophile de Montreal (Canada), u n i v e rs i t y (McGill University), 175, 176 Moravia, 321–2, 353 Morocco, 195–6 Moscow (Russia), Medical Academy, 556, student movements, 304, 305, 332, students, 324, u n i v e rs i t y , 35, buildings, 102, languages, 444, mathematics, 513, mechanics, 511, sciences, 509, statutes, 305, students, 52 Mulhouse (France), Soci´et´e Industrielle, 615 Munich (Germany), student movements, 346, u n i v e rs i t y , 34, 126, buildings, 103, mathematics, 501, physics, 505, theology, 399 ¨ Munster (Germany), student associations, 297, u n i v e rs i t y , theology, 398, 399 museums, 17, 35, 144, 444, 531, 557 music, 145

Netherlands, careers, 383, Catholicism, 342, colonies, 211–12, nationalism, 342, revolution, 281, Second World War, 653, social emancipation, 318, socialism, 326–7, student associations, 315–16, 326–7, 341–3, student movements, 282–3, 301–2, 654, students, 292, 309–10, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 114, 118, arts, 66, 454, autonomy, 66, degrees, 38–9, enrolments, 245, foundations, 39, models, 66, philology, 427, physics, 514, reforms, 38–9, women, 248 ˆ (Switzerland), u n i v e rs i t y , 38 Neuchatel New Brunswick (Canada), u n i v e rs i t y , 175 New Haven (United States), u n i v e rs i t y (Yale University), 166, 167, 172 New Scholasticism, 399, 402 New Zealand, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 214–15 Nijmegen (Netherlands), u n i v e rs i t y , 39 Nobel Prizes, 171, 484, 527, 538, 575, 640–1 North Africa, u n i v e rs i t i e s , models, 163 North America, colonies, c o l l e g e s a n d u n i v e rs i t i e s , models, 164–77 North Carolina (United States), u n i v e rs i t y , 165 Norway, Second World War, 658, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 40, 66, 658, enrolments, 245, medicine, 558 Nottingham (United Kingdom), u n i v e rs i t y , 36 numbers, of graduates, 234–5, of students, 57, 58, 74, 101–2, 128, 233–5, 630, 646, of universities, 3

Nagasaki (Japan), 557 Nagyszombat (Trnava) (Slovakia), u n i v e rs i t y , 41 Nancy (France), Institut Electronique, 616, student associations, 308 Nankai (China), u n i v e rs i t y , 219, 222 Naples (Italy), specialist schools, 71, u n i v e rs i t y , 37, 70 Napoleonic model, 4–5, 6, 44–7, 55, 74, 83, 124, 497 nation states, growth of, 40–4 nationalism, 24, 75, 273, 289–90, 297–98, 307–15, 322–3, 328–30, 331, 337, 342, 345–51, 356, 478, 641–2, 670 nations, rise of, 20 natural sciences, 16–17, 19, 130, 454, 501, 507, 515, 530, 539, 541, idealism, 501–2, research, 511–17, status, 669 Neo-Hellenism, 418 Neo-Malthusian movement, 576

observatories, 516, 517 obstetrics, 557 Odessa (Ukraine), student movements, 332, u n i v e rs i t y , 36 ophthalmology, 562 oriental studies, 442–53 Oslo (Christiana) (Norway), medicine, 558, u n i v e rs i t y , 66, 658 Otago (New Zealand), u n i v e rs i t y , 215 Oviedo (Spain), u n i v e rs i t y , 37, 72 Oxbridge (= Oxford and Cambridge), 63, careers, 375, models, 164–7, social composition, 63, see Cambridge, Oxford Oxford (United Kingdom), ‘Oxford Pledge’, 339, socialism, 326, student movements, 326, 339, students, 264–5, u n i v e rs i t y , 11, 116, 127, access, 244, admission, 116, 243–5, 246, 247, 250, 264–5, admission requirements, 92, 99, antiquities, 11, buildings, 102, 104,

739

Subject index Oxford (United Kingdom) (cont.) colleges, 139, degrees, 247, ecology, 539, engineering, 614, Extension Programme, 309, finance, 64, 84, 85, 111–12, 117, foreign students, 205, history, 469–74, humanism, 54, income, 108, languages, 441, 443, 444, 447, mathematics, 506, medicine, 582, officials, 97, 118–19, Oxford Movement, 11, 93, philology, 426–7, physics, 508, privileges, 95, professors, 139, 151, 155, reforms, 61–4, 308, research, 11–12, scholarships, 109, sciences, 531, social sciences, 481, state control, 95, theology, 413 pacifism, 339 Padua (Italy), u n i v e rs i t y , 27, 300, engineering, 602 Palestine, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 186, 189–91 Palma (Spain), specialist schools, 72 Paris (France), academies and specialized schools, 16–17, 529, Bureau Universitaire de Statistique, 117, Catholic Institute, 91, 397, 404, Coll`ege ´ de France, 443, Ecole Centrale, 609–10, ´ ´ Ecole des Ponts et Chauss´ees, 599, Ecole polytechnique, 496–7, 599–600, hospitals, 545, 589, Institut National des Sciences et des Arts, 17, medical schools, 34, 528–9, 548, 549, 553, museums, 35, 444, 495, Physique et de Chemie Industrielles, 616, schools (coll`eges), 34, 55, 56, 86, social emancipation, 317–18, student associations, 308, student movements, 148, 281, 283–4, 290–1, Universit´e Imp´eriale, 6, 45, 83, 124, 497, u n i v e rs i t y , arts, 34, buildings, 104, chemistry, 497–8, 514, finance, 56, 85–6, 111, foreign students, 498–9, 510, halls of residence, 107, law, 34, mathematics, 494, 497–8, medicine, 34, 528–9, 548, 549, 553, 556, mobility, 67, monopoly, 95, officials, 88, 93, oriental studies, 443, philology, 426, sciences, 497, Sorbonne, 92, 97, 99, 103, 133, 421, 499, 514, 567, student numbers, 101, theology, 34, 396 Pasteur Institutes, 529 pathology, 567–70, 572 patronage, 127 Pavia (Italy), hospital, 550, u n i v e rs i t y , 27, 29–31, 300, engineering, 602, medicine, 562, see also Golgi, Camillo P´ecs (Hungary), u n i v e rs i t y , 41 Peking, see Beijing Persian language, 443

Peru, 183, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 179 Pest, see Budapest pharmacology, 550 pharmacy, 43, 503, 557, 579 philanthropy, 146 philhellenism, 282 Philippines, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 212–13 philology, 12, 50, 394, 414, 415–20, breakthrough of, 420–8, comparative philology, 449–53, diffusion of, 438–42, oriental studies, 442–53, origins of modern, 438, seminars, 440–1 philosophy, 19, 20, 51, 129, 248, 262, 393, 429, 453, 460, 499, ancients, study of, 419–20, faculty of philosophy, 48, 50, 51, 132, 262, 453, 454–5, 493, 511, journals, 149, 456, medicine and, 545–6, metaphysics, 394, 401, 521, natural philosophy, 19–20, 493, 520–1, 563, philosophe, 148–9, stages of, 566, status, 48, textbooks, 566, theology and, 453–7 phonology, 452 photography, 516 physics, 516, 571, Cavendish Laboratory, 507, 508, chair of, 496, 502, 515, experimental physics, 495–511, 515, faculty of physics, 133, Institute for Physics, 514, journals, 502, mathematical physics, 497, 507, 515, nationalism and, 513, research, 514–17, theoretical physics, 515 physiology, 493, 523–4, 571, 582, textbooks, 563 Piedmont (Italy), u n i v e rs i t i e s , engineering, 602 Pietermaritzburg (South Africa), u n i v e rs i t y , 197 Pietism, 410, 411 Pisa (Italy), u n i v e rs i t y , 27, mathematics, 512 poetry, 134, 415 Poland, Catholicism, 351, CIE, 357, Communism, 352, Fascism, 351–2, general strike, 334, gentry, 277–8, Jews, 42, 352, languages, 64–5, mobility, 334, rebellion, 150, Romanticism, 277, Sanacja, 352, Second World War, 656–8, student movements, 23, 272, 277–8, 305–6, 314, technical universities, 58, u n i v e rs i t i e s , Catholic universities, 91, medicine, 559–60, state control, 91, 94 political science, 481–4 politics, 151–6, 479 politics, political dependence, 93–4

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Subject index Portugal, parliament, 156, Second World War, 648, 659, u n i v e rs i t i e s , admission, 246, enrolments, 245, finance, 87, medicine, 562, state control, 91, 98 positivism, 178, 180, 455, 460 Poszony, see Bratislava Potsdam (Germany), 517 Prague (Czech Republic), Catholicism, 331, Fascism, 352–3, Jews, 321, languages, 299, 330, nationalism, 313, 322–3, 331, student movements, 294–5, technical schools, 41, 603–4, 625, u n i v e rs i t y , 41, 352, 656, finance, 87, languages, 65, medicine, 559, physics, 505 Presbyterian colleges, 85, 202 Presbyterian universities, 187, 215 Pressburg, see Bratislava Pretoria (South Africa), u n i v e rs i t y , 197 Pribram (Czech Republic), u n i v e rs i t y , 41 printing, 142 private universities, 110, 126, 180, 191, 219–20, 226 professional schools, 34–5 professionalization, 127–8, 384–7, 547, 588, 629–31, national variations, 384, process of, 369–73, scientific research, 511–17 professions, 91, 117, 139, expansion of, 374–80, 493, knowledge and, 365–9, 384, semi-professions, 372, 386 professions, academic, 130–4, 259, 369–71, see also professors professions, civil, 45, 57, 65, 127, 151, 251, 256, 262, 343, 373, 375, engineering, 10, 593, 594–606, in royal or state service, 125, social workers, 372 professions, commercial, 375 professions, ecclesiastical, 370, 374, 394, 453 professions, educational, 374, school-teachers, 372 professions, legal, 131, 251, 262, 370, 374, 381, 382, 453 professions, medical, 131, 251, 262, 370, 374, 382, 384, dentistry, 553, 579, military surgeons, 555–7, nurses, 372, pharmacists, 372, 553, 582, pharmacy, 43, 503, 557, 579, veterinarians, 372 professions, scientific, 256 professorial typology, assistant professor (adjunctus), 140, associate professors, 119, chairholders, 119, 129,

extraordinary professor (extraordinarius), 138, 141, ordinary professor (ordinarius), 129, 131, 138, 141 professors, appointment and requirements, 49, 50, 89–90, 115, 126, 130, 134, 172–3, appointment procedures, 134–40, bureaucratization, 127–8, control of, 115–16, education of, 50, honorary titles, 159, income, 49–50, 108, income and lifestyle, 140–7, laicization, 123–7, mobility, 74–5, nepotism, 131, 370, numbers of, 108, political role, 151–6, public image, 147–8, resignations and exile, 99–100, role of, 21–2, 147–51, self-consciousness, 124, 159, social status, 59, 124, 132–3, 147–60, 670 professorship, see chairs Protestant academies and universities, 131, 188, 213, 394, 398 Protestant associations, 297, 315, 319 Protestantism, 286 Prussia (Germany), 272, careers, 256, 374, education, 239–40, 255, 462, military schools, 597, public education ministries, 88, qualifications, 251, reforms, 22–3, seminars and institutes, 60, students, 266, u n i v e rs i t i e s , admission, 237, 239–40, finance, 250, models, 47–53, professors, 131, 134–5, 141–2, reforms, 34 psychiatry, 551, 576 psycho-analysis, 576 psychology, 452, 460, 479 public authorities, 14 public education ministries, 88–90, 96, 109 public lectures, 149 publishing, 130, 172, 427, 648 Quebec (Canada), u n i v e rs i t y , 177 Queensland (Australia), u n i v e rs i t y , 214 Rabat (Morocco), 196 radioactivity, 508 Rangoon (Burma), u n i v e rs i t y , 208–9 Rationalism, 410 Reading (United Kingdom), u n i v e rs i t y , 36 rector/vice-chancellor, 52, 57, 96, 120, 124, rector magnificus, 97 religion, ideological discrimination, 92–3, scientific study of, 413–14 Rennes (France), u n i v e rs i t y , buildings, 103

741

Subject index research, 47, 105, 170–1, 368–9, 585, finance, 91–2, professionalization, 511–17, research institutions, 60, 172, 626–9, 646, 647, 662, scientific spirit, 13–15, seminars, 440–1, state control, 92, technology, 623–6, wars, 646, 652–3, wartime, 649–51 resistance, 98–100 rhetoric, 134, 393 Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), u n i v e rs i t y , 182 Rockefeller Foundation, 221 Roman law, 14–15 Romance Studies, 12, 432–5, 438, 439, chair of, 433 Romania, Fascism, 353–4, Jorga Law, 94, medicine, 560, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 10, 41, chemistry, 498, foundations, 42–3, mathematics, 498, physics, 498, state control, 94, 96, 98 Romanticism, 275, 276, 277, 282, 398, 410, 430, 502, 520–1, 543, Enlightenment and, 544–53 Rome (Italy), specialist schools, 71, u n i v e rs i t y , 91, engineering, 602, mathematics, 512, physics, 515, student numbers, 101, u n i v e rs i t y (Gregoriana), 403 Rostock (Germany), u n i v e rs i t y , 34, natural sciences, 501, professors, 34 Rotterdam (Netherlands), u n i v e rs i t y (Erasmus University), 39, see also Erasmus Rouen (France), u n i v e rs i t y , theology, 396 Russia, academies, 35–6, 586, aristocracy, 52–3, 157, careers, 376, 382–3, Communism, 87, education, 374, Jews, 333, parliament, 155, public education ministries, 88, Revolution (1905), 67, 333, Revolution (1917), 68, 585, student movements, 25, 303–6, 314–15, 323–4, 331–4, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 10–11, 40, 114, 118, 125, arts, 454, autonomy, 333, dress, 52, finance, 52, 68, 87, Jews, 67, languages, 444, mathematics, 498, medicine, 67, 558–9, 573, mobility, 67, models, 52–3, 66–8, natural sciences, 541, nobility, 67, officials, 52, oriental studies, 447, professors, 52, 157, 305, reforms, 35–6, 68, sciences, 508–11, state control, 95, 97–8, statutes, 67, 68, 333, students, 66–7, women, 67, 333, see also USSR Russo-Japanese War (1904–5), 332 St Andrews (United Kingdom), u n i v e rs i t y , 36

St Gallen (Switzerland), u n i v e rs i t y , 38 St Petersburg (Russia), 35, Academy of Sciences, 541, 586, ‘Bloody Sunday’, 332, Institute of Engineers, 601, Medical Academy, 556, 559, 573, museums, 444, student movements, 303, 304, 324, u n i v e rs i t y , chemistry, 511, finance, 87, languages, 447, mathematics, 510, officials, 98, physics, 510–11, professors, 152, students, 52 Salamanca (Spain), u n i v e rs i t y , 37, buildings, 102, medicine, 561 Salzburg (Austria), u n i v e rs i t y , 41 sanctions, 97–8 Sanskrit, 414, 444, 452 Santiago de Chile (Chile), u n i v e rs i t y , 180 Santiago de Compostela (Spain), specialist schools, 72, u n i v e rs i t y , 37, theology, 397 Saragossa, see Zaragoza Sarajevo (Bosnia), student movements, 337 Saratov (Russia), u n i v e rs i t y , 36 Scandinavia, careers, 383, Scandinavianism, 289–90, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 118, foundations, 66, mobility, 527, models, 66, reforms, 40 ˇ Schemnitz (Banska Stiavnica) (Slovakia), Bergakademie, 597–8 scholarships, 108–9, 250, 251 Scotland, students, 62, 646, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 36, 53–4, 645, admission, 246, councils, 99, engineering, 613, finance, 11, 62, 118, mathematics, 506, medicine, 555, models, 165, officials, 97, reforms, 63, scholarships, 109, social composition, 62–3, state control, 95 Second World War, 638, sciences and, 649–51 Second World War (1939-45), 359, 647–71 secondary schooling, costs of, 250–4 secret societies, 278, 284, 287, 298 secularization, see laicization seminaries, 113, 396, 397, 399 seminars and institutes, 50, 60, 172, 408–9, 505, agricultural institutes, 646, Catholic institutes, 91, 188, 397, 404, City and Guilds, 614, Dominican institutes, 212, engineering, 617, Experimental Biology, 585, Experimental Medicine, 585, Hindu institutes, 198–9, Imperial PhysicalTechnical Institute in Berlin, 60, Institute for Physics, 514, Institut Electronique, 616, Institut Industriel, 616, Institut National des Sciences et des Arts, 17,

742

Subject index Institute of Engineers, 601, Janos Bolyau Institute, 512, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute, 505, 643, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Society, 33, 60, Karolinska Institute, 40, 558, languages, 440, mathematics, 513, Max-Planck Institutes, 541, Pasteur Institutes, 529, Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, 627, technical institutes, 238–9, 243, 262, 505, 608–9 service staff, 115 set theory, 512 Seville (Spain), 610, u n i v e rs i t y , 37, theology, 397 Shanghai (China), 221, u n i v e rs i t y , 219–20, 221 Sheffield (United Kingdom), u n i v e rs i t y , 36 Silesia, 321, 351 Singapore, 209 Sinology, 446–8 Slavonic studies, 436–8 Slovakia, 353, Academy of Mining, 495, student movements, 287–8, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 41 Slovenia, Catholicism, 330–1, nationalism, 313, 331 social class, bourgeoisie, 263, lower-middle class, 259, 264, middle class, 258, 259, 264, 379, 386, upper-middle class, 259 social sciences, 394, 417, 459, 461, 484–6, rise of, 479–9 sociology, 460, 461, 479, 484–8 Sofia (Bulgaria), u n i v e rs i t y , 43–4 South Africa, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 196–8, models, 163 South America, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 46–7, models, 163 Southampton (United Kingdom), 36 Spain, Catholicism, 354, Civil War, 340, 341, 355, colonies, 46–7, Fascism, 354–5, public education ministries, 88, Second World War, 659, specialist schools, 72, student movements, 276, 302–3, 310–11, 328, 354–5, technical schools, 601–2, 610–11, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 3, 114, 284, administration, 90, arts, 454, attendance, 72, autonomy, 46–7, 72, 118, biology, 527, buildings, 103, Catholic universities, 91, engineering, 617, enrolments, 245, finance, 87, graduates, 72, income, 108, languages, 73, mathematics, 494, medicine, 561–2, models, 72, oriental studies, 444, privileges, 95, professors, 72, 89, 108, reforms, 37–8, 72–3, 90, 302, sciences, 498, state control, 95, 98, status, 56, theology, 6, 396–7, women, 248

Spanish America, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 179 specialization, 6–9, 623–6, medicine, 575–9 specialized schools, 57–9, 101, administration, 57, agriculture, 72, 512, buildings, 103–4, business, 38, 39, 44, 57, 71, 72, chemistry, 508, commerce, 71, 380, economics, 62, 205, 339, 481–2, 486, languages, 35, medical, 34–5, 193, 528–9, 548, 549, 553–63, 586–7, 589, military, 496, 595–7, mining, 62, 495, 597–600, 613, natural history, 495, oriental studies, 444–5, veterinary medicine, 72, 562, see also technical schools sport, 107, 309, 325 state control, academic freedom, 94–100 statistics, 513 Stellenbosch (South Africa), u n i v e rs i t y , 197 Stockholm (Sweden), Jews, 126, Karolinska Institute, 558, technical institutes, 609, u n i v e rs i t y , 40, 126, 133, medicine, 558, physics, 514 Strasbourg (France), Catholic Theology Faculty, 91, medical schools, 553, professional schools, 34, u n i v e rs i t y , astronomy, 516, history, 477–8, mathematics, 19, natural sciences, 19 student houses, 107, 110 student movements, 23–31, 100, 148, 153, 269–71, consolidation and anti-liberalism, 307–15, ‘Corps’, 286, 296, fighting for freedom, 271–80, integration, 296–307, international, 356–9, nationalism, 345–51, Philomaths, 277–8, revolution and restoration, 281–8, social and national emancipation, 315–24, students in revolt, 288–96, world politics and corporatism, 325–37 students, 114, 115, 166, attendance, 116, behaviour, 309, 311–12, distribution of, 248–50, dress, 52, female students, 584–5, financial assistance, 108–9, mobility, 74–5, 205, 278, 498–9, 510, 584–5, numbers of, 57, 58, 74, 101–2, 128, 233–5, 630, 646, preparation of, 246–54, responsibilities of, social origins, 257–66, student associations, 20–1, 296–8, 308, 310–14, 316, 320, 329, 341, 344, 345, women, 59, 67, 69, 207, 247–8, 326, 333, 379, 584–5 Stuttgart (Germany), technical university, 58, u n i v e rs i t y , 34, physics, 505 Sudan, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 192–3 surgery, 557, 582

743

Subject index Sweden, 597, careers, 343, Chalmers Institution, 609, Darwinism, 534, Fascism, 343, Jews, 126, Karolinska Institute, 558, medical institutes, 40, military schools, 597, parliament, 155, Scandinavianism, 289–90, Second World War, 659, socialism, 326, student movements, 295, 316, students, 266, 316–17, 343, technical institutes, 609, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 40, 66, 125, 126, 133, 316, 326, 534, admission, 265, astronomy, 516, buildings, 103, 160, chemistry, 495, economics, 483, enrolments, 245, faculties, 454, finance, 84, 87, medicine, 558, models, 66, philology, 420, 421, physics, 514, professors, 150, 155, racial biology, 343, reforms, 289, social sciences, 483, stellar statistics, 517, theology, 405, women, 248 Switzerland, careers, 70, Second World War, 659, secret societies, 278, technical schools, 611, u n i v e rs i t i e s , admission, 247, chemistry, 504–5, enrolments, 245, faculties, 454, mathematics, 504–5, mobility, 67, 69–70, models, 68–70, women, 248, women, 69 Sydney (Australia), u n i v e rs i t y , 214 Syria, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 186–7, models, 163 Szeged (Hungary), u n i v e rs i t y , 41, mathematics, 512 Taiwan, u n i v e rs i t y , 225 Tananarive (Madagascar), 196 Tartu (Dorpat) (Estonia), u n i v e rs i t y , 35, 123, 510, astronomy, 516, medicine, 558, physics, 509 Tashkent (Russia), medical school, 586 Tasmania (Australia), u n i v e rs i t y , 214 teachers, assistants and amanuenses, 144, language, 430 teaching appointments, 89–90 teaching hospitals, 548, 549, 589 teaching, private, 49, 50, 128, 137–8, 141, 172–3 technical schools, 10, 68, 351, 505, 512, 593–4, 595–600, 615–16, 621, 622, certificates and diplomas, 629–31, diversification, 623–6, doctorates, 625–6, engineering, 599–600, industrial engineering, 611, models, 600–6, syllabuses, 618–19 technical universities, 58 technology, for public servants, 594–600, status, 617–23

textbooks, 526, 527, anatomy, 568, chemistry, 497–8, 502, engineering, 607, materialism, 564, mathematics, 494, 497–8, medicine, 546, 548, 552, 566, 567, natural sciences, 509, 539, philosophy, 566, physics, 502, physiology, 563, technology, 617 Thailand, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 209–10 theology, academic theology, 6, 34, 70, 129, 248, 249, 262, 430, archaeology, 409, arts and, 393–5, Catholic, 91, 395–402, dogmatics, 398, 399, 407, faculty of theology, 50, 113, 123, 129, 145, 158, 248, 262, 393, 396, 405–9, liberalism, 410–14, Lutheran, 407, mediation, 411–12, philosophy and, 453–7, 460, Protestant, 398, 399, 405–9, Thomism, 402 theology, biblical exegesis, 398, 407 thermodynamics, 512 Tiblisi (Russia), medical school, 586 Tilburg (Netherlands), u n i v e rs i t y , 39 Tokyo (Japan), u n i v e rs i t i e s , 224–5, 226, professors, 226 Tomsk (Siberia), u n i v e rs i t y , 36 Toronto (Canada), u n i v e rs i t y (University College), 176–7 Toulouse (France), Catholic Institute, 91, 250, 397 Transylvania, 293 Trinity College, Dublin, see Dublin Trnava, see Nagyszombat ¨ Tubingen (Germany), student associations, 297, u n i v e rs i t y , 34, mathematics, 19, 501, 505, natural sciences, 19, physics, 503, professors, 34, theology, 398, 405, 411, 412 Tunisia, 195–6 Turin (Italy), specialist schools, 71, 617, u n i v e rs i t y , engineering, 602, mathematics, 512, physics, 515, professors, 133, 153 Turkey, u n i v e rs i t i e s , foundations, 44 Turkish language, 443 Turku (Åbo) (Finland), 40, 66, student movements, 24, 276, u n i v e rs i t y , 125 Turnau, see Nagyszombat Ukraine, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 35, 36, 41, 42 ultramontanism, 395–400, 402 United Kingdom, careers, 61, 245, 376, 381, Chemical Society, 642, civic colleges, 308, 315, Civil Engineers Institutes, 605, education, 55, 246, Education Act (1944), 650, 669, examinations, 373, Inns of Court, 380,

744

Subject index learned societies, 156, Mechanics’ Institutes, 605, 607, medical schools, 554–5, museums, 531, National Physical Laboratory, 628, 646, parliament, 155, Royal College of Physicians, 380, Royal Society of London, 456, 642, schools, 127, Second World War, 645–51, social emancipation, 318, students, 306, 325–6, 339–40, 646, technical schools, 605–6, University Grants Committee, 64, 96, 118, 646, 651, wars, 645–51, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 11–12, 114, access, 130–1, admission, 243–5, arts, 366, buildings, 103, 104, Catholics, 131, chairs, 89, civic universities, 55, 62, colleges, 63, councils, 98, engineering, 613–15, 625–6, 630–1, finance, 62, 85, 115, 118, foundations, 36, income, 108, Jews, 131, medicine, 547, 572, 574, 576, 582, models, 53–5, 164–7, 193, natural sciences, 17, officials, 96, 121, physics, 515–16, privileges, 95, professors, 156, reforms, 61–4, 380, religious discrimination, 92, research, 627, 628, 646, sciences, 506–8, social composition, 62–3, social sciences, 482, 486, sport, 309, 325, state control, 95, women, 248 United States, academic institutes, 172, atomic weapons, 668, libraries, 173–4, politics, 155, Rockefeller Foundation, 174, Second World War, 665, 667–8, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 164–7, 227, academic freedom, 169–70, Egyptian university, 192, foreign students, 205, medicine, 580–1, 585, mobility, 168, models, 163, 192, 221, professors, 169, research, 170–2, 665, social sciences, 487, students, 166 universitates, 20–1 university administration, 115–21, 144, councils, 98–9, education, 90–4, staff, 107–8, state control, 88–94 university autonomy, 13–14, 46–7, 51, 59, 66, 70, 71, 72, 83–4, 85, 90–100, 117–21, 222–3, 292–3, 333 university models, 4–13, 15, 21, 33, 166, 175, 200–1, 214, 227–9, see also Cambridge; European models; Humboldtian model; Napoleonic model; North America; Oxford university officials, bursar, 85, commissar, 50, curator, 50, 97, Grand Master, 88, 93, inspector general, 96, secretary, 115, visitor, 97, see also chancellor; rector/vice-chancellor university presses, 172, 427

university reforms, 7–8, 11, 33–40, 47, 54, 57, 61–4, 65–6, 68, 70–3, 90, 182–5, 302, 307–8, 380, 669 university typology, 4, private universities, 110, 126, 180, 191, 219–20, 226, student movements, 295, 316, u n i v e rs i t y , 40, 125, 534, astronomy, 516, buildings, 103, 160, chemistry, 495, finance, 84, 87, models, 66, philology, 420, professors, 150, racial biology, 343, reforms, 289, social sciences, 483, theology, 405 Uruguay, 183, u n i v e rs i t y , 180 USSR, 10, Communism, 100, Marxism, 585–7, medical schools, 586–7, non-Communists, 358, public education ministries, 88, Second World War, 666–7, u n i v e rs i t i e s , buildings, 103, resistance, 100, state control, 91, 94, 98 utilitarianism, 588 Utrecht (Netherlands), student movements, 302, u n i v e rs i t y , 39, 553, medicine, 554, 556, teachers, 108 Valencia (Spain), 610, u n i v e rs i t y , 37, 536 Valladolid (Spain), u n i v e rs i t y , 37 Varna (Bulgaria), 44 Vergara (Spain), 610 veterinary medicine, 72, 562 Victoria (Canada), colleges, 176 Victoria (New Zealand), 215 Vienna (Austria), 19, Catholicism, 323, 331, Export Academy, 41, Jews, 320–1, languages, 330, nationalism, 313, 323, 350, 351, student movements, 51, 287–8, 293–4, 295, 298–9, 337, technical school, 603–4, u n i v e rs i t y , 41, astronomy, 516, buildings, 102, 104, 105, engineering, 41, finance, 87, languages, 436, 442, law, 51, medicine, 549, 556, 562, 574, physics, 505, students, 42, see also Rokitansky, Carl Vietnam, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 210–11 Vilnius (Vilna) (Lithuania), Medical Academy, 556, student movements, 277, u n i v e rs i t y , 35, 283, 657, mathematics, 498, medicine, 559, physics and mathematics, 509, professors, 152 Vistulaland (Poland), 334 vitalism, 521, 551–3, 563 Wales, colleges, 308, u n i v e rs i t i e s , 36 Warsaw (Poland), 305, 357, revolution, 305–6, student movements, 283, 314, u n i v e rs i t y , 42, 306, astronomy, 498, mathematics, 512, medicine, 560, physics, 498

745

Subject index Wellington (South Africa), u n i v e rs i t y , 197 West Africa, u n i v e rs i t i e s , models, 163 Western Australia, u n i v e rs i t y , 214 Windsor (Canada), u n i v e rs i t y (King’s College), 175 women, 59, 67, 69, 207, 247–8, 326, 333, 379, female professors, 65, 126, 133, philanthropy, 146 Worcester (United States), u n i v e rs i t y (Clark University), 169, 170, 171 ¨ Wurzburg (Germany), student associations, 297, u n i v e rs i t y , 34, chemistry, 504, mathematics, 501, medicine, 564, natural sciences, 501, physics, 503

Yale University, see New Haven (United States) Yugoslavia, u n i v e rs i t i e s , buildings, 103 Zagreb, see Agram Zaragoza (Saragossa) (Spain), u n i v e rs i t y , 37, 73, theology, 397 Zionism, 330 zoological parks, 107 Zurich (Switzerland), Federal Polytechnical, 68, 504–5, 611, 625, u n i v e rs i t y , 38, buildings, 104, chemistry, 504, mathematics, 504, medicine, 584, physics, 505, professors, 69, theology, 412

746