Oliger Jacobaeus

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Oliger Jacobaeus (1650-1701), also known as Holger Jacobi, was a Danish physician and naturalist. He was professor of medicine, philosophy, history, and geography at University of Copenhagen. [1] [2]

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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. [1]

Early life

He was born at Aarhus in 1650. He studied anatomy at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Florence. He travelled across France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, England, and the Netherlands to improvise his profession. He received his title of doctor in medicine from Leiden University.

He married twice and had six sons from his first marriage with Anne Marguerete Bartholin for seventeen years. After the death of his first wife, he married Anne Tistorph. [1]

He was the son-in-law of Thomas Bartholin and a leading member of Bartholin's organization of comparative anatomists. [3] [4] He died in 1701.

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