Caspar March (medic, 1619)

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Caspar March , also Kaspar Marche or Marchius (born March 23, 1619 in Penkun , † October 26, 1677 in Berlin ), was a German physician, mathematician and astronomer.

Life

The son of the Penkun pastor and provost Kaspar March and Anna Krüger from Stettin attended the Marienstiftsgymnasium under Lorenz Eichstaedt and studied medicine, mathematics and natural sciences at the universities of Rostock , Greifswald and Leiden from 1638 . In Greifswald he received his doctorate in medicine in 1644 . The following year he became the assistant professor of medicine for Johannes Heune . In 1648 he became a full professor of mathematics and chemistry and an associate professor for philosophy.

In 1655 he went to the University of Rostock as a professor of mathematics and became its rector in 1658 and 1664. In 1665 he was appointed professor of medicine in Kiel. The Brandenburg Elector Friedrich Wilhelm appointed him to Berlin in 1673 as a personal physician . During the Swedish-Brandenburg War he worked as a hospital doctor. On February 19, 1675 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Caspar March had an important reputation as an astronomer in his time. In addition to astronomical studies, he wrote a calendar and published various papers on chemistry and medicine.

Caspar March had been married to Katharina, the daughter of the Greifswald pharmacist Jacob Schmidt (blacksmith), since 1644. Her son Caspar March (physician, 1654) was a professor of medicine in Greifswald.

Fonts (selection)

  • Notes and natural thoughts alongside astrological conjectures of the new star that appeared in the expiring 1652th year in a comet-like manner likeol tunckel and kurtz = ... Meder, Stralsund 1653.
  • Astronomical discourse on solar eclipses. 1654.
  • Prognosticon Astrologicum, or natural guesswork, what a condition in the thunderstorm also other common coincidences in this 1657th year should be concerned with. Meder, Stralsund 1656.
  • Astronomical investigation Derr in this 1661st year in doubtful visible solar and lunar eclipses in the same way a notable covering of Saturni by the moon / together with a short appendix of the Newlich in the end of the month January A. Cal. seen comet star. Wilde, Rostock 1661.
  • Astronomical Discours from the large Conjunctionibus Planetarum ... Johann Keyln, Rostock 1663.

literature

  • Wilhelm Hess :  Marche, Kaspar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 299.
  • Hans Georg Thümmel , Christoph Helwig: History of the Medical Faculty Greifswald: History of the Medical Faculty from 1456 to 1713 by Christoph Helwig DJ and the Dean's Book of the Medical Faculty from 1714 to 1823. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-515-07908 -2 , p. 133.
  • 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. 191 .
  • 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. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 148 ( archive.org ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal, SS 1638, No. 2
  2. ^ Diedrich Hermann Biederstedt : News of the life and writings of neo-Pomeranian-Rügen scholars from the beginning of the eighteenth century up to the year 1822. Vol. 1, Friedrich Wilhelm Kunike, Greifswald 1824, p. 114.
personal data
SURNAME March, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES March, Kaspar; Marchius, Caspar; Marche, Kaspar; March the Elder, Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, mathematician and astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1619
PLACE OF BIRTH Penkun
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1677
Place of death Berlin