Johann Wilhelm Mannagetta
Johann Wilhelm Mannagetta (born May 1 , according to other sources May 15, 1588 in Wilhelmsburg in Lower Austria; † May 31, 1666 in Vienna ) was the imperial personal physician, university professor, historian and mathematician and rector of the University of Vienna .
Life
Johann Wilhelm (knight) von Mannagetta (later Mannagetta von Lerchenau) came from an old Italian patrician family . His grandfather Valentino Mannagetta moved from Bologna to Austria under the Enns . Johann Wilhelm received his doctorate in medicine in Vienna, he was then often dean of the medical faculty and rector of the university. He held the office of Rector of the University of Vienna a total of seven times (1633; 1641; 1648/49; 1652/53; 1653/54; 1660/61; 16661/62). He was also Protomedicus for the province and personal physician to three monarchs (Ferdinand II, Ferdinand III and Leopold I). As a reward, he received a diploma as Comes palatinus et sacri palatii ( Count Palatinate and Court ) in 1630 and later on January 4, 1637 the Imperial Knighthood with "von Lerchenau" (and with extension to his three brothers: Matthäus, Carl and Franz) . Until 1637 Mannagetta also served as court mathematician with Johann Wilhelm Rechberger von Rechberg. 1662 Mannagetta received from Leopold I commissioned the Fugger'sche supplement Austrian studbook.
He was married to Anna Susanna Sophia Magdalena von Kielmansegg for the second time , the marriage remained childless. He died in 1666 and his grave is in the Stefanskirche in Vienna. He donated his great fortune (e.g. to the Kielmansegg Foundation) and set up his own foundation, which still exists today: the Johann Wilhelm Ritter von Mannagetta Foundation .
Works
Significant among his medical works were the plague ordinance , which was still practiced into the 18th century , and a treatise on the circulation of blood. The Corona duodecim Caesarum e domo austriaca is considered to be his most important historical work, but most of his work is kept as a manuscript in the imperial court library. His plague ordinance was published by Paul de Sorbait in 1679 . In literary terms, Mannagetta also emerged as the author of two spa publications on Deutsch-Altenburg and Mannersdorf , in which he dealt with the effects of baths.
literature
- Oesterr. National Encyclopedia or Alphabetical ... Volume 3: I to M. Vienna 1835, p. 546 ff.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Mannagetta, Johann Wilhelm (I.) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1867, p. 383 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Biographical data on the University Library Med.Uni Vienna
- Johann W. Mannagetta: Ludwigstorffisches Baad book, or description, of the extraordinary virtue ... Vienna 1710 google.book
- Portrait of Johann W. Mannagetta (with coat of arms) on portraitindex.de
- Portrait of Johann W. Mannagetta on bildarchivaustria.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b University of Vienna, Institute for History link
- ↑ a b c d e Ralf Bröer: Court medicine. Structures of medical care at an early modern princely court using the example of the Viennese imperial court (1650–1750) , habilitation thesis for the history of medicine (chair holder Wolfgang U. Eckart ), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2006, pp. 62 + 63, pp. 285, p 522 + 523.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mannagetta, Johann Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mannagetta, Johann Wilhelm von; Mannagetta, Johann Wilhelm Ritter von; Mannagetta, Johann Wilhelm Ritter von Lerchenau (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Imperial personal physician, university professor, historian and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1588 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilhelmsburg (Lower Austria) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1666 |
| Place of death | Vienna |