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Caspar Bartholin the Elder (; 12 February 1585 – 13 July 1629) was a Danish physician, scientist and theologian.
*''Anatomicae Institutiones Corporis Humani'' (1611)
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Biography
Caspar Berthelsen Bartholin was born at Malmø,Denmark
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(modern Sweden
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). His precocity was extraordinary; at three years of age he was able to read, and in his thirteenth year he composed Greek
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and Latin
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orations and delivered them in public. When he was about eighteen he went to the University of Copenhagen
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and afterwards studied at Rostock
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and Wittenberg
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He then travelled through Germany, the Netherlands, England, France and Italy, and was received with marked respect at the different universities he visited. In 1613 he was chosen professor of medicine in the University of Copenhagen
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and filled that office for eleven years, when, falling into a dangerous illness, he made a vow that if he should recover he would apply himself solely to the study of divinity
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He later taught theology
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at the university and was a canon
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of Roskilde
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.
His work, ''Anatomicae Institutiones Corporis Humani'' (1611) was for many years a standard textbook on the subject of anatomy
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. He was the first to describe the workings of the olfactory nerve
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.
Personal life
He was married to Anna Fincke, daughter of the mathematicianThomas Fincke
Thomas Fincke (6 January 1561 – 24 April 1656) was a Danish mathematician and physicist, and a professor at the University of Copenhagen for more than 60 years.
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Thomas Jacobsen Fincke was born in Flensburg in Schleswig.
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.
Of his sons, Bertel Bartholin (1614–1690), Thomas Bartholin
Thomas Bartholin (; Onomastic Latinizatio, Latinized as ''Thomas Bartholinus''; 20 October 1616 – 4 December 1680) was a Denmark, Danish physician, mathematician, and theology, theologian. He is best known for his work in the discovery of t ...
(1616–1680) and Rasmus Bartholin
Rasmus Bartholin (; Latinized: ''Erasmus Bartholinus''; 13 August 1625 – 4 November 1698) was a Danish physician and grammarian.
Biography
Bartholin was born in Roskilde. He was the son of Caspar Bartholin the Elder (1585–1629) and Anna ...
(1625–1698) were also noted scholars.
His grandson Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655–1738) was a noted anatomist.
He died on 13 July 1629 at Sorø
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in Zealand
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It is the 1 ...
.Caspar Bartholin - læge ''Dansk Biografisk Leksikon'' Retrieved 1 December 2020
Works
*''Anatomicae Institutiones Corporis Humani'' (1611)
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References
Other sources
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