List of early modern universities in Europe
The list of early modern universities in Europe leads to all universities that existed in Europe in the early modern period ( 1501-1800 ). It also includes short-lived start-ups and educational institutions whose university status has not been resolved by the research conclusion. The operation of the medieval university was continued in modern times, and their number increased from about eighty to nearly two hundred to. While the universitas now held also in Eastern Europe to Moscow collection, it came in their ancestral country to a new wave of foundations, which was fueled by the competition of Protestantism and the listed by the Jesuit Counter-Reformation. At the same time built Spanish, and British colonial universities and colleges in the New World and so initiated the global spread of the university as the highest educational institution of the present one (see List of oldest universities).
Definition
A short definition of the University, its components, how they have evolved in the Middle Ages and the early modern period, provides the multi-volume History of the University in Europe, the European Rectors' Conference:
" The university is one, indeed the European institution par excellence: As a community of teachers and learners, special powers of self-government, the formulation and implementation of curricula and research objectives as well as the awarding officially recognized academic degrees, it is a creation of the European Middle Ages. ..
No other European institution such as the University has with their traditional structures and their scientific achievements throughout the world gained universal recognition. The titles of the medieval university, bachelor, licentiate, master's degree, doctorate, are recognized in a variety of political and ideological systems. The four medieval faculties of theology, law, medicine, and the Artes have indeed partially received other designations. For example, the Faculty of Arts was the philosophical, to that of lettres, sciences, humanities. Numerous, especially social sciences and technological disciplines came added, but are the old schools still around the world at the core of universities. Even the name of the universitas, which was used in the Middle Ages for cooperatives of various types and accordingly initially designated only the corporate organization of teachers and students, received over the centuries an intellectual appreciation: As universitas litterarum embodies the university since the 18th century, the Institution which has to maintain all of the sciences and to mediate. "
List
The list is sorted by the date of recognition. Where more than one university was established in a place, the name of the institution is in parentheses.