Daniel Christoph Beckher

Daniel Christoph Beckher (also: Becker ; * February 10, 1658 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † April 12, 1691 ibid) was a German physician.

Life

The son of Daniel Beckher the Younger had already developed good dispositions in childhood, so that the parents decided to let him study. Before that he had received private lessons from the later professor of poetry Conrad Vogt (1634-1691) and attended the cathedral school in Königsberg. In 1674 he moved to the University of Königsberg and was able to complete an extensive course of studies thanks to financial support from family members. In 1675 he traveled to the University of Rostock via Lübeck . Here he had attended the lectures of Johann Mantzel , had geography, logic and ethics with Georg Thegen , physics and metaphysics with Jacob Hieronymus Lochner (1649–1700), astronomy with Hermann Becker (1632–1681) and the lectures on dialectics with Johann Quandt (1651–1718), under whom he also disputed de motu in vacuo , visited.

In 1676 he continued his studies at the University of Leipzig with Valentin Alberti , Jakob Thomasius and Daniel Hasenmüller (1651–1691). In 1678 he expanded his knowledge of logic, physics, morality, history and theology at the University of Jena . Here Friedemann Bechmann (1628–1703), Erhard Weigel (1625–1699), Valentin Velthem (1645–1700) and Johann Abraham Jacob Höping, the author of a Chiromantia Harmonica , were his teachers, among whom he received the academic degree of a master’s degree in 1680 of the philosophical sciences. Traveling via Berlin and Hamburg, he made a cavalier journey that took him to the Netherlands and England.

Back in his homeland, he decided to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather Daniel Beckher the Elder and study medical science. To this end, he went again shortly to Jena in 1682, in order to subsequently study at the University of Leipzig with Johannes Bohn , at the University of Wittenberg with Michael Sennert and in Frankfurt am Main with Johann Daniel Horst (1616–1685) and Sebastian Scheffer (1631– 1686) to be completed. Soon he had acquired the skills necessary to pursue a degree in medicine.

However, he wanted to look at other locations. To do this, he traveled to the University of Utrecht via Mainz, Schwalbach, Cologne and Wesel . In the Netherlands he had also used the opportunity to look at the botanical garden in Amsterdam, which was under the direction of Frederik Ruysch (1638–1731) and to be instructed in anatomy by him. He had also taken a trip to the University of Leiden , was in The Hague and had made the acquaintance of the famous naturalist and doctor Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) in Delft . In Utrecht he disputed de respiratione on April 20, 1684 and was then awarded a doctorate in medicine.

He then went to Paris, where he visited the surgeons, anatomists and chemists there. He had also attended the meetings of the French scholars. Then he traveled through several French and Italian places and arrived in Berlin. Here he was appointed associate professor at the medical faculty of the University of Königsberg. Thereupon he took up the professorship on March 19, 1686 with the dissertation de salubri potu calidae et pro loco professionis extraord. on.

On September 9, 1687, he married Louise, daughter of the electoral council and Tribul secretary Johann Ernst Biedermann. The birth of a daughter Maria Loysa (born May 29, 1688) had increased the happiness of the young family. However, the joy should not be long for him. Like his grandfather, he became a victim of his profession. A fatal illness had seized him, which on April 7, 1691 threw him on the sickbed. In order not to worry his family members, he refrained from using appropriate medication and died at the young age of 33.

Works

• Disp. de motu in vacuo. 1675
• Disp. de med. inauguralis do respiratione. Utrecht 1684 (July 10th)
• Disp. de salubri potu calidae. Königsberg 1686. (March 19th per recept. In facult med.)
• Diss. Med. de hemiplexia. Königsberg 1686. (3rd Oct per loco Prof, extr.)
• Diss. De fabuli potu calidae.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Daniel Christoph Beckher's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ Joh. Abraham Jacob Höping: Chiromantia harmonica, that is: Agreement of the chiromantiae or lines in the hands, with the physiognomia or lines on the forehead. Jena 1689

literature

• August Hirsch : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. (BÄL) Urban and Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, Vol. 1, p. 356
• Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon. 1750, 1st vol., Col. 902
• Carl Beckherrn: Genealogy of the Beckherrn family along with biographical information about the same. A contribution to the knowledge of the Königsberg city families. In: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly new series. Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr., 1884, 261 f
• J. Gallandi: Königsberg councilors. In .: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly new series. Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr. 1883, p. 32
• Becker or Beckher, Daniel Christoph. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Supplement 3, Leipzig 1752, column 407.