Harderwijk University

The University of Harderwijk ( Dutch Universiteit van Harderwijk , also Geldersche Akademie or Academie des Vorstendoms Gelre en Graafschap Zutphen ) was a Dutch university in Harderwijk in the province of Gelderland , which existed from 1648 to 1811.

The establishment of the University of Harderwijk goes back to the establishment of a grammar school Illustre in 1600. The then governor of Gelderland Friedrich Heinrich decided in June 1647 to develop this grammar school into a university and on April 14, 1648, the academy was inaugurated. On October 22nd, 1811, the Gelderian University was closed by an imperial decree by Napoleon Bonaparte . After the liberation from the French troops, a grammar school Reichs-Athaneum was built on August 2, 1815, but it was not viable and was closed again on June 13, 1818.

Well-known professors and students

Harderwijk, tower: het Lindaeustorentje

• Johann Friedrich Schweitzer (1630–1709), physician , alchemist and grandfather of Claude Adrien Helvétius
• Jacob Roggeveen (1659–1729), navigator and explorer
• Johann Ortwin Westenberg (1667–1737), lawyer , multiple rector of the University of Harderwijk and the University of Leiden
• Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), medic and botanist
• Johann Wilhelm Marckart (1699–1757), legal scholar
• Jan Frederik Gronovius (1686–1762), botanist
• Carl von Linné (1707–1778), physician and biologist
• Herman Tollius (1742-1822), lawyer
• Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff (1758–1840), doctor , general , cartographer and minister
• Herman Willem Daendels (1762-1818), General
• Anthony Christiaan Winand Staring (1767-1840), poet

See also: University professor Harderwijk

literature

• Alwin Hanschmidt : Doctors of the Academy in Harderwijk from the Meppen office in the years 1690–1805 . In: Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatbundes 29 (1983), pp. 27–33

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 58 ″  N , 5 ° 36 ′ 59 ″  E