Georg Nymmann

Gegor Nymmann, engraving by Lucas Kilian (1627)

Georg Nymmann, also: Gregor Nymann, Niemann, Nymmannus ; (* January 14, 1592 in Wittenberg ; † October 18, 1638 ibid) was a German medic.

Life

Born as the son of Hieronymus Nymmann and his wife Sibylla (born August 20, 1568 in Wittenberg), the daughter of the Wittenberg citizen and merchant Agidius Strauch and his wife Sybilla, Dietrich Staffen's widow, he lost his father in his earliest youth. Supported by his stepfather Tobias Tandler , he was enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on April 12, 1599 . After he had obtained the appropriate educational background, he moved to the university in his hometown around 1609 in order to complete a basic course in philosophy.

Here he attended lectures in poetics with Friedrich Taubmann , was trained in ethics by Heinrich Velstein the Younger and Balthasar Meisner , as well as in history with Johannes Wanckel , in Greek with Erasmus Schmidt , in logic with Jakob Martini , in mathematics with Ambrosius Rhode and Tobias Tilemann , in physics with Georg Wecker and in rhetoric with Adam Theodor Siber . Thus formed in the Artes Liberalis , he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on April 12, 1614 .

His original main concern, however, was to strive after his father or his stepfather and complete an advanced study of medicine. After Ernst Hettenbach died, in 1617 he gained access to the lectureships of the medical faculty of the Wittenberg University, completed his licentiate in medicine under Daniel Sennert with the dissertation De epilepsia on January 29, 1618 and, after studying with Moritz Blum on March 5, 1619 on the subject De apoplexia had disputed, Nymmann received his doctorate on June 29, 1618 as a doctor of medicine. In the same year he received the third full professorship for nature and botany at the medical faculty of the university in his hometown.

In 1626, after the death of Wolfgang Schaller , he was promoted to the second medical professorship, and after the death of Daniel Sennert in 1637, he took over the ordinate of the medical faculty. Nymmann, who experienced plague epidemics in Wittenberg during the Thirty Years' War , suffered from a spleen disease from 1623, from which he died. His body was buried in Wittenberg on October 22nd. Nymmann also took part in the organizational tasks of the Wittenberg Academy and was rector of the university in the winter semesters 1621, 1627, 1631 and 1637 .

Act

He also left his scientific achievements in the area of ​​his illness. 1628 wrote his main work under the title De vita fetus in utero . In it he states that the existence of the fetus in the womb is relatively independent. He pursued that the anticipation of the caesarean section in deceased pregnant women should be made a legal requirement. Little attention was paid to the writing, but the idea of ​​his explanations later became practical at the Sorbonne .

family

Genealogically it should be noted that from his marriage on June 5, 1621 with Martha (* May 3, 1602 in Bautzen, † June 10, 1630 in Wittenberg), the daughter of the citizen and master builder Johann Borsch and his wife Martha, the daughter of the mayor and businessman from Bischofswerda Bernahrdt badger catcher, the son Hieronymus Nymmann is known. His second marriage was on November 1, 1636, with the widow Catharina Henschen. No children are known from this marriage.

Selection of works

1. De nutritione (Resp. Fabricius jun.). Wittenberg 1616
2. De epilepsia (Resp. Daniel Sennert). Wittenberg 1618
3. Disputatio medica de apoplexia tractatus (Resp. Moritz Blum) . Wittenberg 1619, 1629
4. Dissertation de vita fetus in utero: qua luculenter demonstratur, infantem ... Verlag Paul Helwig Wittenberg 1628, Leyden 1644 and 1664
5. De apoplexia tractatus. Wittenberg 1629, 1670

literature

• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917, p. 461
• 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. 2007 Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, p. 319, ISBN 9783374024377
• August Hirsch, Ernst Julius Gurlt, W. Haberling etc .: Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1962, vol. 4 p. 397

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502-1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 , pp. 455-470.