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    Ole Worm (13 May 1588 – 31 August 1654), who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician, natural historian and...
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    This frontispiece by Ole Worm titled Ole Worm’s Cabinet of Wonder: Natural Specimens and Wondrous Monsters is an engraving depicting various animal taxidermy...
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    Runicus - was published in 1626 by the Danish physician and antiquarian Ole Worm (Olaus Wormius) (1588–1654). The text consists of the 12 calendar pages...
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  • politician Ole Stavad, Danish politician Ole Svendsen, Danish boxer Ole Tinghaug, Norwegian politician Ole Worm, Danish physician and antiquary Eduard Ole (1898–1995)...
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    manuscript, originally from 1328, but collected and published by the Dane Ole Worm (1588–1654), uses this futhark notation, and not the pentadic numerals...
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    the horn holds magical and medicinal properties. The Danish physician Ole Worm determined in 1638 that the alleged alicorns were the tusks of narwhals...
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  • Olaus Wormiaus (Ole Worm) in his posthumous Museum Wormianum (1654) and by another Dane, Thomas Bartholin the senior (1657). Ole Worm classed it as the...
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  • mission to Barbados. The group portrait painting of Ole Worm and his family is completed. Portrait of Ole Worm and his family. 1 September – Princess Anna Sophie...
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    In Scandinavia, the 17th-century Danish scholars Thomas Bartholin and Ole Worm and the Swede Olaus Rudbeck used runic inscriptions and Icelandic sagas...
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    grew in spring. This description was contradicted by natural historian Ole Worm, who accepted that lemmings could fall out of the sky, but claimed that...
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    term "stalactite" was coined in the 17th century by the Danish Physician Ole Worm, who coined the word from the Greek word σταλακτός (stalaktos, "dripping")...
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    work. In 1706, Árni Magnússon obtained the document from Ole Worm's nephew, Christian Worm. Today it remains part of the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection...
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    History of the Scottish People 1560–1830, pp. 184–192 Adam of Bremen and Ole Worm are quoted as maintaining this in Grillot de Givry's Witchcraft, Magic...
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    survived long enough to be documented and depicted. When the antiquary Ole Worm (1588–1654) explored the monument, it consisted of eight stones. Five of...
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  • 1636. Ole Worm succeeds Jesper Rasmussen Brochmand as Rector of the University of Copenhagen. Otto Grote zu Schauen, statesman (died 1693) Ole Worm: Runir...
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  • January – The Treaty of Knäred is signed, officially ending the Kalmar War. Ole Worm returns to Denmark joining the University of Copenhagen. Kindleberger,...
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  • was documented during the survey of runestones in the 17th century by Ole Worm as being located at Uppåkra, but it was later moved about 200 meters during...
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    tvímaður; Golden Number 18), and (belgthor; Golden Number 19). In 1636, Ole Worm documented the Younger Futhark numeral system, including these three characters...
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    Bishop of the Diocese of Bjørgvin to Ole Worm in 1626. Bishop Paaske also provided a drawing of the inscription. Ole Worm was a Danish antiquarian who wrote...
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    the most famously described seventeenth-century cabinets were those of Ole Worm, known as Olaus Wormius (1588–1654) (illustration, above right), and Athanasius...
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    In Scandinavia, the 17th-century Danish scholars Thomas Bartholin and Ole Worm and Swedish scholar Olaus Rudbeck were the first to use runic inscriptions...
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  • professor Boris Worm (born 1969), marine ecologist Christen Worm (1672–1737), Danish bishop Erik Worm (1900-1962), Danish tennis player Ole Worm (1588–1655)...
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  • date – Eleanor Glanville, English entomologist (died 1709). August 31 – Ole Worm, Danish physician, natural historian and antiquary (born 1588) October...
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    duct – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff (1733–1794), German physiologist Wormian bones – Ole Worm (1588–1654), Danish scientist Zonule of Zinn – Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727–1759)...
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    (1588-1654), Bishop of the Diocese of Stavanger. He had been commissioned by Ole Worm to provide inscriptions from rune stones located from within his diocese...
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  • Jens Ferdinand (1997) Bjørn Wiinblad (1986) Niels Winkel (1988) Ole Woldbye (2003) Ole Worm (1988) Troels Wörsel (1993) Christian IX of Denmark (1905) Christian...
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    syndrome Primary acro-osteolysis Down syndrome Wormian bones are named for Ole Worm, professor of anatomy at Copenhagen, 1588–1654. He taught Latin, Greek...
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    Bartholin the Elder (1585–1629), botanist Jørgen Fuiren (1581–1628), historian Ole Worm (1588–1654) and theologian Hans Brochmand (1594–1630). Fincke died at Copenhagen...
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    illegible as early as the 12th century, the Danish physician and antiquary Ole Worm declared in the 17th century that he had managed to read four letters in...
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    Danish and Icelandic historians of subsequent generations, most prominently Ole Worm. In his historical writings Arngrímur had access to texts no longer extant...
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