Caeso grams

Caeso Gramm (* July 20, 1640 in Tönning ; † September 21, 1673 in Kiel ) was professor of natural history and Greek at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Chilonium. Novus Holsatiae Parnassus. (Frontispiece)

Life

Caeso Gramm was the son of the Tönninger merchant Christian Gramm and Catharina Hagg, the great-granddaughter of the theology professor Caeso Eminga (1512–1574). His first name probably comes from the Roman given name Kaeso / Caeso, in ancient times "Kaiso", spoken in modern times "Zeso". It is said to have been given to children born by caesarean section . A spelling variant of the name is "Caso". Caeso Gramm got his first name from two of his ancestors, Caeso Hagg and Caeso Eminga.

He spent his school days in Husum and Lüneburg . He then studied for two years at the University of Altdorf and went on an educational trip through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Switzerland. He studied there for three years at the Philosophical and Medical Faculty in Basel, where he obtained his doctorate. phil. and Dr. med. He then went to Lyon, where he worked at the hospital, and then toured France and the Holy Roman Empire. At the University of Leiden in 1662 he earned another doctorate. He wrote a travel report ( Liber commentarius de peregrinatione sua ) about his educational trips , which is missing. When he returned to Schleswig-Holstein, he worked as a doctor in Kiel.

The Chancellor of Prince Christian Albrecht , Johann Adolph Kielmann von Kielmannsegg , was appointed to the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel in 1665. Caeso Gramm was one of the eight founding professors of the Faculty of Philosophy. His fields of Greek and natural history, more precisely physiology , were closely linked. The writings of Aristotle were paramount to both. During his tenure, Gramm's research and teaching therefore focused primarily on ancient teachings, but was also open to more recent research by René Descartes and Daniel Sennert . In non-scientific seminars, he invited students to read Greek literature. He soon discontinued this offer due to the lack of response and only presented natural history until his death. As a member of the philosophical faculty that received the least funding, Gramm received 250 thalers twice a year. In addition, he received functional benefits, since he held the vice-rectorate of the university, which made him the university's highest ranking after the sovereign. Caeso Gramm fell ill with scurvy in 1672 and died on September 21, 1673 at the age of thirty-three. Daniel Georg Morhof wrote the Latin commemorative speech, the program .

Caeso Gramm was married to Dorothea Christina Jessen († 1714), the daughter of the Kiel city pastor. With her he had a son, Friedrich Gramm , and three daughters.

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All of Gramm's writings except for one epithalamium , the chilonium. Novus Holsatiae Parnassus and the travelogue deal with natural history, philosophy or medicine. These are disputations in which Gramm appears as a present or respondent.

• Disputatio philosophica de monstris, eorumque causis, atque differentiis Basel 1660 (respondent).
• Dissertatiuncula de cotyledonibus sive acetabulis uteri Basel 1660 (respondent).
• Dissertatiuncula de aneurysmate venarum et varicum Basel 1661 (respondent).
• Disputatio de rarioribus quibusdam problematibus Basel 1662 (Praeses and Proponent).
• Eptas quaestionum philosophicarum Basel 1662 (Praeses).
• Disputatio de syncope pro gradu Doctorali in Medicina obtinendo Leiden 1662.
• Examination problematis Hippocratici an de liquidis in fistulam spiritalem aliquid illabatur secundum naturam? Hamburg / Schleswig 1665.
• Caeso Grammius… ingenuos naturae mystas in Universitate Christian-Albertina
  degentes ad physicam specialem publice audiendam… invitat Kiel 1665.
• Anatomia Nivis Kiel 1666 (Praeses).
• Aquas supracoelestes à multis hactenus doctoribus supra coelum sidereum locatas ex physeos tribunali legitimae sedi restituit CG Kiel 1666 (Praeses).
• Quaestiones Physicae metamorphosin, qua uxor Lothi in statuam salinam est
  conversa, explicantes Kiel 1669 (Praeses).
• De definitione temporis Kiel 1670 (Praeses).
• Theses ex universa philosophia depromptae Kiel 1670 (Praeses).
• Disputatio de Esu sanguinis. Disquisitio physico-philologica Kiel 1670 (Praeses).
• Bona verba nuptiis Viri Praestantissimi Doctissimique Domini Pauli Erici…
  et Virginis Lectissimae Catharinae Büllen dicta Kiel (around 1670).
• Disputatio physica de stella regis Judaeorum Kiel 1670 (Praeses).
• CG Prorector Academiae Kiloniensis suo atque senatus nomine Spiritus
• Sancti religiosum cultum sacra hac ventorum atque ignium speculatione civibus
  academicis sedulo inculcat Kiel 1673.
• Liber commentarius de peregrinatione sua (not preserved).
• Chilonium. Novus Holsatiae Parnassus .

Gramm wrote the Chilonium as an advertising pamphlet for the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, which was founded in 1665 . Novus Holsatiae Parnassus (Kiel. Holstein's new Parnassus). In it he describes the region around Kiel, the city itself and the university campus as well as the study conditions and emphasizes the advantages that studying in Kiel should have. The script is written in modern Latin.

literature

• Thorsten Burkard and Marvin Harms (eds.): Chilonium. Novus Holsatiae Parnassus. Wachholtz Verlag, Kiel 2015, ISBN 978-3-529-05904-9
• Hoppe 1934a = Adolf Hoppe: A student handbook from 1665 , in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Kieler Stadtgeschichte 37, 1934, pp. 61–87.
• Treichel, Fritz: Caeso Gramm , Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck 1976, ISBN 978-3529025617 .
• Rodenberg, Carl: The beginnings of the Christian Albrechts University Kiel (= sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein. Vol. 31, ISSN  0173-0940 ). Revised, supplemented and published from the estate. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1955, ISBN 978-3529021312 .

Web links

Wikisource: Caeso Gram  - Sources and Full Texts

• Gramms Programma by Daniel Georg Morhof on Google Books
• Johann Moller: Cimbriae literatae Prodromus, Schleswig 1687

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pliny , Naturalis historia 7.47