Concept
Leiden University
Overview
Leiden University (abbreviated as LEI; Dutch: Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange as a Protestant institution, it holds the distinction of being the oldest surviving university in the Netherlands.
The university has seven academic faculties and over fifty subject departments, housing more than forty national and international research institutes. Its historical primary campus consists of several buildings spread over Leiden, while a second campus located in The Hague houses a liberal arts college (Leiden University College The Hague) and several of its faculties. It is a member of the Coimbra Group, the Europaeum, and a founding member of the League of European Research Universities.
The university has produced twenty-six Spinoza Prize Laureates and sixteen Nobel Laureates. Members of the Dutch royal family such as Queen Juliana, Queen Beatrix, and King Willem-Alexander are alumni, and ten prime ministers of the Netherlands including Mark Rutte. US president John Quincy Adams also studied at the university.
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The present universities of Europe were originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen. They were founded by the authority of the pope; and were so entirely under his immediate protection, that their members, whether masters or students, had all of them what was then called the benefit of clergy, that is, were exempted from the civil jurisdiction of the…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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The improvements which, in modern times have been made in several different branches of philosophy, have not, the greater part of them, been made in universities, though some, no doubt, have. The greater part of universities have not even been very forward to adopt those improvements after they were made; and several of those learned societies have chosen to remain, for a long time, the sanctuaries in which exploded…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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But to live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them; and the pleasure of seeing all that sight discloses is not to be compared with the satisfaction afforded by the discoveries of philosophy. And, finally, this study is more imperatively requisite for the regulation of our manners, and for conducting us through life, than is the use of our eyes for…
René Descartes, Selections from the Principles of Philosophy
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Philosophers who discussed Leiden University
- Baron d'Holbach
- René Descartes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Hugo Grotius
- Catherine Malabou
- Nishi Amane
- Gerard Heymans
- János Apáczai Csere
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- Nelson Mandela
- Master of Philosophy
- Protestantism
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- Justus Lipsius
- Baruch Spinoza
- Master of Arts
- Leiden
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- Wiley (publisher)
- Hugo Grotius
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- Albert Einstein
- Egypt
- English language
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Place in the tradition
Part of Dutch philosophy.