The Tübinger Stift (German:[ˈtyːbɪŋɐˈʃtɪft]ⓘ) is a hall of residence and teaching; it is owned and supported by the
Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg, and located in the university city of
Tübingen, in South West Germany. The Stift was founded as an
Augustinianmonastery in the
Middle Ages. After the
Reformation, in 1536,
Duke Ulrich turned the Stift into a seminary which served to prepare
Protestant pastors for Württemberg. To this day the scholarship is still given to students in preparation for the ministry or teaching in
Baden-Württemberg. Students receive a scholarship which consists of boarding, lodging and further academic support.
"One need only utter the words 'Tubingen School' to get an understanding of what German philosophy is at bottom—a very cunning form of theology." —
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, 1895, par.
10.
Martin Leube: Das Tübinger Stift: 1770 – 1950; Geschichte des Tübinger Stifts. Stuttgart, Steinkopf (1954)
Reinhard Breymayer: Freimaurer vor den Toren des Tübinger Stifts: Masonischer Einfluss auf Hölderlin? In: Tubingensia: Impulse zur Stadt- und Universitätsgeschichte. Festschrift für Wilfried Setzler zum 65. Geburtstag. Hrsg. von Sönke Lorenz und Volker [Karl] Schäfer in Verbindung mit dem Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde und Historische Hilfswissenschaften der Universität Tübingen. Redaktion: Susanne Borgards. (Ostfildern:) Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2008 (Tübinger Bausteine zur Landesgeschichte, 10), pp. 355–395.
ISBN978-3-7995-5510-4.