, was born at Montfort, in the neighbourhood of Utrecht, Dec. 13,
, was born at Montfort, in the neighbourhood of Utrecht, Dec. 13, 1609.
After taking his degree of doctor in medicine at Angers, he
went to Nimeguen in 1636, and continued there, through
that and the following years, practising during the plague,
which all that time raged with greatviolence. This furnished him with observations on the nature and treatment
of that disease, which he published at Amsterdam, in 1644,
4to; but as he pursued the injudicious plan of keeping the
patients in close apartments, and gave them heating medicines, his practice was probably not so successful as his
book, which has passed through many editions. In 1642
he went to Utrecht, ar>d was made professor extraordinary
in medicine. His lectures in medicine, and in anatomy,
procured him great credit, and were no less useful to the
university, drawing thither a great conflux of pupils. In
1651, he was made ordinary professor; he was also twice
appointed rector of the university, and continued in high
esteem to the time of his death, which happened Nov. 17,
1674, when his funeral oration was pronounced by the
learned Graevius. Although an Arminian in his religious
tenets, the magistrates dispensed in his case with the laws
which excluded persons of that persuasion from attaining
academical honours. In 1649 he published “O ratio de
reducenda ad Medicinam Chirurgia;
” and in 12mo, in which Haller says, there
are some curious and useful observations. His
” Anatoine
Corporis Humani,“which has passed through numerous
editions, was first published in 1672, 4to, a compilation,
interspersed with some original observations; but the plates
are neither very elegant nor very correct. In 1G85, his
works were collected and published tog-ether, at Utrecht,
under the title of
” Opera Omnia,“by his son Timanis de
Diemerbroeck, in folio. This was reprinted in two volumes,
4to, and published at Geneva in 1687. It contains, besides the works above named,
” A treatise on the Measles
and Small-pox, a century of observations in medicine and
surgery, and a third part of disputations containing accounts of diseases of the lower belly."
tensius, either because his father was a gardener, or because his family name signified gardener. He was born at Montfort, in the territory of Utrecht, in 1501, and
, was a philologer, a writer
of verses, and a historian. His real name is unknown; he
took that of Hortensius, either because his father was a
gardener, or because his family name signified gardener.
He was born at Montfort, in the territory of Utrecht, in
1501, and studied at Louvain. Hortensius was for several
years rector of the school at Naarden, and when that city
was taken in 1572, he would have fallen a sacrifice to the
military fury, had he not been preserved by the gratitude
of' one who had been his pupil. His death happened at
Naarden, in 1577. There are extant by him, besides satires, epithalamia, and other Latin poems, the following
works: 1. Seven books, “De Bello Germanico,
” under
Charles V. 8vo. 2. “De Tumultu Anabaptistarum,
” fol.
3. “De Secessionibus Ultrajectinis,
” fol. 4. Commentaries on the six first books of the Æneid, and on Lucan.
5. Notes on four Comedies of Aristophanes.