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
- 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