Illuminati what is it?

Answer 1

The Illuminati WAS (not "is") a secret society founded in what is now southern Germany, the city of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, on 1 May 1776, by Adam Weishaupt. Weishaupt was a secular professor at the University of Ingolstadt, a Jesuit University. It lasted for about nine years, until it drew the ire of Pope Clement XIV and the Bishop of Nuremberg, who had its founders and members hunted down at the behest of Charles Theodore, the Elector of Bavaria (and cousin of the Bishop of Nuremberg). Weishaupt himself fled north to the city of Gotha where he died in 1830.

Answer 2

The Illuminati WAS (not "is") a secret society founded in what is now southern Germany, the city of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, on 1 May 1776, by Adam Weishaupt. Weishaupt was a secular professor at the University of Ingolstadt, a Jesuit University. It lasted for about nine years, until it drew the ire of Pope Clement XIV and the Bishop of Nuremberg, who had its founders and members hunted down at the behest of Charles Theodore, the Elector of Bavaria (and cousin of the Bishop of Nuremberg). Weishaupt himself fled north to the city of Gotha where he died in 1830.