Erlangen

Erlangen, a town of Bavaria, on the Regnitz, 12 miles N. of Nuremberg. As old as the 10th century, it owes its prosperity to the settlement here of French Huguenots after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), and to its university (1743), which is celebrated as a school of Protestant theology, and attended by from 600 to 900 students. A statue of its founder, the Margrave Frederick of Brandenburg-Baireuth, was erected in the marketplace in 1843. Brewing is the staple industry; and besides its extensive stocking and glove manufactories, which provide the greater part of Germany with their goods, Erlangen has great mirror and tobacco factories. Burnt in 1449 and 1632, Erlangen came to Bavaria in 1809. Pop. (1875) 13,597; (1890) 17,559, of whom four-fifths are Protestants.