Martin Schoock

Martin Schoock ( born April 1, 1614 Utrecht, † 1669 in Frankfurt ( Oder) ) was a Dutch polymath.

Life

His grandfather Anton van Voorst taught him Latin. His parents were Remonstrants and set him on the study of jurisprudence. He also studied since 1632 in Leiden with Walaeus theology and philosophy. In Voetius he acquired about 1636 his Doctor of Philosophy.

About 1638 he was in Deventer professor of classical literature, eloquence and history, and in 1640 in Groningen professor of logic and physics.

With its contentiousness, he retired to many vexations. After the death of his first wife, Angelica van Merck, with whom he had seven sons and one daughter, he fell into financial difficulties. He was a second marriage with a widow, whom he, as she had held him for rich. Its situation worsened so that he found himself moved, about 1664, leaving his professorship and Groningen freely.

He then became the official historian of the Brandenburg electors to Berlin. Soon he also got a job as an honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt / Oder.

Schoock authored some 50 publications. When there was 1642/43 a controversy between René Descartes and Voetius, grabbed Schoock to in Scripture Admiranda methodus novae philosophiae Renati Des - Cartes Descartes and his philosophy, and later claimed Voetius was the principal author. 1664 he was with tractus de Butyro ( About the butter ), the first treatise on this dairy product and at the same Accessit ejusdem diatriba de aversatione casei ( From the aversion to cheese) out.

Works

• Belgium federatum, sive descriptio distincta REIP. Federati Belgii. Amsterdam 1652.
• Tractatus de butyro. Accessit ejusdem diatriba de aversatione casei. Groningen 1664th
• Martini Schoockii De sternutatione tractatus copiosus: omnia ad illam pertinentia, iuxta recentia inventa proponens. Vandenberghe, 1664 amstelodami ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )