Daniel Nebel (medical doctor)

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Daniel Nebel

Daniel Nebel (born September 24, 1664 in Heidelberg , † March 15, 1733 in Mannheim ) was a German physician, pharmacist and botanist and court physician from the Palatinate.

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Daniel Nebel was the son of the Palatinate court pharmacist Conrad Daniel Nebel (1632–1672) and Susanne Dorothea Vorst (around 1643–1667) and the great-grandson of the legal scholar Daniel Nebel , the progenitor of the Nebel family in Heidelberg. After leaving school, he began a pharmaceutical apprenticeship in Mannheim in 1680 and went to the University of Marburg a year later , where he passed a master’s examination in 1683. He then began studying medicine at the University of Heidelberg , graduating in 1686 with an exam and a doctorate .

After a long study trip through Switzerland and within France, Nebel took over an extraordinary professorship for medicine at the University of Heidelberg from 1688 to 1793 and also the office of city ​​physician . Due to the threat posed by Louis XIV's troops in the Palatinate War of Succession (1688–1697), the university was closed. In the course of this, Nebel, together with Johann Ludwig Fabricius, transferred the archive of the University of Heidelberg via the stations in Hanau and Frankfurt am Main to the University of Marburg. There Nebel was initially taken on as an unscheduled and from 1695 as a full professor of medicine and in 1706 appointed professor primary professor at the medical faculty. Nebel was responsible for the teaching areas of anatomy, surgery, botany, pathology and occasionally physiology. At the same time, the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel , Karl von Hessen , appointed him to be his personal physician .

In Marburg, Nebel took over the office of dean of the medical faculty in 1696, 1698, 1700, 1702, 1704, 1706 and 1707 and was elected rector of the university in 1697 and 1705.

In 1707, Nebel was again appointed first professor of the medical faculty at the rebuilt University of Heidelberg. A year later he took up this position and was also accepted into the university's senate. In addition, he was appointed hospital medic at the Sapienzkolleg in Heidelberg and at the Handschuhsheim orphanage as well as court pharmacist and court medic in the Palatinate. In addition, Nebel took over the office of dean of the medical faculty every two years between 1708 and 1727 and was elected rector of the university in 1710, 1714 and 1726. From 1728 Nebel resigned his university duties and worked exclusively as a personal physician for Elector Karl Philipp and was also appointed to the Privy Council.

Nebel earned a great deal of credit for Heidelberg's botanical garden , which he laid out in 1708 after the destruction caused by the War of Succession and whose extensive plant collection formed the basis for further development.

For his services to science, Nebel was accepted as a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences and in June 1687 ( matriculation no. 155 ) with the nickname Achilles II in the Leopoldina .

family

Daniel Nebel was married to Loysa Sara Catharina de Spina (1678–1742), a daughter of the Heidelberg legal scholar Johannes de Spina, and had a daughter and son Wilhelm Bernhard Nebel with her . This and later his son Daniel Wilhelm Nebel also became recognized physicians and rectors of the University of Heidelberg.

In 1709, after the destruction in Heidelberg, Nebel and his brother-in-law Carl Ernst de Spina built a new prestigious residential building for himself and his family at Heidelberg Heiliggeiststrasse 7–7a, later known as the “Palais Nebel”. In the coat of arms stone from the previous building on the market square, he had the following two initials engraved next to his family coat of arms: CDN 16 for his father Conrad Daniel Nebel in the 16th century in memory of his formerly destroyed court pharmacy and DN1710 for Daniel Nebel and the year the house was completed .

Writings / works (selection)

  • De novis inventis botanicis hujus saeculi . Marburg 1694
  • Character plantarum naturalis . Frankfurt / M. 1700
  • with Ludwig Christian Mieg : Monumenta pietatis et literaria virorum in re publica et literaria illustrium selecta . Frankfurt / M. 1701
  • De balsam cobayba . Heidelberg 1710
  • De medicamentis chalybeatis eorumque virtute contraria . Heidelberg 1711
  • De methodi medendi proportionibus mechanicis . Heidelberg 1712
  • De fetus extractione ex utero . Heidelberg 1713
  • De apoplexia . Heidelberg 1724
  • De respiratione impedita . Heidelberg 1725

literature

  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberg Scholar Lexicon ; Volume 1, 1652-1802 ; Heidelberg 1986, pp. 113/114
  • Wilhelm Doerr : Semper Apertus. Six hundred years of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 1386 to 1986 , Springer Verlag 2013, volume 1 digitized
  • Georg Ludwig Menzer: Tribal history of the Nebel family . Gluing 1937
  • University of Heidelberg (ed.): A Heidelberg dynasty spanning 200 years. Alumni families have taught at Ruperto Carola for several generations ; on Daniel Nebel p. 49, in: HAIlife, Heidelberg Alumni International , Magazin 2016, p. 48/49. Online: Eine Heidelberg Dynasty , accessed on December 29, 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 197 (archive.org) }
  2. ^ 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. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 151 ( archive.org ).
  3. ↑ Portrait of Heilig-Geist-Strasse No. 7
  4. ↑ Heidelberg in the Baroque - Palais Nebel
personal data
SURNAME Nebel, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, pharmacist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1664
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1733
Place of death Mannheim