Garret_729 on 17/3/2009 at 02:14
From Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the beginning of chapter 3:
"When I had attained the age of seventeen, my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt (1) I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva..."
"(1) Ingolstadt, in Bavaria, was a university town from 1472 to 1800. Adam Weishaupt, a professer of canon law at Ingolstadt, founded the order of the Illuminati there in 1776. This secret society favored free thinking and radical politics, and was alleged to have ties with the Jacobins. It was outlawed in 1785. The university moved to Landshut in 1800, then in Munich in 1826."
(The Jacobins were the radical leftists/liberalists behind the French Revolution)
I thought it was an interesting coincidence and I wanted to share it with the TTLG community.
