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The Rückert fountain was erected in honor of Friedrich Rückert in the castle garden in place of a bird bath and unveiled in 1904 on the day of the university's foundation. The Art Nouveau fountain is based on a design by the architect and artist Theodor Fischer and was executed by the Erlangen sculptor Johann Baptist Mantel. A saying from Rückert's didactic poem "The Wisdom of the Brahman" is quoted on the back wall of the fountain.
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In 1904, the sculptor Johann Baptist Mantel created the Rückert fountain on the site of the Vögelbrünnlein, based on a design by Theodor Fischer. The fountain, designed in a squat Art Nouveau style, is dedicated to the poet Friedrich Rückert, who worked as a professor of oriental languages at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen between 1826 and 1841. During this time he wrote one of his most successful works, The Wisdom of the Brahman, from which a verse was incorporated into the fountain as an inscription:
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