Johan van Beverwijck

Johan van Beverwijck
Native name	Johan van Beverwijck
Born	(1594-11-17)17 November 1594
Died	19 January 1647(1647-01-19) (aged 52)
Pen name	Johannes Beverovicius

Johan van Beverwijck or Johannes Beverovicius (Dordrecht, 17 November 1594 - 19 January 1647) was a Dutch doctor and writer. Van Beverwijck was interested in new developments and contributed to medical science with his own experiments.

Biography

At the Dordtse Latin School, he was taught rhetoric by Vossius. Johan van Beverwijck studied in Leiden, Paris, Montpellier and Padua, where he obtained his PhD. Around 1618 he settled in his hometown of Dordrecht. He was the first physician in the Netherlands to defend the new ideas of the English physician William Harvey about blood circulation.

Bibliography

• 1635: Lof der chirurgie
• 1636: Schat der gesontheyt
• 1638: Steen-stuck
• 1639: Van de wtnementheyt des vrouwelicken geslachts
• 1642: Inleydinge tot de Hollantsche genees-middelen
• 1642: Schat der ongesontheyt
• 1645: Heel-konste ofte derde deel van de genees-konste
• 1651: Alle de wercken, zo in de medicyne als chirurgie

References

• Biographies, works and texts at the Digital Library for Dutch Literature (dbnl)
• Lia van Gemert (1992) Johan van Beverwijck as 'institution' in the seventeenth century, Volume 8.