Johann Fitzmann

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Johann Fitzmann, portrait in the Lübeck city library

Johann Fitzmann , also Johannes Fitzmann , also called senior or the elder to distinguish it from his son of the same name (born January 5, 1637 in Lübeck ; † March 27, 1694 ibid) was a German doctor and city ​​physician of Lübeck.

Life

Fitzmann visited the Katharineum in Lübeck . At the age of 14 he was enrolled at the University of Rostock in May 1651 , but did not study human medicine until 1654 and later at the universities of Gießen and Padua . 1659 he was in Giessen chaired by Georg Balthasar Metzger Dr. med. PhD. He first practiced in Holland and then came back to Lübeck. In 1676 the council appointed him city physician.

Fitzmann was married twice. He had seven children with his first wife, Maria, the daughter of Council Secretary Johannes Heinrichs . She died in 1671. He then married Margareta, the daughter of the Council Syndicate Heinrich Michaelis, and had twelve other children with her. His son of the same name from his first marriage, Johann Fitzmann (born June 30, 1666), was his successor, but died on December 16, 1704. Another son Gabriel Fitzmann († 1719) became a preacher in 1704 and a pastor in 1705 at St. Lorenz (Travemünde) .

The rector of the Katharineum Enoch Svantenius wrote his funeral pamphlet. Nikolaus Hanneken was his successor .

Fonts

  • Exercitatio Medica Inauguralis, De Phthisi. Giessen: Hampel 1658
  • Dissertatio de efficientia et dependentia causarum secundarum. Casting 1659
  • Disputatio Physico-Medica, De Lactis, Natura Et Usu Nobilissimo. Casting [1660]

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Individual evidence

  1. Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. Jacob von Melle : Thorough message from the Kayserlichen, Freyen and the H. Römis. Imperial City of Lübeck. 3rd edition Lübeck 1787 ed. by Johann Hermann Schnobel , p. 414