JACOBÆUS (Oliger), a celebrated professor of physic and philosophy at Copenhagen, was born in 1651 at Arhusen in the peninsula of Jutland, where his father was bishop. Christian V. intrusted him with the management of his grand cabinet of curiosities; and Frederic IV. in 1698, made him counsellor of his court of justice. He wrote many medical works, and some excellent poems.
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