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5456701
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Prints / graphics
Title
HERMANUS BOERHAVE.
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17,0 x 11,5
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Portrait bust of Hermanus Boerhaave (1668-1738). Boerhave was a Dutch physician, anatomist, botanist, chemist and researcher. He was a professor who for a time held three of the five chairs of the medical faculty, was rector magnificus of the University of Leiden and director of the Hortus botanicus Leiden. Known as a gifted teacher, he was one of the most famous men in Europe, whose fame had spread even as far as China. Lithograph, published in The Hague by Soetens et Fils, ca. 1840. Signed in print.

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