Hermannus Oosterdijk shaft

Hermannus Oosterdijk shaft

Hermannus Oosterdijk Schacht (born October 7, 1672 in Amsterdam , † February 15, 1744 in Leiden ) was a Dutch medic.

Life

The son of a cloth and silk dyer in Amsterdam and his wife Anna van Poot († June 25, 1686) lost his father at the age of three months. His mother married in 1675 the professor of medicine at the University of Leiden Lucas Schacht , who promoted the young Hermannus. Later, out of gratitude to the person Schacht, Hermannus took the surname Schacht, which all his descendants carried on. On September 4, 1683 he was enrolled at the University of Leiden . Here he will initially have completed a basic course in philosophical sciences. He also attended the medical lectures of his stepfather, those of Charles Drelincourt the Younger , Paul Hermann and Frederik Dekkers .

On July 6, 1693 under Burchard de Volder with the treatise de sensibus internis, memoria et imaginatione he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy and on the same day he received his doctorate under Drelincourt on the subject of de melancholia hypochondriaca . A new matriculation on February 14, 1695 in Leiden suggests an educational trip that he may have carried out. What is certain, however, is that he settled in Leiden as a doctor. On September 13, 1719, the curators of the university appointed him professor of practical medicine, which he assumed on October 20, 1719 with the introductory speech De iis, quae medicum ad artis exercitium se accingentem praecipue scire oportet .

After the death of Bernhard Siegfried Albinus , he was given the chair of theoretical medicine on October 18, 1721, which he took over on January 22, 1722 with the inaugural speech De firmitate artis medicae. He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Leiden University and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1722/23 and 1734/35 . When resigning from the rector's offices, he had given the speeches De medico exercitato (1723) and De prudentia in ratiocinio, physico et medico necessarie observanda (1735). He also left a memorial oratio funebris in obitum Petri Burmanni (Leiden 1741). He did not write his own medical works. As an opponent of the one-sided iatro-mechanical theory, he made a name for himself primarily as an excellent anatomist and clinical trainer.

Oosterdijk Schacht married Catherine van der Stoffen on October 20, 1699. His son Johannes Oosterdijk Schacht (1704–1755) became a professor in Franeker and Utrecht. The eldest son Jacobus Oosterdijk Schacht is also known.

literature

• August Hirsch , Ernst Julius Gurlt : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Verlag Urban and Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, 1886, Vol. 4, p. 426
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1867, vol. 14, p. 149 ( online , Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ^ António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches: Hieronymus David Gaubius (1705–1780): zijn correspondentie met Antonio Nunes Ribeiro Sanches en other tijdgenoten. Van Gorcum, 1978, p. 9, other dates of birth June 8, 1679 (Aa, etc.), June 1, 1679 (Antony Winkler Prins: Geïllustreerde encyclopaedie. 1886, vol. 11, p. 659)
2. ↑ Heinrich Haeser: Textbook of the history of medicine and epidemic diseases. 1971, p. 499
3. ^ G. du Rieu: Album studiosorum Academiae Lugduno-Batavae 1575-1875. Martin Nijhoff, The Hague, 1875, p. 662
4. ^ Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen: Album Promotorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae 1675–1812. The Hague, 1913-1924, p. 213
5. ^ G. du Rieu: Album studiosorum Academiae Lugduno-Batavae 1575-1875. Martin Nijhoff, The Hague, 1875, col. 735
6. ^ CA Siegenbeek van Heukelom-Lamme: Album Scholasticum Academiae Lugduno-batave. Brill Archive, Leiden, 1941
7. ↑ Jer. van der Grijp: Huwelijkskrans, vlogten the bruiloft van de heer Herman Oosterdijk Schagt en Catharina van der Stoffen. Voltrokken October 20, 1699. 1699 ( Online )