Isbrand van Diemerbroeck

Isbrand van Diemerbroeck, ca. 1670, engraving by Jean Edelinck

Isbrand van Diemerbroeck (also Ijsbrand or Ysbrand) (13 December 1609 – 16 November 1674) was a Dutch physician, anatomist, and professor.

Biography

Isbrand van Diemrbroeck was born in Montfoort in 1609.

He studied first in Utrecht, and then in Leiden under Daniel Heinsius and Otto Heurnius. He received his doctorate in medecine from the University of Angers.[1] He worked in Nijmegen in 1635 and 1636, during the Black Death epidemic. He wrote about his experiences in treating the plague in his 1646 work De Peste.[2] He then went to Utrecht and married Elisabeth van Gessel on 18 October 1642.[1] In 1649 he became a professor of medecine and anatomy at Utrecht University,[2] where Regnier de Graaf was a student of his.[3] He was twice rector of the University of Utrecht.[1] He died in Utrecht.

His son Timann van Diemerbroeck, also a physician, collected his father's works in the 1685 Opera omnia.[1]

Works

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Eloy, Nicolas-François-Joseph (1778). Dictionnaire historique de la medecine ancienne et moderne (in French). Mons: Henri Hoyois. pp. 48–49.
  2. 1 2 Wildenborg, Francine (1 July 2010). "Medici Radboud dragen bij aan terugkeer befaamde voorganger". De Gelderlander (in Dutch). Retrieved 3 November 2011.
  3. Thiery, M. (2009). "Reinier De Graaf (1641–1673) and the Graafian follicle". Gynecological Surgery 6 (2): 189–191. doi:10.1007/s10397-009-0466-6. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
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