Erlangen, a Bavarian town on the Regnitz, has a celebrated Protestant university, founded by Wilhelmina, sister of Frederick the Great, who was the Electress; was a place of refuge for the Huguenots in 1685; manufactures in gloves, mirrors, and tobacco are carried on, and brewing.
Population (circa 1900) given as 13,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Erivan * Erlau