Theodorus Hendrik Mac Gillavry

Theodorus Hendrik Mac Gillavry

Theodorus Hendrik Mac Gillavry (born June 3, 1835 in Jakarta (Indonesia), † May 14, 1921 in The Hague ) was a Dutch medic.

Life

Theodorus Hendrik was the son of the colonial official in Indonesia Hendrik Mac Gillavry (born December 3, 1797 in Zwolle; † February 15, 1835 in Surakarta (Indonesia)) and his wife Anna Theodora Maurisse (born August 30, 1799 in Leiden; † 24. August 1849 in Surakarta (Indonesia)). After some time in Indonesia, he completed his school instruction in Zwolle . In 1853 he became a pupil of the Reichszöglingsschule for medical doctors of the military in Utrecht and enrolled on June 7, 1856 as a student at the University of Utrecht . Here he became the assistant of Franciscus Cornelis Donders , received his doctorate on June 25, 1858 with the subject of De oculi accomodationis qualitateand obtained a doctorate in medicine on November 4th of the same year. He then worked as a military doctor in the Dutch East Indies , returned to the Netherlands in 1863 due to dysentery and was dismissed from colonial service for health reasons in January 1865.

In October 1865 he became a mathematics teacher at the industrial and commercial school in Enschede and from August 1869 at the Reich Higher Citizens School (HBS) in Tilburg . On April 1, 1872, he became a teacher of physiology and histology and director of the Reich Veterinary School in Utrecht. Here he received the title of professor in 1875 and held the office until 1877. Because he was appointed professor of pathology, pathological surgery and medical policy at the University of Leiden on September 19, 1877 , which office he took on November 21, 1877 with the speech De wetenschappelijke beoefening the Ziektekunde took over. In Leiden in 1885 he became the founder of the anatomical, pathological and bacteriological Boorhave Laboratory and in 1897/98, as rector of the Alma Mater, he also took part in the university's organizational tasks. For the latter task, he gave the Rector's speech de Continuiteit van het doode en het levende on February 8, 1898 .

For reasons of age, he retired on March 15, 1905 and retired on June 3 of that year. He then spent his old age in The Hague, where he finally died. Mac Gillavry worked in several institutions and societies of his time. On May 4, 1875, he was a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences , a member of the Society for the Promotion of Veterinary Medicine in Utrecht, in 1881 a member of the Dutch Society of Sciences in Haarlem and in 1885 a consultative member of the Batavian Society of Experimental Philosophy in Rotterdam . In addition, he was appointed Knight of the North Star Order of Sweden in 1898 and Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lions in 1906 .

family

Mac Gillavry married on January 2, 1866 in Utrecht Jannigje Carolina van Geelen (born September 4, 1844 in Semarang (Indonesia), † January 9, 1932 in The Hague), the daughter of the teacher Pieter van Geelen (born November 24, 1813 in Woerden; † January 15, 1878 in Utrecht) and his wife Jacoba Carolina Beer (born December 21, 1814 in Semarang (Indonesia); † November 2, 1899 in Utrecht). There are children from the marriage. We know of these:

• Theodoor Hendrik Mac Gillavry (born April 5, 1867 in Enschede, † October 23, 1949 in Soest)
• Donald Mac Gillavry (born May 21, 1869 in Enschede; † January 13, 1951 in Heelsum) married on August 22, 1901 in Hilversum to Alida Ida Sophia Matthes (born October 6, 1873 in Anjer; † October 28, 1947 in Amerongen)
• Carolina Mac Gillavry (born October 22, 1872 in Utrecht, † October 19, 1950 in Heelsum)
• Anna Mac Gillavry (born September 9, 1874 in Utrecht, † November 3, 1878 in Leiden)
• Ellen Mac Gillavry (born October 6, 1876 in Utrecht, † July 20, 1884 in Leiden)
• Anna Emma Mac Gillavry (born November 6, 1878 in Leiden, † May 19, 1949 in Nunspeet)
• Charlotte Mac Gillavry (born December 20, 1880 in Leiden, † July 16, 1959 in The Hague) married Adriaan Neijtzell de Wilde on August 27, 1903 in Leiden
• Robert Mac Gillavry (born August 8, 1883 in Leiden, † June 6, 1940 Pebble Beach (USA))
• Ellen Mac Gillavry (born August 18, 1885 in Leiden) married. with E. Douglas in Weltevreden

Works

• The anatomy of the liver. 1864
• De invloed van den nervus vagus op de ademhalingsorganen. 1866
• De kleuren van cicindela. 1870
• The bepaling of the facaal-afstands voor seed gestelde optical stels. 1875
• De snijtanden van mus decumonus, proeve eener ontwikkelingsgeschiedenis van het tandglazuur. 1875
• Synthetic digestie from cellulose. 1876
• De invloed van bronchiaalkramp op de ademhaling. 1876
• Sympathetic ophthalmia. 1878, 1881
• Kidney atrophy and hard hypertrophy. 1888
• De continuiteit van het doode en het levende. 1898

literature

• August Hirsch , Ernst Julius Gurlt : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, 1886, Vol. 4, p. 79
• Onze Hoogleeraren. Portretten en Biografieën. Nihgh & van Ditmar. Rotterdam, 1898, p. 59
• How is that? Uitgevers-Maatschaapij “Vivat”, Amsterdam, 1902, p. 298
• Anthony Winkler Prins : Geïllustreerde Encyclopaedie. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1908, 3rd ed., Vol. 8 (Genie-Hawasch), p. 144
• Prof. Dr. Th. H. Mac Gillavry. †. In: Leidsche Courant. May 17, 1921, p. 1/6 , accessed August 24, 2013 (Dutch). 
• N. Ph. Tendeloo: In Memoriam. Theodorus Hendrik Mac Gillavry. In: Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde. 1921, vol. 65, p. 2776, ( online )
• CA SIEGENBEEK VAN HEUKELOM-LAMME. OCD IDENBURG-SIEGENBEEK VAN HEUKELOM: ALBUM SCHOLASTICUM, ACADEMIAE LUGDUNO-BATAVAE, MDLXXV — MCMXL. EJ BRILL, Leiden, 1941, p. 101

Web links

Commons : Theodorus Hendrik Mac Gillavry  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Genealogy link
• Record at the digital library of Dutch literature (DBNL)
• Record at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)