About Johan van Beverwijck
Lived 1594 – 1647 (aged 52). Johan van Beverwijck was a Dutch physician, writer, opinion journalist and politician.
Johan van Beverwijck or Johannes Beverovicius (Dordrecht, 17 November 1594 - 19 January 1647) was a Dutch doctor and writer. Van Beverwijck was interested in new developments and contributed to medical science with his own experiments.
Biography At the Dordtse Latin School, he was taught rhetoric by Vossius. Johan van Beverwijck studied in Leiden, Paris, Montpellier and Padua, where he obtained his PhD. Around 1618 he settled in his hometown of Dordrecht. He was the first physician in the Netherlands to defend the new ideas of the English physician William Harvey about blood circulation.
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Dutch physician and writer (1594–1647)
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Johan van Beverwijck was born on 17 November 1594 in Dordrecht.
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Johan van Beverwijck died on 19 January 1647 in Dordrecht.
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Johan van Beverwijck was a physician, writer, opinion journalist and politician.
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Johan van Beverwijck was Dutch.
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