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Govert Bidloo or Govard Bidloo (
Amsterdam,
March 12 1649 -
Leiden,
March 30 1713) was a
Dutch Golden Age physician, anatomist, poet and playwright. He was the personal physician of
William III of Orange-Nassau, Dutch
stadholder and
king of England.
In
1685 he published an anatomical atlas,
Anatomia Humani Corporis (
Dutch:
Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams). The atlas was illustrated with 105 plates by
Gerard de Lairesse, showing the human figure both in living attitudes and as dissected cadavers.
The book was later plagiarized by English surgeon
William Cowper for his
Anatomy of the Humane Bodies (1698), which gave no credit to either Bidloo or de Lairesse. This led to a number of vitriolic exchanges between Bidloo and Cowper, including several pamphlets published in each anatomist's defense.
The son of an Amsterdam pharmacist, Bidloo first studied surgery and in
1670 became a student of the anatomist
Frederik Ruysch. He then studied medicine at the
University of Franeker, receiving his degree in
1682. In
1688 he became a lecturer of anatomical dissection in
The Hague, and in
1690 he was appointed head of the national hospital service, a post he also held in
England from
1692. In
1694 he became a professor of anatomy and medicine at the
University of Leiden, a position he held until his death in 1713, when he was succeeded by
Herman Boerhaave.
William III, Dutch
stadholder and
king of England, asked Bidloo to become his personal physician in
1695. The king died in his arms on
March 8,
1702.
One of Bidloo's students was his nephew
Nicolaas Bidloo, who would go on to become the personal physician of Russian czar
Peter the Great, and also founded a medical school in
Moscow.
Bidloo was also a prolific and popular poet, opera
librettist, and playwright. He wrote the libretto for the first-ever Dutch opera,
Ceres, Venus en Bacchus (
1686) by
Johan Schenck. His collected works were published in three volumes after his death.
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