Peter Pauw

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Peter Pauw

Peter Pauw (also: Pieter Pavius, Petrus Paaw, Peacock, Pavonius, Pauwius ; born August 2, 1564 in Amsterdam , † August 1, 1617 in Leiden ) was a Dutch doctor and botanist.

Life

Anatomical lectures by Pauw

Peter Pauw was the son of the Amsterdam city council and later rent master in Alkmaar Pieter Pauw and his wife Gertrud Spiegel. He had received his first education in Amersfoort and in his hometown. On November 2, 1581 he began studying medical science at the University of Leiden with Johannes Heurnius , Gerard Bontius and Rembert Dodoens , and continued this in 1584 at the Collège de France in Paris with Jean Fabre (Johann Faber), Louis (1527–1586) and Johannes Duretus (1563–1629). He had also studied at Orléans University .

Because of the turbulent times at the time, he moved via Denmark to the University of Rostock in June 1585 , where he received his doctorate in medicine in March 1587, under the supervision of Heinrich Brucaeus . He had also visited Italy, where he followed the lectures of the botanist Giacomo Antonio Cortusi (1513–1603) and Girolamo Fabrizio at the University of Padua . His father's illness forced him to return to his homeland, where he was appointed associate professor of medicine on February 9, 1589, as assistant to his teacher Bontius, and on May 10, 1592 he was appointed full professor of medical sciences at the University of Leiden has been.

Here he was mainly responsible for the development of the subject of botany and, together with Bontius, had taken over the supervision and administration of the botanical garden (Hortus Botanikus) in Leiden on October 10, 1598, with which he became its founding father. In 1601 and 1603 he published a catalog describing his herbs.

He also married Maria († 1612), daughter of the secretary in Leiden Jan van Hout, on May 9, 1593. He also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the alma mater in 1601/02, 1606/07 and 1614/15 . He had made great achievements in the field of anatomy when he was one of the first to perform dissections on cadavers in the Dutch territories of that time and he founded the first Dutch anatomical theater. In his main anatomical work Primitiae anatomicae de humani corporis ossibus (1615) he described the carpal bones, the frontal sinus and the maxillary sinus.

Honors

Anatomical theater in Leiden, ca.1600

Herman Boerhaave named the red horse chestnut as Pavia after Peter Pauw . Carl von Linné took up this name in his nomenclature of the species Plantarum in 1753 and named the species as Aesculus pavia . In 1754 the genus Pavia was described by Philip Miller and several species were subsequently assigned to the genus. In a later revision, however, the genus was dissolved again and the species now belong to the genus Aesculus .

Works (selection)

  • Hortus Publicus Academiae Lugduno - Batavae, ichnographia, descriptio, usus. etc. Leiden 1601
  • Notae in Galenum de cibis boni et mali succi. Rostock
  • Tractatus de exercitiis Lactuciniis et Bellariis. Rostock
  • Primitiae anatomicae de hum. corp. ossibus. Leiden 1615, Amsterdam 1633
  • Succenturiatus anatomicus continens commentaria in Hippocratem de capitis vulneribus. Additae sunt annotations in aliquot capita libri octavi C. Celsi in the Google book search. Suffering 1616
  • A. Vesalii Epitome anatomica. Opus redivivum. Cui accessere notae ac commentaria P. Pauw. Suffering 1616
  • A. Vesalii de CH fabrica Epitome cum notis P. Pauw. Amsterdam 1633.
  • Tractatus de peste cum Henrici Florentii ad singula ejusdem Tractatus capita addilamentis. Suffering 1636
  • De valvula intestini Epistolae. Extant. Oppenheim 1619 also In: the first centurie of the letters of G. Fabricii Hildani.
  • Observationes anatomicae, insertae Centur. III, IV. In: Historia Anatomica Th. Bartholini. Copenhagen 1637

literature

Web links

  • Pauw in the professorial catalog of the University of Leiden

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrollment of Peter Pauw in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Doctorate for Peter Pauw in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 158 (online) .
  4. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 94 (online) .
  5. ↑ Carl von Linné: Species Plantarum . Volume 1, Stockholm 1753, p. 344 (online) .
  6. ^ Philip Miller: The Gardeners Dictionary . 4th edition, Volume 4, London 1754, no page number (online) .
personal data
SURNAME Pauw, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pavius, Pieter; Pauw, Petrus; Paaw, Pieter; Peacock; Pavonius; Pauwius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch medic and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1564
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1617
Place of death Suffer