Lazarus Marcquis (1574–1647) was a physician in the
Habsburg Netherlands
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Life
Marcquis was born in Antwerp in 1574 (sometimes mistakenly given as 1571) and was baptised in
Antwerp Cathedral
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Biographie Nationale de Belgique
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'' vol. 13 (Brussels, 1895), 562-573. His father was the diamond merchant Barthélemi Marcquis, originally from
Wallonia
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, and his mother Catherine Noppen, a native of
's-Hertogenbosch
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. After studying at the Jesuit College in Antwerp, where Peter Paul Rubens was among his fellow students, he studied at the University of Padua, graduating doctor of medicine in 1599. On 28 June he was appointed physician to the city of Antwerp, and on 13 November he married Marie Vanden Broeck (died 1643) in Antwerp Cathedral. The couple would have thirteen children.
From 1605 until his death, Marcquis lived in a house on the Nieuwstraat in Antwerp. In 1606 he was appointed physician and surgeon to the St Elizabeth's Hospital. He became part of the late humanist circle around mayor Nicolaas Rockox, which included Gaspar Gevartius,
Philip Rubens
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Joannes Woverius
Joannes Woverius (1576-1636), the Latinized name of Jan van den Wouwer, was a civic and royal office-holder in the Spanish Netherlands.
Life
Born in Antwerp in 1576, Woverius studied at Leuven University under Justus Lipsius, lodging in the prof ...
Aubert Miraeus
Aubert le Mire, Latinized Aubertus Miraeus (30 November 1573 – 19 October 1640) was an ecclesiastical historian in the Spanish Netherlands.
Life
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Jan
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and Balthasar Moretus, and Franciscus Sweertius. On 24 November 1610, the physicians of Antwerp adopted Marcquis's proposal to found a College of Medicine which would also function as a professional body and advise the city government on epidemic response and public sanitation. This Collegium Medicum was eventually founded on 28 April 1620, with Marcquis appointed its first professor of surgery and anatomy.
In 1646 he unsuccessfully applied to the city council to cover the expense of a coach and coachman, since he was no longer able to ride or walk to patients as previously. He retired in March 1647 and died on 26 December of the same year. A memorial was erected in the church of the Dominican convent in Antwerp. A portrait of him by
Anthony van Dyck
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was engraved by Sebastian Barras.
Writings
* ''Cort advys van de Doctoren van Antwerpen teghen de Peste'' (1620; reprinted 1624)
* ''Volcomen Tractaet van de Peste'' (1634; expanded edition 1636)''Volcomen Tractaet van de Peste'' (Antwerp, Caesar Joachim Trognaesius, 1636) available at Internet Archive