Heidelberg University, Germany (Location Key)

Heidelberg University, in the German city of the same name, had been famed as an educational institution for over five hundred years by the time Faulkner sent Gavin Stevens there to get a doctoral degree in six of the later Yoknapatawpha fictions, beginning with Intruder in the Dust in 1948. In his earlier appearances as a character Gavin is repeatedly introduced as a Harvard man and a graduate of the University of Mississippi law school. It's not clear why Faulkner chose in the years after World War II to add a PhD from a German university to Gavin's resume.