Johann Nikolaus Pechlin

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Johann Nikolaus Pechlin (born December 20, 1646 in Leiden , † February 4, 1706 in Stockholm ) was a German-Dutch doctor and prince educator .

Life

The pastor's son Pechlin studied medicine in his hometown Leyden and was awarded a doctorate there in 1667 after defending his dissertation de apoplexia. med. PhD. He then went on a major scientific trip through Italy and stayed for some time at universities there. In 1678 Pechlin was appointed second professor of medicine at the University of Kiel alongside Johann Daniel Major . After disputes with Major, Pechlin left Kiel in 1680 and went to Schloss Gottorf as “Professor in absentia” and personal physician to Duke Christian Albrecht von Holstein-Gottorf with the title of Hofrat ; at the same time he became prefect of the Gottorf library. The nobility patent given to the Pechlin family in 1740 indicates that he later rose to become a judicial and chancellery advisor. Pechlin accompanied the young Duke Friedrich IV of Holstein-Gottorf to Stockholm in 1698, where Duke Hedwig Sophie of Sweden - a sister of King Karl XII. of Sweden - married. After Duke Friedrich IV fell in 1702, Pechlin traveled again to Stockholm in 1704 as the companion and tutor of the four-year-old Duke Karl Friedrich von Holstein-Gottorf, where he died in February 1706. On April 11, 1678 , Pechlin, nicknamed Telamon I, was elected a member of the Leopoldina and in 1688 he became a member ( Fellow ) of the Royal Society .

Since 1679 he was married to Anna Dorotea Langelott (* 1661), the daughter of his predecessor as personal physician, Joel Langelott . One of the couple's children, Johann von Pechlin , was elevated to the status of a German baron and was a Gottorfischer chancellor during the time of the Grand Duke . His son Carl Fredrik Pechlin became a Swedish general and politician and was involved in the assassination of King Gustav III. involved.

Fonts

A directory can be found at Eloy: Dict. hist. de la méd. , Mons 1779 III, p. 507 as well as in Albrecht von Haller , Bibl. Anat. I 598, Bibl. Chir. I 419 and Bibl. Med. pract. III 221

  • under the pseudonym Janus Philadelphus : Consultatio desultoria de optima Christianorum secta, et vitiis pontificiorum. Prodromus religionis medici. 2 editions 1688 and 1709
  • under the pseudonym Janus Leonicenus : Metamorphosis Æsculapii & Apollinis pancreatici. 2 editions 1672 and 1673
  • De purgantium medicamentorum facultatibus exercitatio nova. 6 editions between 1672 and 1702
( Digitized version of the Amsterdam 1672 edition from the library of Dickinson College )
  • De habitu & colore Aethiopum, qui vulgo nigritae liber. Kiel 1677
  • De aeris et alimenti defectu, et vita sub aquis, meditatio. 1676
  • Exercitatio Anatomico-Medica, De Fabrica Et Usu Cordis. 1676, new edition 1747
  • Theophilus Bibaculus; sive, De potu theae dialogus. 7 editions 1684
  • Observationum physico-medicarum libri III Hamburg: Schultze 1691
  • under the pseudonym Venantius Pacatus : Solitudo: seu querela de tempore. Hamburg: B. Schiller 1704

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Johannes Reinke: The oldest botanical garden in Kiel; documented representation of the establishment of a university institute in the seventeenth century. Kiel 1912, p. 12 ( archive.org ).
  2. ^ Member entry by Johann Nikolaus Pechlin at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 17, 2016.
  3. ^ Entry on Pechlin, Joannes Nicolaus (1646–1706) in the archive of the Royal Society , London
personal data
SURNAME Pechlin, Johann Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Dutch physician and prince educator
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1646
PLACE OF BIRTH Suffer
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1706
Place of death Stockholm