David Samuel of Madai
David Samuel Madai , since 1766 by Madai , (born January 4, 1709 in Schemnitz , Lower Hungary, † July 2, 1780 in Benkendorf ) was a Hungarian physician and numismatist who worked in Germany.
Life
David Samuel von Madai was the son of the city physician of Schemnitz Daniel Máday. After attending school in Schemnitz and Neusohl , he studied medicine at the University of Halle from 1729 and became a Dr. med. PhD. From 1739 he was chief physician and head of the drug expedition of the orphanage of the Francke Foundations in Halle. He carried the title of Princely Anhalt-Cöthen'scher Hofrath and personal physician . In 1745 he was accepted into the Leopoldina .
Under his leadership the laboratory and the dispatch of medicines expanded considerably. Management later passed to his son Carl August von Madai and then to his grandson Carl von Madai († 1851).
He was the author of various medical writings, but was best known for his coin collection. He had specialized in groschen and thalers . He owned a very rich and valuable collection of these, which was auctioned in Hamburg in 1788 . From 1765 to 1774 he published his collection as a Complete Thaler Cabinet in three volumes and three sequels . The work recorded 7233 numbers; it achieved a high reputation and in 1884 was still an indispensable work .
In 1769 Madai was raised to the nobility. In 1773 Johann August von Ponickau had a medal made with his portrait in honor of Madai . Madai was a member of the Masonic Lodge on the 3 swords .
His grosch collection with over 9,000 pieces was acquired by Friedrich August I (Saxony) for the Dresden Münzkabinett .
In contrast to the information in the ADB, Madai did not die in Halle (Saale) , but on the manor Benkendorf he had bought , where he had a castle built in 1769. He was buried on July 7, 1780 in the church in Holleben .
Works
- Kurtze news of the benefit and use of some tried and tested medicaments, which are being dispensed in the orphanage at Halle im Magdeburg. Fourth edition, Halle: Orphanage, 1746
- Digitized version (also editions in English, French, Greek and Hungarian)
- Complete Thaler cabinet (again considerably increased in two parts), Hartungs Erben and Joh. Daniel Zeise, Königsberg
- First part , 1765 digitized
- Zweyter Theil , 1766 digitized
- Third part , in chronological and genealogical order, 1767 digitized
- First continuation , digitized in 1768
- Second continuation 1769 digitized
- Third continuation 1774 digitized
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Madai, David Samuel von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1867, pp. 233–235 ( digitized version ).
- Theodor Stenzel: Madai, David Samuel von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 28 f.
Estate catalogs
- Catalogus librorum ex universo eruditionis ambitu selectissimarum potissimum medicorum physicorum et ad historiam naturalem spectantium a b. viro perillustri Domino Dav. Sam. de Madai collectorum et auctionis lege Halae… publice divendendorum: adiecta est appendix librorum ex bibliotheca viri quondam perillustris. Halae 1782
- Digitized UB Göttingen
- Directory of the selected thaler collection of David Samuel von Madai which is to be sold to the public on September 15th and the following days of the current 1788th year on the Eimbeckisches home in Hamburg by the broker Pierre Texier. Hamburg 1788
- Digitized ULB Saxony-Anhalt, Halle
Web links
- Publications by and about David Samuel von Madai in VD 18 .
- Entry on David Samuel von Madai in the archive database of the Francke Foundations
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by David Samuel Madai at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2013.
- ↑ See Renate Wilson: Pious Traders in Medicine: A German Pharmaceutical Network in Eighteenth-Century North America. Penn State Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-271-03912-1 (Max Kade German-American Research Institute Series)
- ↑ ADB (lit.).
- ↑ Attila Verók: Samuel von Brukenthal: Freemasonry with a pietistic note. Observations on the lodge in Halle under the patronage of Martin Schmeizel. In: Germanistische Studien VIII (2011), pp. 49–65, here p. 57 full text (PDF; 308 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Madai, David Samuel from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian physician and numismatist working in Germany |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1709 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schemnitz ( Banská Štiavnica ), then Lower Hungary , now Slovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2, 1780 |
| Place of death | Benkendorf |