Institution

University of Rostock

1419 · 15th century

The University of Rostock, founded in 1419 in the Hanseatic city of Rostock with papal approval, is one of the oldest universities in Germany and the oldest in the Baltic Sea region. In the late Middle Ages it drew students from across Scandinavia and the Baltic, and after the Reformation it became a stronghold of Lutheran orthodoxy.

University of Rostock
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Duchy of Mecklenburg

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