Andreas Starck

Andreas Starck (born May 6 or 9, 1552 in Buchholz ; † May / June 1611 Mühlhausen / Thuringia ) was a German physician and city doctor in Göttingen, Erfurt and Mühlhausen.

Life

Starck was born in Buchholz as the son of theologian Sebastian Starck (1528–1586) and Anna Ernst (1532–1574). Soon after the birth, the father was transferred to the Bohemian town of Falkenau . On March 16, 1557 he was enrolled as a boy at the University of Leipzig . From 1559 to 1560 he attended school in Nordhausen and was then probably taught by his father. In 1562 he went back to school in Nordhausen, which he continued from 1567 to 1568 in Halle. From September 1568 to May 1572 he was taught at the monastery school in Ilfeld , where Michael Neander (1525–1595) was the rector at the time . On May 12, 1572 he enrolled at the University of Jena, where he probably initially pursued philological studies. In May 1574 he left Jena to go to school in Sondershausen for two years in October of the same year .

This was followed by a trip to Strasbourg , a longer stay in the house of his father, who had meanwhile become superintendent in Mühlhausen, and from May 1577 a stay in Eisleben . From there, in August of the same year, Starck went to Nuremberg to see the doctor Joachim Camerarius the Younger . Apparently, Starck urged to go back to Jena , where he enrolled as a medical student at the beginning of December. The stay in Jena lasted until winter next year.

He went on a scientific educational trip to Italy, among other places. Via Verona, Padua , where he matriculated on May 21, 1579, Mantua, Cremona, Milan, Como, Chur, Zurich and Baden in the canton of Aargau, he reached Basel on June 4, 1580, where he matriculated on June 16. Almost two months later, on August 27th, he disputed about Theses medicae de aurigine . Thereupon he was appointed Rector, Johann Bauhin the Elder, on September 6, 1580 in the presence of Basilius Amerbach . Ä. as Dean and Felix Platter as a promoter for MD PhD .

Just two days later, Starck started his return journey and reached Mühlhausen via Strasbourg, Speyer, Worms, Frankfurt and Marburg on September 23, 1580. On March 9, 1581, he enrolled at the University of Erfurt .

On May 29, 1581, he married Barbara Birkner, the daughter of the local mayor, in Mühlhausen. In 1583 he was appointed city ​​physician to Göttingen, where he arrived on March 8, 1583. In Erfurt he was probably active as a general practitioner (medicus practicus), in Göttingen he was now receiving a fixed salary. In October 1584 Starck received the appointment to the city doctor of Erfurt. On October 27th he left Göttingen with his family via Heiligenstadt and Mühlhausen and arrived in Erfurt on November 2nd. On March 2, 1586, the city physician acquired citizenship in Erfurt and shortly afterwards bought the "Leopard House", which he and his family moved into.

When the only professor of medicine at the Erfurt University, Joachim Quernten , died in 1600, Starck took over the physics position as well as the position of dean of the medical faculty and remained so until he left in 1609 In 1600 elected 320th rector of the university. The corresponding passage from the registers reads in the translation: “I have been elected and appointed Rector of this Academy, Andreas Starck, Doctor, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Medicus appointed by the Erfurt Council, actually on November 25th in a solemn act in the presence of Senate of both the academic and the political of the city of Erfurt introduced and confirmed the office of Rector ”. Starck was certified that he had made a great contribution to the Erfurt medical system and the medical faculty and that the latter was "completely orphaned" after he left for Mühlhausen.

Starck's wife Anna died on August 31, 1605 at the age of 43. Almost three years later, on June 21, 1608, he married Juditha Ziegler, the widow of Erfurt councilor Adolarius Finckelthaus . On February 18, 1609, the city council of the city of Mühlhausen accepted Starck's offer and request to come there as a Physicus Ordinarius. His certificate of appointment was already drawn up on March 3, and on the same day he took the oath of office as Medicus Ordinarius. Andreas Starck died in May or June 1611 in the Thuringian city without any further details being given.

Works

• From the Pestilentz / Kurtzer and Einfeltiger report / how one created oneself with God's help through the means of jm gracious / for it / and may also heal. Erfurt 1597; Digitized via archive.org
• Harm mirror / is shown in it / that Harm and Vrinschawen in Pestilentz's time was not to be trusted / and not only concerned with this / but also very confidently and dangerous / dangerous in other diseases if one was to order artzney on them alone. Erfurt 1597
• Krancken Spiegel This is Kurtzer teaching / How first of all a Krancker: Then a real honest doctor / like to behave / right and Christian / In addition / as in the current Pestilentzzeit keep yourself / and not be able to harm or look at / after .. Theophrasti Paracelsi doctrine and opinion. Mulhouse 1598

literature

• Axel Wellner: Andreas Starck (1552–1611), Physicus Ordinarius in Göttingen, Erfurt and Mühlhausen. In: Gundolf Keil (Hrsg.): Specialized prose research - border crossing. Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag (DWV), Baden-Baden, Volume 2/3, 2006/07, pp. 187–216

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lucia Rossetti (ed.): Matricula Nationis Germanicae Artistarum in Gymnasio Patavino (1553-1721), Padova 1986, p. 45, no. 384.