325 years ago today, Gerard van Swieten, a Dutch physician, was born. He viewed the vampire myth as a "barbarism of ignorance" and his aim was to eradicate it.

INACTIVE@feddit.nl · 28 days ago

325 years ago today, Gerard van Swieten, a Dutch physician, was born. He viewed the vampire myth as a "barbarism of ignorance" and his aim was to eradicate it.

a14o@feddit.org · 28 days ago

GCanuck@lemmy.world · 28 days ago

That sounds like something a vampire would say.

danglybits23@lemm.ee · 28 days ago

“Characteristic for his opinion is this quotation from the preface to his essay of 1768 “that all the fuss doesn’t come from anything other than vain fear, superstitious credulity, dark and eventful imagination and simplicity and ignorance among these people.””

Some things never change.

325 years ago today, Gerard van Swieten, a Dutch physician, was born. He viewed the vampire myth as a "barbarism of ignorance" and his aim was to eradicate it.

325 years ago today, Gerard van Swieten, a Dutch physician, was born. He viewed the vampire myth as a "barbarism of ignorance" and his aim was to eradicate it.

Gerard van Swieten - Wikipedia