Josephus Serrurier

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Josephus Serrurier (also: Joseph Serrurier ; * around 1663 in Amsterdam ; † April 15, 1742 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch philosopher, physicist, mathematician, physician and botanist.

Josephus Serrurier

Life

Nothing is known about Serrurier's origins and early childhood years. Under the rectorate of Friedrich Spanheim , he enrolled at the University of Leiden on February 14, 1680 at the age of seventeen . Here he found a sponsor in Burchard de Volder , with whom he attended lectures in philosophy and physics. In the course of his studies he became a supporter of the Cartesian philosophy of René Descartes . He also dealt with medical studies. At that time, Charles Drelincourt the Younger taught pathological anatomy, Carel de Maets in medicine and chemistry, Theodor Craanen in mathematics and medicine, Paul Hermann in herbalism and practical medicine, and Anton Nuck in anatomy and surgery at the medical faculty in Leiden at that time Lectures he might have attended.

On December 18, 1690 he obtained the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy with the defense of the dissertation de Gravitate aeris and received his doctorate on the same day with the inaugural dissertation de Febribus in genere as a doctor of medicine. On December 28, 1705, the curators of the University of Utrecht appointed him professor of philosophy and mathematics, which he took up on February 3, 1706 with the speech Oratio inauguralis pro philosophia (Utrecht 1706). On May 18, 1716 he moved to the medical faculty of the Utrecht Academy as a professor of medicine and botany, for which he gave the speech De causis corruptae et contemtae medicinae .

On June 7, 1723 he rose to the professorship of medical institutions (Institutionum Medicarum) and botany. He also took part in the organizational tasks and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1712/13, 1721/22 and 1739/40 . His writings also include an extensive treatise on experimental physics ( Physicae experimentis innixae compendiosa tractatio: In usum scholarum domesticarum. Utrecht 1700, 1722) and a commemorative publication on Adrianus Reland ( Oratio Funebris in Obitum Viri Celeberrimi Hadriani Relandi, Antiquitatum Ordinum Orientaliium & Linguitatum Sacrarum Recitata Ipsis Nonis Martiis MDCCXVIII. Utrecht 1718) known.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ G. du Rieu: Album studiosorum Academiae Lugduno-Batavae 1575-1875. Martin Nijhoff, The Hague, 1875, p. 634
  2. ↑ Gerhard Wiesenfeldt: Empty room in Minerva's house. Experimental natural science at the University of Leiden 1675–1715. Publishing house for the history of natural sciences and technology, Amsterdam-Berlin-Diepholz, 2002, ISBN 3928186612 , p. 290
  3. ↑ CA Siegenbeek van Heukelom-Lamme: Album scholasticum academiae Lugduno-Batavae MDLXXV-MCMXL. EJ Brill publishing house, Leiden, 1941.
  4. ↑ PC Molhysen: Album Promotorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae 1575-1812. The Hague, 1913-1924, p. 206
  5. ↑ University of Utrecht: Album studiosorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae MDCXXXVI-MDCCCLXXXVI. Publishing house JL Beijers / J. van Boekhoven, Utrecht, 1886, Sp.XVIII (No. 56)
  6. ^ Helmut Holzhey, Vilem Mudroch, Daniel Brühlmeier: The philosophy of the 18th century. Verlag Schwabe AG, Basel, 2004, ISBN 3796519873 , 2 half volumes , p. 1083
personal data
SURNAME Serrurier, Josephus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch philosopher, physicist, mathematician, medic and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1663
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1742
Place of death Utrecht