| Authorised form of name | Boerhaave; Herman (1668 - 1738) |
| Other forms of name | Hermann |
| Dates | 1668 - 1738 |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Place of birth | Voorhout, Netherlands |
| Date of birth | 31 December 1668 |
| Place of death | Leyden, Netherlands |
| Date of death | 23 September 1738 |
| Research field | Medicine |
| Botany |
| Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
Grammar School in Leyden; Leyden; BPhil (1690); Harderwijck; MB (1693)
Career:
Practised in Leyden; Lecturer in Medicine, Leyden (1701); offered chair of medicine at Groningen but declined (1703); Professor of Botany (1709-1729) and of Medicine (1709-1738), Leyden; supervied the University Botanical Garden; helped Carl Linnaeus (FRS 1753) in his classification of plants; revived clinical teaching at Leyden and attracted some 1100 students from all over Europe, including over 600 English-speaking ones; Professor of Chemistry, Leyden (1718-1729); became ill through overwork (1723); invited to be Physician to the Tsarina; by the 1730s he was the most famous man of science in Europe; died of heart disease
Memberships:
Academie Royale des Sciences
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 30/04/1730 |
| Relationships | Son of Jacobus Boerhaave, clergyman, and his second wife, Hagar Daelder; married Maria Drolenvaux |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
References:
Simon Schaffer, 'The Glorious Revolution and Medicine in Britain and the Netherlands' in NR 1989 vol 43 pp 167-190
J A Chaldecott, 'Cromwell Mortimer, FRS (c. 1698-1752) and the Invention of the Metalline Thermometer for Measuring High Temperatures' in NR 1969 vol 24 pp 113-135
Notes:
Proposed by Cromwell Mortimer; Sir Hans Sloane; a Secretary |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/61555409 |
| Code | NA8371 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/000419 | Boerhaave, Herman | nd |
| EL/B3/50 | Paper, 'Experiments with quicksilver' by Herman Boerhaave | 1736 |
| LBO/21/1 | Copy extract of a letter from Herman Boerhaave to Cromwell Mortimer | 18 February 1734 |
| LBO/23/53 | Copy letter from Hermann Boerhaave | |
| CLP/22ii/84 | Proposal, Proposal to amend [Jan] Swammerdam's work on 'Biblia naturae' by Herman Boerhaave | 18th century |
| IM/000420 | Boerhaave, Herman | nd |
| EL/B3/21 | Translation of a letter, from Herman Boerhaave to Cromwell Mortimer | 1734 |
| EL/B3/52 | Letter, from Herman Boerhaave to Job Baster, dated at Leyden | 17 February 1738 |
| EL/B3/51 | Translation of a letter, from Herman Boerhaave to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Leyden | 10 May 1737 |
| EL/B3/56 | Translation of part of a letter, from Herman Boerhaave to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Leyden | 8 September 1738 |
| EL/B3/53 | Translation of a letter, from Herman Boerhaave to Job Baster, dated at Leyden | 12 February 1738 |
| MC/8/163 | Letter from the commission for the erection of a statue to the memory of Boerhaave, Leiden, to H W [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society | 31 March 1868 |
| EL/B3/20 | Letter, from Herman Boerhaave to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Leyden | 17 February 1734 |
| MC/8 | Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1867-1869 |
| EL/B3/22 | Letter from Herman Boerhaave to Cromwell Mortimer | 17 February 1734 |