Isbrand van Diemerbroeck


Isbrand van Diemerbroeck was a Dutch physician, anatomist, and professor.

Biography

Isbrand van Diemrbroeck was born in Montfoort in 1609.
He studied first in Utrecht, and then in Leiden under Daniel Heinsius and Otto Heurnius. He received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Angers. He worked in Nijmegen in 1635 and 1636, during the Black Death epidemic. He wrote about his experiences in treating the plague in his 1646 work De Peste. He then went to Utrecht and married Elisabeth van Gessel on 18 October 1642. In 1649 he became a professor of medicine and anatomy at Utrecht University, where Regnier de Graaf was a student of his. He was twice rector of the University of Utrecht. He died in Utrecht.
His son Timann van Diemerbroeck, also a physician, collected his father's works in the 1685 Opera omnia.

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