Johann Jacob Wagner

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Johann Jacob Wagner , also Jakob, (born April 27, 1641 in Tägerwilen , † December 14, 1695 in Zurich ) was a Swiss naturalist and doctor.

Life

Wagner was the son of the reformed pastor Johann Jacob Wagner and of Johanna Ziegler, daughter of the then well-known Zurich doctor Jacob Ziegler, who also took over the education after the death of his father in 1648. In the year of his birth, the family moved to Zurich. From 1659 he studied in Heidelberg (probably not medicine yet, but to study with the Zurich theologian Johann Heinrich Hottinger ), Steinfurt (1661, he lived there in the house of the Zurich theologian Johann Heinrich Heidegger ), Hamm (1663) and medicine from 1664 in Orange (Vaucluse) in the south of France . In 1667 he received his doctorate in medicine in Orange (dissertation De febre quartana intermittente ) and opened a practice in Zurich. In 1670 he became an orphanage doctor and in 1692 Zurich's second city doctor. The post had been created at the request of the surgeons, who asked for a second city doctor for their exams. Wagner also took on the poor urban and rural patients. For this, the first city doctor Johannes von Muralt had to hand over part of his salary to him.

In 1677 he also became one of the curators of the city library (citizen library) and in 1679 he was one of the founders of the Collegium Insulanum, a scientific society named after the place of assembly, the Wasserkirche , which existed until 1683 and which was freely accessible to anyone interested. Like other doctors, Wagner also gave private lessons. He also managed the natural history cabinet in the Wasserkirche, which Johann Jakob Scheuchzer often visited.

He published the first natural history of Switzerland and a travel guide through Switzerland and also much in the ephemeris of the Academia naturae curiosorum , of which he was a member from 1690.

In 1669 he married Katharina Aberli, daughter of a pastor in Regensdorf. Of his eight children, only his son Johann (1670–1737) reached adulthood and also became a doctor.

Fonts

  • Historia naturalis Helvetiae curiosa. Zurich 1680.
  • Index Memorabilium Helvetiae. 1684. (second edition as Mercurius Helveticus. 1688)

literature

  • Adolf Schwarzenberger: The Zurich doctor and naturalist Johann Jacob Wagner 1641–1695: A contribution to the history of the Zurich Enlightenment period. In: Quarterly journal Naturforschende Gesellschaft Zürich. 97, 1952, pp. 205-238.

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References and comments

  1. There he wrote a disputation in 1661 about whether one can drive away devils and storms by ringing church bells
  2. There was one of the Reformed schools there, where he probably also taught
  3. After Schwarzenberger, he probably went there to succeed Beat Holzalb as professor of rhetoric, but then also studied medicine
  4. Muralt was the first to carry out anatomical sections in Zurich against the resistance of the authorities, at which Wagner was also present, who also dissected himself. Muralt was a member of the Leopoldina .
  5. ^ But Scheuchzer was not a pupil of Wagner
  6. ^ Member entry by Johann Jacob Wagner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 10, 2016.