236 years ago today, Adam Weishaupt, the first lay professor of canon law, founded the secret order of Illuminati at the University of Ingolstadt on May 1st 1776. It was made up of freethinkers as an offshoot of the Enlightenment and seems to have been modeled on the Freemasons.
Vortrag von Prof. Karl-Heinz Braun im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Dichter und Denker in Freiburg" im Wintersemester 2006 / 2007
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