‘Van Apollo, Aesculapius en Chiron’: Theodoricus Ulsenius (Dirk van Ulsen, c. 1450-1508). Medicus en humanist uit de Noordelijke Nederlanden

Theodoricus Ulsenius (Dirk van Ulsen, c. 1460-1508). Physician and humanist from the Northern Netherlands In the Renaissance period the interest of many intellectuals for the legacy of the Greeks and the Romans was overwhelming. We also find this attitude among medical doctors who devoted their attention more and more exclusively to Hippocrates and Galen. One of those humanistic doctors was the Dutch physician Theodericus Ulsenius (Dirk van Ulsen, c. 1460-1508). This article deals with three aspects of Ulsenius's activities in the medical field. In 1496 he published a poem on the newly broken... Mehr ...