Johannes Küster von Rosenberg

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Johannes Küster , also Johann Coster , Latin Costerus , Custerus , Cöster , later ennobled as Küster von Rosenberg (* late 1614 / early 1615 in Gadebusch ; † February 22, 1685 in Reval ) was a 17th century German physician .

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Johannes Küster began studying medicine at the University of Rostock in June 1631 and continued it at the University of Königsberg . In 1640/41 he worked as a teacher at the cathedral school in Königsberg (Prussia) . In 1645 at the University of Leiden he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD to return to Königsberg in 1646. In July 1646 he presided over a medical disputation De Dysenteria . In 1649 he became a city ​​physician in the Hanseatic city of Wismar, which was then part of Sweden, and at the same time also a doctor in Lübeck . On April 20, 1657, Duke Christian Ludwig I of Mecklenburg appointed him his personal physician. From Wismar he went to the Baltic States for five years , where he practiced as a doctor for the Estonian knighthood in Reval . Here, too, he was also active as an archiatrist for King Charles X. Gustav of Sweden, who also elevated him to the nobility. After his early death in February 1660, he became the personal physician of his widow Hedwig Eleonora von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf . In 1667 he was called to Russia and became the personal physician of Tsar Alexei I. In 1678 he asked for his release and moved to Reval until his death.

Since May 28, 1647 he was married to Ursula, b. Thegen (* 1631; † July 31, 1676 in Moscow ; Thegin , Thehgin ), the daughter of the Königsberg merchant and councilor Bernhard Thegen. Simon Dach wrote a wedding joke for their wedding . Of the couple's five sons, their eldest son, Bernhard Coster von Rosenburg, also joined the Russian Federation as a doctor in 1674. Her daughter Hedwig Eleonora (born June 13, 1660 - April 16, 1683) married the kurf in 1677. Secret secretary, Muscovite agent and Spittelmeister of the large hospital in Königsberg Herrmann Dietrich Hesse.

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His main work Affectuum totius corporis humani praecip. theoria et praxis is divided into 97 overview sheets ( tabulae ) on which clinical pictures are systematically explained and diagnostic and therapeutic methods are suggested. Attached is his Relatio medica on the medical history and death of King Charles X Gustav.

Fonts

  • Affectuum totius corporis humani praecip. theoria et praxis, Frankfurt 1664
attached: Augustissimi, Gloriosissimae Memoriae, Caroli Gustavi, Regis Sueciae & c. & c. Morbi & Obitus Relatio Medica.
Partial digitization of the copy from the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt
Digitized version of the 2nd increased edition 1675; Copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Opera medica , Lübeck 1666

literature

  • Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Küster, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 437 f.
  • August Blanck , Axel Wilhelmi : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin: Herberger 1901, p. 24 (No. 117)
  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin: Publishing house of the state office of the Mecklenburg Medical Association 1929, p. 465
  • Alf Önnerfors : Med. Dr Johann Köster - von Rosenburg's relation rörande Karl X Gustav's sista sjukdom och död. In: Lychnos. Lärdomshistoriska samfundets årsbok 1989, pp. 55-101. (Edition and Swedish translation of the Relatio medica )
  • Sabine Dumschat: Foreign Medicines in Moscow Russia. (Sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe 67) Stuttgart: Steiner 2006 ISBN 9783515085120 Zugl .: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2003

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In reference works and in your own works mostly under this name (change request for the PND main heading has been made!)
  2. ↑ Registration of Johannes Küster in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Disputationem Medicam De Dysenteria In celeberrimam Academia Regiomontana ... Examini subiicit Praeses Johannes Costerus D. Respondente Johanne Storch. Hervordia-Westphalo. 27. Iulii ... Anno MDCXLVI Digitized copy of the copy in the Herzog August Library
  4. ↑ Simon Dach: Hochzeit-Schertz in special honor to ... Mr. Johann Cöstern, Artzney D. etc. And his beloved bride, The ... virgin. Ursulen Thehginn etc.: 1647. 28. Mey. Written. [Königsberg]: Reusner 1647 ( digitized copy of the Berlin State Library )
  5. ↑ Old Prussian Monthly Bulletin 19 (1882), p. 222
personal data
SURNAME Sexton from Rosenberg, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Küster, Johannes; Coster, Johann; Costerus; Coester
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Gadebusch
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1685
Place of death Reval