Gabriel Clauder

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Gabriel Clauder , latinized Clauderus, (born October 18, 1633 in Altenburg ; † January 9, 1691 ibid) was a German doctor and alchemist .

Life

He was the son of Joseph Clauder , a poet and rector in Altenburg, studied medicine in Jena and Leipzig and was still a student in the Ore Mountains and the baths of Bohemia in 1658, in England and the Netherlands in 1660 and in Italy (especially Padua) in 1661 traveled. On his return he obtained his licentiate in Leipzig in 1661 and received his doctorate in 1662. In the same year he married. Clauder practiced as a doctor in Altenburg and was the personal physician of the Elector of Saxony. He stayed in Altenburg even during the plague of 1682/83.

He published a defense of alchemy against Athanasius Kircher (printed in the Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa ), whereby he did not rely on his own experience, but argued theoretically on the basis of literature. He published medical treatises e.g. B. to gunshot wounds, embalming and u. a. about mirrors, a thermoscope and natural history. As Theseus I , he was a member of the Leopoldina since January 22, 1677 .

Fonts

  • De usu hepatis et bilis, Wittenberg 1653 (digital)
  • Disputatio de philtris, Leipzig 1661 (digital)
  • Dissertatio de Tinctura Universalis, Altenburg 1678 (digital)
  • Methodus balsamandi corpora humana, Altenburg 1679 (digital)
  • De invento cinnabarino, Jena 1683 (digital)

literature

  • John Ferguson: Bibliotheca Chemica, Volume 1, 1907, p. 162
  • 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. 192 .
  • 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. 149 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Research center for personal publications , Academy of Sciences, Mainz. With an autobiographical résumé published by Martin Sagittarius (Altenburg, no year, 1691 or after). According to his curriculum vitae , Clauder died on January 9, 1691 (Julian) "at night around 12 o'clock", that is, around midnight on January 10. The last date is also on the title page of the funeral sermon.
  2. ^ Member entry by Gabriel Clauder at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 25, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Clauder, Gabriel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clauderus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and alchemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1633
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1691
Place of death Altenburg