Balthasar Pfister

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Balthasar Pfister (born September 20, 1695 in Schaffhausen ; † March 27, 1763 there ) was a Swiss doctor and politician . From 1749 to 1763 he was mayor of Schaffhausen.

Life

Balthasar Pfister was a son of the Schaffhausen city doctor and a member of the Grand Council , Alexander Pfister, and Anna Barbara Oschwald. He received a careful upbringing and, following the example of his father, also devoted himself to studying medicine . In addition to his father, the famous doctors Wepfer and Keller were also largely responsible for his training in this science. After obtaining his medical doctorate from Rudolf Jacob Camerarius in Tübingen in 1715 , he went to Paris to expand his knowledge . There he gained a deeper insight into ophthalmology and made the acquaintance of excellent doctors and anatomists such as Joseph-Guichard Du Verney and Jacob Winslow . He was also in correspondence with Jean-Louis Petit . In London , too, in 1717 he enriched his knowledge of dealing with local scholars; so he met u. a. together with the surgeon Abraham Cyprianus .

In 1718 Pfister returned to his hometown after a visit from Amsterdam , where he worked as a general practitioner and surgeon and established his reputation through several successful cures. In 1720 he married Ursula von Waldkirch vom Parakeet and two years later Barbara Wepfer zum Erker. In 1722 he was accepted into the Grand Council. He then gradually got to higher state offices in his hometown. In 1733 he became a sack master and three years later the butcher guild master . His precise knowledge of the conditions in his fatherland and his restless activity were shown in the federal diets , which he regularly attended. Above all, this was the case at Basel in 1736 , where he had to go as a Member of Parliament in the then prevailing salmon fishing dispute with France . From 1749 until his death in 1763 at the age of 67, he held the office of mayor of Schaffhausen. He left behind a son, Johann Jakob Pfister, who was a captain in the Dutch service.

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personal data
SURNAME Pfister, Balthasar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1763
Place of death Schaffhausen