Otto Heurnius
Otto Heurnius | |
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 Otto Heurnius (1577–1652) | |
| Born | 8 September 1577 |
| Died | 14 July 1652 (aged 74) |
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| Doctoral advisor | J. Heurnius Pierre Du Moulin |
| Doctoral students | Henricus Regius Johannes Walaeus |
| Other notable students | Franciscus Sylvius |
Otto Heurnius (Otto van Heurn) (8 September 1577 – 14 July 1652) was a Dutch physician, theologian and philosopher.
Life
He succeeded his father Johannes Heurnius as professor of medicine at the University of Leiden; and took over anatomy teaching from Pieter Pauw from 1617. Alongside his practical anatomy teaching, he had the care of a very various collection of zoological and botanical specimens.[1] The aims of the collection included reconstruction of the life of the Israelites in Egypt, as in the Book of Exodus.[2]
He was also a historian of philosophy, stressing the period before the philosophers of the Ancient Greeks (“barbarian philosophy”).[3] He based his ideas on the Corpus Hermeticum.[4]
References
- ^ Cornelis W. Schoneveld, Sea-changes: studies in three centuries of Anglo-Dutch cultural transmission (1996), pp. 9–10.
- ^ Klaas van Berkel and Arie Johan Vanderjagt, The Book of Nature in Early Modern and Modern History (2006), p. 51.
- ^ Francesco Bottin, Models of the History of Philosophy: From its origins in the Renaissance to the "historia philosophica" (1993), pp. 106–7
- ^ Wiep van Bunge et al. (editors), The Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers (2003), Thoemmes Press (two volumes), article Heurnius, Otto, p. 430–2.
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