Johann Wolff (physician)

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Johann Wolff (* around 1550 in Marburg ; † June 1, 1616 ibid) was a Marburg doctor.

Life

Wolff, son of Jakob Wolff and Elisabeth Mantels, studied medicine, presumably in Marburg and then in Padua , where he matriculated on May 22, 1576, and in Basel , where he was awarded a doctorate on March 12, 1577. med. received his doctorate. In February 1578 he became a full professor of medicine at the University of Marburg and stayed there until the end of his life. He was rector of the university several times (1585/86, 1589/90, 1597/98, 1602, 1606) and represented it in the state parliaments in 1597 and 1598.

Wolff published medical writings on various topics, including the plague , melancholy and the Wildunger Sauerbrunnen. From the beginning of 1586 until his death in 1604, he was also the personal physician of Landgrave Ludwig IV of Hesse-Marburg .

In 1582 he acquired the Scheuenschloßsche estate on Marburg Castle Hill. There he lived with his wife, the widow Christine Oldendorp, née Ulner († 1631), a daughter of the Marburg Professor of Law and Court Judge Hermann Ulner († 1566) and daughter-in-law of Johann Oldendorp . Together with his wife he founded the Wolff Fideikommiß , a hospital for the poor in Ockershausen . After his death, his widow entered her third marriage with the lawyer and Vice Chancellor Georg von Lettow († 1656 or 1665).

Johann Wolff's brother Hermann Wolff († 1620) was also a professor of medicine in Marburg and served Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel as personal medicine. Another brother, Lorenz Wolff (1549–1600), was a councilor in Marburg .

literature

  • Wilhelm Dilich : Urbs et academia Marpurgensis succincte descripta et typis efformata . Manuscript, early 17th century. Edited in book form by Julius Caesar . Elwert, Marburg 1867, p. 89 f. ( Digitized version )
    Dilich's first erroneous statement appears that Wolff from Marburg was born on August 10, 1537 in Bergzabern , which is based on a confusion with the Mundelsheim bailiff Johann Wolff . This error runs through the later literature and appears among others in Freher (1688), Jöcher (1751), Hirsch-Gurlt (1888) and in Pagel's short biography in the ADB (1898); occasionally with the (also erroneous) addition that he and the bailiff of the same name were (twin) brothers.
  • Paul Freher: Theatrum virorum eruditione clarorum. Hofmann, Nuremberg 1688, p. 1335 ( digitized version ).
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General scholarly lexicon . Volume 4 (S-Z), Gleditsch, Leipzig 1751, Sp. 2051 ( digitized version ).
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story . Volume 17, Marburg 1819, pp. 278-281 ( digitized version ).
  • August Hirsch , Ernst Julius Gurlt : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples . Volume VI, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1888, p. 312.
  • Julius Pagel :  Wolf (f), Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 758 f.
  • Franz Gundlach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. The academic teachers at the Philipps University in Marburg from 1527–1910 . Elwert, Marburg 1927 (there number 301).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucia Rossetti (ed.): Matricula Nationis Germanicae Artistarum in Gymnasio Patavino (1553-1721). Padua 1986, p. 39, no.332.
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH around 1550
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1616
Place of death Marburg