Heinrich Screta

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Heinrich Screta , also Heinrich Screta von Schotnau and Zavorziz, (born October 15, 1637 in Schaffhausen , Switzerland; † November 3, 1689 ibid) was a Swiss doctor , personal physician and member of the academy of scholars " Leopoldina ."

Career

Heinrich Screta von Schotnau and Zavorziz was the son of Johannes Screta from Prague, who immigrated to Schaffhausen and worked as a city doctor. Johannes Screta came from an old Bohemian noble family. Heinrich Screta's mother was Rosina Lucius. Heinrich Screta attended school in Schaffhausen and then did an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in his parents' pharmacy. He took over this pharmacy in 1661. Between 1670 and 1672 Screta studied medicine in Heidelberg and Basel and was awarded a doctorate in medicine. He then became the city physician of Schaffhausen. Screta published on typhus. He may also be the author of weather observations. Heinrich Screta von Schotnau and Zavorviz was personal physician at various farms.

On May 6, 1682 Heinrich Screta von Schotnau and Zavorziz with the academic surname NICANDER was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 101 ) in the Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • Publication about typhus, the so-called "camp addiction" , 1st edition 1676, 2nd edition 1685, Latin edition 1686.

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. 471 digitized
  • 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. 194 (archive.org)
  • O. Keller: The Schaffhausen pharmacist-doctor Heinrich Screta von Zavorziz , Schweizerische Apotheker-Zeitung 121, 1983, pp. 194–197.
  • Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Screta, Heinrich , in: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz , November 17, 2011.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Screta: De causis a natura auditionis , Heidelberg Univ. Diss. 1670.
  2. ↑ Heinrich Screta: Dissertatio Inauguralis Physico-Medico de LAESA Audi Tione , Basel Univ. Diss. 1672.
  3. ↑ member entry of Henry Screta of Zavorviz at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 7 April 2017th
personal data
SURNAME Screta, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Screta von Zavorziz, Heinrich; Screta, Henricus; Skreta a Zavorziz, Henricus; Screta Schoth a Zavorziz, Henricus; Screta from Zavorviz, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1637
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1689
Place of death Schaffhausen