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SYLVIUS or SILVIUS (DUBOIS), Joannes

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Flemish physician and humanist, 16th century. Born in Lille; died in Douai, 5 April 1576. Studied medicine at the University of Louvain. Practised for some time in Valenciennes, and was at the same time interested in the College Saint-Jean, before becoming in 1563-1564 professor at the newly founded University of Douai. Cf. Biographie Nationale [de Belgique], 6, 1878, Columns 195-196; BB, V, pages 286-287; Dictionnaire de biographie française, 11, 1967, Columns 941-942.

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