Johannes Munnicks or ''Jean Munniks, Munnix, Munnicx, Munnigk, Munick, Jan Munnickius'' (16 October 1652 – 10 June 1711) was a Dutch Golden Age medical doctor and writer from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

Munnicks was born in

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. He was the son of a pharmacist who attended the

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and who later became a rector there. On 13 December 1670 he graduated with the thesis ''de Fluore muliebri'' under Isbrand van Diemerbroeck and became Doctor of Medicine. He wrote ''Tractatus de urinus, earumque inspectione'' (Utrecht 1674, Dutch: ''Verhandelinge der wateren, en hoe men dezelve bezien moet von D. van Haagstraten'', Dordrecht 1683). In 1677 he wrote ''De utilitate anatomiae'' and became Lector of Anatomy in Utrecht. In 1678 he became professor of ''Chirurgie'' or Surgical Anatomy. He became

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of Utrecht.

Works

* ''Chirurgia ad praxin hodiernam adornata, in qua veterum pariter ac neotericorum dogmata dilucide exponuntur'' (Utrecht 1686) * ''Liber de re anatomica'' (Utrecht 1697) * ''Complete Works'' (Amsterdam 1740 posthumously by G. Dicten)

References

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, Leipzig, 3, Sp. 756 * August Hirsch, Ernst Julius Gurlt: ''Biographisches Lexicon der hervorragenden Aerzte aller Zeiten und Völker.'' Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, 4, 315 * Verzijl: ''MUNNI(C)KS (Johannes).'' In:

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''. (NNBW), Verlag A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij, Leiden, 1637, Bd. 10, Sp. 656–666
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* Jelle Banga: ''Geschiedenis van de Geneeskunde en van Hare beoefenaren in Nederland, vóór en na de Stichting der Hoogeschool te Leiden tot aan den Dood van Boerhaave.'', W. Eekhoff, Leuwarden, 1868, Bd. 2, S. 616
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External links

Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno Traiectinae

(Dutch) {{DEFAULTSORT:Munnicks, Johannes 1652 births 1711 deaths Dutch Golden Age writers Writers from Utrecht (city) Physicians from Utrecht (city)