Herman Boerhaave ( 1668 - 1738 )

Birth: Voorhout, Netherlands (31 December 1668) Death: Leyden, Netherlands (23 September 1738) Research Field: Medicine, botany, chemistry 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 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 30/04/1730.