{"id":392,"date":"2020-12-26T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T10:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/battus.nl\/?page_id=392"},"modified":"2020-12-26T18:45:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T17:45:30","slug":"about-carolus-battus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/battus.nl\/en\/about-carolus-battus\/","title":{"rendered":"About Carolus Battus"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\"><strong>Carolus Battus<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/battus.nl\/en\/christianne-muusers\/\">Christianne Muusers<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/battus.nl\/en\/marleen-willebrands\/\">Marleen Willebrands<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/battus.nl\/en\/alexandra-van-dongen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexandra van Dongen<\/a><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>The protagonist<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-326 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/battus.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/KarelBatenportret-249x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/battus.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/KarelBatenportret-249x300.png 249w, https:\/\/battus.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/KarelBatenportret.png 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carolus Battus (ca 1540-1619) has had a turbulent life. He was born in Ghent in Flanders (Belgium), studied medicine in Rostock (Germany) and worked as a physician in France and Germany before settling down, first in Antwerp in Flanders and later in Dordrecht in Holland. His last residence was Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>Battus was not just a physician. He also wrote and translated several works on medicine and literary works. <em>The Excellent Cookbook<\/em> is one of his original works. It was added to the second edition of the <em>Medecynboec<\/em>, his translation of a German book on medicine, the <em>Artzneybuch<\/em> from the german physician and apothecary Christoph Wirsung.<\/p>\n<p>The life and works of Battus are the subject of the first three chapters of the introduction to the edition of <em>The Excellent Cookbook<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolus Battus &#8211; Christianne Muusers &#8211; Marleen Willebrands &#8211; Alexandra van Dongen The protagonist Carolus Battus (ca 1540-1619) has had a turbulent life. He was born in Ghent in Flanders&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/battus.nl\/en\/about-carolus-battus\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-392","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/battus.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/battus.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/battus.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battus.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battus.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/battus.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/battus.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/battus.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}