Johannes Magirus (medic, 1615)

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Johannes Magirus , also Johann Magirus , (born November 27, 1615 in Joachimsthal or Frankfurt (Oder) , † February 11, 1697 in Marburg ) was a German physician and mathematician .

Life

Magirus was the son of Tobias Magirus , a professor at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt . He initially received private lessons. Among others by Benjamin Ursinus . On June 5, 1631 he was admitted to the Thorner Gymnasium . On June 25, 1635, he was accepted to study mathematics and medicine at the University of Wittenberg . He returned to Frankfurt as early as 1636 and gave a mathematics course before going on a major study trip, on which he was in France as a Dr. med. PhD and studied at the University of Leiden .

After his doctorate was not recognized in Frankfurt, Magirus settled in Berlin. There he was active as a doctor and mathematician and in 1646 became the personal physician of Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg . In Berlin, as well as at the following stages in his life, he gave mathematical and medical colleges. In 1651 he became city ​​doctor of Zerbst , and in 1652 he was also professor of mathematics and physics at the illustrious Zerbst high school . In 1655, however, he got into a dispute with the neighbors there.

Magirus took so in 1656 a reputation as a professor of mathematics at the University of Marburg in. On March 12, 1659 he received the professorship of history and finally in 1661 a full professorship. In 1668 he was dean of the philosophical and medical faculties, and in 1670 again of the medical faculty. In 1670 he became the personal physician of Hedwig Sophie von Hessen , who appointed him privy councilor in 1676 .

Works (selection)

  • Writing calendar for the year after the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ in 1647: Outside astronomical and natural reasons, also the learned astrologorum experience, placed on the duchy of Silesia , Baumann, Breslau 1646.
  • with Caspar March and Hermann de Werve : Astrological description of the large, visible and reflective solar eclipse that occurred on August 2nd and 12th in 1654, Endter, Nuremberg 1654.
  • Prognosticon Astrologicum, or: Natural mass and taken from the path of the star , 1668.
  • Thoroughly and from all superstitious and idolatrous Chaldean, Egyptian, Arabic, Greek, Roman and other Heyden horrors and unreasonable unfounded opinions, and prognosticon and practice deduced from the right and ware star art. To the year after the wholesome birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. M.DC.LXXI. , Endter, Nuremberg 1670.

literature

  • Franz Gundlach : Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis Volume 1, Elwert, Marburg 1927, No. 645.
  • Sabine Schlegelmilch: Medical practice and social space in the 17th century: Johannes Magirus (1615–1697) , Böhlau, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-50451-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Magirus, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Magirus, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and physician
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1615
PLACE OF BIRTH Joachimsthal or Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1697
Place of death Marburg