Caspar Bartholin the Elder

Caspar Berthelsen Bartholin or Caspar Bartholin the Elder (born February 12, 1585 in Malmö , Denmark , now Sweden ; † July 13, 1629 in Sorø , Zealand ) was a doctor and theologian.

Life

Bartholin studied from December 6, 1608 in Padua and received his doctorate in medicine in Basel in 1610, received a professorship for eloquence in Copenhagen in 1611 and was professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen from 1613 . In 1624 he became professor of theology at the same university. In 1618/19 he was the rector of the university.

Caspar Bartholin became famous for his textbook Anatomicae Institutiones (1611), in which he vividly summarized the anatomical knowledge of his time.

Bartholin also founded a dynasty of scholars who dominated Copenhagen University for decades. His sons were the doctor, anatomist, mathematician and theologian Thomas Bartholin (1616–1680) and the physician Erasmus Bartholin (1625–1698), his grandson the anatomist Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655–1738).

Fonts

Anatomicae institutiones corporis humani. Wittenberg 1611.

literature

Caspar Bartholin the Elder . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 1 : Aaberg – Beaumelle . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1887, p. 551 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke : Bartholin, Caspar d. Ä. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 148.

Web links

Publications by and about Caspar Bartholin the Elder in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

^ List of rectors on the University of Copenhagen website
↑ ^a ^b Ralf Bröer: Caspar Bartholin (senior). In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present. 3. Edition. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 2006, p. 28 Medical Dictionary 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .

personal data
SURNAME	Bartholin, Caspar the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bartholin, Caspar Berthelsen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish polymath
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1585
PLACE OF BIRTH	Malmo
DATE OF DEATH	July 13, 1629
Place of death	Soro

[1] List of rectors on the University of Copenhagen website

[ÄL-2] Ralf Bröer: Caspar Bartholin (senior). In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present. 3. Edition. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 2006, p. 28 Medical Dictionary 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .