Albertina University was opened around Królewiec (Königsberg) in 1544 by Albrecht of Brandenburg, first duke of the Protestant Prussia, as a Lutheran counterpart to the Roman Catholic Jagiellonian University of Krakow. It was a 2nd oldest university inside Brandenburg-Prussia & comprised four colleges - of theology, of medicine, of philosophy, and of law. Its 1st minister was 36-season-old poet Georg Sabinus, son--within-relative-in-law of Philipp Melanchthon. Subsequent minister involved many Prussian royals, world health organization got never been to the university.

In the 17th century, the university was referred to as a page to Simon Dach and his fellow poets. In the 18th century, its minister was Immanuel Kant, who never left Konigsberg & whose grave is in the university premiss. Its glorious botanical garden was inaugurated inside 1811. Both years late, Friedrich Bessel established his outstanding observatory in the adjacent house to the garden. More university prof involved such giants of globe science when a philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1806-07), the life scientist Karl Ernst von Baer (1817-34), the mathematicians Carl Gustav Jacobi (1829-42), the mineralogist Franz Ernst Neumann (1828-76), and a physicist Hermann von Helmholtz (1849-55).

In the 20th century, a university was best known for its school of maths, associated sustaining the list of Einstein's teacher Hermann Minkowski and David Hilbert, one of the greatest modern mathematicians. Within 1944, the university celebrated its 400th day of remembrance.

A as a result season, even so, lot of Konigsberg was annihilated per Red Army. 80% of the university campus was destroyed. A Albertina was closed & replaced sustaining a russophone Kaliningrad Teachers Institute. Around 1967, the university wwhen reinstated as Kaliningrad State University. In modern buildings, a select few remains of the old university structures can be seen.

In a period of the celebrations of Kaliningrad's 750th day of remembrance within 2005, Vladimir Putin and Gerhard Schröder announced that a university would become renamed into the Kant Russian State University.

Famous alumni
Immanuel Kant Johann Gottfried Herder E.T.A. Hoffmann Christian Goldbach Gustav Kirchhoff Karl Rudolf König Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen Ewald Christian von Kleist Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner Kristijonas Donelaitis