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 | | The first was the electoral Prince Johann Friedrich I of Saxony, also called “the Magnanimous,” who decided (after having lost the region of Wittenberg in the battle of 1547) to move his university to the banks of the river Saale. |
 | | The second was Johann Wolfgang Goethe, who later brought distinguished poets, philosophers, and scientists to lecture at this educational establishment, which became an imperial university in 1558. |
 | | Needing military assistance against the Turks in the East and France in the West, Charles, in the Peace of Nuremberg of 1532, suspended the 15 April deadline until the convening of a general church council, and this, from a legal point of view treasonous, coalition against the Emperor survived. |
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