Ole Worm (13 May 1588 – 31 August 1654), who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician, natural historian and antiquary. He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen where he taught Greek, Latin, physics and medicine.[1]
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OleWorm (13 May 1588 – 31 August 1654), who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician, natural historian and...
This frontispiece by OleWorm titled OleWorm’s Cabinet of Wonder: Natural Specimens and Wondrous Monsters is an engraving depicting various animal taxidermy...
Runicus - was published in 1626 by the Danish physician and antiquarian OleWorm (Olaus Wormius) (1588–1654). The text consists of the 12 calendar pages...
– Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran, Scottish princess (d. 1488) 1588 – OleWorm, Danish physician and historian (d. 1654) 1597 – Cornelis Schut, Flemish...
mission to Barbados. The group portrait painting of OleWorm and his family is completed. Portrait of OleWorm and his family. 1 September – Princess Anna Sophie...
manuscript, originally from 1328, but collected and published by the Dane OleWorm (1588–1654), uses this futhark notation, and not the pentadic numerals...
the horn holds magical and medicinal properties. The Danish physician OleWorm determined in 1638 that the alleged alicorns were the tusks of narwhals...
Olaus Wormiaus (OleWorm) in his posthumous Museum Wormianum (1654) and by another Dane, Thomas Bartholin the senior (1657). OleWorm classed it as the...
January – The Treaty of Knäred is signed, officially ending the Kalmar War. OleWorm returns to Denmark joining the University of Copenhagen. Kindleberger,...
In Scandinavia, the 17th-century Danish scholars Thomas Bartholin and OleWorm and the Swede Olaus Rudbeck used runic inscriptions and Icelandic sagas...
grew in spring. This description was contradicted by natural historian OleWorm, who accepted that lemmings could fall out of the sky, but claimed that...
work. In 1706, Árni Magnússon obtained the document from OleWorm's nephew, Christian Worm. Today it remains part of the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection...
term "stalactite" was coined in the 17th century by the Danish Physician OleWorm, who coined the word from the Greek word σταλακτός (stalaktos, "dripping")...
History of the Scottish People 1560–1830, pp. 184–192 Adam of Bremen and OleWorm are quoted as maintaining this in Grillot de Givry's Witchcraft, Magic...
survived long enough to be documented and depicted. When the antiquary OleWorm (1588–1654) explored the monument, it consisted of eight stones. Five of...
tvímaður; Golden Number 18), and (belgthor; Golden Number 19). In 1636, OleWorm documented the Younger Futhark numeral system, including these three characters...
Bishop of the Diocese of Bjørgvin to OleWorm in 1626. Bishop Paaske also provided a drawing of the inscription. OleWorm was a Danish antiquarian who wrote...
1636. OleWorm succeeds Jesper Rasmussen Brochmand as Rector of the University of Copenhagen. Otto Grote zu Schauen, statesman (died 1693) OleWorm: Runir...
the most famously described seventeenth-century cabinets were those of OleWorm, known as Olaus Wormius (1588–1654) (illustration, above right), and Athanasius...
In Scandinavia, the 17th-century Danish scholars Thomas Bartholin and OleWorm and Swedish scholar Olaus Rudbeck were the first to use runic inscriptions...
illegible as early as the 12th century, the Danish physician and antiquary OleWorm declared in the 17th century that he had managed to read four letters in...
(1588-1654), Bishop of the Diocese of Stavanger. He had been commissioned by OleWorm to provide inscriptions from rune stones located from within his diocese...
duct – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff (1733–1794), German physiologist Wormian bones – OleWorm (1588–1654), Danish scientist Zonule of Zinn – Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727–1759)...
a crucial role in the creation of the Danish national heritage, namely OleWorm (1588–1654). His cabinet of natural curiosities, the Museum Wormianum,...
syndrome Primary acro-osteolysis Down syndrome Wormian bones are named for OleWorm, professor of anatomy at Copenhagen, 1588–1654. He taught Latin, Greek...
Jens Ferdinand (1997) Bjørn Wiinblad (1986) Niels Winkel (1988) Ole Woldbye (2003) OleWorm (1988) Troels Wörsel (1993) Christian IX of Denmark (1905) Christian...
Bartholin the Elder (1585–1629), botanist Jørgen Fuiren (1581–1628), historian OleWorm (1588–1654) and theologian Hans Brochmand (1594–1630). Fincke died at Copenhagen...
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