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- Latin:
- Bartholinus
- Born:
- Feb. 12, 1585, Malmö, Den. [now in Sweden]
- Died:
- July 13, 1629, SorĂž, Zealand, Den. (aged 44)
- Subjects Of Study:
- Bartholinâs gland
- olfactory nerve
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Caspar Berthelsen Bartholin
Danish physician and theologian
Also known as: Caspar Berthelsen Bartholinus
Caspar Berthelsen Bartholin (born Feb. 12, 1585, Malmö, Den. [now in Sweden]âdied July 13, 1629, SorĂž, Zealand, Den.) was a Danish physician and theologian who wrote one of the most widely read Renaissance manuals of anatomy.
At the University of Padua (1608â10) Bartholin conducted anatomical studies under the famed Italian anatomist Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente. These formed the basis for his manual Anatomicae Institutiones Corporis Humani (1611; âTextbook of Human Anatomyâ). A professor at the University of Copenhagen (1613â29), he was first to describe the olfactory nerve (associated with the sense of smell) as the first cranial nerve.
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