Caspar Bartolin ( d. Caspar Bartholin ; February 12, 1585 , Malmö - July 13, 1629 , Sorø , Danish-Norwegian Union ) - Danish scientist, encyclopedist , teacher , physician , anatomist , professor of medicine and theology.
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Biography
The representative of the family of outstanding Danish scientists, many of whom worked in the field of medicine. His sons: doctor , mathematician and theologian Thomas Bartolin ( 1616 - 1680 ) and mathematician and doctor Rasmus Bartolin ( 1625 - 1698 ); grandson - anatomist and politician Caspar Bartholin, Jr. ( 1655 - 1738 ). Among his relatives were 12 professors from the University of Copenhagen .
From childhood he showed extraordinary abilities, at the age of three he learned to read, at the age of 13 he published a speech in Greek and Latin .
In 1603 he entered the University of Copenhagen , later continued his studies at the universities of Rostock and Wittenberg , where he studied first theology and philology , and then medicine.
Then he made a series of travels in Germany, Holland, England, France and Italy, and was received with great respect at various universities he visited.
For some time engaged in medical practice in Wittenberg . In 1611 he was invited to Copenhagen to occupy the chair of eloquence. In 1613, in addition, he became a professor of medicine. He taught medicine for 11 years. He fell ill, prepared for death and made a vow that in the event of a miraculous recovery, he would devote himself to the service of God and theology.
After the onset of recovery, Caspar Bartholin became in 1624 a professor of theology at the University of Copenhagen and a canon of the city of Roskilde .
Scientific Activities
The first among physicians described the work of the olfactory nerve .
His essay Anatomicae Institutiones Corporis Humani , written in 1611 and translated into German, French, English and Hindu languages, has long served as a guide for many universities in the study of anatomy .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 122144880 // Common Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
Links
- Bartholin, family // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 add.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Biography of Caspar Bartholin (Danish)