Georg Loth the Younger

Georg Loth the Younger (also: Lothus ; born January 21, 1623 in Königsberg ; † February 22, 1684 ibid) was a German medic.

Life

Georg Loth the Younger was the son of Georg Loths the Younger. Ä. He was enrolled on June 8, 1639 (16 years old) at the Albertus University of Königsberg and had also started his studies there. He continued this on May 25, 1641 at the University of Wittenberg , where he acquired the academic degree of Master of Philosophy on April 26, 1643 . He then completed a degree in medical science. In 1643 he defended the De viribus imaginationis disputation under Johann Sperling . With a further disputation De pleuritide he acquired under Konrad Viktor Schneider on September 28, 1648 the licentiate of medicine and after the defense of Controversiarum medico-miscellanearum II under Marcus Banzer he received his doctorate on October 28, 1648.

He returned to his birthplace, where in 1650 he became adjunct and associate professor at the medical faculty of the University of Königsberg. Emulating his father, he took over the second full professor there in 1655 and rose to the first full professor of the medical faculty in 1662. In this capacity he was also involved in the organizational tasks of the Königsberg University. In the summer semester of 1663 and in the winter semesters of 1657/58, 1661/62, 1667/68, 1671/72, 1679/80 and 1683/84 he was Vice Rector of the Albertina. He died in his final term.

See also : List of Rectors of the Albertus University

family

Loth was married five times.

His first marriage was on April 10, 1650 with Sophia (* November 4, 1630 - July 3, 1656), daughter of the Königsberg merchant of the old town Jacob Schwedler.

His second marriage was on April 9, 1657 with Regina (* July 15, 1638, † March 7, 1658), daughter of the Vice Rector Georg Casseburg.

He concluded his third marriage on October 20, 1659 with Dorothea, daughter of the secretary of the old town Georg Weger.

His fourth marriage was on April 17, 1662 with Anna Maria (* July 2, 1641; † April 18, 1666), daughter of Professor Dr. Reinhold von Derschau on Waldhausen etc. a.

On August 18, 1667 he married Anna Magaretha Schulz († 1686), the widow of the councilor Adam Jäger in Memel.

Children come from marriages, from these we know:

• Georg Friedrich (April 25, 1651 - September 29, 1660)
• Son NN. (1660 death)
• Katharina Sophia (October 1, 1654 - January 24, 1656)
• Daughter NN. (1684 deaths.)
• Anna Regina (born February 28, 1658 - † December 29, 1681) married. January 13, 1676 with the electoral councilor and chamber master Albrecht Pegau (born April 26, 1635 - † July 19, 1697)
• Son NN. (* January 1661) was still alive in 1684
• Anna Maria († March 1664)
• Sohia Dorothea (* May 13th and † July 8th, 16 ??)
• Sophia Louise (March 31, 1665 - November 12, 1665)
• Daughter NN. (* April 15, 1666) was still alive in 1684
• Son NN. Still lived in 1684
• Son NN. Still lived in 1684
• Son NN 1684 death
• four more daughters NN. lived in 1684

Works

• De Colera. 1649
• Disp. De hepatis structura. Koenigsberg 1656
• Disp. De plica.
• Disp. De sanguine.
• Diss. De contagio febrili et variolarum Regiomonti grassante. Koenigsberg 1656

literature

• Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, Part 2, pp. 304, 322, Z 11
• August Hirsch : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. (BÄL) Urban and Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, 1886, Vol. 4, p. 45
• J. Gallandi: Königsberg councilors. In .: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly new series. Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr. 1883, p. 47 f.
• Jöcher : General lexicon of scholars. Vol. 2, Col. 2538
• 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 Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02437-7 , p. 316