Delft has a technical university, founded in 1842 as the Royal Academy, and hydraulic laboratories where the Delta Plan was designed for the restriction of the Rhine and Meuse estuaries. The medieval Old Church (a Gothic church) contains memorials to the admirals Maarten Tromp (Tromp, Maarten) and Piet Heyn (Heyn, Piet) and to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van), a native of Delft. The Gothic New Church (formerly St. Ursula's; 1381–1496) contains tombs of the members of the house of Orange-Nassau (that of William I the Silent is by Hendrick de Keyser and his son Pieter) and of the jurist Hugo Grotius (Grotius, Hugo), whose statue is in the marketplace. The Prinsenhof, where William the Silent (William I) was assassinated (1584), was a convent before it became his residence; it is now the town museum. Other landmarks include the Renaissance-style town hall (1618; around a medieval tower), the Armamentarium (a 17th-century armoury), the Paul Tetar van Elven Museum, and the Huis Lambert van Meerten Museum, with an international collection of earthenware tiles. Johannes Vermeer (Vermeer, Johannes) is the best known of the many painters born in Delft. Pop. (2007 est.) 95,379.