Joachim Strupp
Joachim Strupp , also known as Joachim Struppius , Joachim Strüppe and Joachim Strupp von Gelnhausen , incorrectly also Johann (es) Strupp (born April 6, 1530 in Grünberg ; † June 18, 1606 in Darmstadt ), was a city doctor , personal physician and medical author Fonts.
Life
After studying in Marburg and Wittenberg, Strupp worked as a teacher at the court of the Hessian landgrave and then as a doctor in Friedberg. From 1563 to 1575 Strupp was Stadtphysicus in Frankfurt am Main and then entered the service of Elector Ludwig VI in Heidelberg as a personal physician . from the Electoral Palatinate . In addition to his medical work, he was also the electoral librarian and, as a preceptor, was responsible for the education of the electoral prince , later Friedrich IV . In 1583 he wrote a court school book for them , which is still in the Heidelberg University Library today. Later he served in the Hesse-Darmstadt the post of personal physician of Landgrave Ludwig V Dr. med. Joachim Strupp was enfeoffed in 1598 with the mine in Ober-Ramstadt and a riding court on the market in Darmstadt including castle freedom . In his hometown Grünberg a street is named after Joachim Struppius.
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Strupp was not only particularly at the Ophthalmology interested physician operates, but also wrote a number of medical books. Especially his work Consens Der fürnembsten, both Alten and Newen Historians, also Medicorum, published in 1574 , of a number of exquisite and highly necessary foreign medicines is of interest to historians; this book, which deals with the possibilities of using Egyptian mummies as the basis for the manufacture of medicines , contains the first realistic, clearly modeled after nature illustration of such a mummy. According to the accompanying text, it was a piece of booty from the sea battle of Lepanto ; the crew of an Ottoman ship had carried the mummy as a mascot .
Strupp was involved in the anti-Jewish work In Iudaeorum Medicastorum calumnias et homicidia by Georg Marius , which was published in 1570 and dedicated it to Thomas Erast .
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- Copy of the family book by Joachim Strupp , 1578; Heidelberg University Library (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. Lat. 1884) ( digitized version of Heidelberg University Library)
literature
- Johannes Kretzschmar : Joachim Strupp von Gelnhausen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 670 f.
- CW Ceram : Gods, graves and scholars in the picture. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1957.
- Robert Jütte : Strupp, Johann. 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. 1365.
Web links
- Works by and about Joachim Strupp in the German Digital Library
- Genealogical information with further literary sources
- Digitized version of the court school book ( Heidelberg University Library )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. med. Joachim Strupp. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt, Best. E 12 No. 299/53.
- ^ Rolf Heyers: Dr. Georg Marius, called Mayer von Würzburg (1533-1606). (Dental) medical dissertation Würzburg 1957, pp. 52-54.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strupp, Joachim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Struppe, Joachim; Strüppe, Joachim; Strupp von Gelnhausen, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician and specialist book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1530 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grünberg (Hesse) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1606 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |