Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, often shortened to MLU, is a public research university in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, with its campus today in Halle and a convention centre in Wittenberg. It was created in 1817 when the Prussian University of Halle, founded in 1694 by Frederick III of Brandenburg, absorbed the University of Wittenberg, founded in 1502 by Frederick the Wise. In the eighteenth century Halle became a centre of Pietism and of the German Enlightenment, and its practice of lecturing in German and giving professors control over their own work led later writers to call it the first modern university. The university is organised in nine faculties and is the oldest and largest in Saxony-Anhalt. In this atlas it matters as the home of the eighteenth century scholar Ludwig Heinrich von Jakob, who studied and taught philosophy at the University of Halle before turning to political economy and criminal law reform.