– Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg.
– the oldest university in Germany (founded in 1386).
– two major campuses: one in Heidelberg’s Old Town and another in the Neuenheimer Feld quarter on the outskirts of the city.
– among the prominent thinkers associated with the university: Robert Schumann, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Jaspers, Hannah Arendt, Hermann von Helmholtz, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, Emil Kraepelin, Wilhelm Wundt, Alfred Wegener, Max Weber, Helmut Kohl.