As an abbreviation for Radio Télévision Luxembourg, it is the name of a chain of radio and television stations that are now majority-owned by Bertelsmann AG, in Germany. This includes the biggest commercial television station in Germany, also named RTL (formerly "RTL plus").
... he became, in 1833, professor at the university of Königsberg[?], where he remained till his death. In his last years he was quite blind.
Throughout his long ...