The German universities for the last fifty years / by Dr. J. Conrad, authorized translation by John Hutchinson and a preface by James Bryce.

  • Johannes Conrad
Date:
1885
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    that liave been made, nor uniformly in all parts of Ger- many. The first general and uniform inquiry and collection of such statistics for all Germany is that of 1871, and the last that of 1880. In 1871, out of every 10,000 in- habitants, there were 6,231 Protestants and 3,621 Catholics; and in 1880, 6,260 Protestants and 3,588 Catholics. By the statistics of population for the separate German States for the year 1858, the population was 6,370 ; 3,570. This is a little more favourable for the Protestant side, as Elsass-Lothringen was wanting, in which the Catholic popidation preponderates. For the Old-Prussian provinces more exact figures can be got farther back:— 1837 ’43 ’58 ’71 ’80 Protestants, 6,103 6,094 6,123 6,067 6,049 Catholics, 3,755 3,762 3,731 3,775 3,774 For the earlier periods the result for Germany, as for Prussia, is the same, as showing a change to the disad- vantage of the Protestants. Over all Germany it is only in the last decade that an increase in the Protestant popula- tion has taken place.* But the change is so small that we may reckon on coming near enough to the real state of the case by assuming the proportion for the thirties at 6,390 : 3,550 ; for the forties, 6,370 : 3,570 ; for the sixties,' 6,300 : 3,600, &c. These proportions will yield sufficient exactness to enable us to proceed with our calculations, while even more serious alterations will not be able to modify the final result of our inquiry. We shall, at all events, come nearer the truth by the division into the confessions than if we confined ourselves simply to population. Comparing the Protestant population of Germany with the Protestant students of theology, we obtain the following proportions :— * [This is said to have been the result of a shifting of population and emigra- tion, rather than of accessions to the Protestant from the Catholic confession. ]