Ewaldus Schrevelius

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Ewaldus Schrevelius

Ewaldus Schrevelius (also: Eobaldus Screvelius, Ewoldus Screvel ; * 1575 in The Hague , † July 5, 1647 in Leiden ) was a Dutch doctor and botanist.

Life

Schrevelius comes from a respected Hague family who, as patricians, provided some mayors of his hometown. His father Adriaan (Adriaen) Screvel himself held this office in 1589, 1599 and from 1604 to 1606 and gained a reputation as a cloth merchant.

Little is known about his youthful career. He is said to have studied in Leiden and obtained his doctorate without this being detectable in the Leiden matriculation and doctoral catalog. It is possible that he was also at other European universities. From 1613 he worked as a general practitioner in his hometown, in 1619 became the personal physician of the then regent Moritz von Orange and, at the age of fifty, on May 13, 1625, came to the University of Leiden as a professor of medicine.

As such, he taught botany, with his lectures dealing with the teachings of Galen and the effects of various minerals. His most outstanding merit lies in helping to set up the “ Collegium practicum, in quo ad morbes caute cuandros studiosi in nosocomio instruntur ” founded by his colleague Otto Heurnius (1577–1652) . It is a university clinic at the Cäcilienkrankenhaus in Leiden, where the students were introduced to medical practice. A similar construction in Utrecht, which was initiated by Wilhelm van der Straten the year before, probably served as a suggestion .

Even if the person Schrevelius is largely forgotten today, he enjoyed a high reputation among his contemporary witnesses. His former student Johannes Walaeus (1604–1649) calls him " maximus medicus " (greatest doctor) and his Utrecht colleague Isbrand van Diemerbroeck as " doctis simum et in praxi medica versatissimum virum " (learned and experienced in medical practice) . Even if no independent work from his pen has survived, some small treatises can be made accessible in the context of his work at the university. Rather, however, its significance should be sought in its practical work. He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Leiden University and he was rector of the Alma Mater in 1631/1632 and 1646/1647 .

Schrevelius was married to Maria van Swaenswyck.

Works

  • Diss. De uteri suffocatione. Suffering 1646
  • Disp. de materia emptionis et venditionis. (Resp. Joan. Conans) Leiden 1631
  • Disp. Medica Inauguralis de Scorbuto. (Resp.Anthony Weberus) 1646
  • MD Alloquutio ad Gulielmum principem Auriacum; ad init. orationis in excessum Jo. Polyandri a Kerckhoven a Frid. Spanhemio. (no date, no date)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zurich treatises on the history of medicine. 1992, issues 242-246, page 89; see also his epitaph in the St. Peter's Church in Leiden ( online )
  2. ↑ HC Rogge: Brieven van en aan Maria van Reigersberch. EJ Brill, 1902, p. 45
  3. ↑ Marika Keblusek: Boeken in de Hofstad: Haagse boekcultuur in de Gouden Eeuw. Uitgeverij Verloren, Hilversum, ISBN 9070403382 , 1997, p. 196
  4. ↑ Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1874, vol. 17, part 1, p. 496 ( online )
  5. ↑ Guilielmus du Rieu: Album Studiosorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae MDLXXV-MDCCCLXXV. Verlag Martin Nijhoff, Den Haag, 1875 and Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen : Album Promotorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae 1575-1812. The Hague, 1913-1924
  6. ^ Willem de Groot: Broeders gevangenisse. AD Schinkel, The Hague, 1842, p. 50 ( online )
  7. ↑ CA Siegenbeek van Heukelom-Lamme: Album Scholasticum Academiae Lugdono-Batavae MDLXXV-MCMXL. Brill Archive, Leiden, 1941, p. 138
  8. ↑ Hubert Languet: Epistolae politicae et historicae ad Ph. Sydnaeum, equitem Anglum. Leiden 1646, p. 376
  9. ↑ August Hirsch , Ernst Julius Gurlt : Biographical Lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, 1887, 5th vol., P. 283
  10. ^ Jan Romein and Annie Romein-Verschoor . Ancestors of Dutch culture. Verlag A. Franke, Bern, 1946, p. 364 or Erflaters van onze beschaving. 4 parts 1938–1940, 10th edition 1973
personal data
SURNAME Schrevelius, Ewaldus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Screvel, Eobaldus; Screvelius, Ewoldus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch medic and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1575
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1647
Place of death Suffer