the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
From 1603 to 1608 Caspar Bartholin studied philosophy and theology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
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University of Basel, Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
In 1610 Bartholin was made a Doctor of Medicine after defending his Paradoxa CCXL pathologica, simiotica, diaetetica at the University of Basel.
Career
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Caspar Bartholin the Elder (12 February 1585 – 13 July 1629) was born at Malmø, Denmark (modern Sweden) and was a polymath, finally accepting a professorship in medicine at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1613.
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Caspar Bartholin. The Royal Library: The National Library of Denmark and Copenhagen University Library.
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Caspar Bartholin the Elder
Achievements
Syntagma medicum & chirurgicum De cauteriis praesertim potestate agentibus seu ruptoriis olim in Academia Patavina nationi Germanicae praelectum, nunc multorum desideriis sasfaciendi ergo revisum, auctum, arcanisque cauterijs usu probatissimis locupletatum & publici juris factum: Accessit ejusdem autoris De aere pestilenti corrigendo consilium medicum.
Caspar Bartholin the Elder (12 February 1585 – 13 July 1629) was born at Malmø, Denmark (modern Sweden) and was a polymath, finally accepting a professorship in medicine at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1613.
Syntagma medicum & chirurgicum De cauteriis praesertim potestate agentibus seu ruptoriis olim in Academia Patavina nationi Germanicae praelectum, nunc multorum desideriis sasfaciendi ergo revisum, auctum, arcanisque cauterijs usu probatissimis locupletatum & publici juris factum: Accessit ejusdem autoris De aere pestilenti corrigendo consilium medicum.
University of Basel, Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
In 1610 Bartholin was made a Doctor of Medicine after defending his Paradoxa CCXL pathologica, simiotica, diaetetica at the University of Basel.
Connections
Father: Bertel Jespersen 1555-1613
Bertel Jespersen, 1555-1613.
Son: Thomas Casparsen Bartholin 1616-1680
Thomas Casparsen Bartholin, 1616-1680.
Son: Rasmus Casparsen Bartholin 1625-1698
Rasmus Casparsen Bartholin, 1625-1698.
Daughter: Anne Caspersdatter Casparsdatter Bartholin 1613-1682
Anne Caspersdatter Casparsdatter Bartholin, 1613-1682.
colleague: Felix Plater
Felix Plater (October 28, 1536 – July 28, 1614) was a Swiss physician, professor in Basel, well known for his classification of psychiatric diseases, and was also the first to describe an intracranial tumour (a meningioma).
Enchiridion physicum ex priscis et recentioribus philosophis accuratè concinnatum, et controversiis naturalibus potissimis, utilissimisque, illustratum
Logicae Peripateticae praecepta ita perspicue atque breviter scholiis exemplisque illustrata; ut quivis latine doctus ingenio & memoria capere possit olim collecta a Casp. Bartholino .. 1646 [Leather
Caspar Bartholin (Gaspard Bartholinus or Caspar Berthelsen) was a Danish physician, anatomist, and theologian. He is noted for his work, Anatomicae Institutiones Corporis Humani (1611), which was a standard textbook on the subject of anatomy for many years.
Background
Caspar Bartholin was born on February 12, 1585, at Malmo in Sweden, to a Danish family of physicians and professors. Bartholin’s father, Bertel Jespersen, was court chaplain. His mother, Ane Rasmusdotter Tinckel, was the daughter of a clergyman from Skane.
Education
Because of his aptitude for languages, Caspar was sent to grammar school when he was only three; at eleven he delivered lectures in Greek and Latin. In 1603 he matriculated at the University of Copenhagen but transferred the following year to Wittenberg, where he studied philosophy and theology for the next three years. He was elected Master of philosophy and humane arts in 1608 with the thesis Exercitatio physica de natura.
In 1606 Bartholin traveled through Germany to Holland, France, and England, visiting the universities and meeting learned physicians and philosophers. During a stay at Leiden, he began to study medicine, but without giving up theology.
In 1610 Bartholin was made a Doctor of Medicine after defending his Paradoxa CCXL pathologica, simiotica, diaetetica at the University of Basel.
After traveling through Germany to Holland, France, and England, and after his stay at Leiden, as well as a short visit home, Caspar Bartholin returned to Wittenberg, where in 1606 he published Exercitatio destellis, which was reissued seven times, with queries and corrections, as Astrologia sive de stellarum naturae, emendiator et auctior.
In 1607 Bartholin went to Basel, where he lectured and worked with Felix Platter, Gaspard Bauhin, and Jacob Zwinger. While there he was offered the Doctor of Medicine degree, but declined it. Front 1608 to 1610 Bartholin was in Italy, where he studied anatomy and performed dissections at Padua with Fabricius ab Aquapendente and Casserio, and at Naples, where he was offered a professorship in anatomy. He helped to prepare the engravings for Casserio’s work on the sense organs, Pentaesthesicon (1609), and his anatomical studies here formed the basis for the manual Anatomicae institutiones corporis humani (1611), which made him famous. During this time he also published several manuals of logic, physics, and ethics: Enchiridion logicum ex Aristotele (1608), Janitores logici bini (1609), Disp. physica Basileensis (1610), and Enchiridion melaphysicum ex philosophorum coryphaei (1610).
When he returned to Denmark in 1611 he was appointed a professor eloquentia at the University of Copenhagen. He became a professor of medicine in 1613, inaugurating his lectures with a speech on the use of philosophy in medicine. During the next ten years, he wrote prolifically and lectured on medicine, physics, and religion, but he performed no dissections at Copenhagen.
By 1622 his health had failed and, tortured by renal stones and rheumatism, he sought recovery at Carlsbad.