ABSTRACT
The impact of German university scholarship upon nineteenth-century American higher education is one of the most significant themes in modem intellectual history. German influence on American educational thought went back at least as far as the European Wanderjähren of Everett, Ticknor, Bancroft, and Cogswell in the early nineteenth century. It was at this time that the German universities were beginning to attain leadership in the world of thought. Eighteenth-century Halle and Göttingen had already shown signs of shifting their emphasis from teaching to creative and original research, but this trend was greatly accelerated with the founding of the University of Berlin in 1810. The example of Berlin revitalized older German universities and led to the founding of new ones, such as Breslau (1811), Bonn (1818), and Munich (1826). 1
