Georg Balthasar Wohlfahrt
Georg Balthasar Wohlfahrt (born June 11, 1607 in Schweinfurt ; † January 31, 1674 ibid) was a German doctor and co-founder of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum , later the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .
Life
His father Georg was a Protestant refugee from Styria and a surgeon, later councilor of Schweinfurt, his mother was the daughter of a steel and retail trader in Schleiz . After the mother's death in 1610, the father remarried in 1611. His new wife Dorothea was the widowed daughter of the Schweinfurt mayor Johann Fischer. Wohlfahrt received private tuition and was introduced to medicine by his father. He also went to Kitzingen to become a pharmacist and then studied medicine in Altdorf (with Caspar Hofmann), Strasbourg and Basel from 1629 , which was followed by a trip to Switzerland and Italy. After receiving his doctorate in Altdorf in 1634, he returned to Schweinfurt at the urgent request of his father. He also married in Schweinfurt in 1634 (the marriage remained childless, his wife died in 1673). Then he was a general practitioner in Schweinfurt.
With the doctors Johann Michael Fehr , Georg Balthasar Metzger and Johann Lorenz Bausch, Wohlfahrt was one of the founders of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum in Schweinfurt on January 1, 1652 ( matriculation no. 4 ) with the nickname Alceus .
His sister Ursula was married to Wilhelm Barger, the principal of the Schweinfurt Latin School.
literature
- Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 463 digitized
- Caspar Heunisch: Fasciculus myrrhae . Wolf Eberhard Felsecker, Nuremberg 1674 Google Books
- 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. 188 .
Web links
- Biography on the part of the city of Schweinfurt after Friedrich Gademann
- Member Post by Georg Balthasar Wohlfarth at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed October 13, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wohlfahrt, Georg Balthasar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1607 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schweinfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1674 |
| Place of death | Schweinfurt |