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Laurentius Blumentrost

Russian court physician (1692–1755)

Laurentius Blumentrost (Russian: Лаврентий Лаврентьевич Блументрост, romanized: Lavrenty Lavrentyevich Blumentrost; November 8 [O.S. October 29] 1692 – 27 March 1755) was a Russian physician who became the personal physician to Peter the Great. He was also the founder and the first president of the St.²

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Born Nov 18, 1692, died Apr 7, 1755.¹

About

Petersburg Academy of Sciences, from December 7, 1725, to June 6, 1733.

From Wikipedia’s article on Laurentius Blumentrost, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Russian Academy of SciencesChair¹⁰

Early life and education

Date not recordedLeiden University³

Career

Occupation: physicist, physician.⁶

1725 to 1733President of the Russian Academy of Sciences⁴
Date not recordedPersonal physician⁴
Date not recordedChair, Russian Academy of Sciences⁵

Personal life

BornNov 18, 1692, Moscow⁷
DiedApr 7, 1755, Saint Petersburg⁸
CitizenshipRussian Empire⁹

Legal issues and controversies

On his return to Russia, Blumentrost was appointed personal physician to Princess Natalia, Tsar Alexis's daughter and Tsar Peter the Great's sister. He continued his studies in Paris and Amsterdam (with Frederik Ruysch, from whom he bought anatomical specimens on behalf of the Russian government for the Kunstkamera). After his return to St. Petersburg, Peter the Great sent him to the Olonets Governorate to study the Marcial mineral springs in Kondopozhsky District.

When Robert Erskine, the Tsar's Scottish-born personal physician, died in 1718, Blumentrost was appointed to the position. He kept Johann Daniel Schumacher, Erskine's assistant who had studied at the University of Strasbourg and had been in charge of the Imperial Library and the Kunstkamera under Erskine, on as his secretary.