ERLANGEN, a town of Germany, in the Land of Bavaria, on a fertile plain, at the confluence of the Schwabach and the Regnitz, I I m. N.W. of Nuremberg, on the railway from Nurem berg to Bamberg. Pop. (1933) 32,37r. In 1017 Erlangen was transferred from the bishopric of Wiirzburg to that of Bamberg; in 1361 it was sold to the king of Bohemia. It became a town in 1398 and passed into the hands of the Hohenzollerns, bur graves of Nuremberg, in 1416. It owes the foundation of its pros perity chiefly to the French Protestant refugees who settled here on the revocation of the edict of Nantes and introduced various manufactures. In 181 o it came into the possession of Bavaria. Erlangen was for many years the residence of the philosophers Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schnelling. It is divided into an old and a new town. Upon the market place stand the town hall and the former palace of the margraves of Bayreuth, now the main building of the university. The latter was founded by the margrave Frederick (d. 1763), who, in 1742, established a university at Bayreuth, but in 1743 removed it to Erlangen. The chief industries of Erlangen are the manufacture of electrical apparatus, horn ware, leather, paper, brushes and gloves. The beer of Erlangen is famous throughout Germany and large quantities are brewed and exported.