Jean Baptiste Bassand

Jean Baptiste Bassand also: Joannes Baptista Bassand (born November 24, 1680 in Baume-les-Dames , † November 30, 1742 in Vienna ) was a French medic.

Life

Jean Baptiste was the son of the citizen and businessman Michael Bassand and his wife Johanna Marceux. His parents had seven children, two daughters and five boys, of whom Jean Baptiste was the youngest. Encouraged by his father to train in the natural sciences, he studied medicine in Besançon and Paris . He later traveled to Naples , where he got a job at the local hospital, and obtained his doctorate in medicine in Salerno in 1705 . On December 8, 1712 he continued his education at the University of Leiden , where he became a student of Herman Boerhaave . He was in constant correspondence with him and exchanged ideas with him on medical and botanical topics. He later became a surgeon in a French field hospital in Italy. Out of dissatisfaction with his superiors, he switched to Austrian services.

First he worked as a general practitioner in Vienna. In 1717 he participated as a field doctor in the imperial regiment of Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Venetian-Austrian Turkish War . In Vienna he became a teacher at the medical faculty of the University of Vienna on October 26, 1720 and in 1724 Leopold Joseph von Lothringen's personal physician . When he cured his eldest son Franz Stephan von Lothringen from the Blattern within a very short time in December 1727 , he was raised to the nobility on March 23, 1728, he became an imperial court doctor and he was given the title of court counselor on October 21 of the same year . After he had cured his brother Karl Alexander von Lorraine in Commercy from smallpox, he received the title of baron on October 26, 1730. He accompanied both nobles on a cavalier tour that led through several European countries. Among other things, they were in Leiden in 1731, where they both got to know the botanical garden and Boerhaave. On March 23, 1732, Bassand became a member of the Royal Society in London.

Bassand played a key role in paving the way from Boerhaave's educational system to Vienna. Its pupils founded the Viennese medical school in the 18th century. This included Gerard van Swieten and Anton de Haen , among others .

family

Jean Baptiste Bassand married Maria Catharina Benedetti in May 1715. She was the daughter of Prince Eugene's first valet in Vienna. From this marriage three children were born, of which daughter Marie Thérèse reached adulthood. The two sons died early. In July 1723 his wife Maria Catharina Benedetti died. Bassand married again. From this second marriage with Johanna Maria Theresia Reina von Waldnerin (Jeanne Marie Valdenaire, 1682–1755) no children were born. In 1732 the wife's marriage property was lost. In 1741 she left the shared apartment.

literature

Herman Boerhaave: Epistolae ad Joannem Baptistam Bassand Medicum Caesareum. Officien Krause, Vienna, 1778 ( online ), German translation: Johannes Nusch: Hermann Boerhaave's letters to Johann Baptist Bassand, imperial physician, translated from Latin into German. Jacob Bauer, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1781 ( online )
August Hirsch , Ernst Gurlt: Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, 1888, Vol. 6, p. 457
Biography universal ancienne et modern. LG Michaud, Paris, 1834, vol. 57, p. 262, ( online , French)

Individual evidence

↑ WN du Rieu: Album Studiosorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae MDLXXV - MDCCCLXXV. Martin Nijhoff, The Hague, 1925, col. 828
^ Rudolf Werner Soukup: Chemistry in Austria. Mining, Alchemy, and Early Chemistry. From the beginnings to the end of the 18th century , Böhlau Wien, Cologne, Weimar 2007, p. 486.
^ Thomas Thomson: History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Robert Baldwin, London, 1812, pp. XXXIX, ( online )
^ Ralf Bröer: Court medicine. Structures of medical care in an early modern royal court using the example of the Viennese imperial court (1650–1750) , habilitation thesis History of Medicine, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2006, pp. 487 + 488.

personal data
SURNAME	Bassand, Jean Baptiste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bassand, Joannes Baptista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French medic
DATE OF BIRTH	November 24, 1680
PLACE OF BIRTH	Baume-les-Dames
DATE OF DEATH	November 30, 1742
Place of death	Vienna

[1] WN du Rieu: Album Studiosorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae MDLXXV - MDCCCLXXV. Martin Nijhoff, The Hague, 1925, col. 828

[2] Rudolf Werner Soukup: Chemistry in Austria. Mining, Alchemy, and Early Chemistry. From the beginnings to the end of the 18th century , Böhlau Wien, Cologne, Weimar 2007, p. 486.

[3] Thomas Thomson: History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Robert Baldwin, London, 1812, pp. XXXIX, ( online )

[4] Ralf Bröer: Court medicine. Structures of medical care in an early modern royal court using the example of the Viennese imperial court (1650–1750) , habilitation thesis History of Medicine, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2006, pp. 487 + 488.