BARTHOLIN, the name of a Danish family distinguished for learning and authorship, and the members of which have tilled many important offices, especially in the university of Copenhagen. KASPER B., b. 12th Feb., 1585, at Malmo, where his father was a minister, studied theology and philosophy at Rostock and Wittenberg, and afterwards studied medicine. In the year 1610, lie was made doctor of medicine at Basle. Ile practiced for some time in Wittenberg. and in 1613 accepted an invitation to be professor of the Greek language and of medicine at Copenhagen, where, in 1624, he became professor of theology. Ile died at Sora in 1629. His Institutiones Anatomic& (Wittenb., 1611, and often reprinted), which were translated into the German, French, English, and oriental languages, served in the 17th c., in many universities, as a text-book for prelec tions. Of his sons, who are all known in the lettrned world, the following especially deserve to be mentioned: the orientalist, JACOB 13., b. 1623, d. at Heidelberg, 1653, known as the editor of the cabalistic works, Bahir and Alajan Hadoehma; and TUOMAS 13., equally celebrated'as a philologist, naturalist, and physician, who was b. 20th Oct.,
1616. Ile became, in 1647, professor of mathematics, and in 1648 professor of anatomy, at Copenhagen; &milted these offices in 1661, and thereafter lived in retirement upon his estate of Ilagestad. In 1670, the king appointed him his physician in ordinary, which situation he filled till his death. 4th Nov., 1680. IIe enlarged the new edition of Ills father's anatomy (Loyd., 1641; often reprinted) with a mass of new observations. Besides many other valuable anatomical and medical works, his works on biblical and other antiquities, and on natural philosophy. are particularly worthy of notice. He was one of the most learned and studious of physicians. and warmly defended Harvey's doctrine of the circulation of the blood. His son, KASPER 13., b. 1654, d. 1704. was likewise an accomplished anatomist; and another son, THOMAS B., b. 1659, d. 1690, is the author of a standard work on northern antiquities—the Antiquitatum Daniearum Libri Tres (Copenh., 1689); also of De Ca usis Contempt& a Da71i9 adhuc gentilibus Mortis.