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Olof Rudbeck, portret z 1696 roku
Olof Rudbeck lub Olaf Rudbeck (ur. 1630, zm. 1702) – szwedzki humanista, lekarz, profesor Uniwersytetu Uppsalskiego.
Jest autorem Atland eller Manheim, dzieła, w którym ogłaszał Szwecję kolebką cywilizacji europejskiej. Język szwedzki uznał za naturalny dla Europy. W swym dziele twierdził, że starożytni Grecy i Rzymianie pochodzą od pierwszych Szwedów, zaś stolicą Atlantydy była Uppsala. Utwór ten znacząco wpłynął na ukształtowanie szwedzkiej tożsamości narodowej.
Rudbeck był jednym z pierwszych badaczy ludzkiego układu limfatycznego (1652).
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Bibliografia
- Sylvain Auroux: History of the Language Sciences: An International Handbook on the Evolution of Language Sciences. Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006, s. 1125-1126. ISBN 3-11-016735-2.
- Olof Rudbeck na stronie antlantipedia
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Rudbeck was an anatomist, and one of the discoverers of the lymphic vessels in 1651-52 (discovered independently by the Dane Thomas Bartholin at about the same time), and was long professor of Medicine at Uppsala University. He also founded the earliest botanical garden in Uppsala (later named after Carolus Linnaeus) and initiated a major botanical work with detailed copperplate engravings, some of which were printed but many of which were destroyed in the Uppsala fire in 1702 before publication. He is also known as an engineer and architect, who, among other things, designed the anatomical theatre in the Gustavianum building in Uppsala, and as a speculative historical writer who tried to prove that Sweden was in fact the lost Atlantis.
Rudbeck was an anatomist, and one of the discoverers of the lymphic vessels in 1651-52 (discovered independently by the Dane Thomas Bartholin at about the same time), and was long professor of Medicine at Uppsala University. He also founded the earliest botanical garden in Uppsala (later named after Carolus Linnaeus) and initiated a major botanical work with detailed copperplate engravings, some of which were printed but many of which were destroyed in the Uppsala fire in 1702 before publication. He is also known as an engineer and architect, who, among other things, designed the anatomical theatre in the Gustavianum building in Uppsala, and as a speculative historical writer who tried to prove that Sweden was in fact the lost Atlantis.