Tübinger Stift

Tübinger Stift

Tübinger Stift is a hall of residence and teaching of the Protestant State Church in Württemberg, located in the university city of Tübingen. 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.

Famous students from the past

• Nikodemus Frischlin, poet, playwright, humanist, mathematician, astronomer (1547 - 1590)
• Michael Maestlin, astronomer, mathematician (1550 - 1631)
• Johannes Kepler, astronomer (1571 - 1630)
• Johann Valentin Andreae, theologian (1586 - 1654)
• Wilhelm Schickhardt, theologian, astronomer, universal scientist (1592 - 1635)
• Johann Albrecht Bengel, theologian (1687 - 1752)
• Friedrich 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)
• Edwin Hoernle, politician (1883 - 1952)
• Daniel Miller, theological ethicist (2009)

Quote

• "One need merely say «Tübingen Seminary» to understand what German philosophy is at bottom—an insidious theology." – Friedrich Nietzsche

Literature references

• Martin Leube: Das Tübinger Stift: 1770 – 1950; Geschichte des Tübinger Stifts. Stuttgart, Steinkopf (1954)
• Reinhard Breymayer: Freimaurer vor den Toren des Tübinger Stifts: Masonischer Einfluss auf Hölderlin? In: Tubingensia: Impulse zur Stadt- und Universitätsgeschichte. Festschrift für Wilfried Setzler zum 65. Geburtstag. Hrsg. von Sönke Lorenz und Volker [Karl] Schäfer in Verbindung mit dem Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde und Historische Hilfswissenschaften der Universität Tübingen. Redaktion: Susanne Borgards. (Ostfildern:) Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2008 (Tübinger Bausteine zur Landesgeschichte, 10), pp. 355 – 395. - ISBN 978-3-7995-5510-4.

External links

• Tübinger Stift

Coordinates: 48°31′10″N 9°03′12″E / 48.51944°N 9.05333°E / 48.51944; 9.05333

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