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FORESTUS (VAN FOREEST), Petrus

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Dutch physician. Born and died at Alkmaar, October-December 1521 - 10 March 1597. Studied medicine at the University of Louvain. From 1540 till 1546 in Italy and France. Practised in Alkmaar (May 1546 - January 1558), Delft (1558 - 1595), and again in Alkmaar (1595 - 1597). Cf. Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek, 1, 1911, Columns 884-889; H. de Vocht, History of the Foundation and the Rise of the Collegium Trilingue Lovaniense, 1517-1550, IV, 1955, pages 40-42; G.A. Lindeboom, Pieter van Foreest (1522-1597), Amsterdam, 1960. Other bibliographical references in A. Gerlo - H.D.L. Vervliet, Bibliographie de l'humanisme des anciens Pays-Bas, 1972, page 332.

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