Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen

Physicist and humanist. His father was a reformed minister, his mother, Maria Jansson, was a relative of the Amsterdam printer Jan Jansson. After studying in Utrecht, where his teachers included Johann Georg Graevius, de Vries, Johann Leusden, Johannes Munniks and Jacob Vallan, he obtained his doctorate in 1681. He taught Greek and History in Hardewijk in 1697, and from 1702 was also appointed to the chair of medicine. In his book Inventa Novantiqua (1684), he affirms the superiority of the ancient physicians, claiming that they anticipated all of the discoveries later attributed to the moderns.