Source of European Intellectual Life:
The Duchy of Prussia was the first German state to introduce the Reformation.
The pioneering research of Nicolaus Copernicus, who lived in the Prussian region of
Ermland, had great effects on the development of science. The University of Königsberg -
founded in 1544 - as well as East-Prussian poets and philosophers like Simon Dach, Johann
Christoph Gottsched, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottfried Herder, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ernst
Wiechert, Agnes Miegel, Johannes Bobrowski and Siegfried Lenz account for major
contributions to Germany's cultural heritage.
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