University of Dole
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The University of Dole was founded in 1422 by Philip the Good of Burgundy, and was a leading university in western Europe, historically notable for its teaching of canon and civil law. It operated as a student run university on the Bologna model.
In 1613 the college of teachers at the University sent a formal deputy to the archdukes in Brussels, seeking to convert the University to a Magisteruniversität such as at Louvain and Douai. The archdukes issued edits (1616-1618) with that intent, but the students would not have it, overtly repudiated the edicts, and boycotted the university. [1] It is probable that the edicts were never enforced.
In 1678 when Louis XIV conquered the region; he shifted the university from Dole to Besançon.
[edit] Notable Faculty
- Henry Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim - lectured on Johann Reuchlin's De verbo mirifico(1509);
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Jean-Bernard Knepper - Burgomeister of Luxemburg City 1693-1698;
- Wigle Aytta van Zwichem (1507-1577) - Dutch statesman and jurist, received his doctorate from Dole in 1526;
- Otto von Truchsess von Waldburg (1514-1573) - cardinal bishop of Augsburg;
- Balthazar Gerards (1557-1584) - assassin of William the Silent;
- Claude de La Baume (1534-1584) - cardinal and archbishop of Besançon;
[edit] References
- Beaune and D'Arbaumont, (1870) Les Universités de Franche-Comté: Gray, Dole, Besançon Dijon;
- Theurot, J. (1992) "L'Université de Dole de sa fondation à son transfer à Besançon" in M. Gresset and F. Lassus (eds) Institutions et vie universitaire dans l'Europe d'hier et d'anjour d'hui. Actes du Colloque de /'Association interuniversitaire de l'Est Paris, pp. 25-44;
- ^ Feingold, Mordechai (ed.) (2003) History of Universities Vol. XVIII/2, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p.41-42;
