Bartholin, KASPAR

Bartholin, KASPAR, born in 1585 at Malmö; studied theology and philosophy at Rostock and Wittenberg, and in 1610 was made doctor of medicine at Basel. He practised for some time in Wittenberg, and in 1613 accepted an invitation to be professor of the Greek Language and of Medicine at Copenhagen, where in 1624 he became professor of Theology. He died at Sorö in 1629, after having written nearly fifty works on various subjects.—THOMAS BARTHOLIN, son of the above, and equally celebrated as a philologist, naturalist, and physician, was born in 1616. He became in 1647 professor of Mathematics at Copenhagen, and in 1648 was nominated to the chair of Anatomy. He died in 1680. He enlarged his father's Anatomy (1641) with new observations, and defended Harvey's doctrine of the circulation of the blood.