Biography

Jerome David Gaubius. (1705-1780) (aka. Hieronymus David Gaubius)

A student of Boerhaave's and his succesor as Professor of Chemistry at Leyden. He was much respected in his time, and his early work Libellus de Methodo Concinnandi Formulas Medicamentorum (1739) was translated into English as early as 1741.

Life with James Boswell:

Boswell visited Gaubius in Leyden on May 5, 1764. In the autumn of 1763 Boswell had left a chemical preparation of his uncle's with Gaubius, without actually meeting the doctor. On May 4 or 5 he wrote a letter to Gaubius in latin, asking to meet him, which he did.

Literature:

Gaubius' Chemiam artibus academicis jure esse inserendam is available for free at Project Gutenberg. In 1978 was published his correspondence with Antonio Nunes Ribeiro Sanches and others, entitled Hieronymus David Gaubius (1705-1780): Zijn correspondentie met Antonio Nunes Ribeiro Sanches en andere tijdgenoten. He published some other writing which are sometimes availbale via the Abebooks used books search engine.

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