Johann Neander
Johann Neander (* probably 1596 in Bremen ; † around 1630 in Bremen) was a German doctor, medical historian and poet who taught in Bremen and became known as the author of Tabacologia , the first German treatise on tobacco and its use .
Life
Only a few dates from the life of Johann Neander are known: In October 1614 he enrolled at the Bremen Gymnasium Illustre , and later named his teachers among others Matthias Martinius , Ludwig Crocius and the doctors Balthasar Reidius and Gerhard de Neufville. On September 16, 1616, he enrolled to study medicine at the University of Leiden , in 1622 he published his tobacco monograph Tabacologia for the first time with Isaac Elsevier . In the same or the following year he returned to Bremen back, practiced here (maybe in the court of the Archbishop ), probably until his death, as a doctor and was in 1623 in Bremen's History of Medicine (Antiquissimae et nobilissimae Medicinae natalitia [...]) appear . In 1627 he dedicated a systematic summary of medical opinions about this plant, brought from North America , to the sassafras tree and its use as a medicinal plant. With the publication of a collection of epigrams , the biography and work of Johann Neander are available for the last time in 1632.
The tabacologia
Neander's main work is the first German-language description of tobacco, its extraction, processing and medical-pharmaceutical use. His interest is in the medical applicability and effectiveness, less in the luxury goods, which his contemporaries also viewed critically.
Tobacco helps against colds , infections , headaches , worms , sleep addiction , toothache , scurvy , stone and kidney disease , catarrh and arthritis . Here, too, Neander systematically summarizes the opinions of his peers, some of which he had specifically obtained for publication. The first edition from 1622 contains some copper engravings on botanical illustrations, Indian, Oriental and European pipe types as well as three depictions of cultivation and processing by the Indians.
Works
- Tabacologia: Hoc est, Tabaci, seu Nicotinae descriptio Medico-Cheirurgico-Pharmaceutica […] . Isaak Elzevier, Leiden 1622. (Also: Leiden 1626 and Bremen 1627) doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.8110
- Syntagma in quo antiquissimae et nobilissimae medicinae natalitia, sectae earumque placita etc. depinguntur. Addita est ejusdem De Medicina Hermetica & Paracelsica lectu haut injucunda dissertatio . Johann Wessel (I), Bremen 1623.
- Sassafrasologia: Hoc est tecmarsis nobile sassafras lignum dextrè ac feliciter. In omnibus ferme Corporis humani incommodis in usum ducendi […] . Johann Wessel (I) heirs, Bremen 1627.
- Iohannis Neandri […] Decadum annagrammatis morum praemium . Johann Wessel (I) heirs, Bremen 1632.
literature
- Heinrich Schecker: The Bremen cultural historian and doctor Johannes Neander , in: Bremisches Jahrbuch 29, 1924, pp. 121–126.
- Thomas Elsmann: In the shadow of the merchant - Bremen scholars 1600–1900. Schünemann, Bremen 2012, pp. 12–31.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke : Neander, Johannes. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1028.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neander, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tabacologia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic, philosopher and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1595 or 1596 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | uncertain: Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1632 |