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See also:BARTHOLINUS, GASPARD [CASPAR BERTHELSEN], (1585-1629) , physician, was See also:born in 1585 at See also:Malmo, in See also:Sweden. His precocity was extraordinary; at three years of See also:age he was able to read, and in his thirteenth See also:year he composed See also:Greek and Latin orations and delivered them in public. When he was about eighteen he went to the university of See also:Copenhagen and afterwards studied at See also:Rostock and See also:Wittenberg. He then travelled through See also:Germany, the See also:Netherlands, See also:England, See also:France and See also:Italy, and was received with marked respect at the different See also:universities he visited. In 1613 he was chosen See also:professor of See also:medicine in the university of Copenhagen, and filled that See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office for eleven years, when, falling into a dangerous illness, he made a See also:vow that if he should recover he would apply himself solely to the study of divinity. He fulfilled his vow by becoming professor of divinity at Copenhagen and See also:canon of See also:Roskilde. He died on the 13th of See also:July 1629 at Soro in See also:Zeeland.
Of his sons, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas (1616-168o) was born at Copenhagen, where, after a See also:long course of study in various universities of See also:Europe, he was appointed successively professor of See also:mathematics (1647) and See also:anatomy (1648). During his See also:tenure of the latter See also:chair he.distinguished himself by observations on the lymphatics. In 1661 he retired to Hagestaed. In 1670 his See also:house and library were burnt, and in See also:consideration of his loss he was appointed physician to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, with a handsome See also:salary, and librarian to the university of Copenhagen. He died at Hagestaed in 1680.
Another son, See also:Erasmus (1625-1698), born at Roskilde, spent ten years in visiting England, See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, Germany and Italy, and filled the chairs of mathematics and medicine at Copenhagen. He discovered See also:double See also:refraction in See also:Iceland spar (Experimenta crystalli islandici disdiaclastici, Copenhagen, 1669). He died at Copenhagen in 1698. In the third See also:generation Caspar Thomeson (1655-1738), son of Thomas, also taught anatomy at Copenhagen, his name being associated with the description of one of the ducts of the sublingual gland and of the glandulae Bartholini, while his younger See also:brother, Thomas (1659-169o), was a student of See also:northern antiquities who published Antiquitatum Danicarum libri tres in 1689.
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