Charles Drelincourt (1633-1697)

Charles Drelincourt (February 1, 1633 - May 31, 1697) was a French physician.

Biography

Born in Paris, he was the son of Charles Drelincourt, calvinistic reverend in Paris and of Marguerite Boldue, the only daughter of a wealthy Parisian beer brewer. He was raised a Protestant.

After studies in Paris with Jean Riolan, then in Saumur and Montpellier where he received his doctorate in 1654, he practised in Paris where he met Charles Patin and became, in 1655, the particular physician of Turenne.[1]

From 1656 to 1658, he was appointed French army's medical service Inspector in Flanders then he became in 1659 the First physician of the King (fr) Louis XIV.

He married Susanna Jacobs and the couple moved to Leiden in 1668.[2] There he held the Leiden University Medicine Chair where he was the Van Der Linden successor and the Boerhaave predecessor. He was several times the Rector of this University.

His knowledge of ancient languages was important and he was a prominent Hippocratic and classic literatur scholar thereby gaining much recognition amongst the greatest figures of his age especially Pierre Bayle.[3]

In his lectures, Boerhaave praised him and used to call him "nitidus incisor".[4]

He died in Leiden in 1697 aged 64.

Works

References

  1. ↑ Ferté, Patrick (1 December 2010). "De Paris à Padoue, le grand tour d’un universitaire proscrit par Louis XIV : Charles Patin, médecin, numismate (1633-1693)". Les Cahiers de Framespa. Nouveaux champs de l’histoire sociale (in French) (6). doi:10.4000/framespa.475. ISSN 1760-4761. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Dr David van der Linden (28 January 2015). Experiencing Exile: Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680–1700. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 143–. ISBN 978-1-4724-2929-2.
  3. ↑ Revue Francaise D'Histoire du Livre (in French). Librairie Droz. p. 110. ISBN 978-2-600-00673-6. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Gerrit Arie Lindeboom (1959). Bibliographia Boerhaaviana. Brill Archive. p. 91.

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