Owl to the Board of Governors of Hogwarts
Curriculum Vitae of Dr Stephen Maturin, applicant for the recently vacated post of Potions instructor.
Position Desired:
Professor of Potions
Education:
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Ecole de Médecine, Paris
Relevant Job Experience:
- Extensive experience compounding medicines for a variety of clients from British nobility to common sailors
- Research interests and considerable fieldwork in ethnopharmacology
Other Qualifications:
- Internationally known physician and naturalist; routinely sought after to lecture on matters medical and scientific in a number of the world's prominent cities
- Many years of practical experience as a surgeon for the British Royal Navy
- Proficiency in several languages of scholarly usefulness, including Latin, Greek, and French; also proficient in some other languages.
Professional Organizations:
- Royal Society, England
- Royal College of Surgeons, England
- Entomological Society of London
Professional References:
- Baron Guillaume Dupuytren, physician, Paris
- Baron Jean Nicolas Corvisart des Marest, physician, Paris
- Sir Joseph Blaine, president of the Entomological Society of London, fellow of the Royal Society
- Dr Harrington, Physician of the Fleet, London
Personal References:
- Captain Jack Aubrey, presently at Hogwarts
- don Patricio Fitzgerald y Saavedra, Corunna
Publications:
- Tar-Water Reconsidered
- Thoughts on the Prevention of the Diseases most usual among Seamen
- New Operation for Suprapubic Cystotomy
- Tractatus de Novae Febris Ingressu
- Remarks on Pezophaps Solitarious
- Modest Proposals for the Preservation of Health in the Navy
- Mariners: Consensus and cohesion in certain states of adversity
- Some Remarks on Peruvian Cirripedes
(( OOC: Yes, all these "publications" are canonical, Tar-Water Reconsidered and all. *facepalm* ))