Bernhard Rottendorff

Bernhard Rottendorff the Younger (born December 10, 1594 in Munster ; † April 17, 1671 there ) was a German doctor and humanist and was one of the most universal scholars of his time.

Life

Bernhard Rottendorff the Younger was the only son and the oldest child of the Münster city doctor Bernhard Rottendorff the Elder (1563-1640). He received school lessons at the Paulinum grammar school , where he learned the Latin language and later mastered it so well that he was allowed to participate in the congratulatory poem for Ferdinand von Bayern in 1612 . From 1614 he studied in Rostock , in 1616 he moved to Helmstedt at the request of his father . With the title of Dr. med. He initially helped out his father from 1621, in the following year he acquired citizenship in Münster. Bernhard Rottendorff moved several times within Münster. In 1625 he and his father moved from Ludgeristraße to Prinzipalmarkt, and in 1627 to what is now Klemensstraße. There he opened his first practice before moving to the Überwasser parish.

After his father died in 1640, he was the sole city doctor in Münster for 22 years. In addition to his municipal salary, there were also royalties, princely rewards, expenses and special benefits from the city. He also looked after the monastery in Liesborn and the Benedictine nuns in the Herzebrock monastery. Rottendorf was known to the Bavarian Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg since 1621, and in 1639 he became his personal physician when he became Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück, Minden and Verden. He is also the body doctor of the Prince-Bishop Ferdinand , who is the Elector of Cologne and Bishop of Munster, thanks to the high reputation of the Elector, Rottendorff is known as a personal physician of the Electorate of Cologne. After Ferdinand's death in 1650, Rottendorff became the personal physician of the new Prince-Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen, despite his close and lasting friendship with Mallinckrodt . His professional trip in 1651 to Sassenberg Castle, where he treated his new sovereign Count Galen, is interesting. In 1660 Rottendorff resigned from the service of the city of Münster in order to be able to concentrate on Prince-Bishop von Galen.

On April 17, 1671, Rottendorf died of prostate hypertrophy .

family

Rottendorff married Klara Kock in 1622, with whom he had six children. His daughter Anna Sophia was born in 1628 and later married her father's successor, Johann Hosius (1621–1695) from Spanbroek . The descendants of this family can be traced to the present day, including Clemens Hosius . Among the other children are Bernhard Eustach Rottendorff (1634–1661), Albertina Maria, Catharina and Johannes (1623–1625).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Fehrenbach: The Rottendorf doctors