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  University of Harderwijk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University of Harderwijk (1648-1811), also named the Guelders Academy, was located in the town of Harderwijk, in the Republic of the United Provinces (now: the Netherlands).
Many students of other countries went to Harderwijk to graduate; the most famous graduate, Linnaeus, stayed only a week, much of which time was spent printing his dissertation.
The university was closed during the French occupation.
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 Harderwijk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harderwijk is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands.
The university, together with the universities of Zutphen and Franeker was abolished by Napoleon.
Harderwijk is on the western boundary of the Veluwe region and the southeastern half of the municipality consists largely of forests.
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 History Channel Search Results
He was born in Voorhout and educated for the ministry at the University of Leiden.
In 1689 he became a doctor of philosophy; in 1690 he began to study medicine, chemistry, and botany.
He received his medical degree from the University of Harderwijk in 1693 and returned to Leiden, where he was appointed lecturer on the theory of medicine in 1701 and professor of medicine and botany in 1709.
www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..bo126200.a   (220 words)

  
 Jewish Historical Museum | Harderwijk
During the 1720’s, the Jews of Harderwijk were assigned a cemetery adjacent to the walls of the town, behind the Grootepoort.
The Jewish community of Harderwijk was officially dissolved in 1947 and administratively merged into that of Apeldoorn.
The best known Jewish native of Harderwijk was Hartog Beem (1892-1987), a scholar of Jewish history and linguistics, and a pioneer in the study of the history of the Jews of the Mediene and of the Western European dialects of Yiddish.
www.jhm.nl /netherlands.aspx?ID=77   (645 words)

  
 Carl Linnaeus
Linnaeus went to the Netherlands in 1735, promptly finished his medical degree at the University of Harderwijk, and then enrolled in the University of Leiden for further studies.
At Uppsala, he restored the University's botanical garden (arranging the plants according to his system of classification), made three more expeditions to various parts of Sweden, and inspired a generation of students.
The Strandell Collection of Linneana, at Carnegie-Mellon University, and the Mackenzie Linneana collection at Kansas State University, are major American collections of writings by and about Linnaeus and his associates.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/linnaeus.html   (2236 words)

  
 Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) - PlantExplorers.com™
Linnaeus attended the University of Lund, where he studied medicine for a year before moving on to the larger University at Uppsala.
So, in 1735 Linnaeus went to the University of Harderwijk in the Netherlands, where he finished his medical degree, published his first treatise on classification, Systema Naturae, and then enrolled at the University of Leiden for further studies.
His popularity as a teacher at the university was unprecedented, with student ranks eventually swelling from five hundred to fifteen hundred undergraduate students during his tenure.
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Carl disappointed his parents by showing neither aptitude nor desire for the priesthood, but his family was somewhat consoled when Linné entered the University of Lund in 1727 to study medicine.
He went to Holland in 1735, promptly finished his medical degree at the University of Harderwijk, and then enrolled in the University of Leiden for further studies.
Returning to Sweden in 1738, he practiced medicine and lectured in Stockholm before being awarded a professorship at Uppsala in 1741, where he restored the University's botanical garden (arranging the plants according to his system of classification) and inspired a generation of students with his love of botany.
kie.berkeley.edu /ned/data/E01-980502-005/E01-980502-005.txt   (1393 words)

  
 genetable
Co-founded structural organic chemistry; established structure of benzene, and existence of double and triple bonds; first to recognize that in hydrocarbons the carbon atoms are connected to one another; derived the 2n+2 rule for the stoichiometry of alkanes; studied organic acids, azo, and diazo compounds, electrolysis of dibasic acids, and carboxylation of aryl bromides.
Retired as Professor at University of Hawaii in December of 2000; focuses on bioanalytical chemistry with emphasis on biosensors for biomedicine and biotechnology, particularly biomagnetic neurosensors, immunosensors, receptor-based sensors, and biocatalytic sensors; pioneer in the area of tissue-based sensors.
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan; extensive research in the areas of bioanalytical chemistry, electrochemical and optical sensors, liquid chromatography, and immunoassays.
www.chem.uky.edu /research/bachas/genetable   (1529 words)

  
 Pavlik_NL Harderwijk Travel Page - VirtualTourist.com
Harderwijk got it hard, but switched it's fishing-industry somewhat successfull to sweetwaterfish with the speciality of "paling" (eel).
Harderwijk has almost her complete fortified walls still standing and many old (fishermens) houses are as they were centuries ago.
The fishermens harbour of Harderwijk made place for exquisit sailboatharbours and Harderwijk became one of the centres of watersports in a wide surrounding.
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 pieter_jan_v Harderwijk Travel Page - VirtualTourist.com
Harderwijk is a town situated at the Southside of the former Zuiderzee.
From 1647 till 1811 Harderwijk was a university city with Linnaeus and Boerhaave as the best known students.
In 1844 Harderwijk got a naval wharf and depot and lateron a total of 5 military barracks were in town.
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 Harderwijk, Netherlands
The historic little fishing town of Harderwijk, on the Veluwemeer (IJsselmeer), received its municipal charter from Count Otto of Gelderland in 1231.
The town had a university founded in 1645 (dissolved by Napoleon in 1811), among whose students were the celebrated Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) and the Swedish biologist Linnaeus (1707-78), who is commemorated by the Linnaeus Tower in the former university botanic garden.
During the 19th century Harderwijk was the port of embarkation for the Dutch Indian army, and officers and other ranks, adventurers and criminals from all over Europe flocked to Harderwijk to enlist.
www.planetware.com /netherlands/harderwijk-nl-gld-hard.htm   (160 words)

  
 Herman Boerhaave (www.whonamedit.com)
That he might, on this occasion, obtain the assistance of surgeons with less inconvenience and expense, he was brought, by his father, at fourteen, to Leyden, and placed in the fourth class of the publick school, after being examined by the master; here his application and abilities were equally conspicuous.
As professor of botany, he was ex officio supervisor of the university’s botanical garden and was given an official residence and an allowance for foreign correspondence and the exchange of seeds and plants.
He filled the same position again in 1730, and left his high office in 1731 with the speech "Oratio de honore medici servitute", in which he maintains that the greatest glory of this high office, is that of being a servant of nature.
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 Argos
During the Second World War, when the Dutch veterinarians were locked up in internment camps, the native veterinarians showed their great ability and skill to maintain a favourable animal health situation.
Schubaert was born in Harderwijk as the son of a German fisherman.
Harderwijk had a university that was closed in 1811.
wahvm.vet.uu.nl /specific/resources/Argos18.html   (1106 words)

  
 Carl Linnaeus
In his late teens, Linnaeus chose to enter the medical profession, first entering the University of Lund in 1727 and then transferring to the University of Uppsala where he spent much time collecting and studying plants in order to prepare and prescribe plant-derived remedies -- an important skill for medical practitioners at the time.
Linnaeus finished his medical degree at the University of Harderwijk in the Netherlands in 1735.
Further studies were engaged at the University of Leiden.
www.silkmoths.bizland.com /bolinnaeus.htm   (648 words)

  
 A Traveler's Guide to the History of Biology and Medicine
However, today Lund is a university town, which attracts our interest here, particularly because of its proximity to Malmö, which for many visitors will be their first point of contact with Sweden.
At that time the road to botany was through medicine and at 20 he entered the University of Lund to study this, and a year later transferred to Uppsala.
His output, particularly on the flora of Sweden, was enormous, but it may safely be said that his reputation as the foremost botanist of all time rests on the new concepts of classification which he put forth in his “Systema Naturae.” He died in Uppsala in 1778, and is buried in the cathedral.
www.historyofbiologyandmedicine.com /sweden.htm   (2106 words)

  
 Collections Eastern department
During his long and active life, which he mostly led in the academic arena in German universities (some of which are now situated in Poland and Russia), he displayed a remarkable combination of a wide scholarly interest, an indomitable energy and an incredible memory.
Adriaan Reland, or Hadrianus Relandus, was from 1699 onwards professor of philosophy in the University of Harderwijk.
In 1593 he was appointed to a specially created chair in Leiden University, with absolute research facilities and the additional privilege to wear a red gown.
bc.ub.leidenuniv.nl /bc/olg/portret/content.html   (5007 words)

  
 Linnaeus | Carl | 1707-1778 | Swedish taxonomist
His special interest was the novel notion of one of Tournefort's pupils that plants had gender: this he thought could be a sensible basis for their overall classification.
He developed the idea among the botanists of Leyden, pausing first to take an MD in the University of Harderwijk.
Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), medical and chemical lecturer at University of Leyden, secondarily a supervisor of the university's botany programme; his special interest was systematizing medical tuition.
www.nahste.ac.uk /isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0356.html   (792 words)

  
 Linnean.org: Carl Linnaeus
This confers a high scientific importance on the specimens used by Linnaeus for their preparation, many of which are in his personal collections now treasured by the Linnean Society.
In 1753, he went to Stockholm to practice medicine and lecture, and became a professor at Uppsala University in 1741, attracting students from many countries to his often crowded lectures.
He invented the name Linnaeus in allusion to a large and ancient tree of the small-leaved linden (Tilia cordata Miller, T.europaea L. in part), known in the Småland dialect as "linn", which grew on the family property known in the 17th century as Linnegard.
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 Who was Apáczai Csere János?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Apáczai got to Holland with the assistance of the prelate of the Tansylvanian Reformed Church in 1646.
He studied in Franeker, Leyden and Utrecht, and he was conferred the degree of Doctor in Theology at the University of Harderwijk in April, 1651.
I endeavoured that our learning youth should have at least one book, from which they can wind off the intricate thread of cultivation, namely in their native tongue." In the choice of the subject-matter of his school-book he was greatly influenced by Descartes, the great philosopher of the striving bourgeoisie.
www.dntcj.ro /edu/hs/apaczai/whowas.htm   (895 words)

  
 Carl Linnaeus, Naturalist - Timeline Index
Linnaeus was born in 1707, the son of a Lutheran clergyman, at Rashult in Sweden.
He began to study medicine at the University of Lund in 1727, transferring to the University of Uppsala the following year.
He undertook his medical degree in 1735 at the University of Harderwijk in Gelre, the Netherlands (which no longer exists), thence going to the University of Leiden for further studies.
www.timelineindex.com /content/view/1462   (328 words)

  
 Daendels, Herman Willem - Rijksmuseum
Herman Willem Daendels grew up in Hattem, the son of an aristocratic family.
At the age of 20, he graduated in law at the university college in Harderwijk.
As a Patriot, the young Daendels became a popular local figure.
www.rijksmuseum.nl /aria/aria_encyclopedia/00048220?lang=en   (123 words)

  
 Hermann Boerhaave Biography / Biography of Hermann Boerhaave World of Chemistry Biography
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After entering the University of Leiden in 1684, he took courses in mathematics, natural philosophy, botany, and languages, as well as in theology.
He obtained his medical degree in 1693 from the University of Harderwijk.
www.bookrags.com /biography-hermann-boerhaave-woc   (264 words)

  
 Carolus Linnaeus Quick Facts - Quick Facts - MSN Encarta
Developing binomial nomenclature, the two-part naming system used to classify animals and plants by genus and species
1735 Moved to the Netherlands to obtain his medical degree at the University of Harderwijk
1741 Became professor of medicine at the University of Uppsala
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 Apaczai biography
Alsted and Bisterfeld were two German professors who had been appointed to Gyulafehérvár as part of the upgrading in 1629 and they were to have a big influence on Apáczai while he was a student there.
Apáczai was awarded the degree of Doctor of Theology from the University of Harderwijk in April 1651.
The level of material was too high for students to cope with for he had presented his subject at the level of the top European universities, and students at this time in Hungary were not at this level.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Apaczai.html   (1031 words)

  
 Textbooks as means of scientific communication: The Hungarian case
Earlier, in the sixteenth century the route of studies of the Hungarian protestant students led mostly to Germany, namely, to Wittenberg to study with Melanchton and his circle.
Indeed, Apáczai became the first doctor of the newly established university in Harderwijk and he had a good chance to be appointed to a professor at the Utrecht University.
He supposed that this was because these people were in abundance of great scholars, who wrote, read, taught and studied in their mother tongue.
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 Lorenz Heister (www.whonamedit.com)
In 1702-1703 he studied at the University of Giessen under Georg Christoph Möller.
He obtained his M.D. at the University of Harderwijk on May 31, 1708.
At the end of 1709 he returned to Amsterdam, but on November 11, 1711 he was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery at the University of Altdorf, near Nuremberg.
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 Carl Linnaeus 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Linnaeus completed his medical degree at the Dutch university of Harderwijk in 1735.
He earned his keep by working as a physician in Stockholm, but was eventually awarded a post as a professor of botany at Uppsala University.
In his new position, he quickly invigorated the botanical institution, and his lectures became popular events that attracted listeners from far and wide, including non-academics.
www.koinbergbild.se /linnaeus1.html   (336 words)

  
 C:\website\DEF\VREEWWWNEW.htm
Though a rather small circle of theologians pulled the strings within the universities and also within the Hervormde Kerk, this did not mean that all members of that circle had the same ideas and ideals about theology and church.
In 1803 Clarisse was appointed Professor of Theology at Harderwijk University in the province of Gelderland.
From that moment till 1840 he was involved in Reformed theological education almost without interruptions: first at Harderwijk University and, after its closing in 1812, from 1815 at Leiden University.
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One of the rarities of this collection, never previously shown to the public, is the doctoral dissertation of seventeenth-century Transylvanian educationalist János Apáczai Csere, from the University of Harderwijk in The Netherlands.
Another item of special interest is a handwritten codex in which a copy appears of a long letter in Hungarian from Cardinal Péter Pázmány, written from Hungary to the Prince of Transylvania.
Cambridge University Library probably began life in the fourteenth century as a collection of manuscripts stored in chests.
www.magyarmagic.com /calendar.php?eid=137   (241 words)

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