 Thomasius would continue to exercise an important influence on German philosophy throughout the first half of the eighteenth century. However, it was his colleague in the philosophy faculty at the Friedrichs-Universität, Christian Wolff, who would contribute the most to the modernization of the German intellectual landscape and the spread of the Enlightenment. Wolff achieved this primarily through his distinctive philosophical system, the so-called “Leibnizian-Wolffian” philosophy, which incorporated the latest philosophical ideas and methods, including but not limited to those of Leibniz himself. The relevance and accessibility of Wolff’s system, expanded and refined by his many students, quickly saw it gain a foothold in academies across Germany. Wolff was not without his detractors, of course, and none were more vocal, nor more successful (at least initially) in their efforts to limit his influence, than his Pietist colleagues in the faculty of theology. The famous controversy between Wolff and the Pietists, which at its climax saw Wolff exiled from Prussia on pain of hanging in 1723, put the full menu of modern ideas—including materialism, idealism, atheism, and Spinozism—before the literate public and drew the attention of the rest of Europe to the German intellectual scene.