Christoph Tinctorius

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Christoph Tinctorius (also dyer, painter ; born November 7, 1604 in Drengfurt , † April 13, 1662 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German physician.

Life

Tinctorius came from a Frankish clergy. His grandfather Matthias Tinctorius was a doctor of theology and pastor and superintendent in Kitzingen. Christoph himself was the son of the pastor in Degenfurt Philipp Tinctorius and his wife Ursula, who had been married since 1592, and daughter of the pastor in Friedland / Prussia Erasmus Landenberg. On June 27, 1621 he was enrolled at the University of Königsberg . He had completed philosophical and medical studies there and on April 15, 1632 acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy.

Then he went on an educational trip that took him to the Netherlands , France and England . In June 1635 he had arrived at the University of Basel , where he defended the Disputation De convulsione proprie sic dicta on July 22, 1635 and was then awarded a doctorate in medicine on July 22 . Returned to Königsberg, he was appointed third full professor at the medical faculty in 1635, which office he took on January 12, 1636. In the same year he took over the second full professorship and in 1654 became the first full professor of medicine in Königsberg. Associated with this he was royal Polish and Swedish court physician as well as the electoral Brandenburg council and personal physician.

He was also a member of the Kürbishütte , the East Prussian circle of poets around Simon Dach . As a physician, he stood up against the charlatans in the medical science fields of his time and was primarily involved in the development of medical science. He had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Königsberg University. In the summer semester of 1654 and in the winter semesters of 1637/38, 1641/42, 1645/46, 1649/50 and 1659/60 he was rector of the Alma Mater .

family

Tinctorius was married twice.

His first marriage was on August 11, 1636 with Maria (* August 27, 1612; † August 15, 1652), daughter of the councilor in Kneiphof Christoph Schürlein (November 3, 1565; † January 12, 1628) and Sophia Rösenkirch, who Daughter of the Kneiphof mayor Peter Rösenkirch and his wife Sophia Schultz.

His second marriage was on August 19, 1653 with Regina (born November 15, 1619 - March 16, 1662), daughter of the councilor in Kneiphof Johann Schimmelpfennig and widow of the royal Polish secretary Sigismund Scharf von Werth.

From the first marriage

  • Son Christoph Tinctorius (of 1666)
  • Son Johann Tinctorius (1666 of age)
  • Son Friedrich Tinctorius (March 5, 1640 - June 4, 1640)
  • Son Theodor Tinctorius (August 17, 1643 - March 26, 1645)
  • Daughter Maria Carola Tinctorius (April 21, 1646 - January 30, 1647)
  • Son Reinhold Tinctorius (1666 underage)
  • Son Friedrich Philipp Tinctorius (1666 underage)
  • Daughter Maria Tinctorius (September 15, 1651 - October 3, 1652)
  • Anna Katharina Tinctorius (June 11, 1650 - July 21, 1653)
  • Son Gottfried Tinctorius (born February 27, 1655-September 1664)
  • Luise Tinctorius († 1724) married. With I. Ludwig Schimmelpfennig (see above) II. Baron von Dühren, Colonel; III Joachim Heinrich Truchseß zu Waldburg, Lieutenant General Hauptmann in Angerburg, on Langheim and Condehnen (* April 23, 1649, † March 23, 1718) without children
  • Daughter NN. Tinctorius (lived 1662)

Works (selection)

as Preses
  • Gregorius Janichius: Adiuvante Numine De Natura Febrium Putridarum Universali . Koenigsberg 1637
  • Johann Beckher: De Fabrica & Usu Auris Humanae. Koenigsberg 1639
  • Bernhard Foss: De Calido Innato. Koenigsberg 1640
  • Georg Martini: De Affectu Hypochondriaco. Koenigsberg 1644
  • Henricus Preusmann: De Causis Morborum Genere. Koenigsberg 1645
  • Johann Georg Strasbourg: Decadem Medicamentorum Compositorum Officinalium. Koenigsberg 1648
  • Johann Georg Strasbourg: De affectu illo, qui in Regiomon. Academia in Studiosos communi communis convictorii victu utentes saeviit. Koenigsberg 1649
  • Heinrich Bussenius: De Apoplexia. Koenigsberg 1659
  • Johann Andreas Gruba: De Casum laborantis Febre Cum Angina. Koenigsberg 1653
  • Christoph Lohen: De fiber ephemera .
  • Johann Michaelis: De peripneumonia .
  • Daniel Beckher the Younger: De convulsionibus .
  • Georg Reiche: Disputatio anatomica de fabrica et usu nasi humanae . 1640.
not yet assignable
  • De Febre maligna. Koenigsberg 1641.
  • De medicamento universali sive Chymicorum Panacea. Koenigsberg 1661.
  • De Artritide .
  • De epilepsia .
  • De fiber putrida .
  • De naso .
  • De affectu ischiadico .
  • De natura tempamenti .
  • De tertiana intermittente cum insultibus epilepticis periodicis .

literature

  • Johann Roehling: Wolver deserves honor memory of Christophorus Tinctorius . Reusner, Koenigsberg 1662.
  • Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, Part 2, pp. 303, 310
  • Hanspeter Marti, Manfred Komorowski: The University of Königsberg in the early modern period. Verlag Böhlau, Cologne, 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20171-5 ,
  • Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert : Old Prussian Monthly / New Series , Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr., 1887 pp. 136, 256, 266
  • Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of a Prussian literary history in four books. Hartung Verlag, Königsberg, 1886, p. 204
  • Johannes Gallandi : Königsberg councilors. In .: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian Monthly / New Series Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr. 1883, p. 611
  • Tinctorius, Christoph. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 44, Leipzig 1745, column 249 f.
  • Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon . 1751, Vol. 4, Col. 1215.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He was born in Worms, studied at the University of Heidelberg in 1548, became a school clerk in Eggenburg near Graz, 1564 pastor in Oppenheim (Hesse), 1566 as pastor in Lohr a. M., October 22, 1571 pastor and superintendent in Schweinfurt, appointed in 1572, acquired a doctorate in theology in Tübingen on July 28, 1574, was given leave of absence there in 1576 and was then pastor in Kitzingen, † January 26, 1588 (Matthias Simon: Ansbachisches Pfarrerbuch, 1959; Zedler Vol. 44, p. 138)
  2. ↑ 1632 traceable at the University of Leiden

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personal data
SURNAME Tinctorius, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Färber, Christoph; Painter, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1604
PLACE OF BIRTH Drengfurt
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1662
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)