Almanach der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Erster Jahrgang.

SPENGEL, Simon (editor). Almanach der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Erster Jahrgang. Munich, Anton Weber, 1828. 12mo, (127x100 mm), pp. [iv], lithographic frontispiece portrait and lithographic title, xvi, [4], 323, 1; original pictorial boards (lithograph) by Franz Xaver Winterhalder (see Winkler, 929), a.e.g., a very good copy. The only issue of the almanac for Munich University, prepared to celebrate its new location with extensive information on the opening ceremonies, staff, students, library etc. Particularly striking are the lithographs decorating the boards, illustrating the university seals on the upper board and part of the university buildings on the lower board, and the frontispiece portrait by the German painter and lithographer Franz Xaver Winterhalder (1805-1873), best known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It was originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke Ludwig IX of Bavaria-Landshut and is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operation. In 1800, the university was moved from Ingolstadt to Landshut by Maximilian I, Joseph of Bavaria, when the city was threatened by the French, before being relocated to its present-day location in Munich in 1826 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Köhring p. 14. Worldcat: outside of Germany, Harvard.