Georg Loth the Elder

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Georg Loth the Elder (also: Georg Lothus ; born June 24, 1579 in Verden ; † November 15, 1635 in Königsberg ) was a German medic.

Life

Georg Loth the Elder was the son of the Verden pastor Benedikt Loth and his wife Katharina Schonfeld. He enrolled at the University of Königsberg on April 18, 1605 and, after completing a basic course in philosophical sciences, acquired the degree of master's degree on March 23, 1607 . In the same year he became a teacher of poetry and the Greek language at the then still existing pedagogy in Königsberg. In 1608 he took over as rector of the school in Königsberg's old town. However, only for half a year, then he turned to the University of Wittenberg to study medicine.

Although he cannot be found in the university's registers, he worked here in 1610 as a respondent to Daniel Sennert . On June 15, 1612 he enrolled at the University of Basel . In the same year he had earned his doctorate in medicine with the disputation Themata de calculo renum et alia epikoina . He then made another trip to Italy and in 1613 became personal physician and court physician to Elector Johann Sigismund and associate professor of medicine at the University of Königsberg.

In 1614 he rose to the second full professorship of medicine in Königsberg and in 1622 became the first professor of the medical faculty. In that capacity he had participated in the organizational tasks of the Königsberg University. In the summer semester of 1621 and in the winter semesters of 1616/17, 1625/26, 1629/30 and 1633/34 he was rector of the Alma Mater . Loth also appeared as a poet. He found his final resting place in the professorial vault of the Königsberg Cathedral, where an epitaph was also erected for him.

family

Loth had married Anna on November 18, 1613 (* October 1, 1596 - March 22, 1653), the daughter of the Oberregimental Secretary Kaspar Gelhaar. There are children from the marriage. We know of these:

  • Kaspar (born August 16, 1614 - † September 17, 1614)
  • Georg (February 11, 1616 - June 6, 1621)
  • Katharina (born January 13, 1617 - † October 31, 1653) married. I. Marriage on January 13, 1635 with the Lic. Med and professor at the University of Königsberg Johann Bartholomäus Krüger (* December 12, 1608; † November 2, 1638); II. Marriage June 4, 1640 Dr. Johann Masius (born November 14, 1613; † June 24, 1642)
  • Christoph (December 2, 1618 - November 16, 1652) candidate of the right
  • Georg Loth the Younger
  • Christian (March 16, 1627 - August 27, 1652)
  • Friedrich (* August 24, 1629 - † March 17, 1630)
  • Sigismund (born August 6, 1631) was still alive in 1653
  • Daughter NN. († before 1635)

Works

  • Paraphrasin Psalterii.
  • Psalmi Davidis vario genere carminis latini explicanti
  • Itinerarium Christi metricum
  • Homo institutes, destitutus et restitutus carminice descriptus
  • Centuria epigrammatum
  • Euthanasia metrica
  • Disp. De venae sectione, de usu partium nutritoni inservientum.
  • Disp. De meteoris
  • Disp. De purgation
  • Disp. De method medendi universali.
  • Disp. De peste.
  • Disp. De arte mendi.
  • Diss. De usu partium nutritioni inservientium etc .. Königsberg 1616
  • De hominum generatione. Koenigsberg 1617
  • De urinarum differentiis. Koenigsberg 1623
  • Short relation of a swallowed and pulled knife to Königsberg, together with its counterfeyt and operation with it. Koenigsberg 1634, Danzig 1635

literature

personal data
SURNAME Loth, Georg the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lothus, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1579
PLACE OF BIRTH Verden (Aller)
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1635
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)