By Daniela Prögler
The oldest and most famed Dutch collage, Leiden used to be an enticing proposition for traveling overseas scholars within the 17th and eighteenth centuries. along providing a superb educational application and notable amenities, Leiden was once additionally in a position to cater to the wishes of noble scholars delivering numerous extra-curricular actions. Leiden used to be the preferred continental college between English scholars, and this ebook investigates the 831 English scholars who studied there among 1575 and 1650. The choice of English scholars for Leiden used to be, at the one hand, relating to shut Anglo-Dutch kin of the interval, and those are investigated with recognize to politics, financial system, faith, tradition, in addition to to the big 'stranger' groups living within the respective international locations. nevertheless, Leiden's charm resulted from its educational achievements, that are traced again to the stipulations within the United Provinces, the constrained impact of the Calvinist Church, Leiden's professors, in addition to the university's amenities. The middle of this research is an exhaustive quantitative learn of the composition of the Leiden pupil inhabitants generally, and that of its English phase specifically. details is equipped at the length of the experiences of English scholars at Leiden, their age, social history and fields of research. We know about the careers of English scholars either ahead of and after their time at Leiden, and of the inducement that led the English to settle on Leiden over different continental universities. greater than a learn of 1 staff of scholars at one college, this publication is a beneficial contribution to the historical past of early glossy universities and may attract a large overseas readership attracted to cultural and highbrow heritage in addition to in Anglo-Dutch kinfolk.
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19 Ridder-Symoens, ‘Mobility’, 1996, 432–4. 20 Frijhoff, ‘Graduation’, 1996, 408; Maag, Seminary, 1995, 56, 84, 86; and Niléhn, Peregrinatio, 1983, 369f. 21 By the end of the sixteenth century, there were 129 universities, and by 1650, this number had risen to 151. Furthermore, numerous other towns were home to institutions of higher education that competed with the universities proper. The large majority of these universities, around 1650 about eighty per cent, were on the Iberian peninsula, in the German Empire, in France, and in Italy.
Thus, this faculty offered the possibility of adding further subjects when first humanism and later the natural sciences entered the stage. 3 The weighting of these different aspects of the purpose of a university changed with the Reformation, the coming of humanism, and the increased need for university-trained personnel for posts in administration and government. Consequently, student numbers grew, the educational possibilities broadened, new subjects were introduced, and degrees became more important.
106f). In order to prevent both Catholic agitation and Puritan extremism – rather than to introduce uniformity – Elizabeth and James I enforced broad religious conformity at the universities, whereby James I interfered more than Elizabeth for his interest Hall (1317, refounded 1337) and Michaelhouse (1324)), Emmanuel College (1584), and Sidney Sussex College (1596). At Oxford, these were University College (1249), Balliol College (1263), Merton College (1264), Hertford College (1282), Exeter College (1314), Oriel College (1324), Queen’s College (1341), New College (1379), Lincoln College (1427), All Souls College (1438), Magdalen College (1458), Brasenose College (1509), Corpus Christi College (1517), Christ Church College (1525), Trinity College (1555), St John’s College (1555), Jesus College (1571), Wadham College (1610), and Pembroke College (1624).