1911, German Empire, Wilhelm II. Silver 3 Mark Coin.
Mint Date: 1911
Reference: KM-531.
Mintage: 400,000 pcs.
Mint Place: Berlin (A)
Denomination: 3 Mark “Breslau University”
Weight: 16,68gm
Diameter: 33mm
Material: Silver
Obverse: Heads of Frediedrich Wilhelm III and Wilhelm II left. Mintmark of Berlin (A) below bust´s truncation. Legend: FRIEDRICH WILHELM III WILHELM II . 1811 UNIVERSITÄT BRESLAU 1911 .
Reverse: Crown above heraldic eagle with shield and order at chest. Legend: DEUTSCHES – REICH 1911 * DREI MARK *
The University of Wroclaw (Polish: Uniwersytet Wroclawski; German: Universität Breslau; Latin: Universitas Wratislaviensis) is one of nine universities in Wroclaw, Poland. The university was founded in 1702 as Leopoldina, and refounded in 1811 as Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau. In 1945, after the area passed to Poland, it was re-established primarily from the former University of Lwow. From 1952 to 1989, it was renamed Boleslaw Bierut University.
After the defeat of Prussia by Napoleon and the subsequent reorganisation of the Prussian state, the academy was merged on August 3, 1811, with the Protestant Viadrina University, previously located in Frankfurt (Oder) and re-established in Breslau as the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau. At first, the conjoint academy had five faculties: philosophy, medicine, law, Protestant theology, and Catholic theology.
Connected with the university were three theological seminars, a philological seminar, a seminar for German Philology, another seminar for Romanic and English philology, an historical seminar, a mathematical-physical one, a legal state seminar, and a scientific seminar. From 1842, the University also had a chair of Slavic Studies. The University had twelve different scientific institutes, six clinical centers, and three collections. An agricultural institute with ten teachers and forty-four students, comprising a chemical veterinary institute, a veterinary institute, and a technological institute, was added to the university in 1881. In 1884, the university had 1,481 students in attendance, with a faculty numbering 131.
The library in 1885 consisted of approximately 400,000 works, including about 2,400 incunabula, approximately 250 Aldines, and 2840 manuscripts. These volumes came from the libraries of the former universities of Frankfurt and Breslau and from disestablished monasteries, and also included the oriental collections of the Bibliotheca Habichtiana and the academic Leseinstitut.