DURIE, ANDREW [SSNE 8366]

Surname

DURIE, DURAEUS, VAN DUUREN

First name

ANDREW, ANDREA, ANDRIES

Nationality

SCOT

Region

ANSTRUTHER, FIFE

Social status

GENTRY

Education

LEIDEN

Text source

Andrew Durie was born in Anstruther in 1596 to Presbyterian minister Robert Durie and was therefore a brother of Irenicist John Durie [SSNE 1243]. On 18 October 1612 he matriculated at the University of Leiden (where his brother was also studying) but did not finish his studies there. Instead, he enlisted as a surgeon on the ship 'Hollandia' in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and departed the Netherlands in 1619. He arrived in the East Indies in 1620 and became the chief surgeon in the Castle and later in the second hospital of Batavia. He was a traveling companion of Dr Jacobus Bontius, who considered Durie to be a 'chirurgus expertissimus' and mentioned him frequently in his work. Durie was married three times in Batavia. His wives were Sara Seroyen (1625), Anna van Nederhoven (1629), and Catharina Stroomborgen (1637) and he had children by the first two. He died in Batavia in 1655.

 

Sources:

 

L.S.A.M. van Römer, [Duraeus, Andrews, Andreas, of Andries], in P.C. Molhuysen, P.J. Blok (eds.), Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek, X (Leiden, 1937), p. 250.

 

This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.

 

Service record

THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, LEIDEN

Arrived 1612-10-18, as STUDENT

Departed 1612-12-31, as STUDENT

Capacity STUDENT, purpose EDUCATIONAL, ACADEMIC

THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, DUTCH EAST INDIES [VOC, BATAVIA]

Arrived 1619-12-26, as SURGEON

Departed 1655-12-31, as DECEASED

Capacity SURGEON, MEDICAL DOCTOR, purpose MARITIME, MILITARY