Johann Daniel Horstius

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Johann Daniel Horstius

Johann (es) Daniel Horstius ( Latinization of Johann Daniel Horst ; born October 14, 1616 in Gießen ; † January 27, 1685 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German physician and balneologist .

Life

Johann Daniel Horst was the son of the physician and anatomist Gregor Horstius , his brother Gregor Horst was also a physician. Due to the spread of the Thirty Years' War , the family moved to Ulm in 1622 , where he attended school and high school. After studying medicine at the University of Rostock , which he completed with a master's degree in 1635 , and a trip to Denmark , he received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen in 1636 . In the following year he became the Hessian-Darmstadt personal physician and professor of medicine at the University of Marburg , where he also held lectures in physics from 1644 . After the University of Gießen was re-established in 1650 , he became professor of medicine there, but from 1651 he was Georg II's personal physician in Darmstadt . After the death of George II in 1661, his successor Ludwig VI. Johann Tackius to his personal physician, whereupon Horstius moved to Frankfurt am Main and worked there from 1665 until his death in 1685 as city physicus , from 1667 as physicus primarius .

Horstius was married to Elisabeth Schupp, sister of Johann Balthasar Schupp , and had eight children with her, five of whom died at a young age. His daughter Marie Elisabeth married Lorenz Strauss , professor of medicine and physics at the University of Giessen. His sons were Georg, a physician and also city physician in Frankfurt am Main, and Johann Otto, personal physician in Saxony-Eisenach , who married a daughter of Werner Rolfinck .

On December 30, 1655, Johann Daniel Horstius, nicknamed Phoenix I, was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 15 ) in the Leopoldina .

Works (selection)

Embser Bades description , 1676

In addition to his medical writings, his balneological works are particularly mentioned here:

  • Use and use of Schwalbacher's Sawer-Fountain / Outside Tabernae Montani, and other first Medicorum writings also from eightteen years of experience . Willhelm Serlin / vnd Georg Fickwirt, Franckfurt 1655 ( 23: 634250R in VD 17th ).
  • Kurtze description of the Sauer-Brunnen zu Langen-Schwalbach and Dönningstein; Like / Deß Embser-Berstädter-Brodel and Wißbades . Georg Fickwirth, Franckfurt 1659 ( 23: 296552S in VD 17th ).
  • Embser Bades description . [Sl] 1676 ( 12: 000651T in VD 17th , edition 1680 7: 664354M in VD 17th ).
  • Kurtzer report from the Saur and Brodel Bronnen to Langen-Schwalbach outside 42 years of experience . Franckfurt am Mayn 1680 ( 7: 664358S in VD 17th ).
  • Description of the knowledge bath . Relaunched. Henning Müllern, Darmstadt 1680 ( 7: 664519K in VD 17th ).
  • Kurtzer report from the Lower Sauer-Bronnen / from 44 years of experience . Hennig Müllern / Fürstl. Buchdr., Darmstadt 1682 ( 14: 075500D in VD 17th ).
  • Kurtzer report Vom Embser-Bad an der Lahn / in German and French / So then Wiß- and Offenauer-Bad / Outside four and forty years of experience put on . Like D. GEORG. MAII , and other learned thoughts about the wells Zu Offenau / Denig / St. Menard / Bachstainach / [et] c. Sambt attached detailed report Doct. MARSILII WEIGELII From the Embser bath and fountain. Henning Müllern / Fürstlichen Buchdr., Darmbstadt 1683 ( 39: 142986C in VD 17th ).

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Horst (Johann Daniel) . In: Basis for a Hessian Scholar and Writer History . From the Reformation to the present day. Sixth volume. Cramer, Kassel 1786, p. 195-199 .
  • Albrecht Weyermann : Horst, Johann Daniel . In: News from scholars, artists and other strange people from Ulm . Commissioned by PP Wolf in Leipzig, Ulm 1798, p. 332-334 .
  • Sybill Patan: Johann Daniel Horstius (1616–1685) . His life and work as well as its importance for the balneology of the 17th century (=  work on the history of medicine in Giessen . No. 15 ). Schmitz, Gießen 1989, ISBN 3-87711-165-3 (dissertation).
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 189  - Internet Archive
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 147 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Johann Daniel Horst at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 14, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Horstius, Johann Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horst, Johann Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and balneologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1616
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1685
Place of death Frankfurt am Main