University of Wrocław

The University of Wrocław is a public research university in Wrocław, Poland, and the largest institution of higher learning in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It opened on 15 November 1702 as the Leopoldina, a Jesuit school of philosophy and Catholic theology founded by Emperor Leopold I. In 1811 the Prussian state merged it with the Protestant Viadrina University from Frankfurt on the Oder and re-established it in Breslau as the Royal University of Breslau, with faculties of philosophy, medicine, law and Protestant and Catholic theology. The present university was reconstituted in 1945 as the direct successor of that German University of Breslau. In this atlas it matters as the place where the German criminal law scholar Julius Abegg held a professorship from 1826, while the city was still Breslau in Prussian Silesia.