Isbrand van Diemerbroeck

Isbrand van Diemerbroeck (also: Ysbrand, IJsbrand van Diemer Boeck, born December 13, 1609 Montfoort; † November 17, 1674 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch physician.

Life

The son of the mayor Gisbert van Diemerbroeck and his wife Magdalena Sasse had attended grammar school in Utrecht and received a degree in 1627 at the University Leiden. Here he attended the lectures of Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655) in literature, by Caspar van Baerle (1584-1648) in philosophy and Otto Heurnius (1577-1652) in medicine. He continued his studies in France, where he received his doctorate at the University of Angers as a doctor of philosophy and medicine. He returned to his homeland and settled in Nijmegen as a physician, where the plague occurred in 1635 and 6000 that killed people. During this time, Diemer Brock sat sacrificing one for the welfare of his fellow men, and in 1644 published a paper on the experience of the terrible disease. Already in 1636 he had become at a salary of 150 florins second city physician of Nijmegen.

1649 he was appointed associate professor of medicine at the University of Utrecht and appointed on April 7, 1651 as a full professor. Although he belonged to the Brotherhood Remonstrant, there was part of the government not to oppose him. His lectures attracted a large number of students at the University of Utrecht. His main work is corporis humani Anatomists. . Diemerbroeck .. also participated in the organizational tasks of the Utrecht University and was in the years 1655/56 and 1668/69, rector of his alma mater.

From its closed on October 17, 1642 marriage to Elisabeth van Gessel the son Tiemann van Diemerbroeck showed the pharmacist later in Utrecht was.

Works

  • De peste libri quatuor, truculentissimi morbi historiam ratione et experientia confirmatam exhibentes. Arnhem 1644 Amsterdam 1645, this work appeared in other papers in 1721 in Geneva and in 1711 under the title. Tractaat over de plague. Amsterdam 1711 Tractatus de peste in quatuor libros distinctus, truculentissimi morbi historiam ratione et experientia confirmatam exhibens. in the Google Book Search Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1665
  • Opera omnia Anatomica et medica, cum fig. Utrecht in 1685, Geneva 1687th 2 vols
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