Johann Ernst Schaper

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Johann Ernst Schaper (born April 26, 1668 in Küstrin , † January 11, 1721 in Rostock ) was a German physician and Mecklenburg politician.

Life

The son of the syndic of the Neumark towns, Johann Schaper, had attended high school in his hometown and in 1684 began studying at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) , where Bernhard Friedrich Albinus became his teacher. He then went on an educational trip that took him to German and Dutch universities. Returned to Frankfurt, he received his doctorate in medicine in 1689. In the same year he became personal physician to Christian I of Saxony-Merseburg and remained in this position under Christian II of Saxony-Merseburg .

In December 1691, Duke Gustav Adolf von Mecklenburg-Güstrow appointed him full professor of medicine at the Rostock University. On June 16, 1692 he took office with the speech Oratio de hermetica arte and also taught experimental physics. In 1698 he made a trip to Holland to get the new instruments he needed. In 1701 he became a member of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences , was a medical advisor to Duke Gustav Adolf, at the royal court in Berlin and the Polish King Stanislaus I. Leszczyński, who was temporarily staying in Stralsund .

In 1705 he became the first personal physician of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Mecklenburg-Schwerin and in 1710 received the title of Hofrat, with the obligation to visit the duke every spring and autumn and to consult with his other personal physicians about his health. In return, he received free travel and food, along with a fixed remuneration of 500 Reichsthalers per year. In 1713, Duke Karl Leopold took him into his service when he ascended the throne. Here Schaper, whom his opponents described as “an inflated man”, knew how to please the new Mecklenburg potentate. So he supported the duke in a dispute with the city of Rostock.

When the duke's disreputable reign of tyranny began, Schaper was appointed a real councilor in 1715 and a real councilor in 1718, without understanding anything about the administration. Alongside Edzard Adolf von Petkum († 1721), Johann Joachim Schöpfer (1661–1719) and Christian Friedrich Luben von Wulffen († March 1736), he was responsible for the sometimes ludicrous, sometimes hateful measures of this government. When the Mecklenburg unified estates and the city of Rostock finally implemented one of Emperor Karl VI. had brought about the execution of the Reich execution against the Duke, Schaper was dismissed from his office. In November he therefore resumed his Rostock professorship, which he retained until his death. Schaper had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Rostock University and was the summer semesters 1699, 1705, 1711 and 1717 rector of the alma mater and 1713 prorector of the same.

Johann Lembke was one of his students .

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SURNAME Schaper, Johann Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and Mecklenburg politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1668
PLACE OF BIRTH Küstrin
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1721
Place of death Rostock