Franeker University

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Franeker University was an early modern Dutch university in the city of Franeker, Friesland, known as a center of Reformed and humanist scholarship.

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instanceOf early modern university
university
academicDiscipline arts
law
medicine
philosophy
theology
academicTradition Reformed theology
humanist scholarship
alternativeName Academia Franekerana
University of Franeker
surface form: Academia Franekerensis

University of Franeker
campusSetting urban
closedBy French imperial authorities
country Dutch Republic
dissolutionDate 1811
establishedByActOf Friesland
surface form: States of Friesland
foundedBy Friesland
surface form: States of Friesland
foundingDate 1585
governedBy Friesland
surface form: States of Friesland
hasHeritageDesignation former university town
hasLatinName University of Franeker
surface form: Academia Franekerensis
historicalPeriod Early Modern period
historicalRole training clergy for the Reformed Church in the Dutch Republic
languageOfInstruction Latin
locatedIn Franeker
locatedInAdministrativeEntity Friesland
locatedInCountry Netherlands
locatedInHistoricalCountry Dutch Republic
mottoLanguage Latin
namedAfter city of Franeker
notableAlumnus Gisbertus Voetius
Peter Stuyvesant
notableProfessor Adriaan Metius
Johannes Cocceius
Johannes Maccovius
Sibrandus Lubbertus
operatedUntilEvent French occupation of the Dutch Republic
surface form: French annexation of the Netherlands
partOf network of Dutch provincial universities
reasonForAbolition educational reforms under Napoleon
regionServed Friesland
Northern Netherlands
religiousAffiliation Reformed
significance important center of humanist learning in Friesland
major center of Reformed scholarship in the Dutch Republic
successorInstitution Rijksatheneum Franeker
surface form: Rijksatheneum te Franeker
typeOfInstitution public university

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William Ames taughtAt Franeker University