Johann Peter Lotichius

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Johann Peter Lotichius (born March 8, 1598 in Nauheim , County of Hanau ; † March 31, 1669 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German humanist , physician , poet and historiographer .

Johann Peter Lotichius, engraved in copper by Matthäus Merian 1626.

Life

On March 8, 1598, the son of Nauheim priest Nicolaus Lotichius (a nephew of Peter Lotichius Secundus born), the keen young 1609 attended by 1614 from the Reformation Abbot Peter Lotichius founded school in Schlüchtern and began 16 years ago to study medicine at the University in Marburg , he at the 1616 University of Basel to there in 1619 continued with the promotion to complete a doctorate in medicine. In between he attended the University of Padua , where he matriculated on October 30, 1618. In 1620 he first became a doctor in Hanau , where in 1623 he also taught as a professor of physics at the grammar school there .

In 1624 he got a job as court medic at the court of Johann Ludwig zu Hadamar as well as an associate professor for medicine in Frankfurt, which is why he settled there as a doctor as early as 1625. Here he married Elisabeth von Hamel on August 2nd of the same year. In Frankfurt he received a call from the University of Rinteln , which he accepted as a welcome security for his family in 1629. His annual salary was 200 thalers and, in addition, "a special allowance of 60 thalers granted to him by the sovereign", which Lotichius was to obtain "at the first opportunity" on the instructions of the Landdrosten von Münchhausen. From 1629 on Lotichius worked as a professor of medicine in Rinteln.

Due to declining student numbers during the Thirty Years' War and the resulting reduced college fees from 1632, he also got a job as an imperial field doctor in nearby Minden with a second appointment in Bückeburg by Count Jobst Herrmann von Schaumburg "as a Leibmedicus and extraordinary for 300 thalers and 25 thalers of oat money ". After the Count's death in 1635 and due to the precarious economic situation, Lotichius returned to Hanau in 1636.

In 1639 he became professor of medicine at the University of Marburg and in 1642 he was given a professorship in medicine at the High School in Herborn . In 1644 he was briefly in Butzbach before he returned to Frankfurt in the same year. Emperor Ferdinand appointed him there to the endowed Imperial Councilor and historiographer, a position that finally allowed him to devote himself increasingly to his literary work.

The humanist circle of friends of JP Lotichius included Johann Georg Styrzel (1591–1668) from Augsburg, who was mayor of Rothenburg ob der Tauber for many years .

Lotichius and his wife Elisabeth von Hamel had three sons and six daughters, all of whom left their father with no offspring and mostly died in childhood. He himself died on March 21, 1669 in Frankfurt am Main.

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The versatile work of the late humanist scholar, mainly written in Latin, ranges from the early poemata (1620) to panegyric poems (1651) on the House of Habsburg . Among other things, it includes his 4-part Bibliotheca Poetica , which documents his own erudition and offers a bio-bibliographical listing of 169 poets and 4 female poets in Greek and Latin from the mythical prehistoric times to the first quarter of the 17th century. The mostly one to two-page articles of JP Lotichius deal with 59 ancient authors (from Linos to Arator ) and 114 poets of the modern age, with two to five, but sometimes also more than ten pages ( Philipp Melanchthon , Petrus Lotichius Secundus ), whereby the Middle Latin literature is left out.

In addition to the purely medical writings, the medical-philological and medical-philosophical treatises, academic speeches and treatises as well as contemporary historical works on the course of the war in the years 1631–1643 and 1643–1647 form the varied oeuvre of JP Lotichius. He cherished the memory of his great uncle and poet Petrus Lotichius Secundus (1528–1560) and edited the writings of his brother Christian (1530 / 1531–1568), rector of the monastery school in Schlüchtern, as well as their two uncles Petrus Lotichius (1501–1567) ), who led the Schlüchtern monastery as abbot to the Reformation .

Fonts (selection)

  • Bibliotheca Poetica in 4 parts, Frankfurt 1625, 1626 and 1628
  • Holofernes , Frankfurt 1625 [a Bible poem]
  • Gynaicologia , Rinteln 1630; German translation: Frankfurt 1645 [medical treatise and defense of the female sex]
  • Casei Nequitia, Tractatus Medico-Philogicus novus , Frankfurt 1643 [medical case collection]
  • Satyricon: Super profligatis Neronianae tempestatis moribus: Commentariis, Sive Excursibus Medico-Philosophicis Itemque Notis , 2 volumes, Frankfurt 1629
  • Theatrum Europaeum , Part 5 Rerum Germanicarum libri for the years 1643–1647, Frankfurt 1650 [published inGermanby Matthäus Merian ]
  • Panegyricus Frankfurt 1651 (praising seal on the House of Habsburg )

Front pages

  • Holofernes 1625

  • Casei Nequitia 1643

  • Consiliorum 1644

  • Panegyric 1651

literature

  • Dieter Wessinghage: The high school in Herborn and its medical faculty - 1584 - 1817 - 1984 , FKSchattauer Stuttgart / New York 1984, ISBN 379451016X .
  • Gerhard Schormann : Academia Ernestina: The Schaumburg University of Rinteln on the Weser 1618 / 21-1810 , Braun-Elwert Marburg 1982, p. 131f, ISBN 3770807529 .
  • Wilhelm Stricker:  Lotichius, Johann Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 268 f.
  • Karl Siebert: Hanauer biographies from three centuries. Hanauer Geschichtsverein , Hanau 1919 (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter NF 3/4 ), pp. 125–127.
  • Catalogus Professorum Rintelensium, The Professors of the University of Rinteln and the Academic Gymnasium in Stadthagen 1610-1810, arr . by Willy Hänsel, Rinteln 1971, p. 53, no. 88.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dieter Wessinghage: The high school in Herborn and its medical faculty , 1984, p. 50f
  2. ^ Gerhard Schormann: Academia Ernestina , 1982, pp. 131f
  3. ↑ Full title (wording): Gynaicologia: id est De Nobilitate & perfectione sexus Feminei, contra Mastiges: [diaskepsis] Physica, Publici exercitii igitur in Academia Rintelana Proposita à Jo. Petro Lotichi, Medicin. D ejusdemq [ue] ibidem profession. P. / Rinthelij ad Visurgim, Typis exscripsit Petrus Lucius Typogr. Acad. M. DC. XXX. , 1630
  4. ↑ Full title (wording): Theatrum Europaeum, or detailed and accurate description of all and every memorable stories, so now and then in the world for namely but in Europe and Germany so well in religion as a prophetic being from the year of Christ 1617 bit on that Year 1629 ... described by M. Joannem Philippum Abelinum, ...; continued by H. Oraeus, Jo. Pet. Lotichius ...; with beautiful Lund panels brought to Kupffer ... adorned and published by Mathaeum Merian ... , Franckfurt am Mayn: bey W. Hoffmann, 1635–1652
  5. ↑ Full title (wording): Io. Petr Lotichii, D. Medici, et CP Caesar. / Holofernes / sive / Universa Historia Sacra Holofernis et Judihae, iuxta fidem & feriem veteris Testamenti, heroico carmiane conscripta, & secunda editione recognita. / Acceßit eiusdem Authoris Studiosus Miles / sive / Dialogus Elegiaco Carmine Proponens quamobrem ht Studiosi relictu Musis militare cogantur. / Francofurti, Sumptibus Lucae Jennissii, 1625
  6. ↑ Full title (wording): Consiliorum et observationum medicinalium libri VI in quibus plerorumque corporis humani affectuum curationes, praesertim remedia euporista, ab ipsomet autore partim inventa, partim ab aliis ante experta ... proponuntur / Ulmae Suevorum: Impensis typannis ex Gerlin Kuehne, 1644
  7. ↑ Full title (wording): Super Serenissimi Et Potentissimi DD Maximiliani, Utriusque Bavariae, & Palatinatus Superioris, Ducis, Comitis Palatini ad Rhenum, S. Rom. Imperii Archidapiferi, & Electoris Landgravii Leuchtenbergii. Principis Sua Aetate Invicti & Magni Excessu. Ad ... DD Ferdinandum, Utriusque Bavariae, & Palatinatus Superioris, Ducem, Comitem Palatinum Rheni ... Filium. Panegyricus / authors Jo. Petro Lotichio / Francofurti ad Moenum: typis JF Weisii, 1651
personal data
SURNAME Lotichius, Johann Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lotich; Loticchi; Loticchi; Loticchius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German late humanist and physician
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1598
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Nauheim
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1669
Place of death Frankfurt am Main