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|death_place = [[Leiden]], Dutch Republic | |death_place = [[Leiden]], Dutch Republic | ||
|resting_place = [[Pieterskerk, Leiden]] | |resting_place = [[Pieterskerk, Leiden]] | ||
|field = [[Medicine]] | |field = [[Medicine]] | ||
|work_institutions = [[University of Leiden]] | |work_institutions = [[University of Leiden]] | ||
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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
[[File:Oud Poelgeest Oegstgeest.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1. | [[File:Oud Poelgeest Oegstgeest.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Oud Poelgeest]] Castle, Herman Boerhaave's home in [[Oegstgeest]], near [[Leiden]]. This was the site of his outdoor botanical garden that was renowned during his lifetime and rivalled [[Hortus Cliffortianus]], the garden of his friend and sponsor to [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]]. He travelled back and forth to his friend's garden and to the Leiden University by [[trekschuit]] (horse-drawn boat).]] | ||
Boerhaave was born at [[Voorhout]] near [[Leiden]]. The son of a [[Protestant]] [[pastor]],<ref>Robert Siegfried (2002). ''From Elements to Atoms: A History of Chemical Composition, Volume 92, Issues 4–6''. American Philosophical Society. p. 128</ref> in his youth Boerhaave studied for a [[Divinity (academic discipline)|divinity]] degree and wanted to become a preacher.<ref name="Mendelsohn, p.287">Mendelsohn, p. 287</ref> After the death of his father, however, he was offered a scholarship and he entered the [[University of Leiden]], where he took his [[master's degree]] in [[philosophy]] in 1690, with a dissertation titled ''De distinctione mentis a corpore'' (''On the Difference of the Mind from the Body'').<ref>{{cite web|author=Herman Boerhaave |url=http://ilorentz.org/history/proefschriften/sources/Boerhaave_1690.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://ilorentz.org/history/proefschriften/sources/Boerhaave_1690.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=De distinctione mentis a corpore |year=1690}}</ref> There he attacked the doctrines of [[Epicurus]], [[Thomas Hobbes]] and [[Baruch Spinoza]]. He then turned to the study of medicine. He earned his [[medical doctorate]] from the [[University of Harderwijk]] (present-day [[Gelderland]]) in 1693, with a dissertation titled ''De utilitate explorandorum in aegris excrementorum ut signorum'' (''The Utility of Examining Signs of Disease in the Excrement of the Sick''). | Boerhaave was born at [[Voorhout]] near [[Leiden]]. The son of a [[Protestant]] [[pastor]],<ref>Robert Siegfried (2002). ''From Elements to Atoms: A History of Chemical Composition, Volume 92, Issues 4–6''. American Philosophical Society. p. 128</ref> in his youth Boerhaave studied for a [[Divinity (academic discipline)|divinity]] degree and wanted to become a preacher.<ref name="Mendelsohn, p.287">Mendelsohn, p. 287</ref> After the death of his father, however, he was offered a scholarship and he entered the [[University of Leiden]], where he took his [[master's degree]] in [[philosophy]] in 1690, with a dissertation titled ''De distinctione mentis a corpore'' (''On the Difference of the Mind from the Body'').<ref>{{cite web|author=Herman Boerhaave |url=http://ilorentz.org/history/proefschriften/sources/Boerhaave_1690.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://ilorentz.org/history/proefschriften/sources/Boerhaave_1690.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=De distinctione mentis a corpore |year=1690}}</ref> There he attacked the doctrines of [[Epicurus]], [[Thomas Hobbes]] and [[Baruch Spinoza]]. He then turned to the study of medicine. He earned his [[medical doctorate]] from the [[University of Harderwijk]] (present-day [[Gelderland]]) in 1693, with a dissertation titled ''De utilitate explorandorum in aegris excrementorum ut signorum'' (''The Utility of Examining Signs of Disease in the Excrement of the Sick''). | ||
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