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Show UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN. The University of Copenhagen, brought into prominence by the discovery of the north pole, was founded by Pope Sixtus IV in a Bull issued June 19, 1475, and on the petition of King Christian I. This Bull empowered the Archbishop of Lund to establish a university wherever in Denmark the King should designate. The Archbishop drew up its statutes, and promulgated them on Xovember 28, 1479. This was almost precisely four years before Luther, the father of Protestantism, so-called, so-called, was born. The first university of Lutheran-ism, Lutheran-ism, or, in other words, of Protestantism, was the University of Marburg in 1527. The University of Copenhagen of today comprises all faculties of a university proper, namely, of theology, law, medicine, medi-cine, philosophy and the sciences. About 2,000 students stu-dents attend its lectures by ninety-seven professors. profes-sors. It has a great library of 350,000 volumes, with about 6,500 manuscrips. |
