This movement was founded on May 1, 1776, in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt (d. 1830),[1] who was the first lay professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt.[2] The movement was made up of freethinkers, as an offshoot of the Enlightenment,[3] which some contemporary writers like Seth Payson believed was a conspiracy to infiltrate and overthrow the governments of many European states.[4] Some writers, like Augustin Barruel and John Robison, even claimed that the Illuminati was behind the French revolution, a claim that Jean-Joseph Mounier dismissed in his book On the Influence Attributed to Philosophers, Free-Masons, and to the Illuminati on the Revolution of France.[5]
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
The Illuminati
This movement was founded on May 1, 1776, in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt (d. 1830),[1] who was the first lay professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt.[2] The movement was made up of freethinkers, as an offshoot of the Enlightenment,[3] which some contemporary writers like Seth Payson believed was a conspiracy to infiltrate and overthrow the governments of many European states.[4] Some writers, like Augustin Barruel and John Robison, even claimed that the Illuminati was behind the French revolution, a claim that Jean-Joseph Mounier dismissed in his book On the Influence Attributed to Philosophers, Free-Masons, and to the Illuminati on the Revolution of France.[5]
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