Johan Rode

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Johan Rode, contemporary portrait

Johan Rode , also Rhode , Latinized Rhodius (* 1587 in Copenhagen ; † February 24, 1659 in Padua ) was a Danish medic who worked mainly in Italy .

Life

Johan Rode was a son of the businessman and ship owner Helmer Rode. He attended the Herlufsholm high school .

In 1607/1608 he made a trip to England and Scotland. In London he met the poet doctor Raphael Thorius . He spent the academic year 1610/1611 at the University of Copenhagen . Here he made friends with Ole Worm , who remained a constant correspondent. From the winter semester 1611/12 he was matriculated at the University of Wittenberg . In February 1612 he was respondent to a disputation by Sigismund Evenius . In 1614 he went to the University of Marburg , 1616 to the University of Gießen , 1618 to the University of Basel and 1619 to the University of Heidelberg . From 1620 to 1622 he practiced as a doctor in Copenhagen.

Botanical garden in Padua

In 1622 he came to the University of Padua and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. In 1623 he was consiliarius of the German nation at the university, to which the Scandinavian university members were also counted. In 1625 he worked for a short time in Siena . After that he went back to Padua forever. After surviving the plague that raged in 1630, which closed the university for two years, he was offered a professorship in botany in 1632 , combined with the management of the botanical garden . However, Rode refused and remained Practicus .

Rode's house in Padua became a magnet for Danish and other foreign students. He maintained a Europe-wide network of friends and correspondence partners. From him alone 28 letters to Athanasius Kircher have survived.

Advised by Gabriel Naudé and benefited from his proximity to the printing and book trade metropolis of Venice , he built up an important private library. In 1631 he drew up a plan to build a public library in Padua.

Rode wrote instructions for studying medicine with extensive literature references, which were initially only copied locally and were only made known to a wide readership after his death by Thomas Bartholin and Hermann Conring .

In his medical-historical writings, he made the work of Aulus Cornelius Celsus and the recipe collection of Scribonius Largus accessible to the students of his time with an explanatory commentary.

Rode stay unmarried. He was buried in the Church of San Francesco Grande.

estate

Rode's private library was inherited by his nephew, the Copenhagen professor Thomas Bang (1600–1661). It was auctioned off in 1662 together with the library he had left behind.

Most of his manuscripts came to Thomas Bartholin. This one could publish a lot; a large part, including Rode's edition of De medicina des Celsus, which had already been prepared for printing , burned with Bartholin's library in 1670.

The collected by him in Italy archaeological antiquities acquired the doctor Thomas Fuiren (1616-1674) for his Wunderkammer ; through his testamentary donation she received the University of Copenhagen, which she exhibited in the Domus anatomica .

Rode's album amicorum is preserved in the Royal Library in Copenhagen, as are draft letters and two manuscripts.

Works

  • De Modestia Et Magnanimitate. Wittenberg: Henckel 1612 ( digitized version )
  • Scribonii Largi Compositiones Medicae. Padua 1635
  • De acia dissertatio ad Cornelii Celsi mentem. 1639
  • Observationum Medicinalium Centuriae Tres. 1657
New edition posthumously Frankfurt 1676
  • (posthumous) Mantissa anatomica ad Thomam Bartholinum. Copenhagen 1661
  • (posthumous), Vincent Placcius (ed.): Joannis Rhodii Dani Auctorum Supposititiorum Catalogus: Ad autographum Eiusdem fideliter expressus, in quo Scriptores Anonymi & Pseudonymi Complures manifestantur / Opusculum Posthumum ex Musaeo Vincentii Placii, IUL Hamburgensis. Cuius etiam Notae sparsim adiectae sunt. Hamburg 1674

literature

  • August Hirsch : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume 5, Vienna and Leipzig: Urban & Schwarzenberg 1887 ( digitized ), p. 6
  • Christian Bruun: Paa hundrede-aarsdagen efter at det Store kongelige library blev declared for at være et open library ved knogeligt reskript af November 15, 1793. Heri: Johan Rode. Foedt i Kjoebenhavn 1587, doed i Padua 1659. Copenhagen: Thiele 1893 ( digitized version )
  • Egil Snorrason: The Dane Johan Rhode in Padua in the 17th century. In: Acta medicae historiae Patavina 14 (1967), pp. 85-120

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Worms published collection of letters: Olai Wormii et ad eum doctorum virorum epistolae. 2 volumes, Copenhagen 1751
  2. ↑ Ole P. Grell: "Like the bees, who neither suck nor generate their honey from one flower": the significance of the peregrinatio academica for Danish medical students of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In: Ole Peter Grell; Andrew Cunningham, Jon Arrizabalaga (Eds.): Centers of Medical Excellence? Medical Travel and Education in Europe 1500-1789. (= History of Medicine in Context) Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 171-189
  3. ^ John Edward Fletcher: A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, 'Germanus Incredibilis': With a Selection of His Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Translation of His Autobiography. Leiden: Brill 2011 ISBN 9789004207127 , p. 327ff.
  4. ↑ Snorasson (Lit.), p. 107 with note 55
  5. ↑ Snorasson (Lit.), p 115
  6. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  7. ↑ Snorasson (Lit.), p 111
  8. ↑ Snorasson (Lit.), p 115
  9. ↑ Stambog for Joh. Rhodius , signature Thott 573 octavo
  10. ^ Entry in the manuscript catalog, accessed on July 7, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Rode, Johan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rhode, Johan; Rhodius, Johan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1587
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1659
Place of death Padua