University of Franeker

The University of Franeker, also known as Academia Franekerensis or the University of Friesland, was a university in Franeker, Friesland, the Netherlands, that existed from 1585 to 1811. It was the second-oldest university of the Netherlands, founded shortly after Leiden University. It consisted of departments of Theology, Law, Medicine, Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics, and among its well-known students were Peter Stuyvesant, last director-general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, and René Descartes. Napoleon disbanded it in 1811, along with the universities of Harderwijk and Utrecht, and it was not restored.