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Danish scientist (1588–1654)

Ole Worm (13 May 1588 – 31 August 1654), who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician, natural historian and antiquary.

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He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen where he taught Greek, Latin, physics and medicine.^[1]

Biography

Worm was the son of Willum Worm, who served as the mayor of Aarhus, and was made a rich man by an 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.^[2]

Worm married Dorothea Fincke, the daughter of a friend and colleague, Thomas Fincke.

Fincke was a Danishmathematician and physicist, who invented the terms 'tangent' and 'secant' and taught at the University of Copenhagen for more than 60 years.^[3] Through Fincke, Worm became connected to the powerful Bartholin family of physicians, and later theologians an