Johann Philipp Burggrav

Johann Philipp Burggrav , also Johann Philipp Burggrave the Elder , (born February 19, 1673 in Darmstadt , † March 1746 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German doctor .

Life

Burggrav was the son of the pharmacist Philipp Peter Burggrav († 1678). He studied medicine in particular at the universities of Giessen , Jena and Leiden . In Leiden, he was with the dissertation De malo sinensi aureo to Dr. med. PhD . He then became a doctor in his hometown. On December 31, 1703, Landgrave Ernst Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt appointed him ordinary city ​​physician .

Burggrav turned to Frankfurt am Main in 1706. There he was accepted as a general practitioner on September 8, 1706 . At the same time he was given the office of Electoral Mainz Land Medicus. Not only was he educated in medicine, but he also had knowledge of the Hebrew language, which enabled him to explain the scriptures . He died in Frankfurt am Main and was buried there on March 19, 1746.

Johann Philipp Burggrave , the Frankfurt doctor and family doctor of the Goethe family, was his son.

Works (selection)

• De malo Sinensi aureo , Leiden 1694.
• Libitina ovans fatis hygieae , Frankfurt am Main 1701.
• Jatrice ominum lethique curiosa , Frankfurt am Main 1706.
• De difficili pariter ac jucundo Medicinae studio , Frankfurt am Main 1710.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian history of scholars and writers, from the Reformation to the present day , Volume 2, Barmeier, Göttingen 1782, pp. 76–78.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher , Johann Christoph Adelung : General scholarly lexicon , 1st supplementary volume (A and B), Gleditsch, Leipzig 1784, Sp. 2443 f.
• Wilhelm Stricker :  Burggrave, Johann Philipp sen. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 602 f.

Web links

• Works by and about Johann Philipp Burggrav  in the German Digital Library