Johann Jacob Reiter

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Johann Jacob Reiter (born December 18, 1591 in Graz , † June 9, 1623 in Leipzig ) was a German medic.

Life

Born as the son of the lawyer Jacob Reiter and his wife Magdalena (née Güntzdorfer), Johann Jacob Reiter first attended the school in his hometown Graz. In 1599 the evangelical believers in Styria were persecuted. As a result, Reiter's family fled and his father sent him to school in Regensburg . There he suffered an accident. For this reason his father brought him to live in Iglau in Moravia and the family then moved on to Dresden . There he attended school until he was 14 years old, and then went to the Princely State School in Meißen . This gave him the maturity to attend college.

Reiter began studying at the University of Wittenberg , where he enrolled on June 19, 1609 and initially studied philosophy. Three years later he moved to the University of Leipzig to study medicine. He then began studying chemistry with Johannes Hartmann at the University of Marburg . 1614 he traveled to Italy , Austria , in Switzerland and returned via Ulm again back to Leipzig. He went back to Marburg, where he received his doctorate in medicine on June 13, 1616 . He then visited universities in Holland and some German coastal cities.

Returning to Leipzig, he completed his habilitation in 1617 at the medical faculty and worked as a general practitioner. In 1618 he married Dorothea, a daughter of Polycarp Leyser the Elder , with whom Elisabeth had a daughter. In his lectures, Reiter mainly dealt with anatomy until he was offered a professorship in surgery in 1621. However, he was only able to do this for two years because he fell ill with the rampant fever and died at the age of 31. He was buried in Leipzig on June 12, 1623.

Selection of works

  • de opio & opiatis, Leipzig 1623

literature

personal data
SURNAME Reiter, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1591
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1623
Place of death Leipzig