Eusebius Schenck

Eusebius Schenck

Eusebius Schenck also called: von Burgstadt (born April 11, 1569 in Chrobold , † October 28, 1628 in Jena ) was a Bohemian physician.

Life

Eusebius Schenck was the son of pastor Petrus Schenck and his wife Rebecca Gesner, daughter of the Zwickau city ​​judge Ambrosius Gesner. In 1570 he came to Annaberg , where he attended school until he was 12. In 1580 he moved to the council school in Zwickau, which was under the direction of Rector Paul Obermeier († December 2, 1589). In March 1590 he moved to the University of Jena , where he completed philosophical and medical studies, including with Johannes von Schröter and Zacharias Brendel the Elder . In 1596 he received a position as a grammar school professor and vice rector in Graz . From there he undertook study trips to Italy in 1599 and 1602, which took him to Padua (1599), Venice, Florence and Genoa, among others . He resigned his office in Graz in 1604 and returned to Saxony. On December 10, 1604 he received his doctorate in medicine under Johann Friedrich Schröter in Jena . He then worked as a general practitioner in Zwickau.

In 1609 he took over a court doctor and municipal syndicate in Gera . In 1618 he moved to the University of Jena as a professor of anatomy, surgery and botany. Here he also participated in the organizational tasks of the Salana. He was dean of the medical faculty several times and in the winter semesters 1620 and 1626 rector of the alma mater . In October 1628 he died of a heart attack on January 17, 1628. His body was buried in the Jena Collegiate Church, where an epitaph was erected for him . The bombing raid on Jena in February 1945 destroyed it.

Schenck married on October 28, 1606 in Chemnitz with Ursula Regina Neefe (born October 10, 1585 in Chemnitz, † August 14, 1622 in Jena), the daughter of the city judge and trader Zacharias Neefe (born February 24, 1551 in Chemnitz; † May 3, 1595 ibid) and his wife Regina Usswald (born July 25, 1560 in Chemnitz; welcomed June 9, 1623 ibid.). There are children from the marriage. From these one knows the professor of medicine in Jena Johann Theodor Schenck , the daughter Anna Magdalena Schenck († 1637 in Zerbst), who with the Zerbst city physicist Dr. med. Nathan Voigt (Voit) married, and the daughter Regina Schenck (born March 17, 1608 in Zwickau; † May 8, 1655 in Jena), who married Dr. jur. Jacob Fomann († February 17, 1637 in Jena), the son of Jena professor Ortolph Fomann , married and in his second marriage on June 19, 1643 the lawyer Dr. jur. Hieronymus Mühlpfort married.

Works (selection)

• Peri Ouranou dialexis philosophike. Jena 1592 (present Ambrosius Chemnitz, online )
• De Convulsione Themata Medica. Jena 1604 (present Johannes Friedrich Schröter, online )
• Disputatio Medica Inauguralis De pleuritide. Jena 1619 (Resp.Johann Mercker, online )
• Disputatio Inauguralis Medica. De Apoplexia. Jena, 1626 (Resp. Balthasar Glaß (1596–1666), online )

literature

• Johann Caspar Zeumer, Christoph Weissenborn: Vitae Professorum Theologiae, Jurisprudentiae, Medicinae et Philosophiae qui in illustri Academia Jenensi, ab ipsius fundatione ad nostra usque tempora vixerunt et adhuc vivunt una cum scriptis a quolibet editis quatuor classibus. Johann Felici Bieleck, Jena, 1711, p. 29, (medical professionals, online )
• Schenckius (Eusebius). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 34, Leipzig 1742, column 1271.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , Leipzig, 1751, Vol. 4, Sp. 241, ( online )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ This is handed down to Caspar Sagittarius: Momenta Historica et Monumenta Templi Ienensis Academici. Georg Christian Tröber, Jena, 1720, p. 19, ( online )