can you please name any artist or artwork that he has patronized?
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who was barend joseph stokvis? He was a physician and professor of physiology and pharmacology when was he born? 16 August 1834 where did he study? University of Utrecht so was he a doctor? Yes what degrees did he have? He obtained a doctorate on a dissertation on hepatic glucose production in diabetes has he written any books? UNANSWERABLE did he have any notable achievements? He was one of a number of prominent 19th century Jewish physicians in the Netherlands. apart from working in the field of science what else did he take part in? He was also a patron of the arts.
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Barend Joseph Stokvis [SEP] Other activities
Stokvis was close to the influential German pathologist Rudolf Virchow. In 1879 Stokvis was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he served as vice-president of the Academy in 1896. He was awarded received an honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Edinburgh in 1884. Stokvis also chaired the 1883 International Colonial Medicine Congress in Amsterdam. He was one of the founders (in 1896) of "Janus", an international journal for the history of medicine. He is regarded as an illustrious member of Holland's medical dynasty, and as a pioneer in the fields of chemical physiology and chemotherapy.