Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Part I. The eighteenth century: 2. The first eighteenth-century reform; 3. The second eighteenth-century reform movement; Part II. The Humboldt era: 4. Revolutionary upheavals and the rise of Berlin; Part III. The German universities and the revolution Wissenschaft, 1819–1866: 5. The professoriate and the research ethic, 1819–1866; 6. Students, finances, and politics, 1819–1866; Part IV. Universities in the German Empire: 7. The expansion of the universities; 8. The universities, state, and society, 1866-1914; 9. Conclusion.

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This is a comprehensive history of the German university system in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.