Franciscus Cornelius (Frans Cornelis) Donders

Bio

* 1818, Tilburg, Netherlands

† 1889, Utrecht, Netherlands

Career

1835-1839 student at the military medical school in Utrecht; enrollment in the medical faculty of Utrecht University; 1840 appointment as health officer with the garrison in Vlissingen and doctoral examination in medicine at Leiden; 13 October 1840 M.D. from Leiden University; August 1841 medical officer at The Hague; appointed docent in physiology and anatomy at Utrecht military medical school; September 1842 return to the University of Utrecht and cooperation with Gerrit Jan Mulder in histological and histochemical research; editor of the Nederlandsch Lancet; appointed extraordinary professor at the University of Utrecht; 1852 appointment as ordinary professor at Utrecht; opening of a polyclinic and in 1858 opening of a hospital which also functioned as an independent educational institution, where he was director until 1883; from 1860 onward cooperation with the mechanic D. B. Kagenaar; 1862 professorship in physiology with the promise of a new laboratory which opened in 1866; retirement in 1888.

Degrees

M.D. from Leiden University, 1840

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