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| | University of Copenhagen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04) |
 | | It was founded by a Bull which Sixtus IV issued 19 June, 1475, at the request of King Christian I. This Bull authorized the primate, the Archbishop of Lund, to establish a university in any place selected by the king; and the latter, by letters patent of 4 Oct., 1478, laid the foundation at Copenhagen. |
 | | The university suffered severely during the religious upheaval, but was reorganized under King Christian III by the Lutheran theologian, Johann Bugenhagen (1539), called for that purpose from Wittenberg. |
 | | In the conflagration of 1728 the university buildings were almost totally destroyed, but were at once restored by King Christian VI (1732). |
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