Johann Zacharias Platner

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Johann Zacharias Platner, engraving by Johann Martin Bernigeroth (1749)

Johann Zacharias Platner (born August 16, 1694 in Chemnitz , † December 19, 1747 in Leipzig ) was a German medic.

Life

Johann Zacharias Platner

The son of the Chemnitz businessman and mayor Dr. med. Zacharias Platner (born December 13, 1658 in Chemnitz; † November 29, 1729 ibid) and his wife Anna Magdalena Schnorr von Carolsfeld (born September 24, 1674 in Chemnitz; † November 22, 1731 in Chemnitz) should initially take up the father's profession . From 1704 he attended the city school in his hometown and in 1712 he moved to the University of Leipzig . Here he wanted to devote himself to the medical sciences. According to the university customs of that time, he initially completed a degree in philosophy. On the side, he attended the lectures of August Quirinus Rivinus and other medical lecturers.

In 1715 he moved to the University of Halle to listen to the then well-known lectures by Georg Ernst Stahl . Here he met Christian Thomasius and received his doctorate in medicine on September 25, 1716 . Returning to Leipzig, he acquired the academic degree of Magister in Philosophy in February 1717 . He then went on a scientific journey that took him through Germany, to the University of Paris and the University of Leiden .

In Leiden he was a student of Herman Boerhaave and Bernhard Friedrich Albinus and in Paris of John Thomas Woolhouse (1666–1734), where he mainly dealt with ophthalmology. Via Chemnitz he returned to Leipzig in 1720, where he settled down and became an associate professor of anatomy and surgery in 1721 , a full professor of physiology in 1724, a full professor of anatomy and surgery in 1734, a professor of pathology in 1737 and a professor of therapy in 1747.

With the last appointment he had also become medical advisor at the court of the elector. However, he did not stay in this position for long, as he died that same year. His successor was his student Justus Gottfried Güntz. Platner had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Leipzig University, had been dean of the medical faculty and was rector of the alma mater in the winter semester of 1727 .

family

Platner met in Leipzig on April 12, 1724 with Christiane Sophie (* August 2, 1703 in Leipzig; † February 12, 1790 there), the eldest daughter of the Leipzig law professor Christoph Schreiter (* April 19, 1662 in Wurzen; † September 21 1720) and his wife Sophia Christiane Möbius (* July 2, 1677 in Leipzig; † August 30, 1737 there) married. From the children we know:

  • Rahel Platner (~ April 6, 1727 in Leipzig)
  • Zacharias Platner I (~ April 6, 1629 in Leipzig)
  • Friedrich Platner (1730–1770)
  • Zacharias Platner II (~ August 14, 1732 in Leipzig)
  • Christina Platner (~ September 11, 1733 in Leipzig)
  • Lebrecht Platner (~ September 11, 1735 in Leipzig)
  • Sybilla Platner (1736–1788) married. with Ernst Wilhelm Faber at Stetteritz,
  • Augustinus Platner (~ March 22, 1732 in Leipzig)
  • Christina Platner (* 1740) married. 1763 with Christian Felix Weisse (1726–1804)
  • Christoph Platner (~ September 23, 1742 in Leipzig)
  • Ernst Platner (1744-1818)

Fonts

  • Prolusio XVIII qua, medicos de insanis et furiosis audiendos esse, ostendit. 1740
  • De iis, qui ex tuberculis gibberosi fiunt. Leipzig 1744
  • Thorough introduction to surgery or brief instructions to cure all diseases that surgeons may encounter, partly with internal and external medicines, and partly with operations. 1748
  • Panegyrin indicit et de curatione infirmorum articulorum per stillicidium disserit. Leipzig 1746
  • Introduction to the Wundarztney. 1786
  • Sectionem publicam cadaveris masculini et demonstrationes chirurgicas ... in theatro anatomico oriendas. 1734
  • Institutiones Chirurgiae rationalis tum medicae tum Manualis in usum discentium. 1745, 1758, 1761, 1783, German in 2nd vol. 1749 and 1786 in Dutch in 2nd vol. 1764, 1765 ( online )
  • Ars medendi, singvlis morbis accommodata. 1765 ( online )

literature

  • Johann August Ernesti, Gottlob F. Rothe: Monuments and eulogies to learned men. Schwickert, Leipzig 1792 ( Google books )
  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Platner, Johann Zacharias. In: Werner Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner: Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 3110157144 , p. 1168. ( Google books )
  • Carl Rabl, Karl Sudhoff: History of the anatomy at the University of Leipzig. Barth, Leipzig 1909, p. 55.
  • August Hirsch:  Platner, Johann Zacharias . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 262.
  • Johann Nepomuck Rust: Theoretical-practical manual of surgery. Volume 13. Berlin, Vienna, 1834 p. 450 ( Google books )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Klimpel : Justus Gottfried Güntz (1714–1754). Some remarks on the person and work of the Saxon doctor. In: Würzburg medical history reports. 14, Volume 14, 1996, pp. 421-426.
personal data
SURNAME Platner, Johann Zacharias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1694
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1747
Place of death Leipzig