University of Leipzig is one of the oldest educational institutions in Germany, as well as one of the largest research centers. In 1409, when more than a thousand students and professors left the university in Prague due to the outbreak of the Hussite wars, and their efforts to create a real Leipzig University Corporation. It resumed the work of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and rulers such as Frederick I Wilhelm II and supported their initiatives, they were allocated a building and money for the maintenance of the university formed.

One of the first medical faculty was opened in 1415, followed by, after almost 30 years, became available and legal. University of Leipzig had four fraternities, among whom were meyssenskoe, Polish, Saxon and Frankish. From land, granted several Electors, the school received its own revenues and use them for their own needs.

University Library can be called one of the largest and oldest in Germany. Its founder was Caspar Borner, bringing together numerous book and manuscript holdings monasteries suppressed during the Reformation. There are about 8,700 manuscripts and 3,600 early printed books, 173,000 manuscripts copyright-scripts. A special place at the University of Leipzig take a few museum collections: Antique and Egyptian museums, natural science collections and the museum of musical instruments.

This ancient "temple of science" currently has 14 faculties and over 150 institutes. Students of the University of Leipzig was one of the most famous personalities of the past, including poets such as Gotthold Lessing and Johann Goethe, the composers Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Gottfried Leibniz and Friedrich Schlegel.