Johann Georg Pelshofer

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Johann Georg Pelshofer, also: Pelshöfer, Pelzhofer, Peltzhofer ; (* 1599 in Graz ; † July 11, 1637 in Wittenberg ) was a German medic.

Life

Johann Georg Pelshofer was born as the son of Veit Pelshofer († 1609) and his wife Sabina, the daughter of the councilor and patrician in Graz Georg Grebminger and his wife Catharina von Rauchberger zu Hanfelden. His father had been an agent and servant at the archducal court in Austria and had served the Archdukes Carl of Austria (1565–1566), Ernst of Austria , Maximilian of Austria and also Emperor Rudolf II . When in 1600 in Styria, Carinthia and Carniola the followers of the Augsburg Confession (Confessio Augustana) began to be persecuted by the Counter Reformation movement, his father was allowed to stick to his evangelical religious convictions and on September 14th he was raised to the nobility.

However, he did not want to expose his children and descendants to the theological arguments of that time and went to Dresden with his family in 1601 . There he gave his son a good education from private scholars so that he could successfully attend the Princely School in Meißen . After he had obtained his university entrance qualification there, he went to the University of Leipzig in the winter semester of 1610 . There he first completed a degree in Artes Liberales , on November 12, 1617 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg , in November 1624 he moved to the University of Basel , where he received his doctorate in medicine on December 17, 1624 with the dissertation De sputo sanguinis .

After an educational trip through Switzerland and France , he became a town doctor in Haynau in Silesia and took up an extraordinary professorship in Wittenberg on May 11, 1627 . On June 17, 1627 he took over the third full professorship for anatomy and botany at the medical faculty of the Wittenberg Academy and on September 1, 1628 married Anna, the daughter of the physics professor Georg Wecker . The son Johann Georg Pelshofer is known from this connection. Pelshofer, who also took part in the organizational tasks of the Wittenberg University, also became rector of the university in the winter semester of 1633 , after he was passed over in 1629 due to a biologically-related language problem.

He became a victim of his profession and died of the plague. On July 13th his body was buried in the Wittenberg city cemetery in front of the Elstertor and a tombstone was erected. Pelshofer has made a name for himself in the implementation of chemiatric ideas by repeatedly working on Jean Beguins (approx. 1550–1620) Tyrocinium chymicum and by editing Johannes Hartmann's Tractatus de opio . After his practical exercises in the preparation of opium, he made the Laudanum opiatum and the magical alchemical Aurum potabile (English drinking gold).

Selection of works

Academic writings

  • De ileo theses disputationis medicae, Wittenberg 1622
  • De sanitate et morbo (Resp.Caspar Kheil), Wittenberg 1629
  • De variolis et morbillis (Resp.Majus, Suevus and A. Mavius ​​pro lic.), Wittenberg 1629
  • De Paracelsistarum unguento armario (Resp. Hieronymus Wecker) Wittenberg 1630, reprint In: Theatrum sympatheticum auctum, Nuremberg 1661
  • Decas paradoxorum chymicorum (or Johann Melchior Hupfauff), Wittenberg 1630
  • De scabie vulgo sic dicta (or Johann David Ruland), Wittenberg 1630
  • Theses iatromathematicae de diebus criticis eorumque causis (Resp.Nicolaus Schultz), Wittenberg 1632
  • De purgatione (or Geiling), Wittenberg 1632
  • De morbis totius substanriae et cognatis quaestionibus (or Sperling), Wittenberg 1633

Editorships

  • Tyrocinium chymicum Johannis Beguini. Wittenberg 1634, Wittenberg 1640, 1643, 1650, 1656, 1659, 1666,
  • Tractatus physicomedicus de Opio, publice praelectus in academia Marpurgenis 1615 Johanne Hartmanno. Wittenberg 1635, Wittenberg 1658 and in Johann Hartmann's Opera omnia, ed. v. Conrad Johrenius (1653–1716), Vol. 5 (Frankfurt / Main 1684)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1867, Volume 7, p. 88
  2. ^ Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . 1967, Volume 5, R 4627, p. 361
  3. ↑ cf. Traubuch Wittenberg
personal data
SURNAME Pelshofer, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pelshöfer, Johann Georg; Pelzhofer, Johann Georg; Peltzhofer, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1599
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1637
Place of death Wittenberg