Johann Papius

Johann Papius (also: Pape, Papp ; * July 15, 1558 in Iphofen , † April 11, 1622 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German logician and physician.

Life

Papius had enrolled at the University of Tübingen on May 26, 1575 . He had continued his studies at the University of Strasbourg , where he obtained the degree of Master of Philosophy on March 11, 1578 . He then wanted to study theology, but switched to medicine. In 1579 he enrolled at the University of Basel . Here he had defended the dissertation De pulmonis ulcere theses on January 23, 1580 and was awarded his doctorate in medicine on February 2, 1580 .

In the same year on November 16, he enrolled at the University of Heidelberg , where he was appointed professor of logic (Organi Aristotelici) at the university's philosophical faculty. In the winter semester of 1582/83 he was dean of the philosophical faculty in Heidelberg. Because of religious disputes, he had to leave office on February 17, 1585. He went to Tübingen, where he received a recommendation for the Styrian estates from the Tübingen monastery . On the basis of that letter, he received a position as rector of the collegiate school in Graz in 1586 .

Here he had established contacts with Johannes Kepler , with whom he would later be in correspondence. At the end of 1594 he left Graz again and went to Tübingen. There he worked for three years as a general practitioner and in 1597 was appointed personal physician to the court of Georg Friedrich I of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach in Ansbach . After his death, he went to Königsberg in 1603 on the advice of the Ansbach councilors. In the same year he was given the first medical professorship at the University of Königsberg .

In this context he was appointed to the advice and personal physician of the family of Albrecht Friedrich von Prussia . During his university career, he mainly dealt with the theoretical part of medical science of the time and thus neglected the practical context during his tenure. Nevertheless, he had also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and had been rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semesters 1604/05, 1608/09, 1612/13 and 1618/19 .

Papius had married Anna, the daughter of the superintendent of the city of Calw, on May 5, 1585. His daughter Barbara married Johann Halbach von der Porten, who later became the priest in Brandenburg, in 1628.

Works

• De Medicamentorum praeparationibus earumque causis tractatus, in quo Epitome totius artis chimicae, quae illa est ministra medicinae, et judicium de pharmacopoeia Querectani continetur. Wittenberg 1612
• Disp. De anatomicae. Leipzig 1606
• Disp. De Ictero, de methodo analytica physicae acroaseos nixu fulta.
• Disp. De anima ejusque facultatibus.
• Disp. De anima ejusque facultatibus.
• Disp. De natura partium corporis humani.
• Disp. De prandii coenaeque temporis ac quantitate.
• Disp. De facultate medicamentorum purgante.
• Disp. De spasmo et epilepsia.

literature

• J. Gallandi: Königsberg councilors. In .: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly new series. Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr., 1882, p. 211
• JC Poggendorff: Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences. Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig, 1863, 2nd vol. P. 356
• Papius, Johann. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 26, Leipzig 1740, column 680.
• Jöcher : General scholars lexicon. Vol. 3, Col. 1236
• Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, 2nd part, p. 300
• Hanspeter Marti, Manfred Komorowski: The University of Königsberg in the early modern period. Verlag Böhlau, Cologne, 2008, ISBN 9783412201715 , p. 39
• Dagmar Drüll-Zimmermann: Heidelberg learned lexicon. Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 2002, ISBN 3540435301 , Volume 3, p. 432 f.