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    current Academy building at Rapenburg on 31 October 1587. In 1595 the Nomenclator appeared, the first catalogue of Leiden University Libraries as well...
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    Leiden (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈlɛidə(n)] ; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands...
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    SieboldHuis (category Museums in Leiden)
    Museum SieboldHuis (Siebold House) is a museum located at the Rapenburg (Leiden) [nl] in Leiden, Netherlands. It displays items that were collected by Philipp...
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    area of Leiden, as part of Campus The Hague. In 1927, van Vollenhoven conceived the idea of extending the university campus around the Rapenburg Canal,...
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    Thysius), a Leiden book collector, after whom it is named—Thys' library (including the Luitboek) still survives today in Leiden's Rapenburg as the Bibliotheca...
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    Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie (category Museums in Leiden)
    Museum of Natural History. This museum, founded in 1820 and established at Leiden, was closely linked with the university there. One of the staff members...
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    cityscapes and landscapes, often in moonlight. In 1807 he painted a cityscape of Leiden after a powder ship explosion wrecked several houses (and all of the stained...
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    Marekerk (category Rijksmonuments in Leiden)
    's-Gravesande in 1639–1649, who also designed the Bibliotheca Thysiana on Rapenburg 25. It was one of the first churches in the Netherlands designed specifically...
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    A.J. van Dissel: Het Rapenburg; geschiedenis van een Leidse gracht; Deel I; Groenhazenburch. Leiden, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, 1986. ISBN 9064711798...
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    Willem Coenraad Brouwer (category Artists from Leiden)
    Ornaments (1917) for building Leiden newspaper Caryatids (1917) for the Long House, Alkmaar Gijselaar Bank (1920), Rapenburg, Leiden Four fried stone ornaments...
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    Historie (National Museum of Natural History) was a museum on the Rapenburg in Leiden, the Netherlands. It was founded in 1820 by Royal Decree from a merger...
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    Fresenburg Oude Gracht 111 Utrecht 1569 1962 19 house of Herman Boerhaave Rapenburg 31 Leiden 1664 1962 20 Edam Museum Damplein 8 Edam 1530 1963 21 De Salamander...
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    a writer. He attended Leiden University and was a member of the Leidsch Student Corps Minerva society while living at Rapenburg 56 across the canal from...
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    Frederic Count de Thoms (category People from Leiden)
    wife's family. The rest of the art was set in the house in the city, Rapenburg 31. During his stay in Holland De Thoms invested a lot of time and money...
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    Hendrick van der Burgh (category Painters from Leiden)
    rented a house on the Rapenburg canal in Leiden. Although the date he joined is unknown, Van der Burgh was a member of the Leiden painters' guild. He and...
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    scholars at the seat of the institute, the Snouck Hurgronje House (Rapenburg 61 in Leiden). The books, the monumental bookcase, and other materials, were...
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  • Jan Gaykema Jacobsz. (category Painters from Leiden)
    home at Noordeinde 53, Leiden, near the corner with the Rapenburg. His remains were buried on the morning of 19 July, at the Leiden reformed cemetery Het...
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    in the house of Antonius Walaeus, professor of religion, on the Rapenburg in Leiden. He was there along with the original living translators, and the...
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    Aernout van Overbeke (category Leiden University alumni)
    period in Amsterdam. His family was quite wealthy, with a townhouse on the Rapenburg and a country residence in Alphen aan den Rijn and receiving illustrious...
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    gender equality and women's history. Retrieved 10 April 2022. "Emilie Knappert Rapenburg/5 mei-plein in Leiden". SchoolBANK. Retrieved 10 April 2022....
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  • and in August visited Oxford's twin town, Leiden, for a series of small concerts as part of the Rapenburg music festival.[citation needed] In 2016, a...
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    Jona Willem te Water (category Academic staff of Leiden University)
    Jona Willem te Water (1740–1822) was a professor at Leiden University. He was a man of influence in the Dutch Reformed Church, in many learned societies...
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    Cornelis Marinus Pleyte (category People from Leiden)
    van der Hoeven. He spent time at a home in Rapenburg. Pleyte attended Japikse school in Leiden, and the Leiden gymnasium. From 1879 to 1881, Pleyte and...
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  • house number 47 exists today. The couple moved to Leiden in 1642 where they lived on the Rapenburg at (today's) number 14 until 1652. By this time Boudewijn...
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    in a house on the Rapenburg in Leiden. Their children included Pieter Allardsz de la Court (1722–73). Catharina Backer died in Leiden in 1766. Together...
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    less supportive of the company. Non-maritime cities, including Haarlem, Leiden, and Gouda, along with Enkhuizen and Hoorn were enthusiastic about seizing...
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    the port, if it meant having to relocate at a high cost to Uilenburg or Rapenburg. Due to the expansion of the city, the city gate known as Sint Antoniespoort...
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