Johan Jacob Döbelius

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Johan Jacob Döbelius

Johan Jacob Döbelius , from 1717 Johann Jakob von Döbeln (born March 29, 1674 in Rostock , † January 14, 1743 in Lund , Sweden ) was a German doctor and university professor in Sweden.

family

He was the son of Rostock city ​​physician and medicine professor Johan Jacob Döbelius (1640–1684) and Anna von Hillen (?? - 1684) and was married to Dorotea von Minden (* 1674; † August 4, 1737), the daughter of the German merchant Johan von Minden (1633–1699) and Margareta Sebrand (1634–1700). He had six children.

Life

Döbelius completed his medical studies at the University of Leiden ( Netherlands ) with a doctorate . In 1693 he was court medicus of the Polish starost Grudzinsky. He then practiced as a doctor in Rostock from April 18, 1695, then traveled to England and then practiced in Gothenburg . In 1697 he was an assessor in the "Collegium medicum" and on May 31, 1697 he became a provincial doctor in Bohuslän and in 1698 from Skåne . In 1704 he became director of the children's home (Barnhus) in Malmö .

Döbelius discovered the well-known Ramlösa springs near Helsingborg , which were opened to the general public on June 17, 1707.

During the Great Northern War Döbelius was in 1709 Stabsmedicus in the army of the later Field Marshal Magnus Stenbock (1665-1717), who was temporarily also Chancellor of Lund University.

On March 14, 1710 he became professor of medicine at Lund University , whose rector he was in 1717, 1729 and 1742. On January 21, 1717 Döbelius was raised to the nobility with the name "von Döbeln" . On June 6, 1736, Johann Jakob von Döbeln , nicknamed Demarchus, was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 460 ) of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

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