Johann Wolf (doctor)

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Johann Wolf , also Wolfius (born January 25, 1580 in Stadtoldendorf ; † August 28, 1645 in Hanover ), was a German physician , ducal personal physician and university professor .

Life

Johann Wolf was born in Stadtoldendorf in 1580 as the son of the local mayor. From 1591 to 1593 he attended the school of the nearby Amelungsborn monastery and then the school in the Riddagshausen monastery near Braunschweig . In 1596 he became a seminarist in the Mariental monastery near Helmstedt . Wolf was admitted to the Konvikt of the University of Helmstedt as a ducal scholarship holder in 1597 , where he passed the master's examination in 1600. He subsequently gave private tuition in philosophy and metaphysics before starting to study medicine in 1601. He practiced from 1604 to 1605 in Braunschweig with the renowned doctor Hermann Conerding and then settled as a city ​​physician in Wolfenbüttel . Wolf became Dr. med. doctorate and followed in 1612 a call to full professor of medicine in Helmstedt. The Brunswick Duke Friedrich Ulrich († 1634) appointed him personal physician in 1631. In 1636 Wolf went to Hildesheim as Duke Georg's personal physician and to his son, Duke Christian Ludwig , in Hanover. There he died in August 1645 at the age of 65 without having given up his Helmstedt professorship.

His daughter Agnes Sophie Wolf (1636–1664), who was born in Braunschweig, was married to the Osteroder Stadtphysicus and mayor Statius Heinrich Crauel (1623–1686) since 1654 .

Johann Wolf was buried on September 3, 1645 in the castle church in Hanover.

Fonts (selection)

  • Exercitationes Semioticae . Helmstedt 1620.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. CA Starke: Archives for kin research and all related areas . Volume 41, Starke Verlag, Bad Salzdetfurth 1975.
  2. Justus Gesenius: LeichSermon / Outside the hymn of praise of old Simeonis / Luc. 2.: Bey funeral Deß ... Johannis Wolffii, Medicinae Doctoris ... Which fell asleep on August 28th anno 1645 in Hanover ... / and on September 3rd. all there in the castle church. Held / by Iusto Gesenio SS. Theol. D. ... , Hannover: Glaser, 1646, title page
  3. Wolf, (Johann). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 58, Leipzig 1748, column 709.