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Leiden University (abbreviated as LEI; [8] [9] Dutch: Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. It was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 [ 10 ] by William, Prince of Orange as the first university in the Netherlands.
Leiden University founded. [6] Leiden University Library founded. 1577 - Flemish textile manufacturers move to Leiden. [7] 1578 - Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland (water management building) purchased. [1] 1580s - "Immigration of Flemings, Walloons, and Brabanters" to Leiden. [7] 1580 - Printer Elsevier in business. [8] 1581 - Academy Building ...
Leiden University seal. This is a list of chancellors (rectores magnifici) of Leiden University, as from 1575. Three Nobel laureates are among these chancellors: Hendrik Lorentz, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and Willem Einthoven.
View history; Tools. Tools. ... is a list of people associated to Leiden University, including alumni as well as people who have taught or studied at Leiden University
From 1973 to 2002 Wesseling was professor of General History (after 1870) at Leiden University. He founded and was director of the Institute for the History of European Expansion at this university. He was also rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Wassenaar from 1995 to 2002 and ...
In 1587 the young University of Leiden asked for permission from the mayor of Leiden to establish a hortus academicus behind the university building, for the benefit of the medical students. The request was granted in 1590, and the famous botanist Carolus Clusius (1526–1609) was appointed as prefect. Clusius arrived in Leiden in 1593.
Leiden University Medical Center (Dutch: Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum) or LUMC is the university hospital affiliated with Leiden University, of which it forms the medical faculty. It is located in Leiden, Netherlands. LUMC is a modern university medical center for research, education and patient care.
The Leiden University was founded by William of Orange in recognition of the city's sacrifice in the siege. According to the ironical fiction still maintained by the Prince, that he was acting on behalf of his master Philip of Spain, against whom he was in fact in open rebellion, the university was endowed in the King's name.