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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.
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.
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.
He was the son-in-law of Thomas Bartholin and a leading member of Bartholin's organization of comparative anatomists. He died in 1701.
His works
De Ranis dissertatio, Romae in 1676.
Bartholomei Scalae equitis Florentini historia Florentinorum in 1677.
Oratio in obitum Tho, Bartholini in 1681.
Compendium institutionum medicarum in 1684.
De Ranis & Lacertis dissertatio in 1686.
Francisci Ariosti de oleo mentis Zibinii, seu petroleo agri Mutinensis in 1690.
Panegyricus Christiano Vto dictus in 1691.
Gaudia Arctoi orbis ob thalamos augustos Frederici & Ludovicae in 1691.
Museum regium, sive catalogus rerum, &c. quee in basilica bibliotheca Christiani V. Hafnise asservantur in 1696.
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Oliger Jacobaeus
Jacobaeus, Oliger 1650-1701
Jacobaeus, Holger (1650-1701)