Florentius Schuyl

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Florentius Schuyl

Florentius Schuyl also: Florentz Schuijl, Schulius ; (Born January 31, 1619 in Schiedam ; † September 5, 1669 in Leiden ) was a Dutch medic and botanist.

Life

Florentius Schuyl was the son of the pastor Everardus Schuyl. He lost two brothers and his mother in the rampant plague in 1636 . In order to protect his son from this threat, the father handed him over to the city administration as an alumnus so that he could later do a job in government or church service. He began his studies at the University of Utrecht , where he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on July 9, 1639 with the treatise de divisionibus Entis, et specialius de substantia . On October 21, 1639 matriculated he at the University of Leiden , where he initially continued his philosophical studies. In 1640 he took a position as professor of philosophy at the Illustre high school in 's-Hertogenbosch .

Here he tried to get to various other subjects in Groningen and Breda , but without success. In Leiden he received his doctorate in medicine on April 18, 1664 with his thesis on the spleen , de natura et usu lienis . On October 18, 1664 he became professor of medicine at the Leiden University , was rector of the Alma Mater in 1666/67 and, as professor of botany, took over the management of the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden in 1667. He made a name for himself in particular as the translator of the physiological work De homine figuris et latinitate donatus by René Descartes and his catalog of the plants of the Hortus Botanicus had achieved some importance. Schuyl died of the rampant plague in 1669.

Works

  • Catalogus Plantarum horti Academici. Lugdum Bat. Leiden 1668 ( online ), Heidelberg 1672; German: Darmstadt 1679, Plön 1697
  • Raedt voor de Scheer-siecke hair cloovers. Utrecht 1644
  • Renatus Descartes de homine, figuris et latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuylio, inclytae urbis Sylvae-Ducis Senatore et ibidem philosophiae professore. Suffering 1662
  • De Physiologia medicea Pars I. Leiden 1665
  • De veteri Medicina. Leiden 1670 ( online ), Amsterdam 1673

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personal data
SURNAME Schuyl, Florentius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Florentz Schuijl, Schulius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch medic and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1619
PLACE OF BIRTH Schiedam
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1669
Place of death Suffer