- First name
- Johannes
- Last name
- Horne, van
- Date of Birth
- 1621
- Date of Death
- 1670
- Born in
- Amsterdam
- Died in
- Leiden
Johannes van Horne studied medicine in Leiden, Utrecht and Naples. He was an extraordinary professor of anatomy and surgery at Leiden University (1653), and first discovered and observed the thoracic duct in the human body. See: NNBW, vol. 7, cols 624–5; DSB, vol. 6, pp. 508–9; Lindeboom, 1984; Huisman, 2009.
If Spinoza, like Tomás Solano y Robles declared, studied in Leiden, is it possible that he followed clinical lessons in medicine or anatomy and surgery by Van Horne.