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Bishop, Chanoine de la Cathédrale de Tournay, President des Etats du Tournesis
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- Antwerpen 
- Tournai 
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- Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde - Leiden
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Auditeur de la Chambre des Comptes.
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- Brussel 
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- Koninklijk Instituut
correspondent, living abroad 27-02-1809 - Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde - LeidenLeiden
member  - (Koninklijk) Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen
member 07-09-1773 - Academie Imperiale et Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles
secrétaire perpétuel (1772-1776); director (1784) 1772 - 1794 - Sociéte Litéraire de Bruxelles
member 01-02-1769 - 1772
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- Gérard, G.J., Algemene Vergadering Instituut 1814, p. 36-37 door C. Apostool.
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- Academie Imperiale et Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles
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Heraut d' Armes de province de Namur
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- Academie Imperiale et Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles
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Conseiller Historiographe
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- Academie Imperiale et Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles
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Chanoine de la Cathedrale de Gand.
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- Academie Imperiale et Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles
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Médecin, Géologue. Naturaliste.
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- Academie Imperiale et Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles
member 1772 - 1792 - Sociéte Litéraire de Bruxelles
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- Vynck, Luc Joseph Vander
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Conseiller au Conseil de Flandres
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- Gent 
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- Academie Imperiale et Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles
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- Vounck, Judocus Johannes Hubertus
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Professor of Anatomy at the University of Louvain.
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- Academie Imperiale et Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles
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Echevin de Ia VilIe d'Anvers
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- Academie Imperiale et Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles
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Chanoine de l'Eglise Collégiale de Leuze
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- Brussel 
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- Academie Imperiale et Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles
Member (1772); Directeur (1791-1793) 1772 - 1794 - Royal Society of London
Fellow 23-05-1754 - 1801 - Sociéte Litéraire de Bruxelles
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Seumoy was physical instrument maker in Brussel, in the eighteenth century. Naturaliste. Regularly worked for the Count of Lorraine.
Collection: Museum Boerhaave Leiden (microscope).
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- Instrument maker 1749 - 1754, Brussel
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- Sociéte Litéraire de Bruxelles
Member 01-02-1769 - 1770
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- Fournier, M. Early microscopes; A Descriptive Catalogue (Leiden 2003).
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Professor of Anatomy at Leuven University
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named as a member; resigned 1770 01-02-1769 - 1770
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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.
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- 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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- Koninklijk Instituut
Correspondent, living abroad 11-10-1827 - Koninklijk Instituut
Associated Member 05-01-1830 - Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesStockholm
Member 1808 - American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Foreign Honorary Member 1822 - Royal Society of LondonLondon
Foreign Member 29-04-1813
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- Berzelius, J.J., Jaarboek 1849, p. 101-103 door J. van Geuns.
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- Wyn, Hendrik van
- Wijn, Henricus van
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Dissertation: Dissertatio historico-juridica inauguralis quaedam circa jus aggerum sistens (1764)Highest degree: PhD
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Dutch historian, antiquary and poet. Van Wijn studied Law in Leiden. He was one of the co-founders of the 'Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde'. He became a lawyer in The Hague and corresponded with many Dutch and foreign literary scholars. He was appointed 'pensionaris' of Den Briel in 1771 and held the same position a few years later in Gouda until 1788. He became archivist of the 'Bataafsche Republiek' in 1802 and lived in The Hague. He was originator of the Dutch National Archive. King Louis Bonaparte granted him the 'ridderorde der Unie' and a membership 'der tweede klasse van het Koninklijk Instituut van Kunsten en Wetenschappen'. King William I confirmed his post and granted him the 'Leeuwenorde'.
Residence
- Den Haag 
Occupation
- pensionary 10-12-1771, Brielle
- pensionary 02-06-1779 - 1788, Gouda
- archivist of the Batavian Republic 1795 - 1831
- lawyer 1766, Den Haag
Education
- student 1754 - Latijnse School Den Haag
- student 08-06-1759, Leiden
Membership
- (Koninklijk) Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen
member 27-11-1770 - 1831 - Academie Imperiale et Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles
member 14-10-1774 - 1794 - Koninklijk Instituut, tweede klasse
member 04-05-1808 - Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen - Haarlem
director 1803 - Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde - Leiden
co-founder and member 1766 - [1800.. - Letterkundig genootschap onder de zinspreuk ‘Kunstliefde Spaart Geen Vlijt’
member 1772 - 1796
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- Repertorium van Ambtsdragers. http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/repertoriumambtsdragersambtenaren1428-1861/app/personen/5951
- http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=wijn001
- http://www.historici.nl/retroboeken/vdaa/#source=aa__001biog24_01.xml&page=475&size=800&accessor=accessor_index
- Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW), Deel 4, p.1487-1488
- http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bran038biog01_01/bran038biog01_01_4533.php
- Jerôme de Lalande, Voyage en Hollande (1774) 43.
- Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW), Deel 4, p.1487-1488
- Wyn, H. van, Algemene Vergadering Instituut 1832, p. 13-14 door J. de Vries.
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Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier
MALEMontbeliard, France 23-08-1769 - † Paris, France 13-05-1832
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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.
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- Paris 
Occupation
- professor of animal anatomy Musée National dHistoire Naturelle (Paris) 1795, Paris
Education
- student 1784 - 1788, Stuttgart
Membership
- Koninklijk Instituut, eerste klasse
Correspondent, living abroad 14-11-1812 - Koninklijk Instituut, eerste klasse
Member 03-11-1827 - Académie des Sciences
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- Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D., Algemene Vergadering Instituut 1832, p. 12 door J. de Vries.
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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
Membership
- Académie des SciencesParis
member  - Akademie der Wissenschaften BerlinBerlin
member  - Royal Society of London
Fellow 14-11-1734
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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Dissertation: Das Halsskelet der KrokodileHighest degree: PhD
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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
- Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
Member Afd. Natuurkunde 12-06-1946 - Linnean Society
Foreign member  - Zoological Society
Foreign member  - Académie des Sciences
Correpondent 1961
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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Three successive layers of external cuticle in Sacculina leptodiae Year: . Pages: 7. (PDF format)
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The Rhizocephalan parasites of the crab ChlorodieIIa nigra (Forsk) Year: . Pages: 10. (PDF format)
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The Ampullae of Millepora Year: . Pages: 14. (PDF format)
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On Budding and coalescence of Buds in Fungia fungites and Fungia actiniformis Year: . Pages: 12. (PDF format)
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The Rhizocephalan parasites of the crab Actaea hirsutissima (Rüpp.) Year: . Pages: 7. (PDF format)
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Sur les organelles d'absorption chez une espèce d'Amallocystis (Protozoa, Ellobiopsidae) Year: . Pages: 4. (PDF format)
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Further notes on variation in Loxothylacus carinatus (Kossm.) Year: . Pages: 11. (PDF format)
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Experimental Budding in Fungia fungites Year: . Pages: 10. (PDF format)
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On the food of Madreporaria Year: . Pages: 11. (PDF format)
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Rhizocephalan parasites of crabs of the genus Metopograpsus Year: . Pages: 9. (PDF format)
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Dissertation: Quousque motus fluidorum et caeterae quaedam animalium et plantarum functiones consentiuntHighest degree: med. doctor
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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
Membership
- Koninklijk Instituut, eerste klasse
Member 04-05-1808 - Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen
Ordinary member 5 dec 1776; Corresponding member 25 dec 1776 05-12-1776 - 1837 - Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen - Haarlem
Member, and since 1794 secretary 1776 - 1837 - Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte - Rotterdam
Member 1784 - 1837 - (Koninklijk) Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen
Member 27-08-1782 - 26-12-1837 - Royal Society of London
Member 19-04-1798 - Vergadering van Notabelen voor het departement Zuiderzee
Member 29-03-1814 - 30-03-1814 - Teylers StichtingHaarlem
Director  - Académie des SciencesParis
Corresponding Member 1783 - Vrijdagsch Gezelschap genaamd ‘Libertate et Concordia’ - Amsterdam
member 1813~
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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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
- Koninklijk Instituut, eerste klasse
Correspondent, living abroad 11-10-1827 - Académie des SciencesParis
Associate Member 1827 - Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesStockholm
Foreign Member 1828 - Royal Society of London
Foreign Secretary 1802 - Royal Society of LondonLondon
Fellow 1794
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.