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Caspar Bartholin the Elder
Caspar Bartholin the Elder (; 12 February 1585 – 13 July 1629) was born at Malmø, Denmark (modern Sweden) and was a polymath, finally accepting a professorship in medicine at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1613. He later taught theology at the same university.
His precocity was extraordinary; at three years of age he was able to read, and in his thirteenth year he composed Greek and Latin orations and delivered them in public. When he was about eighteen he went
Bartholin
Bartholin is the family name of several Danish physicians:
- Caspar Bartholin the Elder (1585–1629)
- Rasmus Bartholin (1625–1698), son of Caspar Bartholin the Elder
- Thomas Bartholin (1616–1680), son of Caspar Bartholin the Elder
- Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655–1738), son of Thomas Bartholin; eponym of Bartholin's gland, and subsequently Bartholin's cyst
- Birger Bartholin (b. 1910) - ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer.