15 Facts About Ole Borch

Ole Borch was a Danish scientist, physician, grammarian, and poet.

Ole Borch was royal physician to both Kings Frederick III of Denmark and Christian V of Denmark.

Ole Borch was the founder of Borchs Kollegium and is noted for being the influential instructor of scientist Nicolas Steno.

Ole Borch was the son of Oluf Clausen and Margrethe Lauridsdatter.

Ole Borch's father was a parish priest, He studied medicine at the University of Copenhagen.

Ole Borch became a lector at Vor Frue Skole in 1650.

Ole Borch distinguished himself in the plague of 1654, when a third of Copenhagen's population died.

In 1655, Ole Borch was summoned to raise the sons of Gersdorff, a position he held for five years.

Ole Borch visited his former pupil Nicolas Steno, Johann Glauber, Giuseppe Francesco Borri and Comenius.

Ole Borch's well recorded journals of his travels are an important document of the European scientific climate in the 17th century.

Ole Borch became a professor of philology at the University of Copenhagen and in 1666 of chemistry and botany.

Ole Borch is one of the fathers of experimental science in Denmark.

Ole Borch was the founder of Borchs Kollegium in central Copenhagen.

Ole Borch is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of South American snake, Siagonodon borrichianus.

Ole Borch's name is the genus for several salt-tolerant plants, Borrichia.