Education
He studied anatomy at University of Copenhagen and University of Florence and traveled across France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, England, and Netherlands to improvise his profession.
He studied anatomy at University of Copenhagen and University of Florence and traveled across France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, England, and Netherlands to improvise his profession.
He was professor of medicine, philosophy, history, and geography at University of Copenhagen. He authored several treatises, notably, Compendium Institutionum Medicarum, De Ranis dissertatio, Romae, Bartholomei Scalae equitis Florentini historia Florentinorum and others He was appointed by Frederick IV of Denmark as counsellor in his court of justice in 1698 as a token of appreciation.
He was born at Arhusen in 1650.
He received his title of doctor in medicine from Leiden University. He died in 1701.
He was the son-in-law of Thomas Bartholin and a leading member of Bartholin’s organization of comparative anatomists.