The mobility and scientific impact of professors of the University of Gießen and other European universities is one of the objectives of in the project Upper Tail Human Capital and the Rise of the West (UTHC) financed by the European Research Council/ERC. For a summary description of scholars and literati who engaged in teaching at the Ludoviciana, see David de la Croix and Robert Stelter, (2021), Scholars and Literati at the University of Gießen (1607–1800), Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae/RETE, 2:31–37. It illustrates the scientific impact of a typical small German state university in the 17th and 18th century.
