Hertford College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is located in Catte Street, directly opposite the main entrance of the original Bodleian Library. As of 2006, the college had a financial endowment of £52m.
The college was originally founded as Hart Hall in 1282 by Elias de Hertford on Catte Street. In medieval Oxford, halls were primarily lodging houses for students and resident tutors, and thus did n...
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Hertford College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is located in Catte Street, directly opposite the main entrance of the original Bodleian Library. As of 2006, the college had a financial endowment of £52m.
The college was originally founded as Hart Hall in 1282 by Elias de Hertford on Catte Street. In medieval Oxford, halls were primarily lodging houses for students and resident tutors, and thus did not have the same status as fully fledged colleges. Many of the great minds of the English Renaissance studied at what would eventually become Hertford College including the metaphysical poet John Donne, satirist Jonathan Swift, the political theorist Thomas Hobbes, and the first translator of the Bible into English, William Tyndale. What had begun as a residential site subsequently grew during the following centuries. Some of the old architecture remains, including the main door (embossed with floral detail), dating from the seventeenth...
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