Theodor Kerckring
Theodor Kerckring or Dirk Kerckring (sometimes Kerckeringh or Kerckerinck) (baptized 22 July 1638 – 2 November 1693) was a Dutch
Kerckring was born as the son of the
Several sources reveal that Kerckring remained on good terms with Van den Enden, whose daughter Clara Maria he married in 1671. In order to marry the 27-year-old woman, who had a limp, Kerckring became a Roman Catholic.[4] She helped her father teach Latin; there is a famous but unsubstantiated story that Spinoza loved her unreciprocatedly.
Although further details of his early life are sketchy, it is known that he spent much of his medical career prior to 1675 in
Kerckring is remembered for his Spicilegium anatomicum, which is an
Works
- Theodori Kerckringii ... Opera Omnia Anatomica : Continentia Specilegivm Anatomicvm, Osteogeniam Foetvvm Nec Non Anthropogeniæ Ichnographiam; Accuratissimis Figuris æri incisis illustrata. - Editio secunda. - Lugduni Batavorum
- Commentarius in currum triumphalem Antimonii Basilii Valentini, a se latinitate donatum. - Amstelodami: Sumptibus Andreæ Frisii, 1671
- The Triumphal Chariot Of Antimony by Basilius Valentinus. With the commentary of Theodore Kerckringius, being the Latin version publ. at Amsterdam, 1685, transl. into English and German
References
- ^ Middelkoop, N. (2010) Een Amsterdammer in Hamburg, een Noord-Duitser in Amsterdam, p. 163-169. In: Maandblad Amstelodamum, 79-4
- ^ Baptismal record [permanent dead link]
- ^ Margaret Gullan-Whur, Jabic Veenbaas Spinoza: een leven volgens de rede, Lemniscaat Publishers 2000, p. 100
- ^ Kooymans, L. (2007) Gevaarlijke kennis, p. 325-326.
- ^ He owned a few houses and a private chapel in the Dutch quarter, which does not exist anymore, since 1100 houses were torn down and the Hauptzollamt was built there.
- PMC 537930.
External links
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