Eduard Sandifort, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eduard Sandifort

physician

Date of Birth: 14-Nov-1742

Place of Birth: Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 12-Feb-1814

Profession: physician, professor, surgeon, university teacher, anatomist

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Eduard Sandifort (born November 14, 1742 in Dordrecht, d.
February 12, 1814 in Leiden) was a Dutch physician and anatomist.
He received his medical doctorate degree (Ph.D.) from Leiden University in 1763, and worked as a general practitioner in The Hague.
He was fluent in Dutch, German, Swedish, and Italian.
He became a professor of anatomy and surgery in 1771 at Leiden University.
His most important writings are Observationes Anatomico-pathologicæ (1778), Excercitationes anatomicoacademicæ (1783–85), and the Museum Anatomicum Academiae Lugduno-Batavæ (1789–93), which was finished by his son, Gerard Sandifort (1779–1848).
Sandifort translated Nils Rosén von Rosenstein's Underrättelser om barn-sjukdomar och deras botemedel (The diseases of children, and their remedies) to Dutch in 1768.
Sandifort was elected in 1768 as a foreign member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
In 1779 he was the first to document a case of carpal coalition.

Leendert Springer (1789–1871)
Alternative names	Leendert Springer Sr.
Description	Dutch painter, draughtsman, lithographer and aquarellist
Date of birth/death	5 March 1789	29 October 1871
Location of birth/death	Leiden	Leiden
Work location	Leiden, Amsterdam (1838)
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