As the result of merging the Catholic Leopoldina of Wrocław and the Protestant Viadrina of Frankfurt (Oder), a state university is created. The new higher school provides education for youth of different nationalities and denominations at five faculties: of Catholic theology, Protestant theology, law, medicine, and philosophy. In 1893/1894 academic year a Pole, Slavic linguist Professor Władysław Nehring, becomes the rector of this German university.
