Johann Jakob Harder

Johann Jakob Harder (born September 7, 1656 in Basel , † April 28, 1711 ibid) was a Swiss physician and scientist .

Life

The son of the Basel town clerk Johann Konrad Harder and his wife Anna Maria, the daughter of the pastor in Lichtenstall Hieronymus Gemusäus, had already graduated from high school in his hometown in 1668. In the same year he began to attend lectures at the University of Basel , where he received the poet's crown in 1670 and in 1671 received his master's degree in philosophy. Then he decided to complete a medical degree, where he attended the lectures of Johann Caspar Bauhin and Johann Heinrich Glaser . After an educational trip that took him to Geneva, Lyon and Paris, he returned to his homeland in 1675, where he applied for the then vacant professorship in physics. However, this application was unsuccessful.

Therefore he received his doctorate in medicine in Basel in 1675 and then gained practical experience. He also lectured at the philosophical faculty, became professor of rhetoric in 1678 and professor of physics in 1686. In 1685 he found access to the medical faculty of the Basel University, in 1687 became professor of anatomy and botany and in 1703 professor of theoretical medicine. He had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Basel University. He was once dean of the philosophical faculty and three times in 1684, 1695 and 1703 rector of the alma mater.

The personal physician of various potentates, was admitted to the imperial academy Naturae Curiosorum with the name Paenis in 1681, in 1683 he became a member of the Accademia dei Ricovrati in Padua, was elevated to the rank of nobility by Emperor Leopold in 1694 as an imperial court palatinate and was appointed privy councilor in 1707. Harder's gland , which occurs in the inner corner of the eye of quadrupeds and birds and was allegedly discovered by him, was named after Harder, who was primarily concerned with comparative and pathological anatomy .

On October 23, 1679, Harder had married Barbara Burckard, the daughter of the assessor at the Basel city court and master of salt Johann Rudolff Burckhard and his wife Sibylla Hummel. The marriage resulted in eight sons and eight daughters. Two sons and five daughters survived the father.

Works

• Examen anatomicum cochleae. 1679. ( online )
• Prodromus physiologicus. 1679.
• with JC Peyer: Exercitationes anatomicae et medicae. 1682. ( online )
• Apiarium observationibus medicis et experimentis refertum .... 1687
• Paeonis et Pythagorae exercitationes anatomicae et medicae familiares to quinquagita. 1687.

literature

• August Hirsch:  Harder, Johann Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 591 f.
• Urs Leo Gantenbein: Harder, Johann Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Volume 10, self-published, Boppard / Rhein 1980, p. 340, R 9532.
• August Hirsch: Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume 3, Verlag Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna / Leipzig 1886, p. 52.
• Susi Joos-Renfer: Pathological-anatomical observations of important Swiss doctors 1670-1720. In: Basel publications on the history of medicine and biology. Volume 13, Verlag B. Schwabe, Basel 1961.
• Andreas Staehelin (Ed.): Professors from the University of Basel from five centuries. Portraits and honors - for the 500th anniversary of the University of Basel on behalf of the university with the collaboration of numerous scholars. Verlag Friedrich Reinhardt, Basel 1960, p. 84.
• Harder, Joann Jac .. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 12, Leipzig 1735, column 537.

Web links

• Publications by and about Johann Jakob Harder in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry of Johann Harder at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 27, 2016.