I. History

In the early modern period, as territorial states were being formed on the soil of the Holy Roman Empire, Brandenburg-Ansbach/Bayreuth took the side of the Reformation in 1526. In 1529, at Luther's suggestion, it set out to establish a territorial university, but this hope was never realized, not least because Nürnberg established its own academy at Altdorf, which became a university in 1622. In 1701 an academy of chivalry was established in Er…