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[1]
Letter 6 August 1737, [Leiden], to Carl Linnaeus Hartecamp. L0316.
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Latin
Persons
Bartsch, Johann
, 1709-1738
(author)
Linné, Carl von
, 1707-1778
(addressee)
Incipit
Fauste iam absolui Academica, cras mane adhuc
Origin
Leiden
; Netherlands, Die [Martis] [1737-08-06]
Physical description
Format:
Non digital + Digital, reformatted digital
Abstract
Johann Bartsch has finished his exams successfully. However, the following day he has to fulfil his duty as an opponent; the thesis is written by a man from Switzerland whom Herman Boerhaave has recommended for a post. The following Thursday he will visit Boerhaave’s garden. Bartsch suggests that he should visit Linnaeus the following day, unless Johan Frederik Gronovius and Isaac Lawson visit George Clifford or Clifford has too much to do. Bartsch expects an answer from Linnaeus as soon as possible.
Claes Sohlberg suffers from the tertian fever.
At the end of Bartsch’s dissertation, there is a text by Linnaeus, in which he congratulates Bartsch on the new honours bestowed upon him: Bartsch will go to the remote America, Linnaeus to the cold North. But Linnaeus would gladly have gone where Bartsch goes! Linnaeus hopes that Bartsch will arrive safely in Suriname and finally that he will return from Suriname with pleasant memories.
Transcription
Fautori suo Optimo
S[alutem] P[lurimam]
Joannes Bartsch.
Fauste iam absolvi Academica; cras mane adhuc opponentis me fungi oportet
officio in disput[atione] Helveti cuiusdam, quem D[ominus] Boerhaavius quoque admovit
muneri publico.
Die ♃
[Jovis] debeo visitare hortum D[omini] Boerhaavii.
Quodsi ergo cras (si non Gronovius cum D[omino] Lawsono esset apud D[ominum]
Cliffortium, vel aliis D[ominus] Cliffort distractus foret occupationibus) possem visitare
Vestram societatem, simulque circa vesperam discedere, ita tamen, ne illud aegre ferat
D[ominus] Clifford, libenter circa meridiem Lugduno discederem. Hoc commode, utrum
fieri posset, exoptata Tua responsio, quam prima, qua poteris, transmittas, scapha, me
ut reddat certiorem, rogo. Vale! D[ominum] Cliffortium multoties saluta!
D[ominus] Sohlberg Tertiana laborans Te salutat!
Die ♂ [Martis].
[
Address
]
A Monsieur
Monsieur Linnaeus
Docteur en Medicine
à
Hartekamp
.
by myn Hr Clifford
[At the end of Bartsch’s dissertation,
Dissertatio medica inauguralis, sistens calorem corporis humani effectum hygraulicum
is a congratulatory text written by Linnaeus].
Viro nobilissimo clarissimoque
IOANNI BARTSCHIO,
Societatis Indiae Occidentalis
apud Surinamenses
Medico Ordinario
cum
Summos in Medicina honores
reportaret.
Magnum, quem hodie viuis diem, Amice Optime, ni maximum, tibi gratulor ex animo, decernunt tibi hodie fata remotissimorum temporum omina. Tibi, qui a teneris, in hos vsque, quibus superbis florentissirnos annos, omnes intendisti neruos, vt solida animum tuum instrueres rei Medicae scientia, hodie offerunt fata iusta praemia, honorisque flores; flores inquam Musarum, in quibus fructus primordium conspicitur, antequam vix explicati sunt flores. His floribus vt gratior magisque coctus & sapidior succedat fructus, en remittunt te in nouum orbem, in calidis Surinamensium hypocaustis praegnantique terra vt laete aurescat fructus. Sic sub fatorum imperio viuimus mortales! pilas quasi fata habent homines; Te dum proiiciunt in remotissimam Americam, me vero in glacie niueque tectas terras; ambos amicos ex florentissima Musarum sede eiiciunt. O vtinam licuisset, quo tu ibis ire! mihi oblatam spartam, sed desertam tu laetus suscepisti. Sic voluere fata! Fata itaque tibi fausta adprecor, faustum ad Americam aditum! laetam Surinami commorationem! felicem post annos in Europam reditum! redeas tandem felicior Sloaneo, qui, vt solum floreant flores fructumque ferant, relinquis & affines & cognatos & amicos & bona & patriam & Europam & grata omnia. Iste qui fata regit & astra tibi sit viae dux! Vale Amicorum optime, & dum in loca grata perveneris inque tuas terras viue memor mei, qui viuo memor tui.
Carolus Linnaeus.
M. D. & S. A. I. N. C.
Dabam ex Museo Cliffortia-.
no die 10. Jul[ii] 1737.
Notes
Letter from or to Linnaeus
Additional physical form :
Linnaeus, Carl: Bref och skrifvelser af och till Carl von Linné. Utgifna och med upplysande noter försedda af Th. M. Fries, J. M. Hulth & A. Hj. Uggla. Afdelning I:1-8, Afdelning II:1-2 (Stockholm 1907-1943). Vol. II:1: 140 P. 212-213
Original location:
a. (Linnean Society, London, I, 404).
Venue:
The letter is written on Tuesday 6 August 1737, the same day as Bartsch defended his doctoral dissertation for medicine.
The place of dispatch not specified, but there is reason to believe it was Leiden.
Literature
Bartsch, Johann: Dissertatio medica inauguralis, sistens calorem corporis humani effectum hygraulicum (Leiden, 1737).
Related records in Alvin
Other version:
Bref och skrifvelser af och till Carl von Linné
, Volume II:1, p. 212 - 213
Document type
Letter
Subject, persons
Bartsch, Johann
, 1709-1738
Boerhaave, Herman
, 1668-1738
Gronovius, Johan Frederik
, 1686-1762
Lawson, Isaac
, 1704-1747
Clifford, George
, 1685-1760
Sohlberg, Claes
, 1711-1773
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Location
Uppsala University Library
Carolina Rediviva, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 1
Box 510
SE 751 20 Uppsala
Linnaean correspondence
Identifiers (general)
urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-223230
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
L0316
(Linnébrev)
alvin-record:223230
(alvin)
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