Person Heister; Lawrence (1683 - 1758) Heister Lawrence Laurentius Lorenz 1683 - 1758 German Male Frankfurt am Main, Germany 19 September 1683 Bornum bei Helmstadt, Germany 18 April 1758 Burial: St Stephan's churchyard, Helmstadt, Germany

Surgeon Anatomy Surgery Medicine 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) Son of - Heister, merchant and innkeeper, and his wife, Maria Alleins Fellow 17/12/1730 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB; DBE; Hirsch Authority: Altname from DSB Notes: Proposed by Frederic de Thom; George Lewis Teissier; Sir Hans Sloane ©The Royal Society International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-13907 19 Sep 1683 - 18 Apr 1758 NA7816 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 26/11/2025 RS_NET\louisianef Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/143145857836223020026 497670b8-1897-4510-809a-6c4365b7d85d