Background
He was the third son of merchant Jacques (Jacob) de Superville and Marguérite Vettekeuken.
physician university professor
He was the third son of merchant Jacques (Jacob) de Superville and Marguérite Vettekeuken.
He served as chancellor of the university until 1748. De Superville also wrote several treatises on anatomy. He enrolled at the University of Leiden in 1719, having already gained his doctorate a year earlier at the University of Utrecht with a dissertation entitled Dissertatio de sanguine et sanguificatione.
After managing to cure King Frederick II of Prussia of edema (dropsy), Daniel de Superville in 1738 secured a position as the personal physician of Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia, sister of Frederick World War II He was admitted to the German imperial academy of sciences in Berlin in 1739 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1741.
Superville was appointed as the first rector magnificus of the university. When the university was relocated to Erlangen one year later, Frederick of Brandenburg-Bayreuth appointed himself rector magnificus but kept de Superville on as chancellor.
Today, the University of Erlangen is the second largest university in Bavaria. De Superville remained head of the university until 1748, when he returned – via Bremen and Braunschweig – to the Netherlands.
Finally, he returned to his birthplace of Rotterdam, where he died in 1773 at the age of 77.
De Superville was buried at the Vrouwekerk church in Leiden (demolished in 1819), which at that time served as Walloon church.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Royal Society.