Open AccessNathanael Jacob Gerlach i Christian Gabriel Fischer w Północnych Niderlandach: zapomniane źródło do dziejów medycyny i przyrodoznawstwa w Zjednoczonych Prowincjach późnych lat 20. XVIII w. – część I
Author(s) -
Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medycyna nowożytna
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2657-506X
pISSN - 1231-1960
DOI - 10.4467/12311960mn.20.016.13358
Subject(s) - commonwealth , nobility , lithuanian , tutor , history , classics , art , art history , theology , sociology , philosophy , political science , law , archaeology , linguistics , politics , pedagogy
In early modern times, numerous inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, both townsmen and representatives of the nobility and magnatery, visited the United Provinces. Many of the burghers also studied at the University of Leiden or other Dutch universities and gymnasia. In the autumn of 1727, Nathanael Jacob Gerlach from Gdańsk/Danzig matriculated at the Academia Lugduno-Batava. The Danziger, together with his tutor, Christian Gabriel Fischer, took a few-year educational journey through Western countries. The testimony of their several months’ stay in the Netherlands is the 2nd volume of Fischer’s handwritten Itinerarium. The selection presents those excerpts from the 2nd volume of the diaries which describe people, places and events related to the teaching of medicine and natural history in the 18th century Netherlands. The fi rst part of the paper focuses on Leiden, the second one – on Amsterdam, Haarlem and Utrecht.