Weishaupt was a young professor of Canon Law at the University of Ingolstadt, Bavaria; the only layman in a cloister controlled by ex-Jesuits (the company was dissolved in 1773), whose harassment of anything suspected of heresy (read Protestantism) ended up awakening an anticlerical sentiment in an enlightened man like him. https://michaelr332jkj1.wikiannouncement.com/user