Johann stomach book

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Johann stomach book

Johann Magenbuch (or Johannes Magenbuch ; in some sources also called Megabachus ; * 1487 in Blaubeuren , † October 14, 1546 in Eichstätt ) was a German physician and personal physician .

Live and act

The son of a family resident there according to the monastery register of Blaubeuren studied since April 29, 1518 at the University of Wittenberg , where he got to know and appreciate Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon , among others . Through them, Magenbuch became a staunch supporter and advocate of the Reformation . In Wittenberg he received his baccalaureate on October 11, 1519 and on February 6, 1522 he became a master of the seven liberal arts . He then became a teacher in Ulm. During that time he pursued a medical degree and received his doctorate under Augustin Schurff on December 9, 1523 in Wittenberg as a doctor of medicine.

In the meantime he stayed in Erfurt for study purposes , where he lived with the humanist poet Helius Eobanus Hessus . He then went to Italy, where he completed further specialist studies both in Venice and at the University of Padua . After his trip to Italy, he returned to Germany and settled in Nuremberg as a city ​​physician in 1524 . In 1526, the stomach book attracted special attention through the compilation of a medical history , a diary sorted chronologically for the first time with patient names, information about their diseases, medication prescriptions and the respective course of the disease, as it became common in the following period in the context of the anamnesis .

In addition, he taught at the Protestant University of Marburg , which was founded by Landgrave Philipp I of Hesse in 1527, and was also appointed by him as his personal physician. His old friend Martin Luther also repeatedly used the medical abilities of Magenbuch and expressed his gratitude for this in 1544 with a personally signed edition of his first volume of the Genesis lecture: " in primum librum mose enarrationes " (Wittenberg, 1544, near Seitz).

In the meantime, however, the Catholic emperor and opponent of Philip I, Charles V , also recognized Magenbuch's medical expertise and also appointed him to be his personal physician. At the age of less than sixty, Magenbuch finally died on one of his business trips to Kassel and was buried in the Johannisfriedhof in Nuremberg .

family

Johann Magenbuch was married to Prisca Hunnia von Schweinitz from the Seifersdorf house in Silesia (1503–1537), daughter of Governor Christoph von Schweinitz (1469–1538). With her he had the daughter Helena (1523–1597), who later married the widower Andreas Osiander and after his death the pastor Johannes Ruckher (1526–1579) and was appointed by Duchess Sibylle von Württemberg as the first court pharmacist at the court pharmacy in Stuttgart .

Fonts (selection)

  • Compositiones quasdam medicas

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personal data
SURNAME Stomach book, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Megabachus, Johannus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and personal physician
DATE OF BIRTH 1487
PLACE OF BIRTH Blaubeuren
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1546
Place of death Eichstatt