Johann Michael Fehr
Johann Michael Fehr (born May 9, 1610 in Kitzingen ; † November 15, 1688 in Schweinfurt ) was a German doctor and co-founder of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum .
Life
Johann Michael Fehr was the son of the hospital master from Kitzingen, Michael Fehr, and his wife Margarete Martin, a daughter of the master builder Hans Martin.
Fehr studied medicine at the universities of Leipzig , Wittenberg , Jena and Altdorf near Nuremberg . He completed a long internship with Johann Ruppert Sultzberger, a physician from Saxony . Then Fehr went to the University of Padua . He then received his doctorate in 1641 for Dr. med. et phil.
After his return he married Maria Barbara, a daughter of the councilor Simon Meister, in Schweinfurt in 1642. With her he had three daughters and four sons, including the later doctor Johann Lorenz Fehr . He settled in Schweinfurt as a doctor and also carried out botanical studies on the side. After his first wife died, Fehr married Anna Maria, a daughter of councilor Johannes Otto, in Schweinfurt in 1658 . With her he had four daughters and three sons, including the later physician Johann Caspar Fehr (1668–1739).
On January 1, 1652, he founded the Academia Naturae Curiosorum , today's German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, together with his colleagues Johann Lorenz Bausch , Georg Balthasar Metzger and Georg Balthasar Wohlfahrt ( matriculation no. 2 ) . He gave himself the company name Argonauta I. and took over the office of president in Schweinfurt in 1666 after the death of the first president Johann Bausch, who had died a year earlier. Fehr held this office until 1686 and was replaced by Johann Georg Volckamer .
In 1666 Fehr also succeeded his colleague Johann Lorenz Bausch as town doctor. In 1672 Fehr was promoted to Reichsvogt von Schweinfurt and in 1686 he was appointed imperial physician.
For health reasons, Fehr resigned from all his offices in 1687. A year later he died at the age of 78 on November 15, 1688 in Schweinfurt.
Fonts (selection)
- Anchora sacra vel Scorzonera (1666)
- Hiera picra seu analecta de absynthio (1667)
literature
- Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 463 digitized
- Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 188 .
- Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 147 ( archive.org ).
Web links
- Anton Oeller: Fehr, Johann Michael. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 50 ( digitized version ).
- Publications by and about Johann Michael Fehr in VD 17 .
- Member entry of Johann Michael Fehr (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 4, 2017.
Remarks
- ↑ Article on Johann Ruppert Sultzberger in Stadtwiki Dresden
- ↑ Hiera picra (Heilig-Bitter-Latwerge): A bitter, laxative effect Latwerge ; see. CJS Thompson: Hiera Picra. In: Janus Volume 26, 1922, p. 251 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fehr, Johann Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor, co-founder of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1610 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kitzingen , Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1688 |
| Place of death | Schweinfurt |