After the restoration of the Palatine Wittelbachs in the aftermath of the war, Elector Karl Ludwig empowered the leading Swiss Scholar Johann Heinrich Hottinger to reopen the Collegium in 1656. The institution again suffered hardship as its structures were destroyed with much of the rest of Heidelberg in the Palatine Succession War in 1693. The school reopened in 1707 and continued in a more humble fashion until its final dissolution in 1805.Eike Wolgast, "Das Collegium Sapientiae in Heidelberg im 16. Jahrhundert," in Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 147 (1999): 315-18
