Gerard Van Swieten and His World 1700–1772Springer Netherlands, 31 ביולי 1970 - 179 עמודים QU ALITIES, QUERIES, AND REPUTE Holland has bred its share of remarkable men and Gerard van Swieten was one of them. Raised in Leiden by fairly prosperous Catholic parents, educated at Louvain and Leiden, acknowledged as one of the most gifted pupils of the famed scientist Herman Boerhaave, and an eminent doctor in his native city for many years, he became chief physician at the Court of Vienna, director of the Imperial Library, head of both the Vienna Medical Faculty and the Censorship Commission, and trusted councillor of the Empress Maria Theresa. There is a short street in Leiden that presently honors his name and his figure is one of those surrounding the Empress on her imposing memorial in Vienna. What sort of man was this who travelled so far? What achievements, what qualities deserve such remembrances? Why a study of his life? Gerard van Swieten worked no miracles. He accomplished no "diplo matic revolution," commanded no victorious army, helped to change no political boundary, wrote no literary masterpiece, proposed no radically new or notable scientific theory. More of an organizer than an innovator, more of an administrator than an orginator, he was content to compile, to put together, to comment upon, to explain the discoveries of others and to manipulate the given situations presented to him. He seldom initiated. He followed through. |
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עמוד 20
... bishop- ric in the province of Cologne . In 1145 the election of its bishop was transferred from the people to the members of the Chapter of Utrecht ( at first , members of the cathedral chapter of St. Martin and the chapter of St ...
... bishop- ric in the province of Cologne . In 1145 the election of its bishop was transferred from the people to the members of the Chapter of Utrecht ( at first , members of the cathedral chapter of St. Martin and the chapter of St ...
עמוד 21
... bishop without trial , refused to acknowledge him . The States of Holland forbade De Cock to exercise any authority . The Hague then intervened , threatening Rome with the expulsion of the Jesuits and the confinement of De Cock if Codde ...
... bishop without trial , refused to acknowledge him . The States of Holland forbade De Cock to exercise any authority . The Hague then intervened , threatening Rome with the expulsion of the Jesuits and the confinement of De Cock if Codde ...
עמוד 38
... bishop . Van Espen concluded that since Rome refused to answer the letters of Utrecht requesting per- mission to consecrate its elected bishop the extraordinary circum- stances warranted that such a consecration be held even if all the ...
... bishop . Van Espen concluded that since Rome refused to answer the letters of Utrecht requesting per- mission to consecrate its elected bishop the extraordinary circum- stances warranted that such a consecration be held even if all the ...
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LEIDEN | 51 |
MARIA THERESA | 98 |
A QUESTION OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 147 |
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