Bonn
a German town in the Rhenish province of Prussia, beautifully situated on the left bank of the Rhine. It has some trade and manufactures, but is chiefly important for its famous university, founded sity, founded in 1777 by Elector Maximilian Frederick of Cologne, and for its cathedral, which has a crypt of the 11th and medieval wall paintings.
Enlarged and amply endowed by the King of Prussia , in 1818, the university is now one of the chief seats of learning in Europe, with a library of more than 300,000 volumes, an anatomical hall, minand zoological collections, museum of antiquities, a botanical garden, etc.
Beethoven was born here. Bonn was long the residence of the Electors of Cologne; in 1794 the French took possession of the town , but it finally passed into the hands of Prussia by the arrangements of the Congress of Vienna, in 1815. Pop. about 88,000.