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Pieter Pauw (1564 - 1617)

Alias Petrus Pawius

"The young Pauw traveled abroad to complete his education in France, Italy, and Germany and became interested in human anatomy. Upon his return to the United Provinces in 1589, just after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, Pauw got a position as the professor of anatomy and botany in the Academy of Leiden" (Kivelä and Polkunen, 881-882). Authority - early modern
 Relevant locations: Birth place in Amsterdam, North Holland
Workplace or place of business Leiden University, Leiden
 Linked print sources: as Subject of/in a document - Pieter Pauw’s Tumor Oculorum: Reappraisal of the Presumed First Description of Retinoblastoma in 1597.
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