Gottfried Steegh
Gottfried Steegh , also: Godefridus Steeghius , Godfried Versteegh , Gottfriedt von der Staige (* 1550 in Amersfoort , Netherlands ; † 1609 in Prague , Bohemia ) was a Dutch physician, prince-bishop's personal physician in Würzburg and imperial personal physician in Prague.
Life
Steegh studied at the Universities of Leuven , Montpellier and Pisa .
Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn brought him from Nijmegen to his court in Würzburg . When the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg was re-established (1582), Steegh became a professor there. The prince-bishop made him his first personal physician in 1591 .
From 1597 at the latest until his death he was the personal physician of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague .
Publications
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Descriptio fontis medicati Kissingensis , Georg Fleischmann Verlag, Würzburg 1595.
- German translation: Sabine Greb: Description of the Kissinger Heilquelle, 1595 , Hg .: Staatliche Kurverwaltung Bad Kissingen et al., Würzburg and Bad Kissingen 1985.
- Godefridi Steegh Amorforti, reverendissimi atque illustrissimi pricipis ac domini, D. Julio Episcopo Herbipolensi Franciae Orient. Ducis Medici Tractatus de Peste, inquo vera praeseruandi & curandi ratio recensetur . Georg Fleischmann Publishing House, Würzburg, 1597
- Ars medica Godefridi Steeghij Amorfortij Inuictissimi atque Augustissimi Rudolphi II. Romanorum Imperatoris medici cubicularij. Tota conscripta methodo diuisiua a Galeno diuersis locis proposita, commendata & exemplis illustrata, a recentioribus quibusdam clarissimis inchoata, sed a nemine hactenus absoluta. Cum indice rerum & verborum locupletissimo. Rationem operis explicat praefatio ad lectorem, seriem atque ordinem subsequens librorum atque capitum index , Verlag Marnius & Aubrius, Frankfurt am Main 1606
Individual evidence
- ↑ Documenta Rudolphina : According to this, he seems to have been still alive in September 1609; The year of birth 1571 given here is illogical, however, other sources give instead (based on the curriculum vitae, also more logical in arithmetic terms) the year 1550.
- ↑ Frank Fürbeth : Bibliography of the German or in the German area published baths of the 15th and 16th centuries. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 13, 1995, pp. 217-252; here: p. 246.
literature
- Jean François Foppens, Valerius Andreas, Valère André, Aubert Le Mire, Pierre François Sweerts: Bibliotheca belgica, sive Virorum in Belgio vita, scriptisque illustrium , 1739, page 374
- Hedwig Pfister: The Kissinger bathing description of Dr. Gottfried Steegh , in: Bad Kissingen four hundred years ago , Mainfränkische Hefte, 1954
- Fritz Peter Knapp, Herbert Zeman : The Austrian literature. Your profile from the beginnings in the Middle Ages .... , Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1986, ISBN 3201012823 , page 889
Web links
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
- Godefridus Steeghius on GoogleBooks
- Steghius, Godefridus on GoogleBooks
- Gottfried Steegh on GoogleBooks
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Steegh, Gottfried |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steeghius, Godefridus; Versteegh, Godfried; Staige, Gottfriedt from the |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch medic |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1550 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Amersfoort , Netherlands |
DATE OF DEATH | after September 1609 |
Place of death | Prague , Bohemia |