August Hauptmann

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August Hauptmann (born March 22, 1607 in Dresden ; † December 21, 1674 ibid) was a German doctor , alchemist and balneologist in Dresden and Warmbad near Wolkenstein .

Life

August Hauptmann grew up as the son of the ship merchant Balthasar Hauptmann in New Dresden. His mother Katharina was the daughter of the mayor and electoral valet Bastian Kröß (1524–1602). After attending the city school in Dresden Neustadt, he was enrolled at the University of Wittenberg in 1619 (at the age of 12) . 1637 he was back in Wittenberg and 1641 he enrolled in Leipzig , a in the years to study the field of medicine to take.

Wolckenstein warm bath , 1657

In 1646 he went to Hornhausen near Oschersleben to examine two “miracle springs”. In 1653 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on bile and then practiced in Dresden. In addition, in 1656, together with the tax collector Heinrich Schrey, he took over the run-down Bad Wolkenstein in the Ore Mountains . The Electress Magdalena Sibylla stayed in the bath every year and had the water brought to Dresden.

Around 1642 Hauptmann intervened significantly in the dispute between his friend Johann Agricola and the Stettin pharmacist Georg Detharding , which both sides included in several tracts and only ended with Detharding's death.

In 1660, Hauptmann was commissioned by Elector Johann Georg II to carry out an alchemical process described by Bergrat Amadeus Friedlieb. Between 1659 and 1665, he was director of the Secret Chemistry Laboratory in the Dresden Goldhaus.

family

Hauptmann married Christian Lange the Elder after the death of his friend . J. his widow Anna Maria, b. Macasius .

Works

  • Gratiosorum fontium, qui Hornhusi pervestigato. This is Hornhausischer Gnaden Brunnen's actual exploration . Henning Schürer, Leipzig 1647 (digitized bsb) (digitized Leipzig)
  • Insignes aliquot Viticulturae errores… W. Enderts, Nuremberg 1642 (digitized version )
  • Together with Pierre Jean Fabre. Augusti Hauptmanni ... Epistola praeliminaris tractatui de viva mortis imagine mox edendo sacrata et DD Petro Joanni Fabro ... consecrata . Götz, Frankfurt 1550 (digitized version)
  • Together with Christian Lange. De Genuino Acidulas Egranas Salubriter Usvrpandi Modo… Schürer, Leipzig 1651 (digitized version )
  • Uhralter Wolckensteinischer Warm bath and water treasure: To our dear Frawen on the sand genand / who through true chemical art / and their special genawe handles Newprobiret / ...; In addition to many other pensive, strange comments / ... / on a trewen message presented by Augusto Hauptmannen / Med. Doct . Löffler, Leipzig 1657 (digitized version)
  • New chemical art project and very important Bergk-Bedencken ... Andreas Löffler, Leipzig 1658 (digitized)
  • Very necessary admonition, what actual instruction, and well-needed bathing instruction . without location 1673 (digitized version)
  • Together with Christoph Reibeband. Nine and seventy great and strange miracles ... August Boetius, Leipzig and Gotha 1690 (digitized version)
  • Together with Caspar Heinrich Schrey. Newly almost age-old Wolckenstein warm bath and water treasure: d. is: short but precisely researched description d. so called warm bahdes to our dear women on the sand; including appended some notable cures u. Observationibus; together with ... Augusti Hauptmanns ... the most necessary addition to d. Gentlemen Bahde guests . Frankfurt an der Oder 1696 (digitized version)

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  • Michael Ulrich Brysch: August Hauptmann (1607–1674): On the life, work and impact of a Dresden medical alchemist. Centaurus, Freiburg 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brysch: August Hauptmann (1607–1674) , p. 72 ff.
  2. ↑ Johann Agricola: Necessary protective script and rescue of honor against the shameful and famous script dictated by the devil himself and pasquil which Georg Detharding selected. 1648.
personal data
SURNAME Captain, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Doctor and alchemist in Dresden and Bad Wolkenstein
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1607
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1674
Place of death Dresden