Publisher's Synopsis
In 1854, the Innsbruck students received the minister for culture and education Leo Thun-Hohenstein on his arrival in Innsbruck with a large torchlight procession and paid homage to the minister with songs they had composed themselves. They celebrated him as the new Prometheus, as the one who filled the Austrian universities with the light of enlightenment through his university reforms and will lead the universities into a new era.\nChristof Aichner examines the turning point of the Austrian universities using the example of the University of Innsbruck. The focus of the study is the implementation of the Thun-Hohenstein reforms in the area of tension between national interests and local conditions. The effects of the reform are also discussed in a medium and long-term perspective.
