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Herman Boerhaave
* 1668 in Voorhout
† 1738 in Leiden
Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician of European fame.
He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital
and is sometimes referred to as "the father of physiology“.
2017 J. Giesen