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    Gerard van Swieten (7 May 1700 – 18 June 1772) was a Dutch physician who from 1745 was the personal physician of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and...
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    Leiden and grew up in the Dutch Republic to the age of 11. His father, Gerard van Swieten, was a physician who achieved a high reputation for raising standards...
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  • Bicker van Swieten (1592 – 1654), a Dutch historical figure Gerard van Swieten (1700 – 1772), a Dutch physician Gerard Bicker (I) van Swieten (1632 –...
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    Wenzel Anton of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz, and Gerard van Swieten. She also promoted commerce and the development of agriculture, and...
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    Gerard Bicker (I) van Swieten, Lord of Swieten (25 March 1632 – 8 March 1716) was a Dutch aristocrat and civil servant. Gerard Bicker was born in Amsterdam...
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    south to Bolivia. The genus is named for Dutch-Austrian physician Gerard van Swieten (1700–1772). The wood of Swietenia trees is known as mahogany. The...
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    their epigonic character the detailed descriptions of phrenitis by Gerard van Swieten mark only the end of an uncritical use of the term. The epoch-making...
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  • computer scientist Gerard van Swieten (1700–1772), Dutch–Austrian physician Gerard Joling (born 1960), Dutch pop singer Gerard Mortier (1943–2014), Belgian...
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    in Croatia. Her case is known because of the publishing of doctor Gerard van Swieten's report at the end of 1913. The doctor examined and treated Magda...
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    curandis morbis (Leiden, 1709), on which his pupil and assistant, Gerard van Swieten (1700–1772) published a commentary in 5 vols. Aphorismi de cognoscendis...
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    period of his oeuvre ended in 1769 with a bust of the court physician Gerard van Swieten, commissioned by the Empress. At the same time his first early Neo-Classic...
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  • University Press. p. 307. ISBN 978-0521816052. Brechka, Frank T. (2012). Gerard Van Swieten and His World 1700–1772. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-9401032230...
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    1726) May 6 – Giuseppe Peroni, Italian painter (d. 1776) May 7 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (d. 1772) May 12 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian...
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  • significance. The Habsburg Monarch summoned the Dutch physician, Gerard van Swieten, to Vienna. He in turn laid the foundation for the Vienna Medical...
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  • physician Hermann Boerhaave (1668–1738), as well as his notable students Gerard van Swieten (1700–72) and Anton de Haen (1704–76). It was also utilized around...
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    2,787 volumes, were incorporated into the Court Library, of which Gerard van Swieten was then director. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order (1773)...
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    obtained his doctorate of medicine in Vienna, where he was a pupil of Gerard van Swieten (1700–1772). He studied obstetrics in Paris and London. In Paris he...
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    Theresa sent her personal physician, Gerard van Swieten, to investigate the claims of vampiric entities. Van Swieten concluded that vampires did not exist...
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  • February 8 – Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1782) May 7 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (died 1772) November 19 – Jean-Antoine Nollet...
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    movements came in the 17th and 18th centuries by Franciscus Sylvius and Gerard van Swieten. Parkinson's disease was one of the first disorders to be named as...
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    accessories." The painting was owned by Gerard van Swieten, and passed into the hands of Gottfried van Swieten. In 1813, it was purchased for 50 florins...
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  • Naturhistorisches Museum. Sculpted by Kaspar von Zumbusch and unveiled in 1888. Gerard van Swieten statue on the memorial to Maria Theresa. Field marshal von Laudon...
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  • 1681) 1643 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician, 10th Mayor of New York City (d. 1700) 1700 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician...
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    infants would spend eternity in limbo. Maria Theresa’s physician Gerard van Swieten assured her that the infant was still living when baptized, but many...
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    previous century, influenced and instructed by her personal physician Gerard van Swieten. 1889 – Charles B. Cory publishes The Birds of the West Indies 1890...
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    the search for knowledge. Doctor Gerard van Swieten, physician to Maria Theresia, and his son Gottfried van Swieten supplemented the collection with numerous...
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    first to Paris and afterward to Vienna. In 1752, he studied under Gerard van Swieten in Vienna. Between 1755 and 1759, Jacquin was sent to the West Indies...
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  • Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German jurist and scholar (b. 1706) 1772 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician and reformer (b. 1700) 1788 – Adam Gib,...
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    First Viennese School of Medicine, 1750–1800, was led by the Dutchman Gerard van Swieten (1700–1772), who aimed to put medicine on new scientific foundations—promoting...
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    Netherlands Nationality German Education Leiden University Scientific career Fields Anatomy Institutions Leiden University Doctoral students Gerard van Swieten...
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