Johann Lechel
Johann Lechel (born January 28, 1635 in Braunschweig ; † November 22, 1686 there ) was a German doctor . He wrote papers on bloodletting and the plague .
Life
The son of Christopher Lechel († 1665), pastor at the Brunswick Magnikirche , and Ilse Grotejan visited the Aegidienschule in his hometown. This was followed in 1656 by studying medicine at the University of Helmstedt , which he continued in 1660 at the University of Altdorf . In Altdorf, the well-known professor of medicine and botany, Moritz Hofmann , was one of his teachers. Lechel made an extensive trip to Italy in 1661. In 1663 he received his doctorate in Altdorf and returned to Braunschweig as a general practitioner in the autumn of that year. Until 1685 he was the attending physician, among others together with the Braunschweig city physician Lorenz Gieseler , about which numerous funeral sermons provide information.
Lechel died of a fever. The burial took place on December 8, 1686 in the St. Andrew's Church . The Braunschweiger Superintendent Bartholomäus Botsack gave the funeral sermon, the 1686 under the title Das wise Hertz zur Rechten Aus Philipp. III. 13, 14 was printed by Christoph Friedrich Zilliger .
- family
In 1664 he married Johanna Christina Berckelmann, daughter of Werner Daniel Berckelmann and Magdalena Hedewieg. She died of puerperal fever in 1673 after nine years of marriage . The daughter Anna Sophia survived her father as the only one of seven children from this marriage. Lechel married Sophia Elisabeth Nürnberger in 1675. This second marriage had six children, of whom two daughters and one son survived.
Fonts
Lechel's publications deal in particular with the subjects of bloodletting and plague.
- Doct. Johann Lechel's warning for untimely, highly damaging blood-letting and purifying in poisonous fleck and similar fevers. Brunswick 1676.
- Adumbratio Pestis, or Kurtze Description of the Pestilentz: According to the essence and properties / clock jump and characteristics. Brunswick 1681.
literature
- Marina Arnold: Lechel, Johann, Dr. med. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 431 .
- Publications by and about Johann Lechel in VD 17 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ DNB entry on Berckelmann, Johanna Christina on d-nb.info
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lechel, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1635 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1686 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |