Bernhard Below

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Bernhard Below

Bernhard Below (full name: Bernhard Richard Below , also Belau , Balau or Belovius ; * 1611 in Rostock , † March 15, 1692 in Stockholm ) was a German- Swedish physician and royal Swedish personal physician .

Life

Below was born in 1611 as the son of the Rostock citizen Johann Below. His brother was the later professor of medicine at the University of Dorpat and personal physician to Tsars Michael I (Russia) and Alexei I (Russia) Johann Below (1601–1668).

As early as June 1623 he was enrolled to study at Rostock University . In the early 1630s he will likely become Dr. med. have been awarded a doctorate.

At the instigation of the Swedish governor Schering Rosenhane (1609–1663), Below was then from 1639 active as a city physician in Norrköping . From 1645 he was a field doctor in Skåne , in 1647 a doctor at the Swedish embassy in Moscow . In 1648 he was appointed personal physician to the Swedish Queen Christina and also served her successors Karl X. Gustav and Karl XI. (Sweden) in this capacity. At the same time he was also at the service of the Swedish general and statesman Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie as a family doctor .

In 1663, Bernhard Below was also one of the co-founders of the Collegium medicum , an organization of Swedish doctors that advocated higher standards in medicine and the advocacy of doctors, as well as counteracting the behavior of quacks and charlatans .

Bernhard Belows son was the Swedish doctor and professor of medicine at the University of Dorpat Jakob Friedrich Below (1669-1716).

literature

  • General scholarly lexicon: Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico, in which writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings / by Johann Christoph Adelung . [Vol. 3–6] by Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund . [Vol. 7] by Otto Günther, Leipzig [et al.] 1784-1897
  • Arvo Tering: Album Academicum of the University of Dorpat (Tartu) 1632–1710, Tallinn 1984 (Publicationes Bibliothecae Universitatis Litterarum Tartuensis; 5)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ See the entry of Bernhard Below's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

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personal data
SURNAME Below, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Below, Bernhard Richard (full name); Belau, Bernhard; Balau, Bernhard; Belovius, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swedish physician and royal Swedish personal physician
DATE OF BIRTH 1611
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1692
Place of death Stockholm