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Authorised form of nameDonders; Franz Cornelius (1818 - 1889)
Other forms of nameFranciscus Cornelis
Dates1818 - 1889
NationalityDutch
Place of birthTilburg, Netherlands
Date of birth27 May 1818
Place of deathUtrecht, Netherlands
Date of death24 March 1889
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Utrecht
Research fieldPhysiology
Ophthalmology
ActivityEducation:
University of Utrecht; University of Leyden. MD (1840)
Career:
Military Surgeon, Flushing; Lecturer in Physiology, Military Medical School, Utrecht; Professor Extraordinary, Utrecht (1847); practised in Utrecht; died of apoplexy
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election14/06/1866
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1890-1891 vol 49 pp vii-xxiv, plate (frontispiece), signed by W B
Notes:
One signature on election certificate struck through
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/17967167
CodeNA6546
Archives associated with this Fellow
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M/067Donders, Franz Cornelis
NLB/2/453Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Donders [Fellow of the Royal Society]6 July 1888
NLB/5/179Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir William Bowman, Fellow of the Royal Society10 April 1891
NLB/5/907Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Cambridge Engraving Company, St Tibb's Row, Cambridge14 November 1891
EC/1866/17Donders, Franz Cornelius: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/6/690Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to J R Shannon, 51 Torrington Square, W.C.28 June 1892
NLB/5/81Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Cambridge Engraving Company10 March 1891
AP/56/5/2Unpublished diagram, experimental setup of Franciscus Donders by John Lucas Tupper1874
MC/15/31Letter from [Abrahamine Arnolda Louisa Hubrecht] Donders Hubrecht, Utrecht, to the Royal Society of London28 March 1889
MC/15/32Letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to [Herbert] Rix29 March 1889
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
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