Johann Zwelfer

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Johann Zwelfer - also Johann Zwölffer and Johannes Zwelfer - (* 1618 ; † August 25, 1668 in Vienna ) was a German pharmacist, doctor and chemist.

Life

He was a pharmacist in the Palatinate for 16 years, then studied medicine in Padua and practiced in Vienna . He had good relations with the Viennese court, but was not an official court doctor. Zwelfer was a follower of Paracelsus . In 1652 he emerged as a critic of the Augsburg Pharmacopoeia (Pharmacopoeia Augustana) and criticized its blind compliance by doctors and the University of Augsburg as editor. His main work is the Pharmacopeia Regia (Royal Pharmacopoeia). Because of his polemical way of writing he got into heated arguments with colleagues, especially with Lucas Schroeck, Member of the Collegium medicum in Augsburg, and Michael Raphael Schmuz, a court and city medicus in Neuburg an der Donau, who had previously practiced in Augsburg. In 1671, three years after Zwelfer's death, Schmuz published an "Apologia contra Ioannem Zwelferum."

After Zwelfer's death, his books, skeleton and anatomical tables were bequeathed to the Medical Faculty in Vienna.

literature

  • Michael Nell: Johann Schröder (1600–1664) and Johannes Zwelfer (1618–1668) life and work, a comparison. Dissertation, Heidelberg 2004

Fonts

  • Pharmacopeia Regia seu Dispensatorium novum vera et accurata componendi ratione selectissimorum medicamentorum praescriptiones continens. locupletatum. Vienna 1652 (digitized version)
  • Pharmacopoeia Augustana Reformata et eius Mantissa. Cum Animadversionibus Joannis Zwelferi. Annexa ejusdem Autoris Pharmacopoeia Regia . Wilhelm Verhoeven, Gouda 1653 (digitized version)
  • Pharmacopeia Regia seu Dispensatorium novum locupletatum et absolutum, annexa etiam Mantissa Spagyrica: in quibus vera et accurata methodo selectissimorum Medicamentorum compositiones et praeparationes traduntur… Nuremberg 1675, (digitized) , Nuremberg 1693 (digitized)
  • Animadversiones in Pharmacopeiam Augustanam et annexam ejus mantissam, sive Pharmacopoeia Augustana reformata… 2nd edition Nuremberg 1657 (digitized version ) , 3rd edition Nuremberg 1667 (digitized version ) 1675 (digitized version) , 4th edition Nuremberg 1693 (digitized version)
  • Mr. Johann Zwölfern Royal Pharmacy or Dispensatory. Nuremberg 1692 (digitized version)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He does not use a corresponding title in his works
  2. ↑ a b Ralf Bröer: Court medicine. Court medicine. Structures of medical care at an early modern princely court using the example of the Viennese imperial court (1650–1750) , habilitation thesis History of Medicine (chair holder Wolfgang U. Eckart ), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , 2006, p. 75, p. 547.
personal data
SURNAME Zwelfer, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zwölffer, Johann; Zwelferus, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, pharmacist and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1618
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1668
Place of death Vienna