Jacob Bording (medic)

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Jacob Bording

Jacob Nikolaus Bording , also: Jakob Nikolaus Bording (born November 17, 1511 in Antwerp , † September 3, 1560 in Copenhagen ) was a Flemish physician and personal physician .

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Jacob Bording was the son of the Antwerp merchant Nikolaus Bording (1449–1520) and his wife Adriane d'Adriani (* approx. 1478), a daughter of the influential Dutch family d'Adriani and niece of Cardinal Adriaan d'Adriani-Florisz Boeyens, the later Pope Hadrian VI.

After completing school in Antwerp, he first studied ancient languages in Leuven / Flanders . From 1530 he studied medicine first in Paris with Jacobus Sylvius and later in Montpellier . In 1537, through the mediation of Cardinal Jakobus Sadolet , he took over a teaching position in Carpentras / France . Soon after, he moved to the University of Bologna , where he finally received his doctorate in 1540.

Relief Jacob Bordings on the facade of the University of Rostock

As a qualified physician, he was drawn back to his old hometown Antwerp, where he soon found himself exposed to persecution by the "heretic judges" of Emperor Charles V due to his Protestant religion . In 1544 he first emigrated to Hamburg and in 1549 followed an appointment by Duke Heinrich V of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , was appointed full professor at the Rostock University there and at the same time appointed the Duke's personal physician. Seven years later and four years after the Duke's death, he was taken over by King Christian III. also appointed personal physician by Denmark and Norway and appointed professor and rector at the University of Copenhagen there. He died on September 5, 1560, at the age of just 50.

Bording was married to Francisca (1523–1582), a daughter of the Genoese patrician Termio Negroni and Jeanne de Rochelle from the patriciate of Avignon , with whom Bording had nine children. His son Jakob Bording the Younger (1547–1616) became Chancellor of Mecklenburg and Mayor of Lübeck and his daughter Johanna (1544–1584) married the theology professor Lucas Bacmeister the Elder .

Fonts (selection)

  • Anatomy, summary in the name of Bordings , published first in Helmstedt, later by Levinus Battus in Rostock under the title "Physiologie" in 1591.
  • Pathology, a commentary on three books by Galen , on the differences and causes of diseases and symptoms. Published by Levinus Battus, Rostock 1591.
  • Certain advice on the most famous principles, as prescribed. Rostock 1604

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References and comments

  1. ↑ In other sources different: July 12, 1511.
  2. ↑ In other sources different: September 5, 1560.
  3. ^ Alfred W. Hein: Genealogy and city history, Lüneburg bourgeois families from the 15th to the 18th century . Hanover 1990, p. 105
personal data
SURNAME Bording, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bording, Jakob Nikolaus; Bording, Jacob Nikolaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish physician and personal physician
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1511
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1560
Place of death Copenhagen