Daniel de Superville (1696–1773), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Daniel de Superville (1696–1773)

Founded University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Date of Birth: 02-Dec-1696

Place of Birth: Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 16-Nov-1773

Profession: physician, university teacher

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Daniel de Superville (1696–1773)

  • Daniel de Superville (Rotterdam, 2 December 1696 – Rotterdam, 16 November 1773) was a Dutch physician who in 1742 founded the University of Erlangen in Germany.
  • He served as chancellor of the university until 1748.
  • De Superville also wrote several treatises on anatomy. Daniel de Superville came from a family of French Huguenots who had fled to the Netherlands from Saumur.
  • He was the third son of merchant Jacques (Jacob) de Superville and Marguérite Vettekeuken.
  • His uncle was the well-known Calvinist theologian Daniel de Superville (1657-1728). He enrolled at the University of Leiden in 1719, having already gained his doctorate a year earlier at the University of Utrecht with a dissertation entitled Dissertatio de sanguine et sanguificatione.
  • In 1722 he married Catharina Elisabeth le Comte in Leiden, and on 21 June that year the couple left for Prussia, where de Superville found employment as a lecturer of anatomy and surgery in Stettin. After managing to cure King Frederick II of Prussia of edema (dropsy), Daniel de Superville in 1738 secured a position as the personal physician of Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia, sister of Frederick II.
  • Superville soon became a highly influential advisor at the court of Wilhelmina and her husband, Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.
  • He was admitted to the German imperial academy of sciences in Berlin in 1739 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1741.At the initiative of Frederick and Wilhelmina, he founded a Protestant university in Bayreuth in 1743.
  • Superville was appointed as the first rector magnificus of the university.
  • When the university was relocated to Erlangen one year later, Frederick of Brandenburg-Bayreuth appointed himself rector magnificus but kept de Superville on as chancellor.
  • Today, the University of Erlangen is the second largest university in Bavaria. De Superville remained head of the university until 1748, when he returned – via Bremen and Braunschweig – to the Netherlands.
  • He settled in Voorburg, near The Hague, and remarried in 1770, a year after the death of his first wife.
  • Finally, he returned to his birthplace of Rotterdam, where he died in 1773 at the age of 77.
  • De Superville was buried at the Vrouwekerk church in Leiden (demolished in 1819), which at that time served as Walloon church.

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