Johann Andreas Graba

Johann Andreas Graba (also Johann (es) Andreas Grabe (n) ; * 1625 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia ; † May 13, 1669 there ) was a German physician .

Live and act

Johann Andreas Graba was the son of the merchant in Mühlhausen and Weißensee Liborius Grabe and Anna Elisabeth von Ottera, daughter of the councilor in Mühlhausen Lucas von Ottera. After attending school in Quedlinburg , he studied medicine at the University of Königsberg from 1647 . He left this after 6 years only with an issued certificate and settled in Erfurt to practice. At the same time he enrolled in the medical faculty of the University of Erfurt , with which he got into a heated argument. This required him, since he did not have a degree, to submit to an exam in order to be allowed to practice. Graba, however, considered his testimony from Königsberg to be sufficient and successfully challenged several decrees of the faculty. The polemic pamphlets created during this time led to an injury trial .

In 1658 he was appointed city ​​and country physician of Erfurt and completed his doctorate at the University of Gießen in the same year . In the following years he rejected several appointments as a city physician in Mühlhausen and Saalfeld . 1668 changed as Stadtphysicus to Mühlhausen and was about to call to the personal physician of Ernst I and as Stadtphysicus of Gotha to follow when he died on May 13, 1669th

Graba was the brother of Sylvester Grabe . In May 1659 he married Anna Christina Avianus, daughter of Christoph Avianus, with whom he had four sons and a daughter. Anna Christina married the Mühlhausen doctor Georg Andreas von Reiß for the second time and died in 1684 of the consequences of the plague .

In addition to the polemicals, Graba also published numerous medical publications in German. On September 5, 1661 he was accepted into the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, today's Leopoldina , with the Cognomen Cephalus .

literature

• Just Christoph Motschmann: D. Iohann Andreas Graba . In: Erfordia Literata Continuata or continuation of the learned Erffurth . Third advance. Joh. Christian Langeheim, Erffurth, Leipzig 1735, p. 389-395 .
• Christian Wilhelm Kestner : Graba (Iohannes Andreas) . In: Medicinisches Schehrtenlexicon . Johann Meyers soul. Erben, Jena 1740, p. 356 .
• Jacob Andreas Graba . In: Niels Nikolaus Falck (ed.): New citizenship magazine, with special consideration for the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg . tape 8 . Royal Deaf and Mute Institute, Schleswig 1839, p. 671–676 (discussed by his son, see especially pp. 671–672).
• Rolf-Torsten Heinrich: Erfurt coat of arms book . Personal and family coats of arms from the 12th to 18th centuries. I. part. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-8964-6 , pp. Table 5 (genealogical table of the Avianus family).
• Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 189 .
• Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 147 ( archive.org ).

Web links

• Publications by and about Johann Andreas Graba in VD 17 .
• Member entry of Johann Andreas Graba at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 1, 2017.