This is what Ingolstadt looked like at that time in history.
When Victor Frankenstein had reached the age of 17 his parents decided that instead of spending the rest of his education in his homeland, they would have him learn a different culture while finishing his education. With that decided Victor decided to go to the university of Ingolstadt. Victor was set to leave early, but His cousin Elizabeth had caught the scarlet fever, which endangered her life. During this time Victor and his father had been able to dissuade his mother from attending Elizabeth's sick bed, but upon hearing that her life was endanger her mother stepped in to help save her. While Victor's mother did save Elizabeth she caught the scarlet fever and took the fatality that would have beheld her daughter. On his mothers death bed she told her children that it was her dieting wish that they would marry and have children to continue the family. Victor had to leave to Ingolstadt without his good friend Henry who's father wanted him to pursue commerce instead of college, and he had to leave without any family. Victor arrived in Ingolstadt and headed to the university to meet professors. He first met M. Krempe a short, small man with a repulsive look, and taught natural philosophy, but the way he had expressed the importance of the scientists who set the foundations or knowledge warded Victor away. However Krempe had said that he would be hosting lectures every other day on natural philosophy, but on the other days he doesn't lecture another professor by the name of M. Waldman who lectured on chemistry and his words changed Victors prejudice to modern philosophers "These were men to whose indefatigable zeal modern philosophers were indebted for most of the foundations of their knowledge. They had left to us, as an easier task, to give new names and arrange in connected classifications the facts which they in a great degree had been the instruments of bringing to light. The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind." These were the words that Victor said to set his fate in stone.
This what the university looked like during the time period that Victor went to it.
Brevin's Commentary: I don't really have any experience with deadly sickness, or the death of my mother, so I can't really relate to that. I do know about how it feels to lose an immediate family member, so I really feel bad for Victor. He hasn't done anything that would cause this death, and it really just seems like a misfortune. Mary just kind of passes the death off though, and never really makes a big deal of the death again. As for college, he seems to be taking his studies very seriously, which is something that I can relate to.