Isbrand van Diemerbroeck (also Ijsbrand or Ysbrand) (13 December 1609 – 16 November 1674) was a Dutch physician,
anatomist, and professor.
Biography
Isbrand van Diemerbroeck was born in
Montfoort in 1609.
He studied first in Utrecht, and then in Leiden under
Daniel Heinsius and
Otto Heurnius. He received his doctorate in medicine from the
University of Angers.[1] He worked in
Nijmegen in 1635 and 1636, during the
Black Death epidemic. He wrote about his experiences in treating the plague in his 1646 work De Peste.[2] He then went to Utrecht and married Elisabeth van Gessel on 18 October 1642.[1] In 1649 he became a professor of medicine and anatomy at
Utrecht University,[2] where
Regnier de Graaf was a student of his.[3] He was twice
rector of the University of Utrecht.[1] He died in Utrecht.
His son Timann van Diemerbroeck, also a physician, collected his father's works in the 1685 Opera omnia.[1]
Disputationum practicarum pars prima et secunda de morbis capitis et thoracis, 1654
Anatome corporis humani: plurimis novis inventis intructa, 1672, republished 1679; published in Leiden, Lyon and Genève: English translation The Anatomy of Human Bodies by
William Salmon appeared in 1689, reprinted in 1694; French translation L' anatomie du corps humain published in 1695 in Lyon
Opera omnia anatomica et medica, 1685, republished 1687