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INDIVIDUAL PRACTITIONER
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van Swieten, Gerard (Dr)
Physician
(1700 - 1772)
Van Swieten studied philosophy and later pharmacy and medicine at Leiden University, obtaining his MD in 1725. He set up a private practice in Leiden and began to give private lessons in pharmacy and materia medica. He did not hold a licence to teach and in 1734 the university forbade him from continuing. As Van Swieten was a Catholic it was not permitted for him to teach at the university. In 1744 he took up the position of personal physician of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresia as well as that of court librarian.
Referred to as: Van SweitenDEP/DUA/1/18/10 DEP/DUA/1/42/49
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van Swieten, Gerard (Dr)
Physician
(1700 - 1772)
Van Swieten studied philosophy and later pharmacy and medicine at Leiden University, obtaining his MD in 1725. He set up a private practice in Leiden and began to give private lessons in pharmacy and materia medica. He did not hold a licence to teach and in 1734 the university forbade him from continuing. As Van Swieten was a Catholic it was not permitted for him to teach at the university. In 1744 he took up the position of personal physician of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresia as well as that of court librarian.
Referred to as: Van Sweiten
DEP/DUA/1/18/10 DEP/DUA/1/42/49
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van Swieten, Gerard (Dr)
