Jacobus Bontius was a Dutch physician and a pioneer of tropical medicine. He is known for the four-volume work De medicina Indorum. His 1631 work "Historiae naturalis et medicae Indiae orientalis" introduced the word "Orang Hutan" into Western... Wikipedia
Born: 1592, Leiden, Netherlands
Died: November 30, 1631 (age 39 years), Batavia, Dutch East Indies