Johann Ludwig Apinus

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Johann Ludwig Apinus

Johann Ludwig Apinus (real family name Biene ; baptized November 20, 1668 in Öhringen ; died October 28, 1703 in Altdorf ) was a German doctor .

Life

Johann Ludwig Apinus was a son of Johann Friedrich Apinus (* 1631; † 1680), who was a pastor in Öhringen, and Euphrosina Maria, née. Rueb (* 1643; † 1726), daughter of a trader based in Öhringen. Although his father did not have the means to give him a higher education, he went to Altdorf in 1686, where he studied medicine. In order to earn a living, he worked as a private tutor for younger students at the university and as a proofreader in Johann Paul Meyer's printing house . In 1690 he was licensed in medicine and settled in his homeland as a doctor. Due to the threat of war, he went to Nuremberg the next year . There he received his doctorate and in the same year became a physician in Hersbruck . In 1695 he became a member of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum under the name Nonus , to whose reports he wrote various medical articles.

The Duke of Pfalz-Sulzbach appointed Apinus to be his personal physician in 1697. In 1699 Apinus was admitted to the Medical College of Nuremberg. Then he accepted a call from the University of Altdorf and took up his post as professor of physiology and surgery there in 1702 with a speech de temperamentis , but died on October 28, 1703 after an attack of fever. He was in his second marriage to the pharmacist's daughter Susanna Maria, geb. Funck, married and had four children, including the philologist and teacher Siegmund Jakob Apinus (* 1693; † 1732). His portrait was engraved in copper by Wolfgang Philipp Kilian .

Even before his doctorate, Apinus had written several medical articles and published a book on flatulence under the title Aeolus, sive disquisitio physico-pathologica de flatibus (Altdorf 1687). Of his works, however, his vivid report on the typhus epidemic that occurred in Hersbruck from 1694–95 ( Febris epidemicae, anno 1694 et 1695, in Noricae ditionis oppido Hersprucensi et vicino tractu grassari deprehensae, tandemque petechialis redditae, historica relatio pet ... , Nürnberg 1697). In it he championed the theory of chemiatry and therapies based on it. In addition, in this book Apinus first pointed out the therapeutic benefits of the Cascarilla . This should replace the cinchona bark as a remedy. Apinus, who adhered to the teachings of Georg Ernst Stahl , also wrote five dissertations on the principle of life ( Dissertationes V de principio vitalis , Altdorf 1702-03) and Programma de Περιεργια Hippocratica (Altdorf 1702), paying homage to chemiatry and Stahlianism . The latter two and some of his other works were published posthumously by his son in 1718 under the title Fasciculus dissertationum academicarum . He also left behind a manuscript on periodic and other febrile diseases, which Johann Christoph Götz published as Collectanea de febribus praecipue intermittentibus (Nuremberg 1726).

Apinusstrasse in Nuremberg was named after Johann Ludwig Apinus.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon , 2007, Vol. 1, p. 31 ( online on Google Books ).
  2. ^ Member entry of Johann Ludwig Apinus (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on September 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Apinus, Johann Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bee, Johann Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH baptized November 20, 1668
PLACE OF BIRTH Öhringen
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1703
Place of death Altdorf