Johann Bacmeister (the elder)

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Johann Bacmeister , called the elder , also: Johannes Bacmeister (* December 14, 1563 in Rostock ; † December 5, 1631 ibid), was a German professor of medicine, multiple rector of the University of Rostock and princely personal physician in Mecklenburg .

Live and act

The son of Lucas Bacmeister the Elder and Johanna Bording (1544–1584), daughter of the Flemish physician and Danish personal physician Jacob Bording , was sent to the Princely School in Meißen , today's Saxon State High School St. Afra , because of his talents . From 1587 he then studied medicine and philosophy in the spirit of his maternal grandfather, first with Levinus Battus at the University of Rostock and then in Copenhagen and other cities. In addition, he worked as a private teacher at the respective universities . After the death of his first teacher Battus, he was appointed to the vacant chair and his personal physician by Duke Ulrich von Mecklenburg-Güstrow in 1593 as an associate professor. On August 8, 1594, Bacmeister finally received his doctorate and was appointed princely full professor of medicine. Bacmeister retained this position until his retirement and was also elected rector of the university six times between 1617 and 1629 and was honored with the title of "Senior of the University". A portrait with a memorial and signed by Professor Peter Lauremberg hangs in the area of ​​the university building.

family

Johann Bacmeister was first married on January 9, 1594 in Rostock with Christine Sasse (1572–1614), sister of the logic professor Peter Sasse the Elder (1571–1642), with whom he had nine children. After the death of his wife on July 19, 1615, he married the widow Anna Cossen née Pauls (1565–1623) and, after her death on May 11, 1625 in Rostock, the widow of master brewer Martin Wrosten, Magdalena, née. Lavrentz (1587-1653). With her he had a son and a daughter. His nephew Johann Bacmeister the Younger , son of his brother Matthäus Bacmeister , continued the tradition of the Bacmeister family at the University of Rostock and later followed him in the positions of medical professor, personal physician and multiple rector. One of his daughters married the Rostock councilor Michael Lavrentz (1597–1666), another, Elisabeth, married the lawyer Theodor Varmeier .

Works (selection)

  • Praeside ... Wilhelmo Laurenbergio Philosophiae & artis Medicae Doctore ... Propositiones sequentes De Melancholia / Pro Licentia sumendi Doctorum Medicinae insignia. Defendere conabuntur. M. Ioannes Bacmeisterus Rostochiensis. Henricus Pauli Rostochiensis. Fiet Disputatio .. , Rostock 1593, (dissertation)
  • De ictericia / Johannes Bacmeister [Praeses]; Mauricius Heine [Resp], Rostock, 1602
  • De hydrope / Johannes Bacmeister [Praeses]; Christianus à Lengerken [Resp.], Rostock, 1623
  • De peste / Johannes Bacmeister [Praeses]. Albertus Kirchovius [Resp.], Rostock 1623

literature

  • The professors of the University of Rostock from 1600 to 1900 , compiled by J. Falkenberg, Rostock 1897–1905.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ † not: November 5, 1631
  2. ^ Alfred W. Hein: Genealogy and city history, Lüneburg bourgeois families from the 15th to the 18th century . Hanover 1990, p. 119
personal data
SURNAME Bacmeister, Johann (the elder)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bacmeister, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, university rector and personal physician
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1563
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1631
Place of death Rostock