Johann Ferdinand Hertodt von Todenfeld

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Johann Ferdinand Hertodt von Todenfeld , also Todtenfeld, (born February 4, 1645 in Nikolsburg , † 1714 in Brno ) was a German physician and scholar (including alchemy ). He was the imperial personal physician in Brno.

Life

Johann Ferdinand Hertodt von Todenfeldt was born as the son of Matthias Franz Hertodt. He wrote a book on saffron (Crocologia 1671) and Epistolam contra Philalethes against the alchemist Irenäus Philalethes , a book on botany and geology of Moravia Tartaro Mastix-Moraviae (Vienna 1669) and medicine ( Opus mirificum sextae diei , 1670).

On October 20, 1670 he became a member of the Leopoldina . Also in 1670 his first contribution "Crocologia" appeared in the "Ephemeris" of the Leopoldina. This contribution was a condition for membership in the Leopoldina.

On December 15, the imperial body physician Friedrich Ferdinand Illmer von Wartenberg died. Johann Ferdinand Hertodt von Todtenfeld was his successor as the imperial body medic. A few years later he became an imperial knight.

Hertodt von Todenfeldt was married to Maria Apollonia. The marriage produced four children, three of whom reached adulthood.

literature

  • 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. 190 .
  • 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. 148 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Ralf Bröer: Court medicine. Structures of medical care in an early modern royal court using the example of the Viennese imperial court (1650–1750) , habilitation thesis for the subject of the history of medicine, Institute for the History of Medicine ( Wolfgang U. Eckart ), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , 2006, p. 87 + S. 507
  2. ^ Member entry by Johann Ferdinand Hertodt von Todenfeld at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 15, 2017.
  3. ^ Marion Mücke and Thomas Schnalke : Briefnetz Leopoldina. The correspondence of the German Academy of Natural Scientists around 1750 , de Gruyter Berlin 2009, p. 20.