Hanfried, Bronze statue in Market Square, Jena, Germany.

The Hanfried in Jena is a bronze statue depicting Johann Friedrich I holding a sword in his right hand and an open Bible in his left hand. The statue stands in Market Square and shows the reformer during the period when he established the University of Jena.

In 1852, merchant Johann Christian Friedrich Carl and members of the Verein für Thüringische Geschichte und Altertumskunde formed a committee, led by university curator Karl Julius Moritz Seebeck, to erect a monument to the university's founder. Sculptor Friedrich Drake designed the figure, cast at the Lauchhammer art and bell foundry. The 12,000 Reichstaler cost came from donations by Jena citizens, former students, Protestant princely houses and Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. The monument was unveiled on 18 August 1858.

The nickname Hanfried comes from the elector's name JoHAN FRIEDrich, shortened as a student joke. The figure holds an open Bible in its left hand, inscribed with Psalm 121:2: "My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth."

The statue stands on a pedestal in the middle of Jena's Marktplatz, facing the market square. Visitors approach it on foot from the surrounding pedestrian streets of the old town. The figure is at eye level from the square, so the sword, Bible and electoral robes can be examined up close.

The nickname Hanfried is a student pun on the name JoHAN FRIEDrich, not a historical title. The figure holds an open Bible inscribed with Psalm 121:2, "My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth."