Caspar Bartholin the Elder

Caspar Bartholin the Elder (/bɑːrˈtoʊlɪn, ˈbɑːrtəlɪn/; 12 February 1585 – 13 July 1629) was a Danish physician, scientist and theologian.

[1] Caspar Berthelsen Bartholin was born in Malmø, Denmark (modern Sweden).

[2] Bartholin then travelled through Germany, the Netherlands, England, France and Italy, and was received with marked respect at the different universities he visited.

In 1613, he was chosen professor of medicine in the University of Copenhagen and filled that office for eleven years, when, falling into a dangerous illness, he made a vow that if he should recover he would apply himself solely to the study of divinity.

His work, Anatomicae Institutiones Corporis Humani (1611) was for many years a standard textbook on the subject of anatomy.