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History (VU Amsterdam)
VU Amsterdam
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VU Amsterdam's own official history page records that Abraham Kuyper convened the founding assembly of the Vrije Universiteit at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam on 20 October 1880, establishing it as the first Dutch university independent of both the state and the Dutch Reformed Church, funded through a national association of ordinary Reformed families, and that Kuyper served as its first rector before later becoming prime minister of the Netherlands.
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VU Amsterdam's own official history page, the university's institutional record of its own founding, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable university self histories, used here for the founding assembly's 20 October 1880 date and its independence from church and state, corroborated by James D. Bratt's academic biography of Kuyper. Citation
PublisherVU Amsterdam
URLhttps://vu.nl/en/about-vu/more-about/history
Source Typeinstitutional record
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This source names Amsterdam directly: "VU Amsterdam's own official history page records that Abraham Kuyper convened the founding assembly of the Vrije Universiteit at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam on 20 October 1880, establishing it as..."
This source names Dutch Reformed Church directly: "independent of both the state and the Dutch Reformed Church, funded through a national association of ordinary Reformed families, and that Kuyper served as its first rector before later becoming..."
This source names Netherlands directly: "later becoming prime minister of the Netherlands."
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