Johann Christian Schamberg

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Johann Christian Schamberg
Funeral service for Johann Christian Schamberg in 1706. Schamberg was buried in the rector's regalia.

Johann Christian Schamberg (born April 21, 1667 in Leipzig ; † August 4, 1706 there ) was a German physician and chemist. He served twice as rector of the University of Leipzig . Here he earned lasting merits by setting up an anatomical theater and establishing chemistry as a science.

Life

Schamberg was born the son of the Leipzig surgeon, Japan traveler and later businessman Caspar Schamberger (1623–1706) and his second wife Regina Maria Conrad (1645–1684). After a brief study of the “trial customer” (preliminary test of minerals and ores) in Freiberg , he turned to medical studies in Altdorf and Leiden . On October 5, 1689 in Leipzig was the defense of the work De Gustu ex recentiorum philosophorum hypothesis doctorate . In this thesis, Schamberg dealt with the relationship between the chemical properties of substances and their taste .

In the same year he married Anna Susanna Falckner, who however died in September 1690 after a miscarriage. In 1692 Schamberg married Catharina Elisabeth Schacher († 1747), whose father Christoph Hartmann Schacher was a member of the city council as well as city judge and court counselor. His wife gave birth to ten children, most of whom died in childhood.

In 1693 Johann Christian Schamberg acquired the citizenship of the city of Leipzig and his father's house in Grimmaische Strasse, where he later set up the König-Salomon-Apotheke. In the same year he was appointed assessor at the medical faculty. Chairs of chemistry (1699), physiology (1701) and anatomy (1704) followed. Schamberg owned a “cabinet of rare physical things” and conducted “Collegia experimentalia” twice a week. In 1704 he founded the Anatomical Theater ( Theatrum Anatomicum ) in the university's Mittelpaulinum . This created the space for the practical training of the students in anatomy. Schamberg was elected rector of Leipzig University twice . In this office he died on August 4, 1706 a few months after his father's death. Schamberg was buried in the University Church of St. Pauli and honored with an oil portrait hung there. The catalog of his library, which was auctioned that autumn, comprised 231 octave pages.

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SURNAME Schamberg, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, rector of the University of Leipzig
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1667
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH August 4, 1706
Place of death Leipzig