Franz Zacharias Ermerins [SEP] place of death
Franz Zacharias Ermerins
Franz Zacharias Ermerins (also Franciscus, Frans, François) (8 November 1808 in Middelburg – 29 May 1871 in Groningen) was a Dutch physician and medical editor whose literary work encompassed Hippocrates and ancient Greek medicine.
He was born into an eminent Zeeland family in Middelburg. In 1826, he graduated from the Latin school there. After the outbreak of the Belgian Revolution while he was a medical student at Leyden University, he joined the "Leidse Jagers", a volunteer company of soldiers drawn from
. The Hippocratic Corpus became the foundation for which all future medical systems would be built.
Authorship, name, origin.
Of the texts in the corpus, none is proven to be by Hippocrates himself. The works of the corpus range from Hippocrates' time and school to many centuries later and rival points of view. Franz Zacharias Ermerins identifies the hands of at least nineteen authors in the Hippocratic Corpus. However, the varied works of the corpus have gone under Hippocrates' name since antiquity.
The corpus may