Elias Schmidt
Elias Schmidt (born July 19, 1630 in Burghaslach ; † February 27, 1690 ) was a German physician and city physician in Schweinfurt .
Live and act
Elias Schmidt, son of pastor Nicolaus Schmidt and his wife Barbara, née Martin, was brought up by his guardian Johann Philipp Sachs, a surgeon in Schweinfurt, after the death of his father in 1637 . After attending Latin school and grammar school , Schmidt studied medicine at the University of Leipzig from 1653 to 1658 . After a ten-month study trip to Italy , he finished his studies with a doctorate on March 14, 1659 in Padua and then settled in Schweinfurt. On September 5, 1661 Schmidt was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 20 ) in the Academia Naturae Curiosorum , today's Leopoldina , with the academic surname Phaeton I. After the death of the incumbent city physician Johann Lorenz Bausch in 1665, Schmidt was appointed the new city physician together with Johann Michael Fehr . In 1670 he was elected to the city council of Schweinfurt.
Schmidt plays an important role for the Bausch Library , the scholarly library started by Leonhard Bausch and continued by his son Johann Lorenz Bausch. In his will of December 9, 1643, Johann Lorenz Bausch decreed that the library should be bequeathed to his brother, the pharmacist Johann Heinrich Bausch , and his heirs, on condition that it remain in the possession of a doctor.
“Like my entire library, as recorded by me with my own hand in an existing catalog; but this in such a way where God would study a little son, so medicinam, or give his dear little daughter a medicum for marriage according to the experienced manly age. In the worst case, however, such a library EE rhas here common place for the best, should be laid and provided: in all cases, however, none of it should be distracted but should be left together. "
With the marriage of Elias Schmidt to the daughter of Johann Heinrich Bausch, Margaretha Barbara (1641–1689), on June 21, 1659 this condition was met. Schmidt bequeathed the library to his son Johann Heinrich Schmidt , who also became a doctor and member of the Leopoldina. The physician Johann Christoph Schmidt was his grandson.
literature
- Uwe Müller : The library of the founder of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum (Leopoldina) Johann Laurentius Bausch (1605–1665) . History, inventory, comparison with the library of the Schweinfurt lawyer and bibliophile Anton Rüffer (1571–1634). In: Menso Folkerts , Ilse Jahn and Uwe Müller (eds.): The Bausch Library in Schweinfurt . Science and books in the early modern period (= Menso Folkerts [Hrsg.]: Acta Historica Leopoldina . No. 31 ). German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) 2000, ISBN 3-8304-5086-9 , p. 14-38 .
- Uwe Müller: The Bausch Library in Schweinfurt . History, reconstruction, holdings of an early modern medical library. In: Bavarian Library Forum . tape 33 , 2005, pp. 14-30 .
- Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 189 .
- 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. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 147 ( archive.org ).
Web links
- Member entry by Elias Schmidt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 1, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Elias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1630 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burghaslach |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1690 |