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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    ot Pomerania and Prussia, and no longer train tlieir sons to agriculture, which pays so badly. Tlie Peichslande^' send extremely few men to the univer- sities—at least to the German universities. They hold aloof, too, not merely from the departments of study that lead to State appointments, but also from medicine, science, &c., although a slight improvement is observable in the last ten years, the numbers being 6'7 as against 13-.3. Of students of theology, Wiirtemberg at present supplies 18'6 per 100,000 inhabitants; the province of Saxony, 13'1 : Mecklenburg, 11’2 ; Pomemnia, 10 ; the smallest numbers—apart from the Eeichslande, where the jiropor- tion is 2—being in tlie Ehineland, 4’4, and Bavaria, 5’0, although there is no contest there between Church and State; still the Lycks, as we shall see, compete with the universities. Students of law come in specially large numbers from the provinces of Prussia, Pomerania, and Mecklenburg, and chiefly from the rural districts ; the proportion from each is between 15 and 16 per 100,000 inhabitants; But Wiirtemberg and Bavaria also have high figures—16, 14‘4. Tlie new pro- vinces of Prussia, however, show still but small inclination to the career of the civil service—6, 7, 8'2, 8'6, although in Hesse-Nassau and Schleswig-Holstein since 1871 a distinct improvement is observable, with 2‘4 and 3‘4. In * [That is, Elsass-Lothringen, the districts acquired from France after the war of 1870-71. They have an area of 5600 square miles and a population of IJ millions. They do not form an integral part of the kingdom of Prussia, or any other German State. They are a Province of the Empire, and are governed by a Lieutenant appointed by the Emperor. Strassburg is the University of the Province. It may be taken as a measure of the importance attached to the higher education, and the direct interest taken in it by the German Government, that one of its first acts, after the acquis- ition of the Province, was the foundation of this University. It was founded in 1872.]