Jacob Waitz

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Jacob Waitz , also Jakob Weitz, (born August 3, 1641 in Schmalkalden as Jacob Friedrich Waitz ; † 1723 ) was a German doctor, mayor and tax collector of the city of Gotha, as well as a member of the academy of scholars " Leopoldina ".

Life

Jacob Waitz was born as the son of the city physician Johann Daniel Waitz and his wife Catharina Zierfelde. The father Johann Daniel Waitz was a wealthy citizen of the town of Schmalkalden and held the office of mayor and church elder. Jacob Waitz studied medicine in Leipzig, Wittenberg, Jena and Utrecht. He became consul, personal physician and mayor as well as tax collector of the city of Gotha. He was into alchemy. He was also interested in the manufacture of secret ink .

On December 7th, 1682 Jacob Waitz with the nickname AESON II was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 111 ) in the Leopoldina .

Works

  • Waitz, Jacob: Bedencken über die True Alchymian, Chymischer Wegweiser / This is safe instruction for the Chimische Kunst / In a short way and easy manipulations you are shown how to prepare all kinds of Artzneyen through the Chimie. First described in French by Christophoro Glaser, Ordinary pharmacist of the king and your transparency of the Duke of Orleans in Paris ; Anietzo translated into our German language by a Philochimico, published by Mattäo Bircknern, Buchh. in Jena and Helmstädt 1696, dto.August Boetius Gotha 1696.
  • with Dorothea Juliana Wallich: The Mineral Gluten, Double Snake Stick , Mercurius Philosophorum, Long and Short Way to Universal Tincture , 1705, 1722, 1763.

Honor

In 1714 a medal was created in Gotha with the portrait of Dr. Jacob Waitz showed an alchemical motif on the back, the "Philalethanic Nuclei".

literature

  • Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 472 digitized
  • 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. 194 (archive.org)
  • Martin Mulsow: Philalethes in Germany: alchemical experiments at the Gothaer Hof 1679–1683, in: Feuerstein-Herz, Petra (Hrsg.): Goldenes Wissen: die Alchemie - substances, syntheses, symbolism; Exhibition of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel from August 2014 to February 2015, Harrasowitz Wiesbaden 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Görmar: Jacob Waitz and Basilius Valentinus in Walkenried Monastery: Legend and Reality . In: Mitteilungen, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker. History of Chemistry Section . tape 23 , 2013, ISSN  0934-8506 , p. 31–51 ( Communications - GDCh Section History of Chemistry [PDF; accessed August 1, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b Gerhard Görmar: Jacob Waitz and Basilius Valentinus in Walkenried Monastery: Legende und Reality , in: Mitteilungen , Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Fachgruppe Geschichte der Chemie, Frankfurt am Main Volume 23, (2013), p. 36.

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personal data
SURNAME Waitz, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weitz, Jakob; Waitzius, Jacobus; Weiz, Jakob; Waizius, James; Waitz, Jacob Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1641
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmalkalden
DATE OF DEATH 1723