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PRE-REFORMATION In its first several Decades , the university grew rapidly, opening colleges not only for philosophers from the Realist and Nominalist schools, but also for poor students wishing to study the Liberal Arts . Among its most famous instructors in the late 1400s were the poet Conrad Celtes , the Hebrew scholar Johannes Reuchlin , and the Bavarian Historian Johannes Thurmair (also known as " Johannes Aventinus "). THE REFORMATION AND ITS AFTERMATH The , who made the university a bastion for the traditional Catholic faith in southern Germany . In Eck's wake, many Jesuits were appointed to key positions in the school, and the university, over most of the 1600s , gradually came fully under the control of the Jesuit order. Noted scholars of this period include the Theologian Gregory Of Valentia , the Astronomer Christopher Scheiner (inventor of the Helioscope ), Johann Baptist Cysat , and the poet Jacob Balde . The Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II received his education at the university. THE END OF THE UNIVERSITY The as a result. The university finished that year's school term, and left Ingolstadt in May of 1800, bringing to a quiet end the school that had, at its peak, been one of the most influential and powerful institutes of higher learning in Europe . MISCELLANEOUS Victor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" was a gifted but slightly crazy student at the University of Ingolstadt. Therefore Frankenstein's monster might encounter unsuspecting tourists as a part of the so called "Murder&Mystery-Tour" offered by the local tourist information. See also: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |