Johann Georg Macasius

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Johann Georg Macasius (born March 17, 1617 in Eger , Bohemia , † June 18, 1653 in Zwickau , Saxony ) was a German physician and count's personal physician of Bohemian origin.

Life

Macasius was the son of the doctor Paul Macasius and his wife Catharina born. Köppel. After attending grammar school in Plauen, he enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1634 and began to study medicine at the University of Jena in 1638 . With his dissertation De natura et causis externis he was able to successfully complete this degree under Johannes Musaeus . He then completed a second degree with Balthasar Widmarcter and received his doctorate from him on the basis of his disputation De inflammatione 1640 . In 1641 he was entrusted with a teaching position at the University of Jena, which he held throughout his life. In 1644 he was the doctoral supervisor of Georg Balthasar Metzger . In the same year he established himself as a general practitioner in Zwickau and became the personal physician of the Counts of Schönburg and the Countess of Solms-Wildenfels. His sister was with the Leipzig physician Christian Lange the Elder. J. married.

Works (selection)

  • De natura et causis externis . 1638 (dissertation).
  • Disputation de inflammatione . 1640 (dissertation).
  • with Johann Nester : Promptuarium materiae medicae, sive apparatus ad praxim medicam libris duobus adornatus . 1654.

Web links

  • Entry in Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Balthasar Metzger. schweinfurtfuehrer.de (undated).
  2. ^ Lutz Mahnke: Epistolae ad Daumium: Catalog of the letters to the Zwickau rector Christian Daum (1612-1687) . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-447-04577-3 ( google.de [accessed on March 27, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Macasius, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1617
PLACE OF BIRTH Eger , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1653
Place of death Zwickau