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Tübinger Stift is a hall of residence and teaching of the Protestant Church in Württemberg. It was founded in 1536 by Duke Ulrich for Württemberg born students who want to be ministers or teachers. They receive a scholarship which consists of boarding, lodging and further support. At the Stift during all times from beginning high importance is placed on Philosophy and Philology. Among students and tutors have been famous theologians, philosophers, poets and savants of other arts and sciences.1 Famous students from the past
- Nikodemus Frischlin, poet, humanist ( 1547 - 1590)
- Michael Mästlin , astronomer, mathematician ( 1550 - 1631)
- Johannes Kepler, astronomer ( 1571 - 1630Events February 22 Native American Quadequine introduces Popcorn to English colonists June 6 Swedish warships depart from Stockholm to Germany June 26 Swedish troops begin to land in Pomerania to aid Protestants July 6 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolph)
- Johann Valentin Andreae, theologian ( 1586Events November 19 Henry Barrow, English Puritan and Separatist is imprisoned. The reign of Emperor Ogimachi of Japan ends and Emperor Go-Yozei ascends to the throne of Japan. Toyotomi Hideyoshi becomes grand minister of Japan. William Harrison becomes ca - 1654Events April 5 Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War. June 3 Louis XIV of France crowned at Rheims June 6 Charles X succedes his cousin Christina to the Swedish throne. After her abdication on June 5, Christina now the for)
- Wilhelm Schickhardt , theologian, astronomer, universal scientist ( 1592Events January 30 The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. Ippolito Aldobrandini is elected Pope Clement VIII. Founding of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university Thomas Kyd publishes The Spanis - 1635Events February 10 The Academie francaise in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite. April 13 Maronite warlord Fah-al-Din II executed in Constantinople October 9 Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massac)
- Johann Albrecht BengelJohann Albrecht Bengel ( June 24, 1687 1752), Lutheran divine and scholar, was born at Winnenden in Wurttemberg. His father died in 1693, and Bengel was educated by a friend, who became a master in the gymnasium at Stuttgart. In 1703 Bengel left Stuttgart, theologian ( 1687Events March 19 The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River. July 5 Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published. December 31 The first Huguenots set sail - 1752)
- Christoph Oetinger, theologian ( 1702 - 1782)
- Karl Friedrich Reinhard , French politician and diplomate ( 1761 - 1837)
- Karl Philipp Conz , poet, writer ( 1762 - 1827)
- Friedrich Hölderlin, poet ( 1770 - 1843)
- Georg Hegel, philosopher ( 1770 - 1831)
- Friedrich Schelling, philosopher ( 1775 - 1854)
- Gustav Schwab, minister, poet, writer ( 1792 - 1850)
- Ferdinand Christian Baur, theologian ( 1792 - 1860)
- August Pauly , philologist ( 1796 - 1845)
- Wilhelm Hauff, writer ( 1802 - 1827)
- Wilhelm Waiblinger, poet, writer ( 1804 - 1830)
- Eduard Mörike, minister and poet ( 1804 - 1875)
- Friedrich Theodor Vischer, writer, professor of literature ( 1807 - 1887)
- David Friedrich Strauß, theologian, philosopher, writer ( 1808 - 1874)
- Hermann Kurz, poet, writer ( 1813 - 1873)
- Eduard Zeller, theologian, philosopher ( 1814 - 1908
- Georg Herwegh, poet, revolutionist ( 1817 - 1875)
- Ferdinand von Hochstetter, geologist, naturalist ( 1829 - 1884)
- Albert Schäffle, economist, sociologist, politician ( 1831 - 1903)
- Eberhard Nestle , theologian, orientalist ( 1851 - 1913)
- Hans Vaihinger, philosopher ( 1852 - 1933)
- Johannes Hieber , politician ( 1862 - 1951)
- Karl Heim , theologian ( 1874 - 1958)
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