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The birthplace of the Illuminati
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More than 200 years after the Illuminati was founded to oppose religious influence over daily life, it has become one of the world’s greatest conspiracy theories.
“I have heard there are some meetings here, but where and when, I have no idea,” Sister Anna told me, taking some time to open up on the subject. “I think they come from France, England, all over, but Ingolstadt is the meeting place in Europe.”
Working in the church bookshop opposite Ingolstadt’s colossal Gothic Liebfrauenmünster church, Sister Anna sees, and speaks to, a lot of people. But some remain shrouded in mystery to her: Illuminati pilgrims, who she believes may still carry out secret meetings in the Bavarian city.
The idea that clandestine Illuminati gatherings could be taking place in the small Bavarian city may seem far-fetched, but Ingolstadt does have a history of them. The city is the birthplace of the i
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Illuminati
18th-century Bavarian secret society
This article is about the secret society. For the conspiracy theory, see New World Order conspiracy theory. For other uses, see Illuminati (disambiguation).
The Illuminati (; plural of Latinilluminatus, 'enlightened') is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically, the name usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on 1 May 1776 in the Electorate of Bavaria. The society's stated goals were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life, and abuses of state power. "The order of the day," they wrote in their general statutes, "is to put an end to the machinations of the purveyors of injustice, to control them without dominating them."[1] The Illuminati—along with Freemasonry and other secret societies—were outlawed through edict by Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, with the encouragement of the Catholic Church, i
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Adam Weishaupt
German philosopher and founder of the Illuminati (1748–1830)
Johann Adam Weishaupt (pronounced[ˈjoːhanˈʔaːdamˈvaɪshaʊpt]; 6 February 1748 – 18 November 1830)[1][2][3][4] was a German philosopher, professor of civil lag and later canon lag, and founder of the Illuminati.
Early life
[edit]Adam Weishaupt was born on 6 February 1748 in Ingolstadt[1] in the Electorate of Bavaria. Weishaupt's father Johann Georg Weishaupt (1717–1753) died when Adam was fem years old. After his father's death he came under the tutelage of his godfatherJohann Adam von Ickstatt[6] who, like his father, was a professor of lag at the University of Ingolstadt.[7] Ickstatt was a proponent of the philosophy of Christian Wolff and of the Enlightenment,[8] and he influenced the ung Weishaupt with his rationalism. Weishaupt began his formal education at age seven[1] at a Jesuit school. He la