Leiden University

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The University of Leiden (Dutch Leiden University, formerly Rijksuniversiteit Leiden) was founded in 1575 in Leiden; it is the oldest university in the Netherlands.

History

The University of Leiden was founded by William I of Orange-Nassau few months after the end of the siege of the city by Spanish troops in the Eighty Years' War on February 8, 1575. It was thus the first university founded a few years later, Republic of the Seven United Provinces. Together with the Leiden University Library, they quickly became the scientific center of the country and, together with the Protestant spirit of the Republic, a basis for the freedom of research at the university, in accordance with its motto: Praesidium Libertatis ( bulwark of freedom ). 1633 Leiden Observatory was opened, one of the oldest university observatories in the world.

During the Second World War, the university was closed by the German occupiers after there protests against the dismissal of Jewish employees had broken out.

Today the University of Leiden 's traditional training center for the dutch royal family and a member of Europaeum, the League of European Research Universities and the LERU Coimbra Group.

Faculties

Leiden University currently houses nine faculties:

  • Archeology
  • Law
  • Mathematics and Natural Sciences
  • Medicine
  • Philosophy
  • Social sciences
  • Theology
  • Art
  • Literature and Languages

Personalities

  • John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), 6th U.S. President
  • Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770), German physician
  • Johann Friedrich Bach current (1686-1742), German theologian
  • Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), Dutch physician
  • Frits Bolkestein ( born 1933), Dutch politician
  • Frederick William of Brandenburg (1620-1688), Duke of Prussia
  • Thomas Browne (1605-1682), English philosopher
  • Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930-2002), a Dutch computer scientist
  • Charles de l' Ecluse (1526-1609), Dutch physician and botanist
  • Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933), Austrian physicist
  • Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German physicist and Nobel laureate
  • Willem Einthoven (1860-1927), Dutch physician
  • Paul Fleming (1609-1640), German Baroque poet
  • Geulincx Arnold (1624-1669), Flemish- Dutch theologian
  • Jacob de Graeff Dircksz (1571-1638), Dutch politician
  • Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), Dutch philosopher
  • Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664), the most significant German poets sonnet (Baroque)
  • Paul Hermann (1646-1695), German physician and botanist
  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969 ), Dutch politician
  • Christian Hoffmann von Waldau Hoffmann (1616-1679), representative of the second Silesian school (Baroque)
  • Jaap de Hoop Scheffer ( born 1948 ), Dutch politician
  • Johan Huizinga (1872-1945), Dutch cultural historian
  • Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695), Dutch astronomer and mathematician
  • Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926), Dutch physicist
  • Martin Opitz (1597-1639), German linguist (Baroque)
  • Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn van ( 1602/12-1653 ), discoverer of the Indo-European language Relatives
  • Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper (1907-2003), Dutch Indologist
  • Willem Levelt ( b. 1938 ), Dutch Psycholinguist
  • Justus Lipsius (1547-1606), Dutch philosopher
  • Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928), Dutch mathematician
  • Charles Martin (1851-1942), German geologist and paleontologist
  • Hermann Adolph Meinders (1665-1730), German jurist and historian
  • Jan Hendrik Oort (1900-1992), Dutch astronomer
  • Queen Beatrix of Orange- Nassau ( b. 1938 )
  • Queen Juliana of Orange- Nassau (1909-2004)
  • King Willem- Alexander ( * 1967 )
  • Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), Dutch astronomer and Council Communist
  • Caspar Reuvens (1793-1835), Dutch scholars of antiquity
  • Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Dutch painter
  • Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), French humanist
  • Reimar Schefold ( born 1938 ), Swiss anthropologist
  • Edith Schippers (born 1964 ), politician
  • Melanie Schultz van Haegen (* 1970), politician
  • Willem de Sitter (1872-1934), Dutch astronomer
  • Willibrord van Roijen Snell ( Snell ) ( 1580-1626 ), Dutch astronomer and mathematician
  • Johan Rudolf Thorbecke (1798-1872), Dutch politician
  • January Tinbergen (1903-1994), a Dutch Nobel Laureate in Economics
  • Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-1988), Dutch ethologist
  • Ronald Venetiaan (* 1936), Surinamese politician
  • Vinnius Arnold (1588-1657), Dutch jurist
  • Jouke de Vries ( born 1960 ), Dutch politician
  • John Diderik van der Waals (1837-1923), Dutch physicist
  • Jan Hendrik Waszink (1908-1990), Dutch Latinist
  • Gotthart Wunberg (* 1930), German literary scholar
  • Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943), Dutch physicist
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