Ernestus Hettenbach

Ernestus Hettenbach

Ernestus Hettenbach (also Ernst Hettenbach ; born February 2, 1552 in Mergentheim , † October 2, 1616 in Wittenberg ) was a German physicist and doctor .

Life

Ernestus was born in Mergentheim, Franconia, as the son of the Count's Hohenlohe secretary Balthasar Hettenbach and his wife Anna. Plöchinger († March 23, 1580 in Wittenberg) born. Barely three years old, he lost his father at an early age. Thereupon his mother went with the family to Wittenberg , where she had found a position as a schoolmaster at the Jungfrauenschule. She urged young Ernestus to do his exercises at the Wittenberg city school. So Ernestus was able to matriculate together with his brothers Georg and Michael on October 2, 1562 at the University of Wittenberg . Since the mother only had 20 guilders (21 groschen each ), a silver shock (= 60 groschen), 2 groschen quarterly allowance from each student, 12 bushels of grain, 15 ß cocks and 15 ß zippers as well as free accommodation in annual income, it was her permits her three sons Georg, Michael and Ernestus to enroll for only one groschen for all three children instead of the normal four groschen registration fee per person. Ernestus, who was supported by Andreas Schato , acquired the academic degree of Magister at the philosophical faculty in 1576 and in the same year initially found a job as a schoolmaster. He then married Maria Bennewitz on November 24, 1578.

Excerpt from the funeral sermon : “He, the almighty, has blessed yhn with a most desirable marital status in which, in 1578, on November 24th, with the honorable and virtuous virgin Maria, Mr. Bennewitz electoral Saxon magistrate, he went to Wurtzen's legitimate daughter 50th year lived in good peace ... "

After he had worked as a janitor in 1585, he received a scholarship in 1586 at the medical faculty of the university, where, after the graduation to the doctor of philosophy on April 20, 1591 as a doctor of medicine on the subject scurvy doctorate. After his sponsor, Schato, moved to the medical faculty in 1592, Hettenbach was given his professorship in physics, which he only held briefly. When the medical professor Salomon Alberti went to the electoral court as personal physician in 1593, Hettenbach moved up to the third medical professorship at the medical faculty. After the death of Franziskus Faber he occupied the second medical professorship and after the death of his sponsor Schato moved to his first professorship and was thus the senior of the faculty.

During his medical university activities , he took part in the first scientifically documented caesarean section in medical history on April 21, 1610 . The surgeon Jeremias Trautmann , assisted by a second surgeon Christoph Seesth, performed this on a woman who was already in labor. Under the eyes of Daniel Sennert , who documented this process, Tobias Tandler , Hettenbach, the archdeacon of the Wittenberg city church Magister Heinrich Silbermann , two midwives and other honorable women, this operation was carried out at eight o'clock in the morning. After the caesarean section, Hettenbach and Sennert took over the sponsorship of the child.

Hettenbach also wrote works on catarrh , pain in gout and also on the inadequate treatment of syphilis .

Hettenbach also took part in the university's organizational tasks. After he had been dean of the medical and philosophical faculty several times, he took over the rectorate of the university in the winter semesters 1595 and 1609 as well as the equivalent pro-rectorate in the winter semesters 1601, 1603 and 1615.

In September 1616 he resigned from university for health reasons and died on October 2, 1616. His contemporaries particularly praised his indefatigability to work and his love of peace and tolerance. On October 6th he was buried in the Wittenberg Castle Church, where Friedrich Balduin gave him the funeral sermon, which also appeared in print. In his honor an epitaph was erected , which is in a badly weathered condition on the outside of the castle church. The text on the epitaph reads:

CHRISTO Redemptori SACRUM ERNESTUS HETTENBACH MERGETHUMENIAE FRANCO RUM MI LII VI NON FEBRUARII NATUS Medicinae DOCTOR PER ANNOS XXVII ET PROFESSOR PUBLICUS Facultatis ET ACADE- MiÄ SENIOR OVI NON OCTOBRIS HORA VE SPER XI: PIE IN DOMINO OBDORMIVIT: ANNO VIII Marito AC PARTI BENE merto CON - JVX ET LIBERI SVPERSTITES MONUMENTUM HOC P. C.

Underneath are the coats of arms of Ernst Hettenbach and his wife.

family

The father was Balthasar Hettenbach, born probably around 1508 in Sulzfeld, died 1555, secretary to the Count of Hohenlohe; the mother was Anna Hettenbach (née Plöchinger), presumably in Wittenberg.

From the marriage on November 24, 1578 with the schoolmaster of the Jungfrauenschule in Wittenberg Maria (born January 20, 1555 in Wurzen, † February 17, 1634 in Wittenberg), daughter of the Stiftsmeißner magistrate Matern Bennewitz (also Apianus) from Wurzen and his wife Maria von Gewisch, there were twelve children. In the funeral sermon it was said: "... and by God's blessing 12 children begotten, nine sons and three daughters, among whom 4 sons and 2 daughters are still alive ..."

Are known (according to baptism dates):

1. Johann Ernst, (* November 20, 1579 in Wittenberg;)
2. Maria (* December 10, 1580 in Wittenberg, † January 17, 1581 in Wittenberg)
3. Balthasar (born June 5, 1582 in Wittenberg, UWB licentiate in medicine on February 25, 1614, July 19, 1614 Dr. med.) Went to Pirna.
4. Kaspar (born November 17, 1584 in Wittenberg)
5. Johann (born October 23, 1585 in Wittenberg, immat. WB October 18, 1595) lawyer and mayor in Lucka
6. Anna (born November 1, 1588 in Wittenberg) married Nikolaus Hunnius in 1612
7. Ernst (born March 4, 1590 in Wittenberg, † May 3, 1624 in Stettin) immat. UWB October 18, 1595, November 4, 1612 Adjunct of the phil. Faculty, April 15, 1617 ord., 1617 Pastor St. Nicolai Stettin, m. 1617 Barbara Sachtleben, To. d. Szczecin Mayor Balthasar, widow of the Rev. St. Nicolai Stettin Friedrich Faber (* ± 1586; † August 1, 1616 in Settin)
8. Georg (* 1593, immat. UWB October 18, 1595 in Wittenberg; March 4, 1572 Magister phil., † June 17, 1634 in Wittenberg) advocate of the Saxon court in Wittenberg. His daughter Anna Maria (born June 5, 1625 in Wittenberg; † June 7, 1691) married Caspar Leyser . From this marriage came Sabina Dorothea Leyser, who married Franz Heinrich Höltich , and after his death Christian Donati .
9. Christoph (born December 5, 1593 in Wittenberg, immat. UWB October 18, 1595)
10. Sabina (born September 3, 1595 in Wittenberg; † December 7, 1642 in Danzig) married May 11, 1618 in the Augustinian monastery in Wittenberg with Wolfgang Franz , second marriage in February 1631 to Dr. Theol. Johann Botsack (born June 11, 1600 in Herford, † September 15, 1674 in Danzig), rector of the grammar school in Danzig, pastor of St. Elisabeth
11. Caspar Magnus (born February 20, 1598 in Wittenberg, immat. UWB October 17, 1601 † January 10, 1616)

Works

• De Scorbuto Dommentatio… , Wittenberg 1591
• Theses Medicae. De Locorum affectorum, secundum Galenum, notitia
• Theses Medicae De Paralysi , Wittenberg 1615
• Theses Medicae De Cordis Ventriculi Mordente Dolore: Et Colica Passione , Wittenberg 1610
• Disputatio De Aphorismo 22. Sectionis 1. Hippocratis occasionem tempus utilis purgationis & docente , Wittenberg 1609
• Rector Academiae Witebergensis, Ernestus Hettenbachius, Medicinae D. Et Professor Publicus. SD , Wittenberg 1609
• De Podagra, Et Quae Huic Affinis Est Cheiragra , Wittenberg 1605
• De Catarrho, De Sanguinis Per Tussim reiectione, De Asthmate, De Dysenteria, Wittenberg 1601

literature

• Ottomar Wachs: The Wittenberg Caesarean section from 1610 . Leipzig 1868, p. 5
• Album Academiae Vitenbergensis - Volume Secundum . Hall 1894
• Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis. Younger Series Part 1 (1602–1660) . Magdeburg 1934
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg . Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
• Theodor Wotschke: From Wittenberg church registers . In: Archive for Reformation History (ARG) . No. 115/116, XXIX. Volume 3–4
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . Volume 2, R 1894
• Hans Theodor Koch: The Wittenberg Medical Faculty (1502–1652). A biobibliographical overview . In: Stefan Oehmig: Medicine and social affairs in Central Germany during the Reformation . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02437-7

Web links

Commons : Ernestus Hettenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Publications by and about Ernestus Hettenbach im VD 17 .