BARTHOLINUS, GASPARD, a learned writer, born in 1585, at Malmö in Scandinavia. At three years of age he had such a quick capacity, that in fourteen days he learned to read; and in his thirteenth year he composed Greek and Latin orations, and delivered them in public. When he was about eighteen he went to the university of Copenhagen, and afterwards studied at Rostock and Wittenberg. He then travelled through Germany, the Low Countries, England, France, and Italy, and was received with marked respect at the different universities he visited. In 1613 he was chosen professor of physic in the university of Copenhagen, and filled that office for eleven years, when, falling into a dangerous illness, he made a vow, that if it should please God to restore him, he would apply himself solely to the study of divinity. He recovered, observed his vow, and soon after obtained the professorship of divinity, with the canonry of Rotschild. He died on the 13th of July 1630, after having written nearly fifty works on different subjects.