| Authorised form of name | Heister; Lawrence (1683 - 1758) |
| Other forms of name | Lorenz |
| Dates | 1683 - 1758 |
| Nationality | German |
| Place of birth | Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| Date of birth | 19 September 1683 |
| Place of death | Bornum bei Helmstadt, Germany |
| Date of death | 18 April 1758 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
St Stephan's churchyard, Helmstadt, Germany |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
| Research field | Anatomy |
| Surgery |
| Medicine |
| Activity | Education:
Frankfurt Gymansium; Giessen (admitted 1702); Wetzlar (admitted 1703); Amsterdam (admitted 1706); Leyden; Harderwijk. MD (1708)
Career:
Worked in field hospitals in Brussels and Ghent (1707); Field Surgeon in the Dutch army (1709-1711); Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, University of Altdorf (1711-1720); Professor of Anatomy and Surgery (1720), Professor of Medicine and Botany (1730-death), University of Helmstadt; his book on surgery was translated into several languages including Japanese and introduced western methods to many Japanese surgeons; his library contained 12,000 books and his herbarium was bound in 90 volumes
Memberships:
Deutche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (1715)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/12/1730 |
| Relationships | Son of - Heister, merchant and innkeeper, and his wife, Maria Alleins |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB; DBE; Hirsch
Authority:
Altname from DSB
Notes:
Proposed by Frederic de Thom; George Lewis Teissier; Sir Hans Sloane |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/143145857836223020026 |
| Code | NA7816 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/002026 | Heister, Lawrence | nd |
| CLP/12ii/18 | Paper, 'An account of a dissection of an eye with a cataract' by Mr [John] Ranby | [1723] |
| EL/H4/3 | Letter, from Lawrence Heister to Fred. de Thom. [sic], dated at Helmstedt | October 1730 |
| EL/H4/4 | Translation of a letter, from Lawrence Heister to Fred. de Thom. [sic.], dated at Helmstedt | 1730 |