Johannes Heurnius
{{Short description|Dutch physician (1543–1601)}}
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Johannes Heurnius (born Jan van Heurne; 4 February 1543 – 11 August 1601) was a Dutch physician and natural philosopher.
Life
Heurnius was born in Utrecht, and studied at Leuven and Paris. He went to the University of Padua to study under Hieronymus Fabricius;George Newman, Interpreters of Nature (1968), pp. 79–80;[https://books.google.com/books?id=xPdkHVIdqTIC&pg=PA80 Google Books]. and graduated M.D. there in 1566, examined by Petrus Ramus and Fabricius.[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=125124 Mathematics Genealogy page]. Genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved on 2012-04-16.
He wrote on the Great Comet of 1577; at that time he was town physician in Utrecht. In 1581 he became professor of medicine at the University of Leiden.Tabitta van Nouhuys, The Age of Two-Faced Janus: the comets of 1577 and 1618 and the decline of the Aristotelian world view in the Netherlands (1998), pp. 189–200; [https://books.google.com/books?id=xO3n6sjUaK4C&pg=PA189 Google Books]. Heurnius already had a reputation and good contacts with humanist scholars, and was appointed as senior to Gerardus Bontius, an earlier physician on the faculty.Kathryn Murphy and Richard Todd, "A man very well studyed": new contexts for Thomas Browne (2008), pp. 54–5; [https://books.google.com/books?id=DnpqhiPB-2IC&pg=PA55 Google Books].
He was a pioneer of the bedside teaching of medicine, and has been given credit for his methods.[https://archive.org/stream/growthofmedicine00buckuoft#page/428/mode/2up The growth of medicine from the earliest times to about 1800]. Archive.org. Retrieved on 2012-04-16. From Padua he brought not only anatomy in the tradition of Vesalius, but anatomical demonstrations and practical clinical work. It is not clear, however, if the 1591 proposal by Heurnius and Bontius to implement practical teaching on the Paduan lines was accepted officially. The physician Otto Heurnius was his son;{{ThoemmesDutch|Heurnius, Otto|430–2}} Heurnius's ideas on teaching were transmitted widely through Otto, Franciscus Sylvius, Govert Bidloo and Herman Boerhaave. After his father's death, Otto put together his lectures, published in the Opera Omnia, covering medicine both in theory and as a practical discipline. He died in Leiden, Netherlands.
His son, Justus Van Heurn, Van Heurne, or Heurnius (1587 – c. 1653) was a doctor, missionary, translator, and a botanist. He helped prepare one of the earliest translations of the Bible into Malay and was the first European to collect, document, and record many of the South African Cape plants.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mkfdQ3l1YQUC|title=Botanical Exploration Southern Africa, Introductory volume to the Flora of Southern Africa|last1=Gunn|first1=Mary|last2=Codd|first2=L. E. W.|publisher=CRC Press|year=1981|isbn=9780869611296|pages=187|via=Google Books}}
References
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External links
- Heurnius' [https://books.google.com/books?id=rb-Fg6qE47IC&pg=PA227 'Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms']
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Category:16th-century Dutch physicians
Category:Academic staff of Leiden University
Category:Physicians from Utrecht (city)
Category:University of Padua alumni