BARTHOLIN, CASPAR BERTHELSEN

born Feb. 12, 1585, Malm, Den. [now in Sweden] died July 13, 1629, Sor, Zealand, Den. Latin Bartholinus Danish physician and theologian who wrote one of the most widely read Renaissance manuals of anatomy. At the University of Padua (160810) Bartholin conducted anatomical studies under the famed Italian anatomist Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente. These formed the basis for his manual Anatomicae Institutiones Corporis Humani (1611; Textbook of Human Anatomy). A professor at the University of Copenhagen (161329), he was first to describe the olfactory nerve (associated with the sense of smell) as the first cranial nerve. He also identified the small lubricating glandknown as Bartholin's glandlocated near the vaginal opening in female mammals.