Jacob Fabricius (medic)
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Jacob Fabricius , actually Faber (born August 28, 1576 in Rostock , † August 14, 1652 in Copenhagen ) was a German physician, astronomer and poet. Fabricius was two-time rector of the University of Rostock and personal physician to the Danish royal family.
Life
Jacob Fabricius was a son of the Rostock master baker and a member of the Hundertmänner-Kollegium Heinrich Schmidt and his wife Dorothea, née Wulf. He attended the Great City School in his hometown and was a student of Nathan Chyträus there . Jacob Fabricius was also a student of Lucas Lossius at the school in Lüneburg . In 1595 he began studying at the University of Rostock . Afterwards he was a student of the astronomer Tycho Brahe for four years in his observatory Uraniborg on the Danish island of Ven , before going on a study trip through Holland and England. Fabricius was then Magister and Poeta laureatus in Leipzig .
In 1602 he passed his doctorate in medicine at the University of Jena and in 1603 went back to Rostock, where he settled down as a doctor and actively helped to fight the plague . On January 17, 1607, Fabricius was appointed by Duchess Sophia to the Leibmedicus in Schwerin .
On June 10, 1612 Jacob Fabricius became professor of medicine and higher mathematics at Rostock University. He took over the position of Wilhelm Lauremberg (1547-1612). In 1632 and 1636 he was rector of the university. From 1637 until his death in 1652 he was the personal physician of the Danish kings Christian IV and Friedrich III. in Copenhagen. His professorship in Rostock remained in place during this time.
Fabricius was married to Margarethe Müller. Their daughter married his student Simon Pauli .
Works
- Periculum medicum seu juvenilium foeturae priores , 1600
- Uroscopia s. de urinis tractatus , 1605
- Nonnulla de medicinae et philosophiae conjunctione , 1620
- Exerc. de dysenteria, privatim et populatim grassante , 1627
- Institutio medici practicam aggredientis , 1639
literature
- Ludwig Fromm: Faber, Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 492.
Web links
- Publications by and about Jacob Fabricius in VD 17 .
- Literature about Jacob Fabricius in the Landesbibliographie MV
- Entry on Jacob Fabricius in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fabricius, Jacob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Faber, Jakob; Fabricius Jacobus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1576 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 1652 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |