Christoph Schelhammer

Christoph Schelhammer (born April 15, 1620 in Hamburg , † June 28, 1651 in Weimar ) was a German medic.

Life

Christoph was the son of the teacher at the Johanneum Johann Christoph Schelhammer (* 1574 in Hamburg; † 23 October 1637 ibid.) And his wife Magaretha Rolfinck, the daughter of the rector at the Johanneum Werner Rolfinck (* around 1540 Münster / Westphalia; † 3. October 1590 in Hamburg). After visiting the Johanneum with Joachim Jungius , he moved to the University of Jena at the age of seventeen to study medicine. Here he was taught mainly by his relative Werner Rolfinck . In 1641 he completed an educational trip that took him to Belgium, England, France and Italy.

In 1643 he came to the University of Basel , where he received his doctorate in medicine on July 13 of that year. He then returned to Jena, where he was promoted to Professor of Anatomy and Surgery on August 21, 1643. During his father's visit, Schelhammer, suffering from hypochondria, died in Weimar. In addition, he participated in the organizational tasks of the university. He was dean of the medical faculty three times and was rector of the alma mater in the summer semesters 1644 and 1650 .

Schelhammer married on May 30, 1648 in Jena with Katharina Elisabeth Plathner (born February 27, 1626 in Langensalza; † March 11, 1671 in Jena), the daughter of Hofrat Günther Heinrich Plathner (born February 22, 1592 in Sondershausen; † 2 May 1657) and his wife Martha Hertzog (born December 13, 1596 in Thamsbrück; † November 9, 1653 in Weimar). The later Helmstadt, Jena and Kiel professor Günther Christoph Schelhammer comes from the marriage . After his death on July 12, 1653, his widow entered into a new marriage with the theologian Johann Ernst Gerhard the Elder .

Works (selection)

• Diss. De modo considerandi pbysico, praeside Jungio. Hamburg 1637
• Ophthalmographia et opsioseopia, praeside Paulo Marq. Slegelio proposita. Jena 1640
• Diss. Inaug. de ictero. Basel 1643
• Disp. de convulslone, per loco in Collegio medico d. Sept. 8 habita. Jena 1643
• Disp. de variolis et morbillis. Jena 1643
• Disp. physiologica de spiritibus. Jena 1644
• Disp. de febri ardente, respondente Chr. Bunckio Hamburgensi. Jena 1645
• Disp. de incubo. Jena 1646
• Disp. de peripneumonia. Jena 1647
• Disp. de angina. Jena 1647
• Disp. de paralysi. Jena 1649

literature

• Schlhammer (Christoph). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 34, Leipzig 1742, column 1177 f.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher * General Scholarly Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , Leipzig, 1751, Vol. 4, Sp 240
• Hans Schröder; Carl Rudolph Wilhelm Klose: Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. W. Maucke, Hamburg, 1873, vol. 6 (Pauli-Schoff), p. 501
• August Hirsch , Ernst Gurlt: Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Vienna / Leipzig, 1887, vol. 5, p. 214