author
Hieronymus David Gaubius
d. 1780
A physician and chemist of the Enlightenment, this Heidelberg-born scholar built his career in the Dutch Republic and became known for linking medicine, chemistry, and careful observation. His work helped shape how disease and the effects of the mind on the body were discussed in eighteenth-century medicine.
2 Audiobooks
Inaugureele Rede Waarin wordt Aangetoond dat de Scheikunde met recht een plaats verdient onder de Akademische Wetenschappen
by Hieronymus David Gaubius
Chemiam artibus academicis jure esse inserendam
by Hieronymus David Gaubius
About the author
Born in Heidelberg on February 24, 1705, Hieronymus David Gaubius became a German physician and chemist whose career unfolded mainly in the Netherlands. He studied at Harderwijk and Leiden, where he was associated with the influential medical world around Herman Boerhaave.
Gaubius later taught at Leiden and succeeded Boerhaave in the professorship of medicine. He was known not only for work in chemistry and pathology, but also for writing about the connection between mental and physical health, giving his work a broader human interest than many medical texts of his time.
He died in Leiden on November 29, 1780. Today he is remembered as one of those eighteenth-century scholars who helped bring chemistry, clinical medicine, and early ideas about psychosomatic illness into closer conversation.