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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2025
Niels Stensen (latinized Nicolaus Steno) was born in Copenhagen on January 11, 1638. He died on December 5, 1686 in Schwerin. His fame rests on his pioneering scientific achievements and – more controversially – his conversion to Roman Catholicism. In both capacities, scientist and convert, Steno was connected with Spinoza. A pupil of the Danish physician and polymath Ole Borch, Steno was attracted by the flourishing of the New Philosophy and science in the Dutch Republic. In April 1660 he went to Amsterdam, and in July 1660 he matriculated at Leiden University. Ole Borch arrived there, too, in February 1661. Steno and Borch shared lodgings at three different addresses until May 1663 (Jorink 2018, 22–24). Spinoza is mentioned several times in the detailed diary that Borch kept. In his Leiden lodgings Steno carried out dissections, which attracted many visitors – among them Spinoza, who at that time lived in the nearby village of Rijnsburg.
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