Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg

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Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg , also Johann Schenck von Grafenberg ( Latin: Ioannes Schenckius ; born June 10, 1531 in Grafenberg in Württemberg near Nürtingen ; † November 12, 1598 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German doctor and one of the pioneers of neurolinguistics .

life and work

Johannes Schenck studied at the University of Würzburg with Jakob Degen and Leonhart Fuchs and received his doctorate in 1554 . He then worked briefly as a resident doctor in Strasbourg , and soon afterwards as a city ​​doctor in Freiburg im Breisgau. His studies on language disorders caused by neurotrauma were considered trend-setting in the 16th century. In 1584 he used artificial ventilation for the first time . In the same year he published his personal and the observations of colleagues on speech disorders in the treatise Observationes medicae de capite humano . His best-known work is the seven-volume compendium Observationes medicarum rararum with descriptions of pathological symptoms on the entire human body. It also includes a description of the cleft bladder that Schenck von Grafenberg first described in 1597. In Freiburg, the Schenkstrasse is named after him.

His son Johann Georg Schenck von Grafenberg was also a doctor.

Main work

  • Παρατηρησεων sive Observationum medicarum rararum, novarum, admirabilium et monstrosarum libri septem. Freiburg (Martin Beckler), 1594–1599:
    • De capite humano. 1599
    • De Partibus Vitalibus Thorace contentis. 1594
    • De Partibus naturalibus Sectio prior De Ventriculo, Intestinis et Mesenterio. 1595
    • De Partibus naturalibus Sectio posterior De Iecore, Liene, Renibus, Vesica urinaria etc. 1596
    • De Partibus genitalibus utriusque sexus. 1596
    • De partibus externis. 1596
    • De febribus, morbis epidemicis, pestilentibus, et contagiosis. 1597
    • De venenis. 1597.

literature

  • Rudolf Robert Maier : Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg. His time, his life, his works. , Freiburg, 1878.
  • Julius Pagel :  Schenck von Grafenberg, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 58.
  • Tilman Kiehne: The medical case studies of the Freiburg city doctor Johann Schenck von Grafenberg (1531-1598). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 16, 1997, pp. 211-231.
  • Rainer Bittner: Dentistry in the works of Johann Schenck von Grafenberg. Medical dissertation Freiburg 1963.
  • Karl Enigk: History of helminthology in German-speaking countries , Verlag G. Fischer, Jena 1986, ISBN 978-3-437-20350-3 , p. 296, preview in Google book search

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year 1584 in 2000 years of world events .
  2. ^ Julius Leopold Pagel:  Schenck von Grafenberg, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 58.
  3. ^ WH Rösch, AK Ebert: History of bladder exstrophy treatment in Germany in Der Urologe , issue 46, number 12, December 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Schenck von Grafenberg, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schenckius, Ioannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1530 or June 21, 1530
PLACE OF BIRTH Grafenberg in Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1598
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau