Georg Kleinschmidt

This article deals with the German physician Georg Kleinschmidt. For the geologist of the same name, see Georg Kleinschmidt (geologist) .

Georg Kleinschmidt (also: Georg Curio, Kleynschmidt ; born June 10, 1498 in Schauenstein ; † August 29, 1556 in Leipzig ) was a German physician.

Life

Matriculated at the University of Leipzig in the winter semester of 1507 , Kleinschmidt trained in the liberal arts, earned his baccalaureate on September 5, 1514 , completed his studies in philosophy on December 29, 1522 as a master's degree and was not averse to studying theology. Nevertheless, he decided to study medicine, was accepted into the medical faculty of the university as a Baccalaurus on April 11, 1527, advanced to a licentiate in medicine on January 28, 1528 and went to Italy on September 1, 1529, where he 6 July 1531 graduated from the University of Padua with a doctorate in medicine. Returning to Leipzig, Kleinschmidt married the daughter of the Leipzig anatomist Heinrich Stromer von Auerbach (1482–1542) and left Leipzig as a Protestant, who he had become in 1533, with his family.

He came through various stations in southern Germany and worked as a city ​​physician from 1535/36 in Braunschweig in May 1537 as a lecturer at the University of Wittenberg . Here he achieved fame as a professor of medicine because his anatomical practice brought about a reorganization of medical studies. Martin Luther , Philipp Melanchthon and Johannes Bugenhagen valued him as a doctor . Nikolaus von Amsdorf called him in to clarify theological issues and Johann Draconites even called him a saint. He was also the personal physician of Elector Johann Friedrich von Sachsen . His name appears at almost all focal points of the religious disputes of the time.

After he had administered the rector's office of the Wittenberg Academy in the winter semester of 1539 , citizens of Wittenberg insinuated that he had been guilty of adultery. Because of this rumor, he had a fight with two opponents on the street. As a result, he was suspended from office. Although the rumor never found any proof, he went to the University of Rostock , where he had found a new chair on November 13, 1542 and became the personal physician of Albrecht VII of Mecklenburg-Güstrow . Although he was rehabilitated in Wittenberg in February at the insistence of Martin Luther, he never returned. In Greifswald he took part in the reorganization of training in medicine. After the death of his potentate, his constant wanderings led him to Lüneburg as a physician in 1546 . From 1548 he was a Greek teacher at the Braunschweiger Pädagogium, from 1550 personal physician at the court of Duke Barnim XI. from Pomerania in Szczecin . The clashes in the Osiandrischen dispute forced him in Szczecin to give up his profession. In 1556 he returned to Wittenberg. Since he was not well received, he went to Leipzig, where he died the following year.

literature

• Register of the University of Leipzig
• Matriculation of the University of Wittenberg

• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917.
• Alfred W. Hein:  Kleinschmidt (Curio), Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 5 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Jürgen Helm, Karin Stukenbrock (Hrsg.): Anatomie. Sections of a Medical Science in the 18th Century. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08107-0 (history of medicine) .
• Helmar Junghans: Directory of the rectors, vice-rectors, deans, professors and castle church preachers of Leucorea from the summer semester 1536 to the winter semester 1574/75. In: Irene Dingel , Günther Wartenberg (ed.): Georg Major (1502–1574). A theologian of the Wittenberg Reformation. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-374-02332-0 ( Leucorea studies on the history of the Reformation and Lutheran Orthodoxy 7).
• Krause:  Kleinschmidt (Kleynschmidt), Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 108 f.
• 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 Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02437-7 , pp. 306–307 ( publications of the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt 6).
• Otto Krabbe: The University of Rostock in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 2 volumes. Stiller'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Rostock 1854 (reprint: Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1970, ISBN 3-511-00646-5 ).
• Heinz Scheible (ed.): Melanchthon's correspondence. Critical and annotated complete edition. Volume 11: Heinz Scheible, Corinna Schneider: People. Part: A – E. frommann-holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2003, ISBN 3-7728-2257-6 , p. 326

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Although the Calendarium historicum of Paul Eber as a historical document 1490 indicates (including the ADB), is according to recent statements by researchers using the specified date here. However, the statement that he was born in 1498 is viewed critically. A person who was able to matriculate at the University of Leipzig at the age of nine seems unlikely at the time. In cases where minors were enrolled, these were noted separately as they could not take an oath to attend the university. But it can also be seen that he acquired his academic degrees very late. This can be a confirmation of the execution, but it can also indicate that it did not come from a wealthy background.
2. ↑ See also the entry by Georg Curio in the Rostock matriculation portal