Jörg Amann
Jörg Amann , also Jörg Amman , Jörg Ammann or Jörg Aman (* around 1450; † 1514/15) was a city doctor in Ravensburg and Esslingen am Neckar and the author of a little plague book .
Life
Little is known about Amann's life. For example, it is unknown where he received his medical doctorate . From December 1479 to 1490 he worked as a doctor in Ravensburg. Around 150 years after the European plague pandemic broke out , Amann experienced at least one plague epidemic in Ravensburg around 1484 . At that time the abbot and many canons of the nearby Premonstratensian monastery in Weißenau died .
From 1493 the Esslingen city council tried to appoint Amann as city doctor, especially since the city had not had its own city doctor for many years. Correspondence between Esslinger and Ravensburg offices show that Amann must have been working as a doctor in Ravensburg and the surrounding area at that time. The Weißenauer abbot, the truchess von Waldburg and the count von Montfort related in letters for Amann's stay in Ravensburg. Esslingen, however, insisted on the appointment already negotiated with Amann (probably for life), and so Amann finally took up his position as city doctor there in 1496.
In Ravensburg, Dr. Jörg Aman mentioned in tax books in 1497, 1503, 1506 and 1512.
The plague book of 1494
In 1494 Amann wrote a little book on the plague in German. The choice of language suggests that the manuscript was not intended for doctors, but was written for the city council or a wealthy citizen. The full title of the plague regime, written in the Lower Alemannic dialect, reads: Regimendt in dying Löuffen Anno 1494, Jörg Ammann of the Medicine Doctor zu Rauenspurg . The 16 × 21.2 cm manuscript is in the Ravensburg City Archives (signature Bü 36 d).
Amann describes, translating the texts of (as he himself says) the most learned doctors, in the booklet the symptoms of the plague , preventive measures and therapeutic options. As a preventive measure, Amann recommends drinking pomegranate juice and wine, avoiding nasty, poisoned air, sprinkling and smoking herbs in the house, adding disinfectant to the aftershave, and taking regular baths and draining your veins. For stronger patients, for example, he advises the bloodletting that was used as standard at the time to be used brutally:
- "And if the veins are big and foll and the person is rout and beautiful under the face and has a full life, eat and drink with fil workbaitt and is not over 60 years, then he has fil bluotzß by im That so sol man in leave until it becomes ineffectual ”.
The booklet also contains an assessment of the tolerance of numerous foods. He divides the preventive means into those for rich patients (such as the cosmic powers of pearls, corals, precious stones and gold platelets, which the wealthy patrician families, such as the Ravensburger Handelsgesellschaft, certainly possessed in sufficient quantities) and poorer patients (borage and carnation flowers, sage, mint , Juniper berries, etc.).
As therapy, Amann names burning out or ointing the plague bumps as well as administering pills made from aloe, saffron and myrrh. He also does not neglect psychological aspects and recommends a always cheerful disposition, which the patient should achieve through music, reading, jewelry and beautiful clothes.
More texts
Ammon, Georg and Hieronymus, Dr. med. de Esslingen in Cod. Pal. lat. 1297 in Rome, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana (according to Schuba catalog).
literature
- Hartmut Broszinski : Amman (n), Jörg. In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Volume 1. De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1978, ISBN 3-11-007264-5 , Sp. 331.
- Beate Falk: little plague book from the Ravensburg city doctor Dr. Jörg Aman. In: Andreas Schmauder (Ed.): The power of mercy. The hospital environment . UVK, Konstanz 2000, ISBN 3-87940-718-5 , pp. 130f. (= Historic City of Ravensburg; Volume 1)
- Ulrich Gaier et al. (Ed.): Schwabenspiegel. Literature from the Neckar to Lake Constance 1000–1800. Volume 1. OEW, Ulm 2003, ISBN 3-937184-00-7 , pp. 342-347 and p. 391.
- Ulrich Gaier et al. (Ed.): Schwabenspiegel. Literature from the Neckar to Lake Constance 1000–1800. Reader 3. OEW, Ulm 2005, ISBN 3-86142-356-1 , pp. 165–167 (reprint of text excerpts from the Pestbüchlein: pp. 13f., 18, 23, 29, transcribed by Hans Schimpf-Reinhart)
- Tobias Hafner : History of the City of Ravensburg. According to sources and document collections . Ravensburg 1887 (with edition of the Pestbüchlein)
- Manfred Schlözer: The doctors and pharmacists of the imperial city of Esslingen in the 15th century. History of the Esslinger Arzneitaxe from 1496. Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2002. (full text)
- Wolfgang Wegner: Amman, Jörg. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 51.
Web links
- Amann's Pestbüchlein at handschriftencensus.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ His widow Barbara Weylin is attested on November 12, 1515, cf. Iris Holzwart-Schäfer: The Carmelite Monastery in Esslingen (1271-1557) . Ostfildern 2011, p. 259, note 129
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amann, Jörg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aman, Jörg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1450 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1514 or 1515 |