Gottfried, a celebrated Dutch surgeon and anatomist, born at Amsterdam, March 12, 1649. In 1688 he was chosen professor of anatomy at the Hague, and in 1694 at Leyden, when he was appointed physician to William III. of England, who permitted him to retain his professorship. He published in Latin, I. The Anatomy of the Human Body, demonstrated in 105 cuts, explained by the discoveries of the ancient and modern writers. (Cowper, the English anatomist, bought up 300 copies of the plates of this work, and published them at Oxford in 1698 as his own.) 2. An Oration upon the Antiquity of Anatomy; 3. A Letter to Anthony Leeuwenhoek on the animalcules sometimes found in the liver of sheep and other animals; 4. Two Decades of Dissertations in Anatomy and Chirurgery; and other pieces. He died at Leyden in April 1713.