Abraham Kaau-Boerhaave

Abraham Kaau-Boerhaave

Abraham Kaau-Boerhaave (also: Abraham Kaauw, Cau , Russian Абрахам Каау-Бургав ; born January 5, 1715 in The Hague , † June 14, 1758 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Dutch medic .

Life

Abraham was the son of the Hague doctor Jakob Kaau (baptized June 21, 1658 in The Hague; † August 25, 1728 ibid) and his wife Magdalena Boerhaven, who was married on March 21, 1701 (born April 21, 1667 in Voorhout; † 11. June 1720 in Leiden). He was baptized on January 8, 1715 in The Hague. In 1733 he began studying medicine at the University of Leiden . Here he attended lectures given by his uncle Herman Boerhaave , Bernhard Siegfried Albinus , Adriaan van Royen and Hieronymus David Gaub . In 1736 he suffered a hearing impairment, so that he could only communicate using sign language and written notes.

After he published the Latin speech de gaudiis alchemistarum in 1737 , he drew attention to himself and received a gold medal for it from the curators of the Leiden University. In 1738 he received his doctorate in medicine with the work de scirrho . He then worked as a doctor in The Hague and on November 2, 1744 he was appointed a member of the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg . On the advice of his brother Herman Kaau-Boerhaave , he moved to Saint Petersburg in 1746 and worked there at the Admirals' Hospital. On November 7, 1747 he received the professorship of anatomy and physiology at the University of Saint Petersburg . Since his brother had no heir, Kaau received the entire estate of his uncle and from then on carried his surname. Kaau had made a name for himself in the field of veterinary medicine, highlighting human abnormalities through his historical anatomy book. He died without leaving any descendants.

Works

• Oratio de gaudiis alchemistarum. Leiden 1737, 1743
• Dissertatio inauguralis de squirrho. Leiden 1738
• Perspiratio Hippocrati dicta anatomice illustrata. Leiden 1738 ( online ), 1745
• Impetum faciens dictum Hippocrati per corpus consentiens philologice et physiologice illustratumm observationibus et experimentis passim firmatum. Leiden 1745 ( online )
• Historia anatomica infantis, cujus pars corporis inferior monstrosa. St. Petersburg 1754 ( online )
• Sermo academicus de iis, quae virum medicum perficiunt et exornant Petropoli habitus. St. Petersburg 1750, Leiden 1752 ( online )

literature

• L. Stieda: Kaau-Boerhaave, Abraham In: August Hirsch , Ernst Gurlt: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume 3, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna / Leipzig 1886, pp. 486–487. (on-line)
• Wilhelm Michael von Richter: History Of Medicin In Russia. NS Wsewolojsky, Moscow 1817, vol. 3, p. 428 ( online )
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : KAAUW BOERHAAVE (Abraham) . In: Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1862, vol. 10, p. 3 (Dutch)
• Bram Oldenhuis Arwert: Abraham en Herman Kaau Boerhaave. Hoe een erfenis ze aan de medische top van Rusland brought. Almelo, 2001 ( Online , Dutch)
• David Willemse Prinses: Abraham Kaau, zich noemende Abraham Kaau-Boerhaave, in zijn brieven uit 1752 aan de resident M. de Swart. In: Documentatieblad werkgroep Achttiende eeuw. Nijmegen, 1979, vol. 1979, pp. 116-131 ( online , Dutch)