Georg Franck of Franckenau

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Georg Franck of Franckenau

Georg Franck von Franckenau (also Georgius Francus and Georg Frank ; born May 3, 1644 in Naumburg (Saale) , † June 16, 1704 in Copenhagen ) was a German medic and botanist . He is the father of Georg Friedrich Franck von Franckenau .

Life

Georg's ancestors were of noble descent. His father Sebastian Franck von Franckenau, however, lived in a middle-class family and participated as a church elder in the community life in Naumburg. His wife and Georg's mother was Barbara Winecke, who also came from respected citizenship. Georg had completed his school education in his hometown and in Merseburg . At the age of eighteen he enrolled in the summer semester of 1662 at the University of Jena , where he shone with his skill and earned the crown of poets . Here he initially completed philosophical language studies and later turned to medicine. After a few years he moved to the University of Strasbourg , where he obtained his medical doctorate in 1666. In 1671 Franck accepted a call to Heidelberg University , where he worked as a professor and personal physician to Electors Karl Ludwig (1617–1680) and Karl (1651–1685).

Here he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was dean of the medical faculty several times, rector in 1678 and vice-rector in 1686. Due to the War of the Palatinate Succession , he left Heidelberg in 1688 and moved to Frankfurt. Here in 1689 he was appointed professor of medicine at the University of Wittenberg . In Wittenberg he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the alma mater in the winter semester of 1691 . After accompanying the Saxon Elector on his imperial campaign to France in 1693 and rejecting several offers to other courts, in 1694 he accepted an appointment as personal physician to the family of the Danish King Christian V. After arriving in Denmark in 1695, he was appointed court and judiciary and was also the personal physician of the successor to King Friedrich V.

In 1692 he was ennobled by Emperor Leopold I ; on November 30, 1693 he was accepted as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society . Since August 15, 1672 he was surnamed Argus I. the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina on.

In a treatise entitled "De ovis paschalibus" published in 1682 under the name of his doctoral student Johannes Richier from Frankfurt am Main, Franck mentions for the first time the popular belief in the Easter bunny, which was spreading in the Protestant regions of Alsace and the Palatinate .

Publications

  • Institutionum medicarum synopsis ac methodus discendi medicinam, quam primis praelectionibus delineavit; item Delineatio communis dosium medicamentorum. Heidelberg 1672.
  • with Georg Wicken: Disputatio medica De alapis sive colaphis, of clasps and slaps. Johann Christian Walter, Heidelberg 1674 ( digitized version ); New edition Hendel, Hall 1743 ( digitized version ).
  • Lexicon vegetabilium usualium, in quo plantarum, quarum usus usque innotuit, nomen cum synonymis latinis, graecis, germanicis, et interdum arabicis, temperamentum, vires ac usus generalis et specialis, atque praeparata ex optimis quibusque aoiibus in usum medicinaeios acorum breuctiter studios, pharmacopoeae sed perspective proponuntur. Strasbourg 1672 (was reissued as Flora Francica. Heidelberg 1685, Leipzig 1698, Strasbourg 1705 and received a German translation from Christoph Hellwig in 1714, also Jena 1753, Züllichau 1766).
  • Tractatus philologico-medicus de cornutis, in quo varia curiosa delibantur ex theologorum, jurisconsultorum, medicorum, philosophorum, politicorun atque philologorum monumentis. Heidelberg 1678.
  • Bibliotheca parva zootomica. Heidelberg 1680.
  • Agonismata physico-medica undecim de medicamentotrum simplicium laudibus. Heidelberg 1681.
  • De Ovis Paschalibus. From Oster-Eyern (= Satyrae medicae, Continuatio 18). Heidelberg 1682 (dissertation by Johannes Richier).
  • De palingenesia sive resuscitatione artificiali plantarum, hominum et animalium e suis cineribus, liber siugularis, jam revisus, emendatus, nec non commentario et variorum suisque experimentis quanmplurimis illustratus a Joanne Christiano Nehringio. Hall 1717.
  • Satyrae medicae XX. Quibus accedunt dissertationes VI. varii simulque rarioris argumenti, una cum oratione de studiorum noxa, editae ab autoris filio, Georgio Frederico Franck de Franckenau. Leipzig 1722 (under this name, the son obtained a collection of various dissertations from his father).

literature

  • Axel W. Bauer : Georg Franck von Franckenau. Representative of empirical medicine in the Baroque era . In: Semper Apertus. Six hundred years of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 1386–1986. Festschrift in six volumes, volume 1. Medieval and early modern times (1386–1803). Edited by Wilhelm Doerr . Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo 1985, pp. 440-462.
  • Ed / Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Verlag FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1848, 1st section, vol. 47, p. 148 ( online ).
  • August Hirsch :  Franck von Franckenau, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 219.
  • August Hirsch , Ernst Julius Gurlt : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna / Leipzig, 1885, Vol. 2, p. 424.
  • 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 1750, Volume 2, Sp. 721.
  • Sari Kivistö: GF von Franckenau's Satyra sexta (1674) on Male Menstruation and Female Testicles. Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Volume 2, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 2007, pp. 82-102 ( PDF ; 6.4 MB).
  • Andreas Lesser: The Albertine personal physicians before 1700 and their family relationships with physicians and pharmacists (= series of publications by the Friedrich Christian Lesser Foundation. Vol. 34). Imhof, Petersberg 2015, pp. 440–462.
  • Jul. Petersen: Franck von Franckenau, Georg. In: Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Græbes Bogtrykkeri, Copenhagen, 1891, vol. 5 pp. 274-276, ( online , Danish).
  • Franck von Franckenau, Georg. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 9, Leipzig 1735, column 1669-1671.
  • 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. 191 .
  • 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. 148 ( archive.org ).

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Single references

  1. ↑ 1644 according to Bauer and Royal Society, deviatingly the ADB and library databases like those of the Library of Congress name May 3, 1643 as the birthday.
  2. ↑ entry to Franck-of-Franckenau, Georg (1644 - 1704) in the archives of the Royal Society , London
  3. ^ Franck von Franckenau, Georg: Satyrae Medicae, Continuatio . Europeana. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Franck von Franckenau, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franck, Georg; Francus, Georg; Frank, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1643 or May 3, 1644
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1704
Place of death Copenhagen