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| | Germany's Viadrina University Turns 500 | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 26.04.2006 |
 | | The Alma Mater Viadrina was founded in 1506 by the Prince of Brandenburg, Joachim I, as the state's foremost university. |
 | | As the various churches vied for prominence over subsequent centuries, the Viadrina remained characterized by religious tolerance, withstanding the effects of the Reformation in the 1530s and becoming, by the early 17th century, a strongly Calvinist university even though the theology faculty retained a Lutheran department. |
 | | In its heyday, it was a stronghold of humanism and enlightened values, spawning generations of high-profile graduates who went on to become diplomats, lawyers and high-ranking members of the military. |
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