Johann Bacmeister (the younger)

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Johann Bacmeister , called the Younger (born October 31, 1624 in Lüneburg , † February 15, 1686 in Rostock ), was a German professor of medicine and mathematics, multiple rector of the University of Rostock and princely personal physician in Mecklenburg .

Live and act

Johann Bacmeister was the son of the Lüneburg physician Matthäus Bacmeister and Sophie Kellermann (1590–1657). He lost already two years old his father due to the rampant plague and was therefore primarily by his uncle, his mother's Christian Kellermann's brother and other tutors as well as from the age of nine at the Katharineum especially in ancient languages , logic and rhetoric taught . From 1642, at the request of the family, he first studied theology, but this did not particularly appeal to him, so he switched to mathematics and medicine. He studied these subjects first at the University of Wittenberg with Johann Sperling and Konrad Viktor Schneider and then at the Universities of Rostock and Greifswald . He then moved to the University of Leiden for a few years , where he obtained his doctorate in 1648 under the chairmanship of the anatomy and surgery professor Otto van Heurne (1577-1652).

After subsequent interim stays in England, again in Holland and then in Hamburg, Bacmeister finally returned to Rostock at the request of his mother, where he initially settled as a practicing doctor and from June 13, 1654 both as a city ​​physician and as a full professor of medicine Faculty of the University of Rostock was appointed. In November 1665, Bacmeister took over as successor to the professor of medicine and the higher mathematical sciences Caspar Marchan of his chairs and was at the same time appointed as personal physician by Duke Johann Georg von Mecklenburg . He stayed here until his retirement and has since been elected rector of the university seven times. He followed in the footsteps of his uncle Johann Bacmeister the Elder, who was also highly regarded here . He was especially respected by his students, as he stood up for order and discipline in an exemplary manner and, under his rectorate, abolished Pennalism .

In 1677 Bacmeister suffered a severe blow of fate when his house and his private library with more than 4,000 copies burned down as part of the great Rostock city fire and most of what had been spared from the flames was looted.

family

Johann Bacmeister was married to Sophie Hedwig Wolffrath (1632–1676), daughter of Rostock councilor Dietrich Wolffrath. With her he had eleven children, of whom his son Johann studied law and entered the service of Württemberg as a syndic , where he was later appointed Reichshofrat by Emperor Leopold I and was ennobled as the first Bacmeister. After the death of his wife, Johann Bacmeister married the widow Maria von Thienen, née Meibom, daughter of the lawyer Christian von Thienen, with whom he no longer had children.

Despite his eleven children, Johann Bacmeister the Younger is considered to be the last representative of the old Rostock line of this Bacmeister family, which had died out after him in genealogical terms.

Works (selection)

  • De spasmo , Leiden, 1648
  • De oculo , Leiden, 1648
  • De imbecillitate ventriculi , Rostock, 1667
  • De sanitate: Progr. Inaug. , Rostock, 1667

literature

  • Krey, Johann Bernhard: In memory of the Rostock scholars from the last three centuries , Rostock 1813-1816
  • The professors of the University of Rostock from 1600 to 1900 , compiled by J. Falkenberg, Rostock 1897–1905

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personal data
SURNAME Bacmeister, Johann (the younger)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, university rector and personal physician
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1624
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1686
Place of death Rostock