Daniel Defoe vs Herman Boerhaave
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Compare the life timelines of Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) and Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738) side by side. Their lives overlapped for 63 years, from 1668 to 1731.
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Daniel Defoe (1660–1731)
- — Born in London Verified
- — Educated at a dissenting academy in Newington Green Verified
- — Married Mary Tuffley Verified
- — Established himself as a merchant and went bankrupt Verified
- — Pilloried and imprisoned for The Shortest Way with the Dissenters Verified
- — Founded and wrote the periodical The Review Verified
- — Published Robinson Crusoe Verified
- — Published Moll Flanders and A Journal of the Plague Year Verified
- — Died in London Verified
Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738)
- — Born at Voorhout, near Leiden Verified
- — Graduated in philosophy at the University of Leiden Verified
- — Earned his medical degree at Harderwijk Verified
- — Began lecturing on medicine at Leiden Verified
- — Published Institutiones Medicae Verified
- — Appointed professor of botany and medicine at Leiden Verified
- — Married Maria Drolenvaux Verified
- — Added the chair of chemistry, holding three professorships at once Verified
- — Published Elementa Chemiae Verified
- — Died in Leiden Verified