Hermann Westhoff (doctor)

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Letter from Westhoff to Joachim Jungius (1621), Hamburg State and University Library

Hermann Westhoff the Elder, also Westhoven (* around; † 1655 in Lübeck ) was a German physician and friend and correspondent of Joachim Jungius .

Life

Hermann Westhoff the Elder Ä. was one of the six sons of Gorries Westhoff († before 1623), who had come to Lübeck from Westphalia and from 1590 to 1617 was the senior man of the mountain driver . His brother Johann Westhoff became a doctor in Hamburg and married Anna, the sister of Joachim Morsius .

He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and matriculated at the University of Rostock at Easter 1605 . From 1606 to 1608 Joachim Jungius was a fellow student and roommate in Rostock, as well as at the University of Padua 1618/19.

In 1622/23 he was one of the first members of the Societas ereunetica sive zetetica founded by Jungius . 17 letters to Jungius have been received from him. He helped Joachim Morsius out on various occasions. Soon after his return from Padua he set up a botanical garden in Lübeck and exchanged seeds with Jungius.

From 1635 he was the second (?) City physician in Lübeck, where he died in 1655.

He was married to Magdalena, geb. Rawbeard. His son of the same name, Hermann Westhoff (the younger, 1635–1696), became chief pastor of the Jakobikirche (Lübeck) in 1691 .

literature

  • Robert Avé-Lallemant : The Dr. Joachim Jungius from Lübeck Correspondence: with his students and friends. Aschenfeldt, Lübeck 1863
  • Heinrich Schneider : Joachim Morsius and his circle. On the intellectual history of the 17th century. Lübeck 1929
  • Donald R. Dickson: The Tessera of Antilia: Utopian Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in the Early Seventeenth Century. BRILL 1998, p. 97

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Asmussen: The elderly people of the Lübeck mountain drivers (1401–1854): a management position in Lübeck in comparison over several centuries . In: Stephan Selzer: Menschenbilder - Menschenbildner. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, p. 141, note 106
  2. ^ Heinrich Schneider : Joachim Morsius and his circle. On the intellectual history of the 17th century. Lübeck 1929, p. 11
  3. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  4. ^ Robert Avé-Lallemant : The Dr. Joachim Jungius from Lübeck Correspondence: with his students and friends. Aschenfeldt, Lübeck 1863, p. 341
  5. ↑ Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General learned lexicon. Volume IV, Col. 1913; Entry 1652 in the Rostock matriculation portal ; Pastor portrait in St. Jakobi, see Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 305-449. ( archive.org ) (Unchanged reprint: 2001, ISBN 3-89557-167-9 ), p. 411; Family grave in St. Katharinen : Klaus Krüger: corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg (1100–1600). (= Kiel historical studies , volume 40). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-5940-X . (Zugl .: Univ., Diss., Kiel 1993), p. 837 f. (LÜKA43c)
personal data
SURNAME Westhoff, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Westhoven, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and friend and correspondent of Joachim Jungius
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 1655
Place of death Lübeck