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Caspar Bartholin the Elder ( 1585- 1629) was born at Malmö, Denmark (now Sweden) and was a polymath, finally accepting a professorship in medicine at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1613. He later taught theology at the same university. His work, Anatomicae Institutiones Corporis Humani ( 1611) was for many years a standard textbook on the subject of anatomy. He was the first to describe the workings of the olfactory nerve.

His son, Thomas Bartholin, was also a physician, and was the father of Caspar Bartholin the Younger ( 1655- 1738Events April 15 - Premiere in London of Serse an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. November 13 Ratification of the Treaty of Vienna The excavation of Herculaneum, a Roman city buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, begins. John and Charles Wesley form the Me). He was born in CopenhagenCopenhagen Kobenhavn in Danish) is the capital of Denmark. The contemporary Danish name for the city is a corruption of the original designation for the city Kobmandshavn meaning Merchants' Harbour. The English name Copenhagen is derived from the German n, and was first to describe the workings of the greater vestibular glands (which came to be known as " Bartholin's glandThe Bartholin's glands (also called Bartholin glands or greater vestibular glands are two glands located slightly below and to the left and right of the opening of the vagina in women. They secrete mucus to provide lubrication, especially when the woman is") and the larger salivatory duct of the sublingual glandSulingual gland lies anterior to the submandibular gland under the tongue,beneath the mucous membrane of the floor of the mouth. They are drained by 8-20 excretory ducts. The largest duct, the sublingual duct (of Bartholin) joins the submandibular duct to (" Bartholin's duct ").