Caspar Fischer (doctor)
Caspar Fischer , also Caspar Füscher , Caspar Vüscher and Caspar Vischer (* around 1590 in probably Krenkingen ; † around 1663 there) was a German surgeon . His main place of residence and his main place of work was Krenkingen. He wrote an extensive manuscript on the medicine of his time.
Life
His estimated year of birth is around 1590. The year of death can be assumed to be 1664 (inheritance dispute) or 1663. According to his work, he was active until 1659.
Caspar Fischer completed his training and examination as a surgeon in Nuremberg . According to his handwriting, he must have worked in Saxony for at least a short time during this period. After that, his place of work was mainly in Krenkingen, where he was also church clerk and bailiff, and for a few years in Zurzach , Switzerland, which had a supra-regional importance as a market place.
Caspar Fischer must have married around 1610 or shortly thereafter, which can only be deduced from the existence of descendants. The children of Caspar Fischer are named at the end of his manuscript in a note on the inheritance dispute. There is no information about the wife of the surgeon Fischer.
Caspar Fischer was reasonably wealthy, had a well-known farm and owned the mill in Krenkingen.
progeny
It is known that Caspar Fischer left five children, three sons and two daughters, when he died.
- Johannes Fischer , resident in Linz, Salzburg and Wels;
- Conrad Fischer , resident in Klosterneuburg / A, later provost in Forbes Monastery, South Bohemia, today Borovany , Czech Republic;
- Caspar Fischer (Jun.), Church clerk and bailiff in Krenkingen and heir to the family estate there;
- Anna Maria Fischer, married to Johann Walter Horn and lives in Tiengen;
- n. Fischer (f), resident a. married in Tiengen.
plant
Caspar Fischer left behind a manuscript, a so-called pharmacopoeia , which on 638 pages provides a comprehensive insight into medicine in the 17th century. offers. The manuscript apparently began when he was studying surgeon in Nuremberg in the form of loose, calligraphic sheets that Fischer had bound together with blank pages in 1617 and supplemented in the course of his life and work. A few individual entries, such as the one on Caspar's (June) 1665 inheritance dispute, were added by later authors until 1745.
structure
At the beginning of his book, Caspar Fischer gives a summary of the chapters (books) and their topics, which then deviates from the actual work written in a calligraphic manner, i.e. written before the binding year 1617.
An evaluation
Artzneÿ Buoch in Vill more beautiful and
Reviewer doctors stoke for the whole
Finding the human body
Uund Jst this Büoch
Divided into six indefatigable books
The first book in it all good anointing and
plaster and what belongs to the Wundartzneÿ that
other books of all kinds of magical damage, like that
may be in humans and Vech, that third
all good blessings that fourth an art
Buoch darinen vil more secretly and valued
Arts can be found that five
a Roßartzneÿ Büchlin, the sixth
a Vechartzneÿ Büchlin
And there are six
Books from me Caspar Füscher out of villas
evaluate written and trucked doctors and
Read art books and the majority
portion of myself tried and in this
Correct order written and placed in a medal
Good register as at the end
Des Buoch's home.
Anno Domini
1617
The first book contains comprehensive information on the medicine of the time, from the surgeon examination, treatment methods and especially medicines and takes up the first thousand pages (including the remaining blank pages), the second book deals with magic, the third. the blessings, the IV. did not materialize, in the V. the horse and in the VI. cattle medicine treated.
swell
- Caspar Fischer's pharmacopoeia, Krenkingen, manuscript from 1617 (year of binding), reproduction of the original and its copy ;
- Church books of the parish of Krenkingen, births / baptisms from 1645, marriage and death register from 1696.
- Church records Tiengen, births / baptisms from 1620, marriage and death records from 1646, some records are older, but very incomplete.
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fischer, Caspar |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Füscher, Caspar; Vüscher, Caspar; Vischer, Caspar |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1590 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | uncertain: Krenkingen |
DATE OF DEATH | around 1663 |
Place of death | uncertain: Krenkingen |