Nicolaes Tulp Nicolaes Tulp Nicolaes Tulp (9 October 1593 – 12 September 1674) was a Dutch surgeon and mayor of Amsterdam. Tulp was well known for his upstanding moral character and as the subject of Rembrandt's famous painting "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp". Born Claes Pieterszoon, he was the son of a prosperous merchant active in civic affairs in Amsterdam. From 1611 to 1614 he studied medicine in Leiden. When he returned to Amsterdam he became a respected doctor and in 1617 he married Aagfe Van der Voegh. An ambitious young man, he adopted the tulip as his heraldric emblem
The Doctor (Doctor Who) his name, this conversation ensues: "I'm the Doctor." "Doctor? That's a profession, not a name." "It's all I have." To his greatest enemies, the Daleks, the Doctor is known as the "Ka Faraq Gatri," the "Enemy of the Daleks", the "Bringer of Darkness" or "Destroyer of Worlds". This is first mentioned in the novelisation of "Remembrance of the Daleks" by Ben Aaronovitch and subsequently taken up in the spin-off media, particularly the Virgin New Adventures books and the "Doctor Who Magazine" comic strip. Davros uses the title "Destroyer of Worlds" to describe the Doctor in "Journey's End" (2008). In the