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Georg Wecker (born February 6, 1566 in Eilenburg , † October 13, 1633 in Wittenberg ) was a German medic and physicist.

Life

Georg Wecker enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1579 , where he first studied at the philosophical faculty, in line with the customs of the time. In 1584 he became a Baccalaureus and on January 26, 1587 acquired the highest possible academic degree of Master of the Seven Liberal Arts . Wecker, who during his studies placed great emphasis on scientific topics, went to Lübben as a doctor in 1589 , where he gained a wealth of experience in the medical field.

In 1592 he went to the University of Basel to Felix Platter , where he on August 8, 1592 on the topic De lithiasi disputed ( "From stone disease") and on August 15, 1592 Doctor of Medicine doctorate . In order to gain a foothold in academic teaching at a university, he went to the University of Wittenberg on May 31, 1593 , where he received the professorship for physics on June 25, 1593 at the instigation of the Saxon administrator Friedrich Wilhelm von Sachsen-Weimar . Wecker, who read about the Liber de anima , among other things , still adhered to the old lecture scheme on the scientific writings of the ancient Greeks and also ran a medical practice.

In connection with his professorship, he also took on organizational tasks at the Wittenberg University. After he had been dean of the philosophical faculty in 1599, 1605, 1611, 1616, 1621 and 1628 , he was given the position of rector of the university in 1626 , which he had already carried out as prorector in 1602 as an equal academic part. In addition, after the death of Balthasar Meisner on December 29, 1626, he continued his official business. He never received a medical professorship in his life. Wecker came into question when filling a position for the electoral government in 1586, but Ernestus Hettenbach prevailed.

Georg Wecker died of a heart attack and was buried on October 18, 1633 in the castle church in Wittenberg . There a tombstone was placed for him, which is located on the south-eastern buttress of the outer wall of the choir and which is badly weathered today.

Wecker was married twice. In 1589 he got his first marriage to Gertrud Berger († 1632). His second marriage was on July 30, 1633 with Anna († 1661). The children Constantin and Hieronymus Wecker, who both studied medicine, are known from his marriages. His daughter Anna Wecker married Johann Georg Pelshofer .

literature

• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917, p. 510
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
• 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 9783374024377