Johann Woyssel

Johann Woyssel ( Johannes Woyssel Wratislaviensis ) (* 1544 ; † 1586 ) was an imperial doctor.

His father of the same name (attested approx. 1541–1560) was a pharmacist who founded the botanical garden in Breslau. As can be seen from Conrad Gessner's Horti Germaniae from 1560, his father Johann Woyssel founded his botanical garden in what was then Russischen Straße, Breslau; possibly the first in Germany. However, this did not gain the fame of the one that was later founded in 1587 by Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau .

Johann Crato von Krafftheim awarded him a letter of arms, dated Vienna May 1, 1569, (medal for the Breslau doctor Woyssel, in: Schlesiens Vorzeit in Bild und Schrift NF 5, 1909, p. 253)

From June 1570 to the end of June 1571 he officiated in Padua first as a procurator, then as a consultant of the German artist nation. His brother Sigismund († 1607) was a city doctor in Breslau.

literature

• Antonio Favaro (ed.), Atti della nazione Germanica artista nello studio di Padova, Volume 1, Venice 191, p. 71
• Lucia Rossetti (Ed.): Matricula nationis Germanicae artistarum in Gymnasio Patavino (1553-1721) . Antenore, Padua 1986, no.240
• Manfred P. Fleischer : Late humanism in Silesia. Selected essays . Delp, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7689-0207-2 , p. 13
• Kaczorowski, Śląscy lekarze, p. 62.
• Matriculation entry in Padua: Johannes Woyssel Wratislaviensis September 21, 1569. Marginal note: "Obiit 1586."
• AWC Th. Henschel: On the history of botanical gardens and botany in general in Silesia in the XV. u. XVI. Century [2. Part], in: Allg. Gartenzeitung, 5th year, No. 22 (May 3, 1837), 169–173, here 169 f.

Web links

• Claudia Zonta: Silesian students at Italian universities. (PDF) A prosopographical study on the early modern history of education. Archived from the original on December 27, 2008 ; accessed on August 23, 2019 .