Hieronymus Nymmann

Hieronymus Nymmann, also: Niemann, Nymann ; (* 1554 in Torgau ; † December 5, 1594 in Wittenberg ) was a German medic.

Life

The son of the theologian Hieronymus Nymmann (1526-19 November 1592) and his wife Magaretha, the daughter of Georg Horst, were accepted into the Princely School of St. Augustin in Grimma on January 27, 1569 . Under its first principal, Adam Siber, the school advanced to become a forge for the Saxon pastors and civil servants. In a tightly organized daily routine, the students were mainly taught knowledge of religion and ancient languages. Nymmann, who was given the tools for an academic career by his father, therefore enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1570 .

During his training in Grimma, he decided not to start his studies in Leipzig, but to complete it at the University of Wittenberg . Therefore, on March 16, 1573, he entered the register of the University of Wittenberg, where he began studying on June 26, 1573 after completing his training in Grimma and was able to obtain an electoral scholarship. First he completed his basic education at the philosophical faculty, which he completed on September 3, 1577 with the acquisition of the highest academic degree in philosophy, a master's degree in world wisdom. Afterwards he earned his living as a private lecturer with lectures on natural sciences.

Since his lectures were applauded by the public, he was accepted as an adjunct to the philosophical faculty in 1580 , he became dean of the philosophical faculty in 1585 and took examinations at the philosophical faculty as an examiner. He also applied for the now vacant professorship in physics, but had to leave the field to Georg Wecker . His predilection for scientific subjects made him switch to medicine in 1587. As a pupil of Francis Faber , the Ernestus Hettenbach , the Salomon Alberti and Andreas Schato (1539-1603) he received a on April 3, 1593 substitute , completed on 27 September 1593 the dissertation De variolis et morbillis under Schato the Licentiate of Medicine and received his doctorate in medicine on October 16, 1593 .

Thereupon he was admitted to the medical faculty on October 18 of the same year and associated with it full professor of anatomy and botany. He did not last long, however, as he died and was buried on December 6, 1594 in Wittenberg.

From his marriage to Sibylla Strauch (born August 20, 1568 in Wittenberg), the sister of Johann and Aegidius Strauch I , on November 26, 1588 , the children are Hieronymus Nymmann the Younger (later theologian and superintendent Bischofswerda) and Georg Nymmann ( later Professor Med. in Wittenberg) known. His widow married the professor of medicine Tobias Tandler on October 19, 1600 in their second marriage .

Selection of works

The works that have been published with his name were created exclusively in the context of academic teaching.

• Oratio de imaginatione, Wittenberg 1593, 1606, 1613, 1618
• De Herpete, Wittenberg 1592
• Theses de luna (Resp.Christoph Silbermann), Wittenberg 1584
• Disp. medica XIII de dolore in universum (Resp.Johannes Wegner), Wittenberg 1591
• De epilepsia (or Anton Lanius), Wittenberg 1592
• Theses medicae de pleuritide methodica concinnatae (or Martin Pisecius), Wittenberg 1592
• De gravi auditu et surditate (or Abraham Haunoldt), Wittenberg 1592
• De angina (or Haunoldt), Wittenberg 1592
• De delirio (or Haunoldt), Wittenberg 1593
• De colico (or Haunoldt), Wittenberg 1593
• De ventriculi imbecillitate (or Johann Suenzel), Wittenberg 1593
• De arthritide (or Johann Stengel), Wittenberg 1594
• De lumbricis (or Johannes Emericus), Wittenberg 1594
• De imbecillitate iecinoris (or Suenzel), Wittenberg 1594
• De herpete (or Haunoldt), Wittenberg 1594
• De haemorrhoidibus (or Emericus), Wittenberg 1594
• De mensium suppressione violenta (or Hieronymus Krebs), Wittenberg 1594

literature

• Christian Gottlob Lorenz: Grimmenser album. List of all pupils of the royal school in Grimma. Publishing Comptoirs, Grimma 1850
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
• Hans Theodor Koch: The Wittenberg Medical Faculty (1502–1652). A biobibliographical overview. In: Stefan Oehmig: Medicine and social affairs in Central Germany during the Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, p. 319, ISBN 978-3-374-02437-7
• Nymmannus, Hieronymus. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 24, Leipzig 1740, column 1745.
• Hans-Joachim Böttcher : "Nym (m) ann (Niemann), Hieronymus", in: Important historical personalities of the Düben Heath, AMF - No. 237, 2012, p. 75.