Johann Georg Schenck von Grafenberg

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Johann Georg Schenck von Grafenberg (* around 1560 in Freiburg im Breisgau , † 1620 in Hagenau ) was a German medic.

Schenck was the son of the physician Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg . After studying medicine, he worked as a doctor in Hagenau, Alsace . In addition to the publication of a new edition of his father's Observationes medicarum rararum , he published a number of writings of rather minor importance, including 1609 his Monstrorum historia memorabilis about " monsters ", which means people with malformations. But he also wrote the first gynecological bibliography with the title Pinax autorum qui gynaecia seu muliebra ex instituto scriptis exoluerunt et illustrarunt , which contains essential observations by doctors in this field up to the beginning of the 17th century, including those of the doctor Johannes Winter von Then after .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Georg Schenck: Biblia iatrica sive Bibliotheca medica macta, continuata, consummata [...]. Frankfurt am Main 1609, p. 341.
  2. ^ Julius Leopold Pagel:  Schenck, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 51.
  3. ↑ Bibliography reference to the entry Johannes Winter von Andernach at whonamedit.com (English).
personal data
SURNAME Schenck von Grafenberg, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH around 1560
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH 1620
Place of death Haguenau (Alsace)