English Students at Leiden University, 1575-1650: Advancing Your Abilities in Learning and Bettering Your Understanding of the World and State Affairs

352 Pages·2012·3.72 MB·English

by  Daniela Prögler

English studEnts at lEidEn
univErsity, 1575–1650
Plusquampasseri
English students at leiden
university, 1575–1650
‘advancing your abilities in learning and bettering your
understanding of the world and state affairs’
daniEla PröglEr
© daniela Prögler 2013
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Prögler, daniela.
English students at leiden university, 1575-1650 :
‘advancing your abilities in learning and bettering your
understanding of the world and state affairs’.
1. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden–Foreign students–
History–16th century. 2. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden–
Foreign students–history–17th century. 3. British
students–netherlands–leiden–history–16th century.
4. British students–netherlands–leiden–history–17th
century.
i. title
378.1'982921'049238-dc23
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Prögler, daniela.
English students at leiden university, 1575-1650 : “advancing your abilities in learning and
bettering your understanding of the world and state affairs” / daniela Prögler.
p. cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-3712-3 (hardcover) – ISBN 978-1-4094-3713-0 (ebook)
1. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden–Students–History–16th century. 2. Rijksuniversiteit te
leiden–students–history–17th century. 3. English–Education (higher)–netherlands–history–
16th century. 4. English–Education (higher)–netherlands–history–17th century.
5. England–relations–netherlands. 6. netherlands–relations–England.
i. title.
lF4147.P76 2012
378.492–dc23
2012005582
ISBN 9781409437123 (hbk)
ISBN 9781409437130 (ebk – PDF)
ISBN 9781409484042 (ebk – EPUB)
III
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Colour Plates ix
List of Tables xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
Note on Dates and Names xv
Acknowledgements xvii
introduction 1
1 universities 5
2 English students at home 13
3 English students abroad 27
4 England and the netherlands 53
5 Fame and success of leiden university 81
6 English students at leiden 127
Conclusions 233
Appendix: English students at Leiden, 1575–1650 239
Bibliography 257
Index 295
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list of Figures
3.1 Matriculations at Franeker, 1585–1650 34
3.2 Matriculations at utrecht, 1636–50 39
3.3 Matriculations at heidelberg, 1556–1650 41
3.4 Matriculations at Basel, 1532–1650 45
3.5 Matriculations at geneva, 1559–1650 48
3.6 English students at Padua, 1500–1650 51
5.1 Prepared both in the arts and in war – the military commander
Jacques Wijts’s entry in the album amicorum of Ernst Brinck, 1607 83
5.2 drawing of the museum of Ferrante imperato – a sixteenth-century
cabinet of curiosities 97
5.3 the main university building in 1614 107
5.4 the botanic garden in 1610 109
5.5 the anatomical theatre in 1610 112
5.6 the university library in 1610 115
5.7 the fencing school in 1610 122
6.1 number of students in the leiden matriculation and recension
lists, 1575–1650 133
6.2 average leiden study durations of English and all leiden
students, 1575–1650 143
Figure 5.1 reproduced by kind permission of Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague,
Figure 5.2 reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University
Library, and Figures 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, and 5.7 reproduced by kind permission of
regionaal archief leiden.
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list of Colour Plates
1 annual Oxford and Cambridge admissions (decennial averages)
and number of students present, 1500–1699
2 leiden students, 1575–1650
3 leiden students by nationalities as percentage of total student
numbers, 1575–1650
4 age distribution of leiden students, 1595–1650
5 age groups of leiden students as percentages of students’
nationalities, 1595–1650
6 subjects of leiden students, 1575–1650
7 leiden students’ age distribution by major subjects, 1595–1650
8 leiden faculties by students’ nationalities, 1575–1650
9 leiden faculties as percentages of students’ nationalities, 1575–1650
10 leiden letters students, 1575–1650
11 leiden philosophy students, 1575–1650
12 ‘Evident’ leiden advanced-arts students, 1575–1650
13 all leiden advanced-arts students, 1575–1650
14 leiden medical students, 1575–1650
15 leiden law students, 1575–1650
16 leiden divinity students, 1575–1650