Joel Langelott

Joel Langelott (also: Langellott , Langelot , Langlotz ; * October 12, 1617 in Ohrdruf ; † December 8, 1680 in Schleswig ) was a German doctor , alchemist and author .

Life

Langelott was the son of a dyer and mayor of Ohrdruf who died when Joel was 14 years old. He attended schools in Gotha and Mühlhausen and in 1633 came to the pedagogy in Göttingen . He began his studies in 1636 at the University of Jena , where he had already been matriculated at the age of 14 in 1631. In 1637 he moved to the University of Rostock . Here Simon Pauli the Younger became his teacher, whom he accompanied to Copenhagen in 1639 , where he held his first disputation De dolore dentium ( on toothache ). In 1642 he went to the University of Leiden . There he received a call to Schleswig. On the recommendation of personal physician Friedrich Zobel, he was appointed as an alchemist ( Chymicus ) at Gottorf Castle , and during the Torstensson War, Langelott also worked as a prince educator . 1647 he returned briefly back to Leiden, where he on 11 July 1647 as a doctor of medicine doctorate was. He went on a trip to England , Zeeland and Brabant and was appointed head of the chemical laboratory at Gottorf Castle on his return in 1647 and personal physician ( archiater ) of Duke Friedrich III in 1648 . (Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf) appointed. In this function he also served Friedrich's son and successor Christian Albrecht , whom he accompanied on his trip to Sweden in 1674 .

Title page of Langelott's Epistola , 1672

Langelott maintained an intensive correspondence with doctors and learned societies in Europe. His best-known writing, which dealt "with a number of pieces left out in Chymie" - that is, with alchemy - was a letter to the Academia naturae curiosorum , later the Leopoldina . Daniel Georg Morhof then dedicated the font De metallorum transmutatione to him in 1673 . Langelott appears in medical history because he was one of the first to describe a chylothorax in a letter to Thomas Bartholin . His description of hemiglossitis (inflammation of the lining of the tongue on one side) is also an important document.

On November 12, 1645 he married the widow Magdalena Möller, born in Schleswig. Kehns. The couple, who lived in a large house with a garden and Langelott's private laboratory at No. 64 Schleswiger Stadtweg, had at least eight children whose names were known. Their daughter Anna Dorothea (* 1661) married the ducal librarian Johann Nikolaus Pechlin in 1679 , who the following year also became Langelott's successor as personal physician after he died of an epidemic fever and was buried in Schleswig Cathedral on December 26, 1680 .

The son Adolf Conrad Langelott also became a doctor, but only survived his father by a few years, as he drowned in the icefall of the Eider in 1688 . Another son, Friedrich Joachim Langelott, was a steward in the Brandenburg militia in 1676 and emerged as the author of several disputations and an oratio in laudem Cimbriae .

Fonts

• Epistola ad praecellentissimos naturae curiosos 1672 ( digital copy , Dickinson College )

(German edition) Letter to the famous Naturæ Curiosos: from several pieces left out in the Chymie 1672

also in: Friedrich Roth-Scholz: German Theatrum chemicum. Volume 2, pp. 383-406 ( digitized version )

literature

• John Ferguson: Bibliotheca Chemica. Glasgow 1906, Part 2, p. 8 f.
• Paul Güterbock : Historical addendum to hemiglossitis. Joel Langellott. In: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie 25 (1887), pp. 486–490 ( digitized version )
• Oliver Humberg: Joel Langelott, doctor and alchemist at the court of Friedrich III. In: Ulrich Kuder u. a. (Ed.): The library of the Gottorfer dukes. Nordhausen: Bautz 2008 ISBN 3-88309-459-5 , pp. 79-90

Web links

• Publications by and about Joel Langelott in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Registration of Joel Langelott in the Rostock matriculation portal .
2. ↑ Hamburg u. Amsterdam 1673 ( digitized version , copy from the Herzog August Library ).
3. ↑ Figures from around 1940 in Humberg (Lit.), p. 87.