Benjamin Scharff

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Benjamin Scharff , also Scharf , Scharffius (born June 6, 1651 in Nordhausen , † June 4, 1702 in Sondershausen ) was a German physician and princely personal physician from Schwarzburg-Sondershausen .

Life

Benjamin Scharff studied medicine at the University of Jena and in 1670, at the age of 19, became a municipal physician in Weißensee . From 1674 he was princely personal physician to Christian Wilhelm (Schwarzburg-Sondershausen) and city physician in Sondershausen. From 1687 to 1689 Scharff was the principal at the school in Mühlhausen .

Benjamin Scharff published the first toxicological treatise in Latin in 1678 in Jena.

On January 22nd, 1677 Benjamin Scharff was registered under the registration number. 68 with the academic surname Bias I. accepted as a member of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum , today's German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

Scharff died on the first day of Pentecost in 1702.

Fonts

  • Toxikologia, Seu Tractatus Physico, Medico-Chymicus De Natura Venenorum In Genere: In Quo Venenorum Vires Ac Qualitates Considerantur, Ex Veterum Ac Recentiorum Opinione Examinantur, Et Tandem Ab Occultis Ad Manifestas Qualitates Reducuntur. Johann Gollner, Jena 1678
  • Thorough reminder of the detection, preservation and cure of the plague. Johann Gollner, Jena 1681
  • Benjamin Scharff's Unpredictable Thoughts of the Magnetic Cures, kept secretly and inexplicably, well-meaningly considered after thorough guidance from nature. Schönermarck, Sondershausen 1700

literature

  • Wilhelm Hess :  Scharff, Benjamin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 586.
  • Paul Lauerwald: The first Nordhausen member of the Leopoldina: The doctor, scientist and local politician Benjamin Scharff (1651–1702). In: Contributions to the history of the city and district of Nordhausen , Volume 37, 2012, pp. 185–198
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 192 (archive.org)
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 149 ( archive.org ).

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personal data
SURNAME Scharff, Benjamin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sharp, Benjamin; Scharffius, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mediciners
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1651
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1702
Place of death Sondershausen