Johann Andreas Stisser

Johann Andreas Stisser (also Johannes Andreas Stisserus, genitive Johannis Andreæ Stisseri or Johannis Andreae Stisseri; born January 19, 1657 in Lüchow (Wendland) ; † April 21, 1700 in Helmstedt ) was a professor of medicine and botany at the University of Helmstedt .

Life

On his father's side he came from a Quedlinburg council family. His father Joachim Stisser (born October 16, 1621 in Reideburg, † December 4, 1679 in Braunschweig) was bailiff for Lüchow (Wendland), Warpke and Wustrow (Wendland) , later senior bailiff in Wustrow (Wendland).

Stisser attended schools in Salzwedel , Schöningen and Helmstedt. On January 18, 1675 he began studying at the University of Helmstedt, which he named Dr. med. left. In 1679 he settled as a doctor in Hamburg , later in Braunschweig . In 1688 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Helmstedt; In 1691 he became a full professor there.

In 1692 Stisser laid out the botanical garden of the University of Helmstedt . His heirs sold the garden, which had been laid out from their own resources, to the university.

From his marriage to Ilse Petersen (1659–1700) in Hamburg on May 16, 1680, six sons reached adulthood.

Works

Sal antielepticum -Tetrammine copper (II) -sulphate-monohydrate [Cu (NH ₃ ) ₄ ] SO ₄ · H ₂ O

As early as 1693 he presented Cuprum sulfuricum ammoniatum (according to current knowledge, sulfuric acid copper oxide ammonia, actually a reagent for plant analysis ) as sal antiepilepticum as one of the first drugs against epilepsy . Johan Baptista van Helmont succeeded in the synthesis in 1644. The copper oxide ammonia was introduced as a medicinal product by Herman Boerhaave under the name volatile copper oxide tincture (Tinct. Veneris volatilis) ; it is now out of use.

During his time as a doctor in Hamburg, Stisser was one of the first German doctors to deal with smoking.

Fonts

• Johannis Andreæ Stisseri, Med. Doct .: Aqvarvm Hornhusanarum Examen Chemico-Physicum: Ad normam accuratioris Scientiae Naturalis institutum. / Johannes Andreas Stisserus. - Helmstadii: Hammius, 1689.
• Johann Andreas Stisser: Botanica curiosa, or useful notes on how some strange herbs and flowers were cultivated and carried away in his medicinal garden, which was laid out in Helmstedt in 1692 . [Microfilm edition, Master]. Hamm, Helmstedt [approx. 1708].
• Johannis Andreae Stisseri Actorum laboratorii chemicum in Academia Julia specimen… medico-chemica observata quaedam rariora exhibens Volume 2. Hamm, Helmestadi 1693. urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-8355
• Johannis Andreae Stisseri. D. Medici Hamburgensis .: De Machinis Fumiductoriis Curiosis sive Fumum Impellendi Intra Corpus Instrumentis Eorumque in praxi medica adhihendi ratione & usu.Subtitle: Epistola Ad Illustrissimos Viros Magnae Societatis Regiae Anglicanae . 1689, p. 38 (Latin, slub-dresden.de ).

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literature

• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 678-679 .
• Bernhard Fischer: The Stisser, a Lower Saxon-East Westphalian family of academics. In: North German family studies. Special issue December 1964, p. 418f.
• Karlwilhelm Just: The Central German Stisser family from 1480 to the present. Limburg (Lahn) 1965, p. 166 ff.

Web links

• Writings by and about Johann Andreas Stisser in the catalog of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cuprum sulfuricum ammoniatum ( Memento from July 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ Georg Buschan: Epilepsy in ethnological consideration . In: Klinische Wochenschrift , Volume 15, Issue 10, March 1936, pp. 350–353, doi: 10.1007 / BF01781940 .
3. ^ Johannis Andreae Stisseri. D. Medici Hamburgensis. De Machinis Fumiductoriis Curiosis sive Fumum Impellendi Intra Corpus Instrumentis Eorumque in praxi medica adhihendi ratione & usu.Subtitle : Epistola Ad Illustrissimos Viros Magnae Societatis Regiae Anglicanae.