Wouter Schouten

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Wouter Schouten (1638–1704)

Wouter Schouten (* 1638 in Haarlem ; † 1704 ) (also: Walter, Walther Schouten or Walter Schulze) was a Dutch ship's doctor and employee of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). After the end of his service, he wrote a book about his travels.

Life

In 1658 he signed a three-year contract with the VOC and traveled as an assistant to the surgeon on the ship Nieuwpoort from Texel to Batavia . From July 25th to August 1st, his ship stopped in the Cape Colony to pick up provisions. In 1661 he extended his contract in Batavia for a further three years and was promoted to senior surgeon. He accompanies the fighting on the Moluccas and Ceylon . In December 1664 he traveled back to Holland, but due to the war with England he did not arrive there until October 1665.

He then settled in his hometown of Haarlem where he opened a barber shop (the barbers were also surgeons in his day). There he also trained other surgeons and in 1692 became inspector of the Haarlem Surgeons' Guild. He was an avowed advocate of the separation of medicine and surgery. The last one should therefore mainly take care of wounds, fractures and tumors.

He described his travel memories in the book The Journey to East India which was published in Amsterdam in 1676. In the same year, the German edition came onto the book market. In 1707/8 Andries van Damme revised a version under the title Reistogt naar en door East India in 1740 and 1775 further versions were published.

Zedler's Universal Lexicon

Wouter Schouten was included in Zedler's “Great Complete Universal Lexicon” from 1732. Schouten had seen three “Amock callers” convicted of Batavia within five months. Their breasts were torn with red-hot pliers and then they were kneaded alive. This is how Schouten reported in his travel memories. The term "amok" or "amok run" came to Europe via Wouter Schouten, according to Zedler's lexicon.

family

Wouter Schouten was married twice. His first wife was Adriana van Masschel († May 8, 1679). The second wife was Maria Wendel . He married her on February 25, 1680.

Works

  • East Indian voyagie; Vervattende veel voorname voorvallen en ongemeene oreemde divorced, bloedige zee- en landtgevechten tegen de Portugeesen en Macassaren .. (1676) digitized

German edition from 1676:

  • SCHULTZE, WALTER: East Indian Reyse, which tells a lot of memorable things and uncommonly strange things, blooming sea and field battles, again the Portuguese and Makasser, sieges, storms and conquests of many cities and castles; as well as a proper description of the noblest East Indies. Landscapes…; at the same time a detailed narration of what happened in the dangerous journey back to Holland, between the East Indian return ships, and the English countries, in 1665 in the city of Bergen in Norway, as well as in the North Sea / everything described by Walter Schultzen. Translated from Dutch into Hochteutsche by JD
  • Het gewonde Hooft, of korte verhandeling van de opper-hooftswonden en Bekkeneelsbreuken, van de Wonden des Aangesigts en van de Wonden des Hats (1694)
  • Negotiating the tegennatuurlijke Gezwellen (1727, after his death)

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  1. ↑ a b Wolfgang U. Eckart : Die in Massakern - On the history and phenomenology of the "School Shooting" , in: Michael Anderheiden , Wolfgang U. Eckart (Ed.): Handbook of death and human dignity , de Gruyter Berlin 2012, Volume II, pages 1203-1213.
  2. ↑ Hendrik Adriaan Van Reed Tot Drakestein 1636–1691 and Hortus, Malabaricus p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Schouten, Wouter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walter; Schouten, Walther; Schulze, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch surgeon and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1638
PLACE OF BIRTH Haarlem
DATE OF DEATH 1704