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  Kongens Kunstkammer - Historie
Ole Worm blev født i Århus og startede sin uddannelse i byens latinskole, der var kendt for sine humanistiske traditioner.
Ole Worm rejste siden til Frankrig, og på hjemrejsen gjorde han et kort ophold i Nederlandene, hvor han i Enkhuizen besøgte den kendte samler Bernhard Paludanus (1550-1633).
1621 begyndte Ole Worms systematiske samlervirksomhed, da han overtog lærestolen i fysik og indførte demonstrativ genstandsundervisning ved Universitetet.
www.kunstkammer.dk /H_R/worm.shtml   (611 words)

  
  The Galileo Project
Worm maintained a medical practice in Copenhagen from the time of his permanent appointment at the university until his death.
Worm was a student of the runic stones.
As son-in-law of Fincke, Worm was brother-in-law of Caspar Bartholin and part of a considerable family academic oligarchy which had to depend on royal favor.
galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/worm.html   (573 words)

  
  Ole Worm
Worm was the son of Willum Worm who served as the mayor of Aarhus, and was made a rich man by the inheritance from his father.
Ole Worm's grandfather Johan Worm, a magistrate in Aarhus, was a Lutheran who had fled from Arnhem in Gelderland while it was under Catholic rule.
Ole Worm was something of a perpetual student: after attending the grammar school of Aarhus, he continued his education at the University of Marburg in 1605, received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Basel in 1611, and received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1617.
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 The King's Kunstkammer - Renaissance collections
Ole Worm was born in Århus, where he attended the city's grammar school, which was known for its humanist traditions.
Ole Worm was a practising physician, but wanted to improve his knowledge of chemistry, so in the spring of 1611 he set out once more.
In July 1613 Worm was recalled from England and appointed Professor of Latin at the University of Copenhagen.
www.kunstkammer.dk /H_R/H_R_UK/GBworm.shtml   (764 words)

  
 Ole Worm - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Ole Worm (May 13, 1588–August 31, 1654), (pronounced "Olay Vorm") who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician and antiquary.
Worm is also known to have been a collector of early literature in the Scandinavian languages.
Ole Worm, Life, Scientific and cultural significance, Worm in popular literature, External links, 1588 births, 1654 deaths, Danish antiquarians, Danish scientists and Danish physicists.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Olaus_Wormius   (683 words)

  
 Ole Worm
Ole Worm ou Olaus Wormius, né le 13 mai 1588 et mort le 31 août 1654, est un médecin et un collectionneur danois.
Ole Worm reste, en quelque sort, un étudiant toute sa vie : après avoir fréquenté l'école de lettre d'århus, il va à l'université de Marburg en 1605, il reçoit un titre de docteur en à l'université de Bâle en 1611 et reçoit un master d'arts à l'université de Copenhague en 1617.
Worm rassemble aussi une grande collection d'objets d'histoire naturelle, où il classe également des pièces ethnographiques venant du nouveau monde, ainsi que des animaux naturalisés, des fossiles sur l'origine desquels il s'interroge.
www.encyclopedie.snyke.com /articles/ole_worm.html   (558 words)

  
 Rocky Road: Ole Worm
Also known as Ole Wurm or Olaus Worm, the Danish savant traveled to Germany, Italy, France, England, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
Worm passed along exceptional stories if he believed they came from reliable sources, describing the wondrous attributes of bezoar stones grown inside animal bodies, for instance.
Worm was the first to establish that the "unicorn horn" and narwhal tusks were actually one and the same, as he explained in a dissertation he delivered in 1638.
www.strangescience.net /oleworm.htm   (302 words)

  
 The Ark Catalogue Number 31
Worm’s collection was formed in the first half of the seventeenth century.
The Danish collection of Ole Worm is indicative of the growing interest in cabinets of natural history in the seventeenth century and the diffusion of an enthusiasm for collecting from Italy to northern Europe.
Worm was Professor of Medicine at the University of Copenhagen for most of the period in which he was amassing the collection of his museum.
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk /gatt/ark/catalog.asp?CN=31   (236 words)

  
 Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » Ole Worm’s Museum
Ole Worm was one of the great collectors of curiosities.
Ole Worm’s daughter married one of my ancestors, Bishop Schjelderup.
[…] One of the greatest cabinet of curiosities collectors of all time, Ole Worm was the first to determine that the unicorn did not exist, and these magical horns were indeed the long twisted tooth of the strange arctic whale.
www.kirchersociety.org /blog/2006/05/16/ole-worms-museum   (632 words)

  
 A room revisited: a contemporary artist is inspired by a "cabinet of curiosities" collected by a naturalist ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Worm's collection, created for his students and his peers, was a compendium of natural objects and ethnographic and archaeological artifacts.
Worm collected monstrous specimens, too, including a horse with horns growing from inside its ears, a unicorn goat, and what sounds, by his description, like an enormous hydrocephalic skull, thin as an eggshell, found in a local field.
Worm's room, in contrast to the rooms of other collectors, is depicted as a modest space, unadorned.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_7_113/ai_n6249011   (894 words)

  
 info: Ole_Worm   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ole Worm (May 13, 1588–August 31, 1655), (pronounced 'Olə Vorm') who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician and antiquary.
In 1626 Worm published his Fasti Danici, or 'Danish Chronology,' containing the results of his researches into runic lore; and in 1636 Runir seu Danica literatura antiquissima, 'Runes: the oldest Danish literature,' a compilation of transcribed runic texts.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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Worms, Germany, a city in the southwest of Germany
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 The Old Zoological Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: )
From 1630 the Museum was housed in the professor residence of the botanical garden between the University and Krystalgade, at or close to the location of the Zoological Museum 240 years later (Schepelern 1971).
When Worm died in 1654 the majority of his collections was acquired by the king for his museum.
When Worm’s collections were transferred to the Kunstkammer and thus no longer available as a study collection, Thomas Bartholin was active in creating Universitetets første Natural Kammer (first Chamber of Natural Objects) which according to Bartholin’s Cista Medica Hafniensis (1662) and a contemporary catalogue comprised many animals, partly as skeletons, partly stuffed or dried.
www.zmuc.dk /HeadWeb/old-museum.htm   (5687 words)

  
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 Ole Worm   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Worm var i besiddelse af en omfattende oldtidssamling - herunder mønter - hvis beskrivelse Willum Worm udgav i Amsterdam 1655 under titlen "Museum Wormianum seu historia rerum rariorum".
Efter Worms død indlemmedes hans samling i Kunstkammeret.
Blandt Worms ikkenumismatiske fortjenester er et pionerarbejde indenfor forskning i runer og runesten.
www.gladsaxegymnasium.dk /2/worm.htm   (87 words)

  
 Saga Conference 2000 paper   (Site not responding. Last check: )
More specifically, scholars, mostly following Worm, believed runes to be extremely old and many thought that they derived from Hebrew; likewise, it was believed that they were used to record all Old Norse-Icelandic literature, and that it was the primary, indeed the only script used to record Old Norse literature in manuscripts.
Worm’s interest in Hávamál, therefore, was not closely tied to the mythological material on runes.
Worm discusses at length the possible origins of Runes in Hebrew letters; Resén, in his introduction to Snorra Edda, discusses the various writing systems of Greek, Hebrew, Latin, hieroglyphics, and so on (pp.
www-personal.arts.usyd.edu.au /tarwills/tarrin/papers/sagaconf/sagaconf.html   (2471 words)

  
 200 (Illustreret norsk literaturhistorie / Bind I)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
OLE WORM har baade tilføiet og omskrevet enkelte partier, tildels paa en maade, der efter nyere tiders mere skjærpede begreber ikke vilde være stemmende med god literær praksis.
Medens OLE WORM var beskjæftiget med udgivelsen af Norges-beskrivelsen, havde han faaet tag i en afskrift af herr PEDER's sagaoversættelse.
Begge de af WORM besørgede udgaver kom til at spille en stor rolle; Norgesbeskrivelsen blev udgangspunktet og grundlaget for adskillige senere Norgesbeskrivelser; den blev oversat og bearbeidet paa fremmede sprog, og i Norge blev den folkelæsning, især paa den kant af landet, hvor PEDER CLAUSSØN havde tilbragt sit liv.
www.runeberg.org /ilnolihi/1/0216.html   (381 words)

  
 Museum Tusculanums Forlag - Bodies of Knowledge
The first great collector in Scandinavia and a phenomenal figure in North European intellectual history, Ole Worm (1588-1654) has been claimed as a local founding father for several modern disciplines, including archeology, useology, philology, ethnology, and folklore.
A professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen, he set up a famous museum that came to form the basis for Denmark’s National Museum, he engineered pioneering ethnological questionnaire surveys of the Danish kingdom, he wrote a monumental work on runes, and collected and published medieval folklore and literature.
This article analyzes the life and work of Ole Worm in order to clarify the emergence of the scholar as a third power in Europe, alongside the clergy and the nobility, and to shed light on notions of virtue and virtuosity in the late Renaissance.
www.mtp.hum.ku.dk /details.asp?eln=500031   (199 words)

  
 Folket af Ælde - Ole Worm (1588-1654)
Worm igangsatte som en af de første en planbunden indsamling af danske og norske folkeminder, idet han i 1622 fik udsendt en kongelig forordning til rigets biskopper, der bad om hjælp til at samle oplysninger om alle slags "antikviteter", især runer og runebeskrevne genstande, men også sagn og skikke.
Worms hensigt var at bruge stoffet til en planlagt Danmarksbeskrivelse, der først og fremmest skulle handle om fortidsminderne.
Tidligere havde Worm på grundlag af en gotlandsk runekalender fra 1358 skrevet en afhandling om den gamle nordiske tidsregning (Fasti Danici), hvori der blev fremdraget en række folkelige månedsnavne og mærkedage.
www.nomos-dk.dk /folket/worm.htm   (285 words)

  
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A new variant of Netsky worm - Netsky.D was found on March 1st, 2004 and is spreading fast in the wild.
This worm variant lacks many text strings that were present in NetSky.C variant and it does not copy itself to shared folders.
On March 2nd, 2004 the worm constantly beeps with PC speaker from 6:00 to 8:59.
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When his father, Caspar Bartholin the elder, died in 1629, his brother in law, Ole Worm (1588-1654), took over the custody of the young Thomas Bartholin.
Ole Worm was famous as professor of medicine and founder of the study of Nordic antiquity.
The Meru Project is based on 30 years of research by Stan Tenen into the origin and nature of the Hebrew alphabet, and the mathematical structure underlying the sequence of letters of the Hebrew text of Genesis.
www.lycos.com /info/mathematics-egypt--miscellaneous.html?page=2   (441 words)

  
 Jokes About Smoking and Tobacco from Australia
Ole went on Christmas and Easter, and maybe a few times during the year.
One Sunday, Ole was sitting in the pew right behind Lena and got to noticing what a fine looking woman she was.
Ole was a little taken back, but he didn't say much about it.
www.nsma.org.au /jokes.htm   (1040 words)

  
 When religion and medicine collide: UMNnews: U of M.
Worm and Rhodius lived in a tumultuous time, when religion and medicine were indelibly intertwined and Lutheranism--then the official religion of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway--was becoming increasingly orthodox and conservative.
Shackelford speculates that Worm may have kept quiet about his own religious beliefs to protect his status as a prominent physician, natural philosopher, and collector of curiosities.
Likewise, he hopes some documents in northern Norway will yield clues to religion's role in the fall of Worm's student, Rhodius, who was a Paracelsian and ultimately ran afoul of authorities and landed, with his wife, in an arctic prison.
www1.umn.edu /umnnews/Feature_Stories/When_religion_and_medicine_collide.html   (853 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: Early museum re-created in Science Center installation
The Danish professor of medicine Ole Worm (1588-1654) believed, as did his more enlightened contemporaries, that learning comes about through the observation of nature - "through empiricism and experiment" - and not just through the study of texts.
Worm firmly believed that vision was the most trustworthy sense for natural history investigations.
To conjure up the private museum of the Danish professor of medicine, Purcell used ethnographic objects and natural history specimens borrowed from collections at Harvard and elsewhere in the United States.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/11.04/27-worm.html   (290 words)

  
 Antiy capture the new MSN worm
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 Cabinet of curiosities - ArticleWorld   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In addition to the growing 'scientific' consciousness of the day, these collections, and the craze for them, were greatly facilitated by the passion and money that was put into exploration.
Two collectors and creators of cabinets of curiosity referred to in all modern studies of the phenonmenon are Athanasius Kircher and Ole Worm, in part because they left behind documents or catalogs almost as fabulous as their collections.
Ole Worm's Museum Wormianum used the objects in the collection, as well as the impetus to own them as a springboard for meditations and meanderings on all manner of subjects related to philosophy, science, the natural world, medicine, and so on.
www.articleworld.org /index.php?title=Cabinet_of_curiosities&printable=yes   (215 words)

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