Johannes Munnicks or ''Jean Munniks, Munnix, Munnicx, Munnigk, Munick, Jan Munnickius'' (16 October 1652 – 10 June 1711) was a

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medical doctor and writer from the

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Biography

Munnicks was born in

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. He was the son of a pharmacist who attended the

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and who later became a rector there. On 13 December 1670 he graduated with the thesis ''de Fluore muliebri'' under

Isbrand van Diemerbroeck Isbrand van Diemerbroeck (also IJsbrand or Ysbrand) (13 December 1609 – 16 November 1674) was a Dutch physician, anatomy, anatomist, and professor. Biography Isbrand van Diemerbroeck was born in Montfoort in 1609. He studied first in Utrecht, ...

and became Doctor of Medicine. He wrote ''Tractatus de urinus, earumque inspectione'' (Utrecht 1674, Dutch: ''Verhandelinge der wateren, en hoe men dezelve bezien moet von D. van Haagstraten'', Dordrecht 1683). In 1677 he wrote ''De utilitate anatomiae'' and became Lector of Anatomy in Utrecht. In 1678 he became professor of ''Chirurgie'' or Surgical Anatomy. He became

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of Utrecht.

Works

* ''Chirurgia ad praxin hodiernam adornata, in qua veterum pariter ac neotericorum dogmata dilucide exponuntur'' (Utrecht 1686) * ''Liber de re anatomica'' (Utrecht 1697) * ''Complete Works'' (Amsterdam 1740 posthumously by G. Dicten)

References

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: ''Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon, Darinne die Gelehrten aller Stände sowohl männ- als weiblichen Geschlechts, welche vom Anfange der Welt bis auf die ietzige Zeit gelebt, und sich der gelehrten Welt bekannt gemacht, Nach ihrer Geburt, Leben, merckwürdigen Geschichten, Absterben und Schrifften aus den glaubwürdigsten Scribenten in alphabetischer Ordnung beschrieben werden.'' Verlag

Johann Friedrich Gleditsch Johann Friedrich Gleditsch (15 August 1653 – 26 March 1716) was a major book publisher in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Early career Gleditsch was born in Eschendorf, near Pirna, on 15 August 1653, son of pastor Georg Gleditsch (16 ...

, Leipzig, 3, Sp. 756 *

August Hirsch August Hirsch (4 October 1817, Danzig – 28 January 1894, Berlin) was a German physician and medical historian. Biography He practiced in Danzig after studying at Berlin and Leipzig. In recognition of his studies on malarial fever and his wor ...

, Ernst Julius Gurlt: ''Biographisches Lexicon der hervorragenden Aerzte aller Zeiten und Völker.'' Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, 4, 315 * Verzijl: ''MUNNI(C)KS (Johannes).'' In:

Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Almelo, 20 August' 1870 – The Hague, 15 July 1944) was a Dutch librarian, historian, biographer, and editor of a leading biographical dictionary, the Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek. He was librarian of t ...

Petrus Johannes Blok Petrus Johannes Blok (10 January 1855, in Den Helder – 24 October 1929, in Leiden) was a Dutch historian. Biography Born in Den Helder, Blok studied at the Latin School of Alkmaar and read classics at Leiden University, receiving his doctorat ...

: ''

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''. (NNBW), Verlag A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij, Leiden, 1637, Bd. 10, Sp. 656–666
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* Jelle Banga: ''Geschiedenis van de Geneeskunde en van Hare beoefenaren in Nederland, vóór en na de Stichting der Hoogeschool te Leiden tot aan den Dood van Boerhaave.'', W. Eekhoff, Leuwarden, 1868, Bd. 2, S. 616
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External links

Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno Traiectinae

(Dutch) {{DEFAULTSORT:Munnicks, Johannes 1652 births 1711 deaths Dutch Golden Age writers Writers from Utrecht (city) Physicians from Utrecht (city)