Anton Günther Billich

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Anton Günther Billich (born April 23, 1599 in Jever , † May 23, 1640 in Oldenburg ) was a German doctor and chemiatric writer.

Life

Anton Günther Billich was a son of Adam Billich, who was born in Spandau and worked as a cantor at the Latin school in Jever , and his wife Magdalene, a daughter of the court preacher Martin Braun in Hoya . He first attended the Latin school in his hometown. In 1612 his father sent him to the school in Lemgo , then to Hanover and finally to the monastery school in Ilfeld . In the process, he acquired solid Latin language skills.

In 1616 he enrolled at the University of Helmstedt , where he first studied philosophy , then medicine. His most important teachers there were Cornelius Martini , Johann Wolff (1580–1645) and Henning Arnisaeus . He completed this course in 1621 with a licentiate . He also briefly visited the universities of Wittenberg (matriculated on March 20, 1620), where he met the physician Daniel Sennert , and Padua (spring 1623).

As early as August 1621, Billich had received the position of Graflich-Oldenburg personal physician . Billich met the chemist Angelo Sala very early on , became his pupil and vehemently took his side in a dispute with the Paracelsian-oriented Hamburg doctor Peter Lauremberg . Billich wrote poems of praise for Sala and also translated two of his works from Italian into Latin.

In addition to Arnisaeus, Billich's friends also included the polyhistor Hermann Conring and the Frankfurt city doctor Wilhem Ernst Scheffer .

Billich, who was quick-tempered, suffered from gout, jaundice and dropsy towards the end of his life. After being a fan of chemiatry for the longest time, he rejected it as null and void in his last publication.

Billich was married three times: first to Elisabeth von Höveln (1624), who died a few weeks after the wedding; then from 1625 with Maria Sala, Angelo Sala's daughter, from whom he was divorced again in 1634; finally since 1635 with Elisabeth Dorothea Sevelöen from Celle , who survived him. Billich did not recognize the daughter of his second wife, Marie Sophie, as her own child.

Works

  • Oratiuncula Metrica, Wolfenbüttel 1614.
  • Positiones medicae de Empyemate, Helmstedt 1620.
  • De tribus chymicorum principiis et quincta essentia exercitatio, Bremen 1621.
  • De natura et constitutione spagyrices emendatae, Helmstedt 1623.
  • Defensio animadversionum et notarum Viri Clarissimi Petri Laurembergii in aphorismos chymiatricos Angeli Salae, s. l. 1624.
  • Adsertio <n> um chymicarum sylloge, opposita clangoso latratui et venenatis morsibus Petri Laurembergii, s. l. 1624.
  • Kurtzer and a single report by Cur der Pestilentz, Emden 1624.
  • Petri Larvenbregii [!] Deliria chymica, s. l. 1625.
  • Observationum ac paradoxorum chymiatricorum libri duo, Leiden 1631.
  • Thessalus in chymicis redivivus, id est de vanitate medicinae chymicae, hermeticae seu spagiricae dissertatio fundamentalis, Frankfurt am Main 1640.

literature

  • Gerhard Anton Gramberg : Life story of the Graeflich-Oldenburg personal physician Lic. Anton Günther Billich, in: Blätter mixed contents, Volume 6 (1794), pp. 429–454 ( online ); 465-495 ( online ).
  • Urs Leo Gantenbein: The chemist Anton Günther Billich (1599-1640) , in: The chemist Angelus Sala 1576-13637. A doctor in personal reports and medical histories. Diss. Zurich 1992, pp. 131-134.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wittenberg matriculation database
  2. ↑ Matriculation Edition No. 1611.
  3. ↑ Urs Leo Gantenbein: The chemist Angelus Sala 1576–1637 (see under literature), p. 133.
personal data
SURNAME Billich, Anton Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Billichius, Anthonius Guntherus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and chemiatric specialist writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1599
PLACE OF BIRTH Jever
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1640
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)