Charles Drelincourt (1633-1697) Explained

Charles Drelincourt (-) was a French physician.

Biography

Born in Paris, he was the son of Charles Drelincourt, calvinistic reverend in Paris and of Marguerite Boldue, the only daughter of a wealthy Parisian beer brewer. He was raised a Protestant.

After studies in Paris with Jean Riolan, then in Saumur and Montpellier where he received his doctorate in 1654, he practised in Paris where he met Charles Patin and became, in 1655, the particular physician of Turenne.[1]

From 1656 to 1658, he was appointed French army's medical service Inspector in Flanders then he became in 1659 the First physician of the King (fr) Louis XIV.

He married Susanna Jacobs and the couple moved to Leiden in 1668.[2] There he held the Chair of Medicine at Leiden University, where he was the successor of Joannes Antonides Van Der Linden and the predecessor Herman Boerhaave. He was also Rector of the university in 1679, 1688 and 1694.

Drelincourt was a prominent scholar of Hippocrates and classic literature with a great knowledge of classical languages, which granted him much recognition among his contemporaries, especially Pierre Bayle.[3]

In his lectures, Boerhaave praised him and used to call him "nitidus incisor".[4]

He died in Leiden in 1697 aged .

Works

Notes and References

  1. Ferté. Patrick. De Paris à Padoue, le grand tour d'un universitaire proscrit par Louis XIV : Charles Patin, médecin, numismate (1633-1693). Les Cahiers de Framespa. Nouveaux champs de l'histoire sociale. 1 December 2010. 6. 10.4000/framespa.475. 23 January 2016. fr. 1760-4761. free.
  2. Book: Dr David van der Linden. Experiencing Exile: Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680–1700. 28 January 2015. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 978-1-4724-2929-2. 143–.
  3. Book: Revue Francaise D'Histoire du Livre. 23 January 2016. Librairie Droz. fr. 978-2-600-00673-6. 110. 1971.
  4. Book: Gerrit Arie Lindeboom. Bibliographia Boerhaaviana. 1959. Brill Archive. 91.