Heidelberg Sights

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität

#6 of 47 things to do in Heidelberg

#21 of 199 things to do in Baden-Württemberg

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Lonely Planet review for Ruprecht-Karls-Universität

Despite witty observations about boisterous student duels and drunkenness, Mark Twain points out that 'idle students are not the rule' in Heidelberg in his 1880 novel A Tramp Abroad. Indeed Germany's oldest university, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, established in 1386 by Count Palatinate Ruprecht I, has plenty of gravitas with a student hall of fame starring composer Robert Schumann and chancellor Helmut Kohl. Today it comprises 18 faculties with 32,000 students from 80 nations.

 

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