Govert Bidloo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Govert Bidloo

Dutch Golden Age physician, anatomist, poet and playwright

Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1649

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 30-Mar-1713

Profession: writer, composer, physician, poet, playwright, musician, surgeon, university teacher, librettist, anatomist

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Govert Bidloo or Govard Bidloo (12 March 1649 – 30 March 1713) was a Dutch Golden Age physician, anatomist, poet and playwright.
He was the personal physician of William III of Orange-Nassau, Dutch stadholder and King of England, Scotland and Ireland. Bidloo was also a prolific and popular poet, opera librettist, and playwright.
He wrote the libretto for the first-ever Dutch opera, Ceres, Venus en Bacchus (1686) by Johan Schenck.
His collected works were published in three volumes after his death. One of Bidloo's students was his nephew Nicolaas Bidloo, who would go on to become the personal physician of Russian czar Peter the Great, and also founded a medical school in Moscow.



Alternative names	Gerard Lairesse
Description	Southern Netherlandish-Dutch painter, draughtsman, printmaker and ornamental painter
Date of birth/death	11 September 1640 (baptised)	21 July 1711 (buried)
Location of birth/death	Liège	Amsterdam
Work location	Liège (1655-1664), Cologne (1660), Utrecht (1664-1665), Amsterdam (1665-1711), The Hague (1684)
Authority control	: Q533958 VIAF: 7436560 ISNI: 0000 0001 0866 8097 ULAN: 500024037 LCCN: n83136134 WGA: LAIRESSE, Gérard de WorldCat