Urban Hiarne ( 1641 - 1724 )

Birth: Skworitz, Ingria, Sweden (20 December 1641) Death: Stockholm, Sweden (22 March 1724) Profession: Physician Author Research Field: Medicine, chemistry, mineralogy Education: Dorpat (admitted 1655); Uppsala; Angers; MD (1670) Career: Travelled to Holland, England and France; practised as a physician in Stockholm; Director of the State Chemical Laboratory (1683); President of the Collegium Medicum (1698); President of the Bergskollegium (Board of Mines) (1713); amassed a scientific library of 3500 volumes, one of the largest in Sweden Membership: Fellow Election Date: 18/11/1669 Proposers: Johan Leijonberg.