1. Ole Worm, who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician, natural historian and antiquary.
11 Facts About Ole Worm
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Ole Worm was a professor at the University of Copenhagen where he taught Greek, Latin, physics and medicine.
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Ole Worm's grandfather Johan Worm, a magistrate in Aarhus, was a Lutheran who had fled from Arnhem in Gelderland while it was under Catholic rule.
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Ole Worm married Dorothea Fincke, the daughter of a friend and colleague, Thomas Fincke.
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Ole Worm received his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Basel in 1611, and received a master of arts degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1617.
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Ole Worm was personal physician to King Christian IV of Denmark.
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Ole Worm is known to have been a collector of early literature in the Scandinavian languages.
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Ole Worm wrote a number of treatises on runestones and collected texts that were written in runic.
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Ole Worm received letters of introduction to the bishops of Denmark and Norway from the King of Denmark-Norway due to the king's interest and approval.
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In 1626 Ole Worm published his "Danish Chronology" containing the results of his researches into runic lore; and in 1636 his "Runes: the oldest Danish literature", a compilation of transcribed runic texts.
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Ole Worm appears in one of the Icelandic Sjon's novels From the Mouth of the Whale.