Napier University is a University in Edinburgh, Scotland. Napier was founded as "Napier Technical College", taking it's name from John Napier, the inventor of logarithms. Since 1971 it has offered degree level education, and gained full university status in 1992, along with the other former-Polytechnics.
Today, the university is based around its Craiglockhart, Craighouse and Merchiston campuses. The Craiglockhart campus is notable for including the former Craiglockhart War Hospital where war-poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon were treated.
