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Pieter Jan de Volder

MALE
Antwerpen, Belgium 27-07-1767 - † Brussel, Belgium 27-07-1841

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Musician and composer

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  • Gent 
  • Antwerpen  - 1794

Occupation

  • leader of the Antwerp French theatre orchestra , Antwerpen
  • leader of the Gent French theatre orchestra , Gent
  • started his own music school 1805, Gent
  • organ builder 
  • composer, violinist and music teacher 
  • bandmaster of the Ghent University , Gent

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  • Volder, P. de, Algemene Vergadering Instituut 1841, p. 10-11 door J. Bosscha.

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Jean Baptiste Pisson

MALE
Gent, Belgium 21-03-1763 - † Gent, Belgium 09-12-1818

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Born in Gent, of modest background. Was a student at the Royal Academy in Brussel because of the patronage of Lord Dons, ridder van Lovendeghem. Worked as an architect and designed botanical gardens.

Residence

  • Gent 

Occupation

  • in service of the state: architecture and lanscaping 
  • member of the committee regarding the plans for a new palace in Brussel 

Education

  • student  - Koninklijke Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten - Brussel, Brussel

Provenance

  • Pisson, J.B., Algemene Vergadering Instituut 1819, p. 23-24 door J. de Vries; Verslagen Instituut Klasse IV, 1820, p. 42-45 door Jb. de Vos Willemsz.

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Lievin Amand Marie de Bast

MALE
Gent, Belgium 02-03-1787 - † Gent, Belgium 10-09-1832

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Bast was a Belgian artist

Residence

  • Gent 

Occupation

  • goldsmith 1810 - 1828, Gent
  • archivist of the province Gent 1829

Education

  • apprentice of goldsmith Tieberghen , Gent

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Provenance

  • Bast, L. de, Verslagen Instituut Klasse IV, 1834, p. 46-48 door Jb. de Vos Willemsz.

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Johannes Christiaan Schotel

MALE
Dordrecht, Netherlands 11-11-1787 - † Dordrecht, Netherlands 21-12-1838

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Created maritime art.

Residence

  • Dordrecht 

Occupation

  • painter of marines 

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Provenance

  • Schotel, J.C., Verslagen Algemene Vergadering Instituut 1839, p. 26-28 door W.S. Swart.

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Étienne-Barthélémy Garnier

MALE
Paris, France 24-08-1759 - † Paris, France 16-11-1849

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  • Paris 

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  • artist 

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  • Garnier, F., Jaarboek 1850, p. 27 door C.A. den Tex.

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Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy

MALE
Paris, France 21-10-1755 - † Paris, France 28-12-1849

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  • KNAW-Lid

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Politician, writer, architect, philosopher

Residence

  • Paris 

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Education

  • Student  - Lycée Louis-le-Grand - Paris

Provenance

  • Quatremère de Quincy, A.C., Jaarboek 1850, p. 26 door C.A. den Tex.

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Jöns Jacob Berzelius

MALE
Väversunda, Sweden 29-08-1779 - † Stockholm, Sweden 07-08-1848

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Berzelius (20 August 1779 - 7 August 1848) was a Swedish chemist. He worked out the modern technique of chemical formula notation and is, along with John Dalton, Antoine Lavoisier, and Robert Boyle, considered one of the founders of modern chemistry. He began his career as a physician but his researches in physical chemistry were of lasting significance in the development of the subject. He achieved much in later life as secretary of the Swedish Academy. He is known in Sweden as the Father of Swedish Chemistry.

Residence

  • Stockholm 

Occupation

  • Professor in Chemistry and Pharmacy 1807 - Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
  • Secretary 1818 - 1848 - Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm

Education

  • Student of Medicine 1796 - 1801 - University of Uppsala, Uppsala

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Provenance

  • Berzelius, J.J., Jaarboek 1849, p. 101-103 door J. van Geuns.

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Nicolaas Struyck

MALE
Amsterdam, Netherlands 1687 - † Amsterdam, Netherlands 1769

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  • Genootschaps-lid

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  • Amsterdam 1686 - 1768

Occupation

  • mathematician 1742
  • teacher of bookkeepers and navigating officers 1750

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Provenance

  • Zuidervaart, H. J., ‘Early Quantification of Scientific Knowledge: Nicolaas Struyck (1686–1769) as a Collector of Empirical Data’, in: The Statistical Mind in a Pre-Statistical Era: The Netherlands 1750–1850, edited by P. M. M. Klep and I. H. Stamhuis (Amsterdam, 2002), 125–148.

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Dirk Klinkenberg

MALE
1709 - † 1799

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  • Boerhaave (instrumentenmakers)
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Astronomer and surveyor, father of instrument maker Dirk Klinkenberg jr. Personal astronomer of Prince William V. Provided an explanation how to measure the distance between the Earth and Sun, after observing the transit of Mercury across the Sun. Discovered unknown comets in the years 1743, 1748, 1757 and another in 1759.

Residence

  • Haarlem 
  • Leiden 
  • Den Haag 

Occupation

  • Clerk of the secretary of Holland 1755, Den Haag
  • personal astronomer of Prince William V , Den Haag

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Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier

MALE
Montbeliard, France 23-08-1769 - † Paris, France 13-05-1832

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  • KNAW-Lid

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  • Kuefer, Johann Leopold Nicolaus Friedrich

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Famous for his theory of 'catastrophism' (contrary to uniformitarianism) and his system of paleontological taxonomy. Established extinction as a fact (biology, natural history). He was worked at the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle from 1795 and remained his job under Napoleon and the re-established monarchy.

Residence

  • Paris 

Occupation

  • professor of animal anatomy Musée National dHistoire Naturelle (Paris) 1795, Paris

Education

  • student 1784 - 1788, Stuttgart

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Provenance

  • Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D., Algemene Vergadering Instituut 1832, p. 12 door J. de Vries.

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Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat

MALE
Ribemont, France 17-09-1743 - † Paris, France 28-03-1794

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  • Marquis de Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat
  • Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat Marquis de

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Petrus van Musschenbroek

MALE
Leiden, Netherlands 14-03-1692 - † Leiden, Netherlands 19-09-1761

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Highest degree: phd medicine (1715)

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Petrus van Musschenbroek belonged to a family of brass founders and instrument makers who had turned to the construction scientific instruments in the middle of the seventeenth century. His father Johan, his uncle Samuel, and his brother Jan all earned solid reputations in this field, Jan working closely with the Leiden natural philosopher Willem Jacob 's Gravesande. Petrus, five years younger than Jan, studied at the University of Leiden and in 1715 earned his doctorate in medicine. After a visit to England (where he met Desaguliers) he practiced medicine in Leiden for a few years, but after receiving a second degree in philosophy he accepted a professorate in mathematics and philosophy in Duisburg in 1719. In 1721 he also became extraordinary professor of medicine. In 1723 Musschenbroek moved to Utrecht, where he held the position of professor of natural philosophy and mathematics The following year he married Adrina van de Water (who died prematurely in 1732). From 1732 onwards, Musschenbroek also was professor of astronomy in Utrecht. Here he became well known for his lectures in experimental philosophy, in which he followed the new guidelines set forth by Newton and 's Gravesande. His textbooks became famous far outside the lecture halls of Utrecht. In 1726 he published Epitome elementorum Physico mathematicorum conscripta in usus academicos, followed by Elementa physicae in 1734. Musschenbroek refused offers from Copenhagen (1731) and Göttingen (1737), but he accepted a call from Leiden in 1739, where he lectured on philosophy from 1740 until his death. In 1742 he succeeded the deceased 's Gravesande as professor of experimental natural philosophy. His lectures, which attracted many foreign students, were published as his Institutiones physicae (1748) and his Introductio ad philosophiam naturalem (posthumously published in 1762 by Lulofs). During his lectures Musschenbroek used instruments that more often than not were devised by himself and constructed by his brother Jan (except for the barometers and thermometers, which were made by Fahrenheit and others). Compared to 's Gravesande, Musschenbroek paid more attention to the experimental gathering of facts and less to the mathematical formulae to which these facts had to be reduced. Accordingly, Musschenbroek's research was concerned with other topics than 's Gravesande had considered important. Whereas 's Gravesande extensively discussed mechanics and astronomy, Musschenbroek gave much attention to, for instance, the effects of heating and to meteorology and electricity. He constructed the pyrometer and is credited with the invention of the Leiden jar (1746). Because of his experimental approach, one of his biographers characterized Musschenbroek as a Newtonian scientist with a Baconian bent.

Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden.

Residence

  • Utrecht 
  • Leiden 
  • London 1717 - 1717

Occupation

  • professor of mathematics and philosophy 1740 - 1761 - Universiteit Leiden, Leiden
  • professor 1719 - 1723 - Universität Duisburg, Duisburg
  • professor 1723 - 1740 - Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht
  • doctor 1716 - 1719, Leiden
  • instrument maker 

Education

  • student mathematics, medicine and physics  - 1715 - Universiteit Leiden, Leiden

Provenance

  • Musschenbroek, P. van, Institutiones physicæ conscriptæ in usus academicos (Leiden 1748).
  • Leiden, UB : BPL 240; Letter by Dirk Metz (1731 fl.) to Petrus van Musschenbroek (1692-1761).
  • Musschenbroek, P. van, Disputatio medica inauguralis de aëris praesentia in humoribus animalibus ... ex auctoritata ... Wolferdi Senguerdii ... (Leiden 1715).
  • Musschenbroek, P. van, Introductio ad philosophiam naturalem (Leiden 1762).
  • Musschenbroek, P. van, Essai de physique (Leiden 1739).
  • Musschenbroek, P. van, Epitome elementorum physico-mathematicorum (Leiden 1726).
  • Rooseboom, M., Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).
  • Clercq, P. de, At the sign of the oriental lamp. The Musschenbroek workshop in Leiden, 1660-1750 (Rotterdam 1997).
  • Musschenbroek, P. van, Beginselen der natuurkunde, beschreven ten dienste der landgenooten (Leiden 1736); second enlarged edition: 1739
  • Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J., Schip recht door zee : de octant in de Republiek in de achttiende eeuw (Amsterdam 2003).
  • Fournier, M., Early microscopes : a descriptive catalogue (Leiden 2003).
  • Crommelin, C.A., 'Leidsche leden van het geslacht Van Musschenbroek', Jaarboekje voor geschiedenis en oudheidkunde van Leiden en omstreken (1939).
  • Pater, C. de, Petrus van Musschenbroek (1692-1761): een newtoniaans natuuronderzoeker (Utrecht 1979)
  • Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW), Deel 10, p.659-660

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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

MALE
Gotha, Germany 11-05-1752 - † Göttingen, Germany 22-01-1840

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Dissertation: De generis humani varietate nativa

Highest degree: phd

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Biography:
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was a German physician, physiologist and anthropologist, one of the first to explore the study of mankind as an aspect of natural history, whose teachings in comparative anatomy were applied to classification of what he called human races, of which he determined five.

Residence

  • Göttingen 

Occupation

  • Extraordinary Professor of Medicine 1776 - 1778 - Universitat Gottingen, Göttingen
  • Inspector of the Museum of Natural History 1776, Göttingen
  • Professor of Medicine 1778 - 1835 - Universitat Gottingen, Göttingen

Education

  • Student of Medicine  - University of Jena, Jena
  • Student of Medicine  - 1795 - Universitat Gottingen, Göttingen

Membership

Provenance

  • Blumenbach, J.F., Verslagen Instituut Klasse I, 1841, p. 17-18 door W.S. Swart; Algemene Vergadering Instituut 1840, p. 12 door A. des Amorie van der Hoeven.

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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

MALE
Delft, Netherlands 24-10-1632 - † Delft, Netherlands 26-08-1723

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Leeuwenhoek was originally trained as a cloth merchant and a surveyor. He worked in various positions for the city of Delft: Usher to the Aldermen (1660), Surveyor to the Court of Holland (1669), Chief Warden (1677), Wine Gauger and or Inspector of Weights and Measures (1679). From around 1673 he made microscopes according to the design of Johannes Hudde. Leeuwenhoek grinded some 550 lenses, the quality of which was not surpassed until the nineteenth century. He communicated his observations by letters to other scholars, mostly to the Royal Society. He made his most important discovery in 1674: the true nature of micro-organisms.

Collections: Museum Boerhaave Leiden, Universiteits Museum Utrecht (lenses and microscopes), Royal Society London.

Residence

  • Delft 1653 - 1723

Occupation

  • microscopist 1673 - 1723, Delft

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Provenance

  • Houtzager, H.L. and L.C. Palm, Van Leeuwenhoek herdacht : bundeling van de voordrachten gehouden op het symposium georganiseerd ter gelegenheid van de herdenking van de 350ste geboortedag van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (Amsterdam 1982).
  • Fournier, M. 'De doos van Pandora: Een microscoop van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek', in: Gewina 25 (2002).
  • Schierbeek, A., Antoni van Leeuwenhoek en zijn voornaamste ontdekkingen (Den Haag 1963).
  • Fournier, M., Early microscopes : a descriptive catalogue (Leiden 2003).
  • Gest, H. , 'The discovery of microorganisms by Robert Hooke and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Fellows of The Royal Society', Notes and records of the Royal Society of London 58, afl. 2 (2004).
  • Rooseboom, M., Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).

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Balthazar Paulus Ommeganck

MALE
Antwerpen, Belgium 26-12-1755 - † Antwerpen, Belgium 18-01-1826

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Painter from Antwerpen. Ommeganck painted landscapes and portraits (among others of Napoleon and Josephine). He was member of a committee for the reclamation of Dutch art from France in 1815.

Residence

  • Antwerpen 

Occupation

  • artist 

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Provenance

  • Ommeganck, B.P., Verslagen Instituut Klasse IV, 1826, p. 57-58 door Jb. de Vos Willemsz; Algemene Vergadering Instituut 1826, p. 22-23 door C.A. den Tex.

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Hilbrand Boschma

MALE
IJsbrechtum, Netherlands 22-04-1893 - † Leiden, Netherlands 22-07-1976

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Dissertation: Das Halsskelet der Krokodile

Highest degree: PhD

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Biography:
Performed research in the Dutch Indies between 1920 and 1922. Director of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie.

Residence

  • Leiden 

Occupation

  • Head assistent 01-11-1922 - 30-06-1928 - Zoologisch Labaratorium, Leiden
  • Privaat docent 20-08-1923 - 30-06-1928 - Universiteit Leiden, Leiden
  • Gewoon hoogleraar in de dierkunde 27-02-1937 - 01-09-1963 - Universiteit Leiden, Leiden
  • directeur van het Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie 26-06-1934 - 26-04-1958, Leiden

Education

  • Student  - 1912 - HBS Sneek
  • student biology  - 1918 - Universiteit van Amsterdam

Membership

Provenance

  • Boschma, H., Verslagen Natuurkunde 85, 1976, p. 101-102 door L.B.W. Jongkees; Jaarboek 1976, p. 193-197 door L.D. Brongersma.
  • Bibliografie van Biografieën van biologen, dierkundigen, kruidkundigen, plantkundigen, biohistorici, natuurbeschermers, natuurfotografen, natuurillustratoren, natuurschilders etc. voor 1950 geboren. http://www.natuurcijfers.nl/biografieen.htm

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Martinus van Marum

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Delft, Netherlands 20-03-1750 - † Haarlem, Netherlands 26-12-1837

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  • Genootschaps-lid
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Dissertation: Quousque motus fluidorum et caeterae quaedam animalium et plantarum functiones consentiunt

Highest degree: med. doctor

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Biography:
Martinus van Marum was the son of Petrus van Marum and Cornelia van Oudheusden. The van Marum family stemmed from Groningen and belonged to the Reformed church. His father was land surveyor and agricultural specialist. From 1744 to 1764 he owned a delftware factory art Delft where he worked as master potter. Van Marum attended the primary school and Latin school at Delft. After the return of the family to Groningen, in 1664, he matriculated at Groningen university to study philosophy and medicine.
Among his teachers there were Petrus Camper (medicine and botany), Dionysius van de Wijnpersse (physics), Wouter van Doeveren (medicine, chemistry, and mineralogy), and Antonius Brugmans (philosophy, physics, and mathematics). Especially Camper was very influential, his views on botany aroused in van Marum a life-long interest in plants, and friendship with Camper until the latter's death in 1794. Contrary to the then common taxonomical studies, Camper advocated the study of the anatomy and physiology of the plant. In 1773 van Marum obtained the doctor's degree in philosophy on a highly praised thesis about the sap streams in plants. Later that year he graduated in medicine on a thesis in which he compared the physiology of sap streams in plants and animals.
Aspiring to a job as professor in botany van Marum was very disappointed when he was not elected to succeed Camper. He immediately turned his interests to the field of electricity. In 1776 he published a report on the technical improvements he introduced to the electrical machine. In the same year he went to Haarlem where he set up as a general practitioner (until 1780). The city of Haarlem appointed him as municipal lecturer in philosophy and medicine in 1776. Van Marum took this matter seriously: until 1780 he gave 52 public lectures on physical topics. In the context of Teyler's Foundation (see later) he would give another 163 lectures (until 1803). Until 1797 his subjects were mainly of a physico-chemical and technical nature, later he treated geological, mineralogical, and palaeontological issues.
In 1781 van Marum married the extremely wealthy printer's daughter Joanna Bosch (1739-1821), which made his possible for him to devote his life fully to the propagation and popularization of science. Thanks to his continuous and efficient activities, van Marum was able to make Haarlem a very important centre of Dutch science at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. Van Marum used two institutions to reach his goals: the Dutch Society of Sciences (Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, founded in 1752), and Teyler's Foundation (founded in 1778 by the wealthy menist merchant Pieter Teyler van der Hulst).
Van Marum was appointed director of the Cabinet of Curiosities of the Dutch Society in 1777, he became its perpetual secretary in 1794. In 1784 he was appointed director of Teyler's Cabinet of Physical and Natural Curiosities and Library. All these functions he combined until his death. The personal and institutional wealth of both van Marum and the institutions made it him possible to expand the collections and libraries to a scale that made them famous all over Europe. From 1782 to 1802 he made a number of journeys abroad that brought him much fossil material and minerals. His most famous acquisitions were J.J. Scheuchzer's 'homo diluvii testis', actually a fossil salamander, the fossil Mosasaurus camperi, and Beringer's Lügensteine.
Apart from these activities van Marum was involved in scientific research too. His scientific ideas rested on two pillars: physico-theology, and utility. During the first half of his scientific life physico-theological interests prevailed, especially in his chemical research, his later works were mainly motiviated by utilitarian goals. In the Verhandelingen of Teyler's Foundation Van Marum published the results of many electrical and chemical experiments he had carried out with the largest electrical machine of the time. This spectacular machine was installed in 1784 in Teyler's Museum by its maker, the British instrument maker John Cuthbertson. It had two large, round glass plates each 1.65 metres in diameter. With this electrical machine he tried to discover the relationship between electricity and magnetism. Van Marum was a life long supporter of Benjamin Franklin's one fluid theory of electricity. The new Voltaic pile was quickly adopted by Van Marum, who named it after its Italian inventor.
His most important experiments, however, lay in the field of chemistry. In 1785 was the first to recognize a peculiar odour of electricity, which we now call ozone. Together with Adriaan Paets van Troostwijk he did experiments in the winters of 1785-1786 and 1786-1787 which were concentrated on the new combustion theory of the French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. These convinced him of the correctness of the new chemisty, and he became a staunch advocate of the Frenchman's ideas. In 1787 he published a summary of this oxidation theory, even before Lavoisier did so himself. With his newly developed gazometer he discovered carbon monoxide.
From 1802 onwards Van Marum's attention shifted to botany, concentrating on South African plants. For the prince of Salm-Dyck he compiled a systematic catalogue of his aloe collection, which reflected his renewed interest in plant systematics and taxonomy. However, his interest in the relation between electricity and magnetism caused him to repeat Oersted's famous experiments in 1822.
Van Marum was always interested in the practical and organisational aspects of science. He issued many competitions to write essays on scientific topics and took care of the publication of the prize-winning ones. During the French reign, king Louis Napoleon asked him, among others, to draft a constitution for a new national scientific institution, the Royal Institute of Science, Literature, and Arts (Koninklijk Instituut van Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schoone Kunsten), which was established in 1808. Until 1836 Van Marum was one of the most active members of this scientific institution. In 1814, the new king of the Netherlands, William I, appointed Van Marum to a commission for the restructuring of higher education, and in 1821 to a commission charged with the exploration of the possibilities of active control of the Dutch rivers.
As a physician Van Marum was a typical representative of the 'Aufklärungsarzt' (Enlightenment physician), who strived to make science and medicine subservient to the interests of society at large. In Van Marum's case this attitude was also stimulated by his belief in a practical form of christianity. Examples are his propagation of the use of pure oxygen to revive drowned persons, the use of steam baths for cholera patients, artificial ventilation in houses, factories and aboard ships, and the improvement of the digestor, originally invented by Denis Papin, to provide the poor with nutritive soups.
Van Marum maintained a large network of scientific contacts and correspondents throughout his life. He was a (corresponding) member of no less than 37 scientific societies in Europe and the United States. Van Marum died on 26 December 1837, honoured by Dutch and French societies, and leaving as his heir a natural son born in 1829.

Designed an electrostatic generator, with the help of Gerhard Kuyper from Groningen. Participated in development of the largest electrical machine of his time, designed by John Cuthberson.

Residence

  • Haarlem 

Occupation

  • Physician 1776 - 1780, Haarlem
  • Director Physisch kabinet and library 1784 - Teylers Museum

Education

  • Student of Medicine and Philosophy 31-12-1764 - 20-08-1773 - Universiteit Groningen, Groningen

Provenance

  • Marum, M. van, Algemene Vergadering Instituut 1838, p. 11-12 door H.H. Klijn; Verslagen Instituut Klasse I, 1839, p. 5-7 door W.S. Swart.
  • “Naamlijst der leden van het Vrijdag’s Gezelschap”, in: Naamlijst der leden van het Vrijdag's Gezelschap, opgerigt te Amsterdam den 17 december van het jaar 1734, onder de zinspreuk: Libertate et Concordia, en eenige gedichten daartoe betrekkelyk (Amsterdam 1812).
  • Molhuysen, P.C., en Fr.K.H. Kossmann (redactie), Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek. Deel 10. (Leiden 1937) 588.

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Thomas Young

MALE
Milverton, United Kingdom 13-06-1773 - † London, United Kingdom 10-05-1829

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  • KNAW-Lid

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Residence

  • Edinburgh 1794 - 1795
  • Göttingen 1795 - 1797
  • Cambridge 1797 - 1799
  • London 1792 - 1794
  • London 1799 - 1829
  • Milverton 1773 - 1792

Occupation

  • Professor 1801 - 1803 - Royal Institution of Great Britain, London
  • Physician 1811 - St. George's Hospital, London

Education

  • Student of Medicine 1792, London
  • Student of Medicine and Physics 1795 - 1796 - Universitat Gottingen, Göttingen
  • Student 1797 - 1798 - Cambridge University, Cambridge

Membership

Provenance

  • Young, T., Verslagen Instituut Klasse I, 1829, p. 13-15 door H.C. Boon van der Mesch; Algemene Vergadering Instituut 1830, p. 20 door H.H. Klijn.

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Nicolaas Hartsoeker

MALE
Gouda, Netherlands 26-03-1656 - † Utrecht, Netherlands 10-12-1725

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  • Boerhaave (instrumentenmakers)

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Optical instrument maker and natural philosopher, who invented the screw-barrel simple microscope in circa 1694. First to observe spermicide through a microscope. Hartsoeker worked most of his life in France. In 1699, when he returned to the Dutch Republic, he was elected member of the Academie Royale des Sciences and in 1704 of the Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften, in both cases as one of the first foreign members. When Czar Peter the Great visited Amsterdam, he was offered the chair of mathematics in St Petersburg. Hartsoeker rejected this offer, but later, in 1704, Hartsoeker accepted the position of "first mathematician and honorary professor of philosophy" at the University of Heidelberg, offered to him by Johann Wilhelm, Elector the Palatine. He returned to the Netherlands around 1720. The last years of his life were spent in Utrecht.

Collections: Museum Boerhaave Leiden, Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht.

Residence

  • Paris 1678
  • Heidelberg 1704 - 1716
  • Paris 1684 - 1698
  • Amsterdam 1677 - 1678
  • Rotterdam 1698
  • Utrecht 1720~ - 1725

Occupation

  • Honorary Professsor of Philosophy  - University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg
  • physicist, astronomer and instrument maker 1678 - 1725

Education

  • student 1675 - 1678 - Universiteit Leiden

Provenance

  • Hartsoeker, N., Essai de Dioptrique (Parijs 1694)
  • Hartsoeker, N., Principes de Physique (Parijs 1696)
  • Hartsoeker, N., Conjectures Physiques (Amsterdam 1707) + several later additions
  • Hartsoeker, N., Recueil de plusieurs pièces de Physique où l'on fait principalement voir l'invalidité du système de Newton (Utrecht 1722)
  • Bibliotheca Hartsoekeriana, sive Catalogus librorum quae collegit Nic. Hartsoeker. Librorum auctio publica fiet ad diem 16 Juni 1727 et seqq (1727).
  • Rooseboom, M., Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der instrumentmakerskunst in de noordelijke Nederlanden (Leiden 1950).
  • Harting, P., Het mikroskoop : deszelfs gebruik, geschiedenis en tegenwoordige toestand; een handboek voor natuur- en geneeskundigen, vol. III (Utrecht 1850).
  • Harting, P., Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis der mikroskopen in ons vaderland (Utrecht 1846).
  • Fournier, M., Early microscopes : a descriptive catalogue (Leiden 2003).
  • Wielema, M.R. ' Nicolaas Hartsoeker (1656-1725): van mechanisme naar vitalisme', in: Gewina 15 (1992), 234-261.
  • Clay, S. and H. Court, The history of the microscope: compiled from original instruments and documents, up to the introduction of the achromatic microscope (London 1932).
  • Cittert, P. van, Geschiedenis van de verzameling antieke instrumenten van het Natuurkundig Laboratorium der Rijks Universiteit en van het Natuurkundig Gezelschap (Utrecht 1929).
  • Zuidervaart, H.J. ‘The ‘invisible technician’ made visible. Telescope making in the seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Dutch Republic’ in: Alison D. Morrison-Low [et al] (eds.), From Earth-Bound to Satellite. Telescopes, Skills and Networks (Leiden/Boston: Brill 2012), 41-102.

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Wiki Data: Q719162
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Frederick Ruysch

MALE
Den Haag, Netherlands 23-03-1638 - † Amsterdam, Netherlands 22-02-1731

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  • Genootschaps-lid

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  • Ruijsch, Friedrich

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Opened a pharmacy at The Hague (1661), practised as a physician at The Hague (1664-1667), then at Amsterdam (1667-death), Praelector of Anatomy for the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam (1666-1731), moved to Amsterdam (1667), City Obstetrician of Amsterdam (1672-1712), Doctor to the Court of Justice (1679), in which capacity he gained considerable experience in forensic medicine, Professor of Botany at the Athenaeum Illustre and supervisor of the Botanical Gardens (1685), Pieter Hotton (FRS 1703) was his assistant (1692), lectured on anatomy to foreign visitors, developed a method of preserving corpses which was said to make them look most lifelike, the first adult on whom he tried it was the English Admiral Berkeley (1666), Peter the Great acquired his collection (1713) and King John Sobieski of Poland acquired a later collection which he gave to the University of Wittenberg, fractured his 'collum femoris' and died of a fever

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Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 34, nummer 1 (1971), 1-27

Authors

Tammes, A.J.P.

Keywords

N/A

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Over de doeltreffendheid van monetaire politiek: Nederlandse ervaringen 1954-1969

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 34, nummer 4 (1971), 153-184

Authors

Holtrop, M.W.

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N/A

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De meervoudige gedetermineerdheid van menselijk gedrag

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 35, nummer 3 (1972), 129-144

Authors

Duijker, H.C.J.

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N/A

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DE LEEFRUIMTE VAN DE MENS

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 36, nummer 3 (1973), 75-96

Authors

Tammes, A.J.P.

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N/A

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Maerlants Torec als 'Sleutelroman'

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 36, nummer 5 (1973), 119-195

Authors

Heeroma, K.

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N/A

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Vom Mesopotamischen Menschen der Altbabylonischen Zeit und seiner Welt

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 36, nummer 6 ( 1973), 199-345

Authors

Kraus, F.R.

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N/A

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Hendrik IV en het Protest

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 36, nummer 10 (1973), 423-440

Authors

Bachrach, A.G.H.

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N/A

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Gestaafde en vermeende affiniteiten van het Baskisch

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 9, nummer 2 (1946), 13-24

Authors

Uhlenbeck, C.C.

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DE „COLLEGES" VAN DE OUDERE ENGELSE UNIVERSITEITEN IN DE SPIEGEL VAN DE ENGELSE ROMAN

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 24, nummer 6 (1961), 207-220

Authors

Stockum, T.C. van

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N/A

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CLEANTHES OR POSIDONIUS? THE BASIS OF STOIC PHYSICS

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 24, nummer 9 (1961), 265-289

Authors

Solmsen, Friedrich

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N/A

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Le Targum De Job De La Grotte 11 De Qumran (11QtgJob). Première Communication

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 25, nummer 9 (1962), 545-557

Authors

Ploeg, J. van der

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HET WIJSGERIG ONDERWIJS AAN DE ILLUSTRE SCHOOL TE BREDA (1646-1669)

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 25, nummer 7 (1962), 421-522

Authors

Sassen, F.

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N/A

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Étude sur les formes métriques du mystère du vieil testament

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 25, nummer 2 (1962), 37-161

Authors

Noomen, W.

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N/A

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De vindplaatsen van de "Romeinse bronnen"

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 25, nummer 15 (1962), 715-726

Authors

Polman, P.

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N/A

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De bouw van het Engelse woord

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 4, nummer 8 (1941), 229-306

Authors

Kruisinga, E.

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N/A

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Cyprianus van Carthago

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 21, nummer 9 (1958), 233-265

Authors

Bakhuizen van den Brink, J.N.

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N/A

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Het Griekse erfdeel in het werk van Thomas Hardy

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 43, nummer 3 (1980), 63-76

Authors

Kamerbeek, J.C.

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Over het lezen en het boek

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 21, nummer 4 (1958), 75-93

Authors

Dresden, S.

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Eusebeia en de cardinale deugden. Een studie over de functie van Eusebia in het leven der Grieken en haar verhouding tot de ethiek

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 23, nummer 4 (1960), 77-164

Authors

Loenen, D.

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L'ÂME, LE NOUS ET LES HENADES DANS LA THÉOLOGIE DE PROCLUS

Referentie: Mededelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 23, nummer 2 (1960), 29-42

Authors

Grondijs, L.H.

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