 Instead, an advanced 'engineering course' was established at the Polytechnic School Munich in 1840, which was the forerunner of what was later to become the 'Technische Hochschule München'.In 1868, King Ludwig II founded the newly structured Polytechnische Schule München, which had the status of a university, in Munich.It was allowed to call itself "Königlich Bayerische Technische Hochschule München" as from the academic year 1877–78.