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anatomical discoveries and his technique of conserving organs and entire
corpses by means of injecting preserving fluids.
He built up a large anatomical and zoological museum, containing many preparations,
which became internationally famous and which was sold to Czar Peter
in 1717 for Dfl. 30,000.--. It still exists rather complete in the Museum
of the Academy of Sciences at Leningrad. See Not. Arch. 7598, Notary A.
Tzeewen, 8 April 1717 and 17 April 1717. See also Not. Arch. 7649, 981
Notary A. Tzeewen 28 Dec. 1730, sale of cabinet to King of England (!) for
at least Dfl. 22,000.--. Within 10 years a second collection was brought together,
which after his death was sold publicly. The greater part went to
the King of Poland, John Sobieski, who payed Dfl. 20,000.-- for it and entrusted
it to the Univ. of Wittenberg (Catalogue 1731, in UBA). Ruysch described
his cabinets in: Museum anatomicum Ruyschianum (Amsterdam 1691, 1721,
1737); Thesaurus anatomicus (10 vols., 1701-1715); Thesaurus animalium primus
(Amsterdam 1728); Curae posteriores ••• 1724 and Curae renovata •• 1733.
He also wrote: Horti medici Amstelodamensis rariorum descriptio •• (Amsterdam
1697), with F. Kiggelaar (q.v.). In Balzac's novel "La peau de Chagrin"
the central figure, during a visit to an antiquarian in 1830, comes upon an
object from the Ruysch collection: "La dormait un enfant sauve au cabinet du
fameux Ruysch". Hoogewerff 1919, XVIII (v. 1667-1669); Brown 1682, p. 23 (v.
1668); Boccone 1674, p. 278 (v. 1673-1674); Erndtel 1706-1707, p. 83 (v.
1706-1707); Uffenbach 1754, III, p. 639 (v. 1710); Haller 1883, p. 51, 54,
101 (v. 1725-1726). Museum Petiverianum 1695-1703, p. 46, 95; Rumphius 1705,
p. 318; Valentinus 1714, II; III, App. XIIX (=18), p. 59; Valentijn 1726,
III, p. 561; 1754, p. 45; Kanold 1727, p. 22, 182; Seba 1734-1765; Argenville
1742, p. 215; 1757, p. 147; 1780, p. 342; Lesser 1744, p. 34, 43, 63;
1756, p. 82-83; Wagenaar 1767: Amsterdam in zijn opkomst, etc., III, p. 240;
Beckmann 1777: Physicalisch Okon. Bibl. VIII, p. 493; Honore 1779, p. 64;
Anon. 1781, p. 111; AKL 1794, II, p. 206 (biogr.); 1839, II, p. 418 seq.,
438 seq.; Smith 1796, I, p. 11; Scheltema 1842: Peter de Grote I, p. 118-
121; II, p. 11, 79; Maitland 1855, p. 161; Banga 1868; Czermak 1879, p.
174-175; Murray 1904, I, p. 116-117; III, p. 147; Schlosser 1908, p. 101;
Cole 1914, p. 33; Hoogewerff 1919, p. 79-80; van der Klaauw 1931, p. 193;
Nuyens 1928, p. 30; Gedenkboek Amsterdam 1932, p. 37, 180 seq., 265, 668;
Geyskes & van der Kl.aauw 1934, p. 190; Horn & Kahle 1935-' 37, p. 234; Raptschinsky
1936, p. 1.23; Engel 1937, p. 81-82; 1940, p. 211; 1.961, p. 123,
125; Veendorp & Baas Becking 1938, p. 209; Jutting 1939, p. 229, 236; Scheffer
1939, p. 126-1.27; Stuhldreher 1944, p. 86-88, note 11, 12, 13 (p. 101);
Karsten 1951, p. 87; Stresemann 1951, p. 49, 117; Lowengren 1952, p. 58;
Elshout 1952, p. 10, 14-15, 88; van Regteren Altena & van Thiel 1964, p.
245-247; Dance 1966, p. 57; Maandblad Amstel.odamum LIV, 1967, p. 8; Scheller
1969, p. 114, note 103; Scheurleer 1970, p. 232; Ullmann 1974, II, p. 46,
116, 120, 122. Van der Aa X, p. 579-582; NNBW III, col. 1108; DSB XII, p.
39-42 (with good literature on Ruysch); JWP II, p. 200; III, p. 367; V, p.
251; Collot d'Escury 1844, VII, p. 193-194, 320-321. Scheltema 1886: Het l.even
van Frederik Ruysch (Diss., Leiden); Schreiber 1723: Hist. vitae et merit.
F. Ruysch as an introd. to the Opera omnia. Album amicorum F. Ruysch,