Hermann Grube

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Hermann Grube (born October 10, 1637 in Lübeck , † before February 12, 1698 in Hadersleben ) was a German doctor.

family

Hermann Grube was a son of the Lübeck shoemaker Joachim Grube († 1650/55) and his wife Anna, née Hudemann († after 1666), whose father Hermann Hudemann worked as a businessman in Neustadt.

Grube himself married Beata Catharina Baldow on June 19, 1677, whose father Johannes Baldow (around 1602–1662) was a theologian, professor of Hebrew and from 1642 superintendent in Nienburg . The couple had two daughters and three sons, including Johann Gerhard, who worked as a doctor in Copenhagen and from 1717 in Christiania .

Life and work as a doctor

Grube received a school education at the Katharineum in Lübeck . Presumably due to the early death of his father, in 1652, at the age of fourteen, he took up a position as tutor and tutor for the two youngest sons Gottschalk von Wickedes . Together with Gottschalk's son Alexander, he moved to Bremen in 1655 , where Alexander attended the illustrious grammar school. In 1656, Grube enrolled himself in school. Due to an epidemic, both came back to Lübeck a short time later. Hermann Grube then attended a grammar school in Hanover with his younger brother . Instead, Alexander von Wickede studied in Helmstedt and urged his father to send Hermann Grube there as well. The mayor Gottschalk von Wickede complied with this request six months later. Hermann Grube matriculated as Hofmeister von Wickedes at the Helmstedt University in 1657. A short time earlier, the law student Hans Georg Pellicer had enrolled there, with whom Grube had probably visited the Lübeck Katharineum. Pellicer later worked as the secretary of the Lübeck cathedral chapter and wrote honorary poems on Grube's books.

Grube had already said during his time in Bremen that he wanted to study medicine. Such a degree took more time than other degree programs. In principle, a stay abroad at other universities was also added. For these reasons, studying for children without wealthy parents was only possible if they wanted to work as private tutors and stewards for many years and found a suitable position. The move from Helmstedt to Hanover should have been very helpful to Grube, since he could now study medicine. Hermann Conring was one of his teachers .

In 1659, Grube worked as an educator for the sons of the Kiel doctor Matthias Clausen. He had an extensive library in which Grube continued his education. In 1661 he went back to Lübeck and got a job as tutor of the lawyer Andreas Bilderbeck. Together with Bilderbeck he attended the University of Jena from 1663 and studied medicine again. Here he received a teaching license as a master's degree. In Jena he led several disputations on natural philosophy topics. The Lübeck-born theology student Franz Wörger acted as a respondent to one of the works printed in 1664 .

In 1666, Grube continued his studies at the University of Leiden . For the first time, he no longer had to work as the court master of a wealthy student. His teacher was Franciscus Sylvius , with whom he was awarded a Dr. med. received his doctorate. He then worked briefly as a resident doctor in Kiel. With the disputation "De venensis non venis" he received the teaching permit from the Medical Faculty of Kiel University. In 1667 he followed a call from the bailiff Cai von Ahlefeld as a doctor in Hadersleben. In 1675 he moved to Flensburg, presumably for financial reasons. A year later, the new bailiff Conrad Reventlow reappointed him to his old place of work. Hermann Grube worked in Hadersleben, from 1682 as city and official physicist, until the end of his life. His letters to Reventlow repeatedly show that private practice was not profitable and that there were problems getting his salary as a Physicus , which he received from many sources.

Since Grube often visited patients in other places in the Duchy of Schleswig and in Jutland , he must obviously have been a very respected doctor. He was also repeatedly in Copenhagen and maintained contacts with the university there and with other doctors employed at the court.

Working as a scholar

Grube was a well-known scholar because of his publications. The anatomist Thomas Bartholin judged on Grube's investigations of the lemon tree from a botanical and medical point of view from 1668 that he had studied the work with great pleasure (“cum volptate”). Bartholin wrote letters to Grube, which the latter included in two of his own works. Bartholin wrote an epistle for Grube's book, published in 1669, on the external signs by which the medicinal properties of natural medicinal plants can be recognized . In it he described how to recognize drugs taken from others.

For Grube's book on the actually not at all secret Arcana of Doctors (1673), Bartholin created the 80-page title “De transplantatione morborum dissertatio epistolica” with its own title page. Thomas Bartholin wrote that there is a “sympathy” between the body and its environment, which enables “sympathetic cures” by “transplanting” a disease from a person to animals or inanimate objects. With his book, Grube wanted to discourage colleagues from believing in secret powers ("qualitates occultae") from drugs and cures. In addition, he intended to present new scientific discoveries which, from the point of view of conventional medicine, seemed inconceivable. In the first part of the book he wrote about the theory of "transplantio morborum", which he called absurd; Successful cures attributed to her are "very suspect".

In his 1673 book, Grube paid tribute to William Harvey and his findings on blood circulation. He also found words of praise for Batholin's reports on the chyle and lymphatic vessels . The fact that he criticized Bartholin's addition to his own work with his criticism of the theory of the cures may have been the reason why he again dealt with the topic of possible “transplants”. This work with the title “De transplantatione morborum analysis nova” appeared in 1674. In it he interpreted the success reports of the “sympathetic cures” repeatedly presented not only by Bartholin as naturally justified. He formulated cautiously and described Bartholin as “the incomparable”, but stuck to his criticism in terms of content. However, he probably made a conscious decision to have the plant relocated to Hamburg and not, as usual, to Copenhagen, where Bartholin was an important scientist.

Honors

Due to his achievements and national fame as a scholar, Grube was elected a member of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum on September 15, 1685 ( registration number 144 ) with the nickname “Palamedes” .

literature

  • Dieter Lohmeier: Grube, Hermann . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, pp. 179–181.
  • 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. 196 .
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 150 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Publications by and about Hermann Grube in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Grube, Hermann . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 179.
  2. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Grube, Hermann . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 179.
  3. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Grube, Hermann . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, pp. 179–180.
  4. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Grube, Hermann . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 180.
  5. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Grube, Hermann . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 180.
  6. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Grube, Hermann . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 180.
  7. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Grube, Hermann . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 180.
  8. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Grube, Hermann . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 180.
  9. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Grube, Hermann . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, pp. 180–181.
  10. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Grube, Hermann . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 181.
  11. ^ Member entry by Hermann Grube at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 10, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Grube, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1637
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH before February 12, 1698
Place of death Hadersleben