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ERLANGEN , a See also: town of See also: Germany, in the See also: kingdom of See also: Bavaria, on a fertile plain, at the confluence of the See also: Schwabach and the See also: Regnitz, r r m
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N.W. of See also: Nuremberg, on the railway from See also: Munich to See also: Bamberg
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Pop
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(1905) 23,720
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It is divided into an old and a new town, the latter consisting of wide, straight and well-built streets
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The market place is a See also: fine square
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Upon it stand the town-See also: hall and the former palace of the margraves of
See also: Bayreuth,, now the See also: main See also: building of the university
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The latter was founded by the See also: margrave See also: Frederick (d
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1763), who, in 1742, established a university at Bayreuth, but in 1743 removed it to Erlangen
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A statue of the founder, erected in 1843 by See also: King
See also: Louis I. of Bavaria, stands in the centre of the square and faces the university buildings
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The university has faculties of philosophy,
See also: law, See also: medicine and See also: Protestant See also: theology
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Connected with it are a library of over 200,000 volumes, See also: geological, anatomical and mineralogical institutions, a hospital, several clinical establishments, laboratories and a botanical garden
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Among the churches of the town (six Protestant and one See also: Roman Catholic), only the new town See also: church, with a
See also: spire 220 ft. high, is remarkable
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The chief See also: industries of Erlangen are spinning and See also: weaving, and the manufacture of See also: glass, paper, brushes and gloves
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The See also: brewing industry is also important, the See also: beer of Erlangen being famous throughout Germany and large quantities being exported
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Erlangen owes the foundation of its prosperity chiefly to the French Protestant refugees who settled here on the revocation of the edict of See also: Nantes and introduced various manufactures
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In Io17 the place was transferred from'the bishopric of See also: Wurzburg to that of Bamberg; in 1361 it was sold to the king of Bohemia
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It became a town in 1398 and passed into the hands of the Hohenzollerns, burgraves of Nuremberg, in 1416
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There for nearly three centuries it was the See also: property of the margraves of Bayreuth, being ceded with the rest of Bayreuth to Prussia in 1791
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In 1810 it came into the possession of Bavaria
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Erlangen was for many years the residence of the poet See also: Friedrich Ruckert, and of the philosophers Johann Gottlieb See also: Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schnelling
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See Stein and See also: Miller, Die Geschichte von Erlangen (1898)
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