COPENHAGEN, UNIVERSITY or. The only university in Denmark. and the oldest and one of the most famous in Northern Europe. It was founded by Christian I., in 1478, taking its statutes as well as some of its teachers from the University of Cologne, which, up to that time, had been the chief resort of Danish stu dents. This first foundation perished during the civil wars accompanying the Reformation, but was reestablished in 1539 by Christian lll,, as a Protestant university, on the model of Witten berg, then at the zenith of its influence. This foundation, destroyed by lire in 172S, was re established in 1732 by Christian VI., anti reor ganized on its present basis in 1788. Among the distinguished men who have shed lustre on the university are Holberg, in the first half of the eighteenth century, and Oehlenschliiger, the poet, lladvig, the classical scholar, Brisk. the philolo gist, Oersted, the physicist, and Worsaae. the archTologist, in the first half of the nineteenth century. Supported partly by the State and partly by endowment, the university had, in 1902, some 2000 students, a library of 300,000 volumes, museums, an academy of surgery. and
an observatory. Instruction is gratuitous, and the courses are open to both sexes. The uni versity has five faculties. Attached to it are botanical and zoological gardens.
CoPENICK or XiiPENICK, A town in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, situated at the confluence of the Dahme and the Spree, 10 miles southeast of Berlin. It contains a royal palace dating from the sixteenth century, now used as a seminary for teachers, and a seven teenth-eentnry Rathaus. The chief manufactures include glass, linoleum, starch, sugar, chicory, shoddy, and trimmed lumber. Population, in 1890, 14,619: 1900, 21,024. The city is men tioned in 1157, as the residence of the Slavic prince Jaczo. It was conquered by the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1240, and plundered by the Russians in 1760.