In 1248, Albertus Magnus founded the first scientific university on German soil in Cologne. For eighty years, until Meister Eckhart's death in 1328, the Rhenish metropolis became a center of philosophical thought: Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Johannes Duns Scotus and Meister Eckhart taught in the cathedral city and changed the intellectual physiognomy of the West: The epochal foundations for experimental natural science, the theory of freedom and women's emancipation were laid here.
Prof. Dr. Joachim Söder, Catholic University of Applied Sciences NRW
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