Der moderne Antisemitismus in Leipzig formiert sich

In the organizer's words:

A lecture by Dr. Katrin Löffler

In 1880, when the so-called anti-Semitic petition called for the emancipation of Jews in Germany to be reversed, students at Leipzig University organized themselves to spread this petition. Ernst Luthardt, rector of the university and respected professor of theology, allowed them to do so. Among the first signatories of the petition was the controversial astrophysicist Karl Friedrich Zöllner; however, the liberal political scientist Karl Biedermann and the theology professor and missionary to the Jews Franz Delitzsch took a clear opposing position.

The lecture traces the beginnings of organized anti-Semitism in Leipzig.