Alexander Petrus Nahuys

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Alexander Petrus Nahuys (born January 10, 1737 in Monnickendam , † April 6, 1794 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch doctor, botanist and chemist.

Life

The son of pastor Petrus Nahuys (1692–1766) enrolled at the University of Harderwijk on September 15, 1753 to study medical science. Here Johann Hendrik van Lom (1704–1763), Hendrik van Haastenburg (1724–1769) and Paulus' s Graeuwen (1715–1779) were his formative teachers. On May 12, 1761, he defended the chemical-physical treatise suam defendendi, demonstravit Prop. 20 Elem at the philosophical faculty under Van Lom . 3 Euclidis, exposuit duas theses, 1 mam de causa elasticitatis, 2 dam de causa electricitatis . On May 25 of the same year he acted at the medical faculty suam defendi, exposuit casum medicum de cacochymia singulari, ex Hippocrate 6 Aphor. 38 et 40 under 's Graeuwen and became a licentiate in medicine. On June 30 of the same year he received his doctorate in philosophy under Van Lom with the dissertation philosophia de chemiae in physica usu , on the same day under 's Graeuwen he obtained the medical doctorate with theses quasdam medicas ad medicas ad consequendum and held at the end of the day the speech De quastione utrum uroccopus et sola urinae inspectione, neglectis reliquis morbum criteriss, quosvis morbosos effectus detegere iisque ex arte mederi possit .

He then traveled through France, where he carried out further studies. When he returned home, he worked as a medical practitioner in Hoorn and The Hague . During that time he made a name for himself through some discoveries and treatises. Here, above all, is his treatise Diss. De qualitate noxia aëris in nosocomiis et carceribus efusque remediis Lat. et Belg. (Haarlem 1770, French Brussels 1863), for which he received a double honorary award from the Royal Academy of Sciences in Lyon. He then worked as the successor to Van Haastenburg in Harderwijk and officially received the professorship for theoretical medicine, anatomy and surgery from the curators of the Harderwijk University on June 12, 1771, which he gave with the speech de Anatome Chirurgiae dextra, ipsiusque neglectu, uberrimo calamitatum et errorum fonte (Harderwijk 1772) took over. He had already become a member of the Leopoldina on March 28, 1771 . He also became a member of the Batavian Society of Experimental Philosophy in Rotterdam in 1771 and a member of the Dutch Society of Sciences in Haarlem on May 21, 1771.

Nahuys also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1773/74, which he resigned with the speech De salutari et noxia virtutis et vitiorum in sanitatem operatione . On July 31, 1775, the curators of the University of Utrecht appointed him professor of medicine, botany, chemistry and physiology, which he took on on October 23, 1775 with the speech de religiosa plantarum contemplatione, acerrimo ad divini Numinis amorem et cultum stimulo . Here he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university as rector of the alma mater in 1780/81 and gave up his chair for medicine and chemistry on August 15, 1791, but remained professor of botany and physiology until the end of his life.

He was married to Brigitta Alida Avenhorn (born January 16, 1737, † 1780). The daughter Gertrud Petronella Nahuys (born March 29, 1767, † 1790) comes from the marriage.

Works (selection)

  • Oratio de quaestione utrum Uroscopus ex sola urinae inspectione, neglectis reliquis morborum criteriis, quosvis morbosos affectus detegere iisque éx arte mederi possit. Harderwijk 1761 ( online )
  • Tractatus chem., Continens nova quaedam experimenta cum basi salis marini, nitri et aluminis, Pars I. Amsterdam 1761.
  • Negotiating over de langzaam belette doorzwelging van het voedsel in de slokdarm. 1767 ( online )
  • Warning over de inenting van zijne your own wick. Hoorn 1771.
  • Parallele de la Taille laterale de Mr. le Cat avec celle du Lithotome caché, suivi de deux dissertations etc. Par Claude Nicolas le Cat, publié par Alex. Pierre N. Amsterdam 1766 (Editor)
  • Onderzoek of het phlogiston het ware beginsel der lighamen. Utrecht 1789 (winning competition)
  • Diss. De stupenda impr. crami carie per naturam et artem feliciter curata. Resp: A. van Solingen. Utrecht 1780.
  • Diss. Chem. de aquae origine ex basibus aëris puri et inflammabilis, secum invicem combinatis. Utrecht 1789.

literature

  • Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Volume 13, Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem 1868, p. 37. ( online , Dutch)
  • John Ferguson: Bibliotheca Chemica. Part 2, 1906, p. 126. (New edition: Kessinger Publishing, 2002)
  • August Hirsch , Ernst Gurlt: Biographical Lexicon of the Outstanding Physicians of All Times and Nations. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna / Leipzig 1886, p. 333.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DG van Epen: Album Studiosorum Academiae Gelo-Zutphanicae MDCXLVIII-MDCCCXVIII. Jakobum Hoekstra, Hagae Comitis, 1904, p. 109.
  2. ^ O. Schutte: The Album Promotorum van de Academie te Harderwijk. Gelre Verlag, Arnheim 1980, p. 196.
  3. ↑ Dissertatio de qualitate noxia aeris in nosocomiis et carceribus ejusque, online
  4. ↑ Member entry of Alexander Peter Nahuys at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 29, 2016.
  5. ^ Verhandelingen van het Bataafsch genootschap der Proefondervindelyke Wysbegeerte te Rotterdam. Reinier Arrenberg, 1774, 1st part, S. LIV, ( online )
  6. ↑ Verhandelingen Uitgegeeven Door de Hollandsche Maatschappye the Weetenschappen, te Haarlem. 26th part 1789, p. XXXVI ( online )
  7. ↑ P. Leendertz: De Navorscher. JC Loman, Amsterdam 1878, p. 628.
personal data
SURNAME Nahuys, Alexander Petrus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch medic, botanist and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Monnickendam
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1794
Place of death Utrecht