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Franz Zacharias Ermerins (also Franciscus, Frans, François) (8 November 1808 in
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– 29 May 1871 in
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) was a Dutch physician and medical editor whose literary work encompassed
Hippocrates Hippocrates of Kos (; ; ), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician and philosopher of the Classical Greece, classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is traditionally referr ...
and ancient Greek medicine. He was born into an eminent
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family in Middelburg. In 1826, he graduated from the Latin school there. After the outbreak of the
Belgian Revolution The Belgian Revolution (, ) was a conflict which led to the secession of the southern provinces (mainly the former Southern Netherlands) from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the establishment of an independent Kingdom of Belgium. The ...
while he was a medical student at
Leyden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange as a Protestant institution, it holds the distinction of being the oldest university in the Nethe ...
, he joined the ''Leidse Jagers'', a volunteer company of soldiers drawn from the Leyden student body, and participated in the Ten Days' Campaign. Upon his safe return, he continued his studies. He received a
doctoral degree A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...
on November 3, 1832, with his thesis ''de Hippocratis doctrina a prognostice oriunda''. He returned to his native city and practiced as a doctor. He married Barta Antonia van der Feen, with whom he had several children. His practice soon prospered, but he continued his study of his beloved Greek doctors, to which he devoted all the time he could spare from his daytime occupation. In the meantime he was appointed President of the Provincial Medical Commission and Secretary of the Zeeland Provincial Society. In 1839 his love for the classics induced him to move to Paris, to work full-time at the royal library on transcribing and organizing of ancient manuscripts, in particular those of
Aretaeus Aretaeus () is one of the most celebrated of the ancient Greek physicians. Little is known of his life. He was ethnically Greek, born in the Roman province of Cappadocia, Asia Minor (modern day Turkey), and most likely lived in the second half o ...
. The next year this resulted in the publication of his ''Anecdota medica Graeca'', followed soon after by additional works. Upon the death of Professor S. E. Stratingh, he was appointed in his place at the university of
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. He took up this appointment on September 12, 1844, with an inaugural lecture entitled ''de veteris medicorum interpretis munere a medicis non recusando''. He lectured on a wide variety of topics in medicine, due to the lack of a sufficient number of professors, a situation which, as Ermerins wrote to a good friend, "benefits neither professors nor students". Beginning in 1852, however, he limited himself to general pathology, pathological anatomy and histology, and clinical courses in the Academic hospital. In spite of this busy schedule, he completed after ten years his main work ''Hippocratis et aliorum medicorum veterum reliquiae'', which was published in three volumes by the
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, of which he had been a member since 1855. Near the end of his life he was threatened with total blindness; he died of typhoid May 27, 1871. The French scholar
Charles Daremberg Charles Victor Daremberg (14 March 1817, Dijon – 24 October 1872) was a French librarian, History of medicine, medical historian and classical philologist. He began his medical studies in Dijon, later relocating to Paris, where he served a ...
called him "one of the glories of medical erudition."


Bibliography

* Dissertatio ''de Hippocratis doctrina a prognostice oriunda.'' L.B. 1832 4°.
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) * ''Anecdota medica Graeca.'' Ibid. 1840
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) * ''Hippocratis liber de victus ratione in morbis acutis.'' Accedunt ''Observationes criticae in Soranum Ephesium de arte obstetrica morbisque mulierum.'' L.B. 1841. 8°.
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) * Oratio ''de Veterum medicorum interpretis munere a medicis non recusando'' (in Annal. Acad. anni 1844). 4°. * ''Aretaei Cappadocis quae supersunt''. Recensuit et illustravit Franciscus Zacharias Ermerins. Utrecht 1847.
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* Oratio ''de perpetuis materiae et formae in vita mutabilitate ac motu.'' Groningae 1851 8°. (et in Annal. Acad. 1851 4°).
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) * ''Hippocratis et aliorum veterum reliquiae.'' Mandato Acad. Reg. Disc. quae Amstelodami est. Traj. ad Rhen. 1859–1864, 3 vol. 4°.
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) *''Continuatio epimetri'' (ipsum ''epimetrum'' invenitur in Hippocrat. edit. vol. III. p. XCII- CXLI) ''ad editionem Hippocratis. Accedunt nonnulla ad Aretaeum''; Traj. ad Rhen 1867.
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) * Oratio ''de vetere medicina graeca ante aetatem Alexandrinam'' (in ''Annal. Acad.'' 1865–1866).
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) *''Sorani Ephesii liber de muliebribus affectionibus.'' Traj. ad Rhen. 1869. 8°.
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) * ''Epistola critica ad Soranum a se editum. Accedit de vita Ermerinsii editoris epilogus.'' Utrecht 1872.
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References

* This article incorporates material from C.J. Matthes,
Levensbericht F.Z. Ermerins
'' Jaarboek, 1873, Amsterdam, pp. 17–19, now in the public domain in the EU and the US


External links


Life and Writings of Dr. Ermerins
the substance of Daremberg's account in English translation
Ermerins' WorldCat bibliography

Ermerins at the Netherlands Biography Portal
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ermerins, Franz Z. 1808 births 1871 deaths Dutch pathologists Dutch classical scholars Dutch medical historians Leiden University alumni Academic staff of the University of Groningen People from Middelburg, Zeeland Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences