- First name
- Jacobus
- Last name
- Vallan
- Date of Birth
- 1637
- Date of Death
- 1720
- Born in
- Amsterdam
- Died in
- Utrecht
Jacobus Vallan matriculated in Leiden in philosophy (1652) to study medicine under Dele Boë Sylvius. He took out his doctoral degree in Medicine with a disputation on angina (De angina) in 1658 (cf. Album promotorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae, 1913–24, p. 289). Vallan first practised in Amsterdam. Between 1673 to 1675, he worked for the Leiden Statencollege. In 1675, he was appointed professor of anatomy at Utrecht University in Utrecht. Vallan added an inscription to the (lost) album amicorum of Johannes Koerbagh. See: Mertens, 2008b, pp. 73–4; id., 2011, esp. pp. 123–5.
Personal contacts between Spinoza and Vallan are not recorded, but they had mutual friends.