Gregor Horst

This article deals with the physician Gregor Horst. For the physician and anatomist Gregor Horst see Gregor Horstius (1578–1636).

Gregor Horst ( Latinized : Gregorius Horstius; * September 20, 1626 in Ulm ; † May 31, 1661 ibid) was a German physician .

Life

Gregor Horst was the youngest son of the physician Gregor Horstius and the Giessen professor's daughter Hedwig Stamm. After his parents died, Horst came to Marburg in 1639 in the care of his eldest brother Johann Daniel Horstius . In April 1647 matriculated he at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig and changed in October 1848, the University of Padua , where he on the 21 May 1650 doctorate was awarded. In the same year he was appointed by Georg II of Hessen-Darmstadt to be the personal physician of his daughter, Elisabeth Amalie of Hessen-Darmstadt . On July 17, 1653 he was appointed city ​​physician of Ulm and professor and school visitator at the Ulm grammar school . On September 28, 1652 Horst was elected as a member ( matriculation number 7 ) of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum , today's German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

Gregor Horst married Johanna Fingerling on July 22, 1652, the daughter of the Ulm doctor Christoph Fingerling and his wife Johanna, nee. Rabus, who was married to Gregor Horstius for the second time . He had six children with her.

He died on May 31, 1661 in Ulm and was buried there on June 3.

literature

• Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 463 digitized
• Johann Eberken: Frommer Christians Glückseelige Unglückseeligkeit / That is: A Christian / simple-minded corpse sermon / out of the epistle to the Romans / cap. 8th v. 28. In the case of the rich and considerable funeral / Deß Noble and highly learned Herr Gregorii Horsten / Philosophiae and Medicinae Doctoris, and Stadt-Physici, also in the local Gymnasio Professoris Physicae Visitatoris . Printed by Balthasar Kühnen, Ulm 1661, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11209313-3 (German, Latin, funeral sermon ).
• Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 188 .