Historical contexts
The history of LMU Munich features some outstanding events that have significantly determined its development.
The risk involved in choosing particular turning points is that they only partially reflect the overall historical context, or misrepresent it altogether. To provide a more realistic basis on which such turning points can be located, the dates indicated along the timeline are accompanied by brief characterizations of the periods concerned, which are intended to provide a broader indication of their historical significance:
- 1472: Foundation of the Hohe Schule zu Ingolstadt
- 1477–1585: The Age of Humanism
- A concise architectural history of LMU
- 1549–1773: The Jesuits and the University
- The Age of Enlightenment
- The University as a bastion of the Counter-Reformation
- The Landshut Interlude in the Age of Romanticism
- LMU in the 19th century
- The changing face of the LMU student
- 1918-1945: The Weimar Republic and the Nazi Period
- 1942/43: The White Rose Resistance Group
- Reconstruction and expansion after the Second World War
- The evolution of the University Statutes
- LMU in the 21st Century