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Christian Bürger , Latinized Christianus Buergerus , (born January 1, 1621 in Dresden ; † May 23, 1677 ibid) was a German medic. He was the court doctor of the Albertine Wettins in the Saxon residence city of Dresden.

Life

Christian Bürger was the son of the deacon at the Kreuzkirche in Dresden, Friedrich Bürger (1592–1634), but he lost his father at an early age when he was just 13 years old.

In 1641 he was enrolled at the University of Jena , where he still appears as a respondent in 1648.

Under Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony , he was appointed court physician to the Elector of Saxony. Until his death in 1656 he stood by the elector's side as a doctor and did the same for his son and successor, Elector Johann Georg II of Saxony , whom he advised on all medical issues. He also had his own doctor's practice in Dresden, through which he gained a reputation among the population.

Christian Bürger went on several educational trips with medical friends, including the Swiss doctor Johann Jacob Wepfer . He traveled twice from Padua in Italy to Mount Baldus in the Veronese Mountains .

After his death on May 23, the funeral sermon held in his honor was published in print with the curriculum vitae of Samuel Benedict Carpzow, the senior court preacher and church councilor from Dresden at the time. It has 47 pages and was published in the year of death 1677. His solemn burial took place on May 30, 1677 in the old Frauenkirche in Dresden.

Christian Bürger left the three sons Christian, who studied law, Johann Christoph and Gottfried Siegmund Bürger. The latter two were minors when their father died.

literature

  • Christian citizen of heaven / From Philipp. III, 20. 21: Bey of a sizeable corpse burial of [...] Mr. Christiani Bürgers / The Medicin famous Doctoris, Churfl. Pass through to Sachsen Hoch-Wohlbestalten Hoff-Medici, and take Practici alhier / nunmehro seel. , Dresden, 1677.
  • The Roman-Imperial Academy of Natural Scientists selected medical-surgical-anatomical-chemical and botanical treatises , 20th part with copper, Nuremberg, Wolfgang Schwarzkopf, 1771.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/rsc/viewer/jportal_derivate_00242609/UniProg_Matrikel_240149645_1_0098%20.tif?x=-509.0170454545455&y=109.625&scale=0.3010262257696693&rotation =
  2. ↑ The Roman-Imperial Academy of Natural Scientists selected medical-surgical-anatomical-chemical and botanical treatises , 20th part with copper, Nuremberg, Wolfgang Schwarzkopf, 1771, p. 284.
personal data
SURNAME Citizen, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buerger, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and court doctor
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1621
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1677
Place of death Dresden