David Grebner

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David Grebner (also Gräbner ; * 1655 in Breslau ; † January 21, 1737 there ) was a German doctor .

Life

David Grebner received his early training in Breslau and studied medicine in Königsberg for five years from 1674 . For his further education he undertook a trip through Holland , England , France and Italy from 1679 , after which he acquired the medical doctorate at the University of Padua . Then he returned to his homeland to settle here as a general practitioner.

Grebner stayed only a short time in Fraustadt on the Silesian border, where he had been appointed physicist, as he preferred to take his permanent residence in Breslau, where he expected higher income opportunities for his medical profession. This assumption turned out to be justified. He was also able to gain the favor of Emperor Leopold I through the discovery of some rare coins , who accepted him among his court doctors and raised him to the Bohemian nobility. In 1737 he died of a stick river in Breslau at the age of 81.

As a medical writer, Grebner made himself known through his history of the infectious diseases prevailing in Wroclaw in 1699 and in the following years ( Historia morborum, qui annis 1699 et sequentibus Vratislaviae grassatis sunt , Wroclaw and Leiden 1706 and 1710). A treatise on medical experience is also attached to this work. Grebner also wrote a meteorological diary kept in Breslau ( Diarium meteorologicum Vratislaviense from 1692, usque ad annum 1700 , Breslau 1703). Smaller treatises from the subjects of philology , physics and medicine can be found in his Tractatus philologico-physico-medici septem (Breslau 1707). His apology of the ancient medical science ( Medicina vetus restituta, sive paragraphe hippocratico-galenica in Theodori Craanen tractatum physico-medicum de homine , Leipzig 1695) was soon forgotten.

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personal data
SURNAME Grebner, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1655
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1737
Place of death Wroclaw