Gezienus (or Gesinus) ten Doesschate (11 August 1885,

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– 9 March 1965,

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) was a Dutch ophthalmologist, amateur painter and historian. He was active as an amateur painter in Utrecht under the pseudonym Thomas Denier. He had good contacts with the cultural elite of Utrecht around the First World War and was good friends with the painters Janus de Winter and . In 1916 he was briefly a member of ''de Anderen,'' a Dutch artists' group that included

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, but dropped out in support of ''de Winter,'' another artists group. At the end of his life he contributed to a number of medical-historical books concerning the University of Utrecht.List of publications
at National Library of the Netherlands His son was Jurriaan ten Doesschate (1912–1977), ophthalmologist and medical scientist

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