Johann Christoph Eisenmenger the Elder

Johann Christoph Eisenmenger the Elder (born September 6, 1592 in Heilbronn ; † February 20, 1663 ibid) was the city ​​doctor in Heilbronn from 1626 .

Life

He was the son of the city doctor Jeremias Eisenmenger , studied in Heidelberg from 1608 and obtained his doctorate in Basel in 1614 . After a time in Frankfurt am Main , he returned to his hometown in 1616, where he established himself as a general practitioner. His father campaigns for him to be granted citizenship and to be appointed as the city doctor's successor. He took up this office on January 2, 1626 and held it until his death in 1663. He was married to the Heilbronn citizen daughter Maria Magdalena Imlin. On his deathbed he recommended his son of the same name, Johann Christoph (1620–1670), as his successor.

Like his father, Eisenmenger recorded his medical experience in writing. The writings came in 1802 from the city library to the library of the Heilbronn grammar school , where they were edited by Rector Pressel and finally burned in the air raid on December 4, 1944 .

Eisenmenger was best known for his investigation of the water of the Fleiner Liver Fountain , which he attributed a medicinal effect in 1632.

Works

• Johann Christoph Eysenmenger: Historical description, which form of the Leber-Bronnen, close behind the village Flein, in the Heyligen Reichs instead of Heylbornn Territorio, come into use, what was found in his Proba before Mineralia: and waserley virtue and effects awaited from the mixing . Kraus, Heylbronn 1632 ( full text in the Google book search).

literature

• Wilhelm Steinhilber: The health system in old Heilbronn 1281–1871 . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1956 ( Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 4), p. 122.