Urburschenschaft
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thumb|150px|Urburschenschaft Monument at the University of Jena|Friedrich Schiller University Jena The Urburschenschaft () was the first Burschenschaft, a form of the German student fraternity known as Studentenverbindung. It was founded in 1815 at the University of Jena and lasted through 1819.
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thumb|150px|Urburschenschaft Monument at the University of Jena|Friedrich Schiller University Jena The Urburschenschaft () was the first Burschenschaft, a form of the German student fraternity known as Studentenverbindung. It was founded in 1815 at the University of Jena and lasted through 1819.
== History == Urburschenschaft was founded in 1815 at the University of Jena in Jena, Thuringia, in Germany. It formed when the university's existing Seniors' Convention of Landsmannschaft dissolved the convention and reformed as the first Burschenschaft.
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