Gerard Boate
Dutch philosopher
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- PhD Philosophy University of Amsterdam
- Masters Philosophy University of Groningen
- Bachelors Philosophy University of Groningen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gerard Boate was a Dutch physician, known for his Natural History of Ireland. Life Boate was born Gerrit/Gerard Boot, in Gorinchem, son of the knight Godfried de Boot and of Christine van Loon. He entered the university of Leyden as a medical student and graduated there as doctor of medicine on 3 July 1628. His younger brother Arnold Boate followed him to study medicine in Leiden. Both moved to London around 1630, where their family had settled earlier. Gerard became employed as physician to Charles I of England and Arnold as physician to the Earl of Leicester. In 1631 in London Gerard married Catharina Menning with whom he had three children. The writer Dorothy Durie's first husband Arthur Moore died in April 1635 in Dublin. She moved with her children to London where she stayed with Gerald and Katherine Boate. She lost a lot of her wealth in Ireland and before she left for The Hague in 1642 she sold some other lands in Ireland to Katherine Boate.
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