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Marischal College, Aberdeen's second university and Scotland's fourth, was founded in 1593 by George Keith, 5th. Earl Marischal (?1553-1623). It was the first post-reformation university and carried the standard for the reformed religion against King's College in Old Aberdeen. With a strong emphasis on languages, literature and mathematics, it demonstrated all the new directions in which Scottish and European education was tending. The college used buildings formerly belonging to the Franciscans at the east end of Aberdeen, but was completely rebuilt in 1837 - 1841, added to in 1873, and considerably rebuilt in the 1890s, and now only a fragment of the old Greyfriars is left. Marischal College and University united with the older King's College and University in 1860 to form the new University of Aberdeen, though it retains its distinctive site and character in the centre of modern Aberdeen.
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