- Hieronymus David Gaubius
Hieronymus David Gaubius (
1705 -November 29 ,1780 ) was a German physician andchemist who was a native ofHeidelberg .He studied medicine and sciences at the Universities of Harderwijk and Leiden, where he was a pupil of
Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738) andBernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770). He earned his degree atLeiden in 1725 with a thesis onpsychosomatic medicine called "Dissertatio, qua idea generalis solidarum humani corporis partiur exhibitur". After graduation he continued his training inParis , and then practiced medicine inAmsterdam andDeventer .In 1731 Gaubius was invited to Leiden by Hermann Boerhaave as a lecturer in
chemistry , and in 1734 he became a full professor of medicine and chemistry. One of his best known works was "Institutiones Pathologiae medicinalis", an 1758 textbook on systematicpathology which remained popular for many years.References
* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the Dutch Wikipedia."
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