Johann Friday

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Johann Freitag , also: Johannes Freytag or Johannes Freitagius , (born October 31, 1581 in Niederwesel near Cleve ; † February 8, 1641 in Groningen ) was a German doctor.

Life

Freitag studied philosophy at the Alma Mater Rostochiensis in Rostock and then medicine at the Academia Julia in Helmstedt . At the age of 23 he became an associate professor. Prince-Bishop Philipp Sigismund of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1591–1623) later made him his personal physician . In 1631 Friday moved to Groningen for religious reasons , where he succeeded Nicolaus Mulerius as a professor at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen until his death .

Works

  • Noctes medicae sive de abusu medicinae tractatus (Frankfurt 1616)
  • Aurora medicorum Galeno-chymicorum (Frankfurt 1630)
  • Disputatio medica de morbis substantiae (Groningen 1632)
  • Disputatio medica de calidi innati (Groningen 1632)
  • De opii natura (Groningen 1632, Leipzig 1633)
  • Disputatio medico-philosophica de formarum origine (Groningen 1633)
  • Disputatio medico-philosophica prior de principiis rerum naturalium materialibus (Groningen 1633)
  • Disputatio medico-philosophica posterior de principiis rerum naturalium materialibus (Groningen 1633)
  • Detectio et solida refutatio novae sectae Sennerto-Paracelsiae (Amsterdam 1636, Groningen 1637)

literature

  • August Hirsch :  Friday, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 351.
  • Uwe Wolfgang Eckart, "The dispute between Daniel Sennert (1572-1637) and Johann Freitag (1581-1641)," in KE Rothschuh & R. Toellner (eds.), German-Dutch medical historians meeting (Münster: Institute for the History of Medicine of the University of Münster, 1978), 21–35.
  • Antonio Clericuzio, Elements, Principles and Corpuscules: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002), 30–32.

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personal data
SURNAME Friday, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freytag, Johannes; Freitagius, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1581
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederwesel
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1641
Place of death Groningen