Jacob Bording

Jacob Bording (15 July 1511 – 5 September 1560) was a Flemish medical doctor and personal physician.

Life Jacob (Nikolaus) Bording was the son of the Antwerp merchant Nikolaus Bording (1449–1520). His mother, born Adriane d’Adriani, was a daughter of an influential family from Utrecht. Her uncle, Adriaen Floriszoon Boeiens, later became (briefly) Pope Hadrian VI, the first and till now last pope from what subsequently became known as The Netherlands. After concluding his schooling in Antwerp he moved on to study classical languages at Leuven/Louvain.

In 1530 Bording moved on to Paris where he studied Aristotelian philosophy and medicine with the anatomist Jacques Dubois (1478–1555). After that he pursued his medical studies further at the University of Montpellier. While there he made the acquaintance of Jacopo Sadoleto, at this time the Bishop of Carpentras. Evidently the bishop was impressed. Through the bishop's mediation in 1537, Bording obtained a teaching post and relocated to Carpentras, a short distance to the east, becoming rector of the school, still aged only 26. He was still the rector in September 1560 when his life came to its end. In 1558, as a mark of sincere appreciation, the king had given him a house at Hvidøre on the north side of Copenhagen. Bording's widow settled with the children back in Rostock, however.

Family Jacob Bording and his wife had nine recorded children. Jakob Bording the younger (1547–1616) became Chancellor of Mecklenburg and mayor of Lübeck. His daughter Johanna (1544–1584) married the theologian and composer, Lucas Bacmeister (1530–1608).