TUBINGEN, a walled city of Wurtemberg, in the circle of Schwarz wald, is situated in 48° 32' N. lat, 9° 4' E. long., on the Neckar, over which there is a stone bridge, at its confluence with the Ammer, about 20 miles S. from Stuttgardt. The town is irregularly built in the old style. The most regular portions are the two suburbs, oue of which, on the right bank of the Neckar, contains the handsomest houses. The inhabitants, in number about 9000, are partly employed in the manufacture of woollen cloths; but Tubingen is chiefly interest ing on account of its university, which was founded in 1477: Reuchliu and Melancthon were among its professors. After the Reformation it remained entirely Protestant till ]803, when Romau Catholic students were admitted at Tubingen. The university has faculties of medicine, jurisprudence, philosophy, Protestant and Roman Catholic divinity, and political economy, above 60 professors and teachers, and above 800 students yearly. The university has a library which num
bers, it is said, 200,000 volumes of printed books ; a good collection of natural history, a cabinet of medals, a collection of mathematical, astro nomical, and philosophical instruments, an observatory, and botanic garden. There are a Protestant and a Roman Catholic seminary, and an anatomical theatre. The library and many of the collections of the university are in an ancient palace or castle called Hohen-Tubingen, which was formerly strongly fortified. Among the principal public edifices, besides the university, are St George's church; the town-hall, built in 1435; the two seminaries; the museum ; the court-house; the city hospital ; the infirmary and lying-in hospital. The town has several printing-offices, dyeing-houses, breweries, and manufactures of woollen-cloth.