Johannes Schmiedt

Johannes Schmiedt (also Johann Schmiedt , Johann Schmidt , Fabricius , Fabritius , born December 1, 1623 in Danzig ; † March 3, 1690 ibid) was a Danzig physician and pioneer in researching aphasia and the effects of drug treatments given intravenously to people administered.

Life

Johannes Schmiedt was the son of the Danzig doctor Daniel Schmiedt (around 1588–1651). He studied medicine at the universities of Königsberg , Leiden , Paris and Montpellier and received his doctorate in Montpellier .

Schmiedt worked in Danzig from 1650 and became a city doctor in 1661.

Johannes Schmiedt's De oblivione lectionis ex apoplexia salva scriptione , published in 1676 with the Rothenburg city doctor Johann Augustin Philipp Gesner (1738-1801) and the Ulm city doctor Peter Rommel (1643-1708), was one of the pioneers in the study of speech disorders. In 1666 he described the intravenous treatment of syphilis . He became one of the pioneers of intravenous infusion therapy for various drugs used in humans and research into the effects of drug treatments given intravenously to humans. He worked with Johann Ernst Scheffler (around 1604–1673), with whom he developed the Dispensatorium officinarum pharmaceuticarum Gedanense .

He was one of fourteen doctors who had signed an application to the Danzig authorities on March 22, 1677 to create a medical self-government in the city Adumbratio Legum futuri Collegii Medici Gedanensis .

His correspondence with Johann Georg Volkamer has survived from his correspondence .

Schmiedt published various of his writings in the Leopoldina's publication organ, but never seems to have become a member of the Academy. Contrary to the information in various biographies, membership cannot be proven.

Johannes Schmiedt was married to Dorothea, née Wulff († 1655), widow of the businessman Heinrich Borbeck, and from 1659 to Anne Marie, née Riccius, a daughter of the Danzig chain store Christoph Riccius, from 1654. The doctor Johann Gabriel Schmiedt (April 2, 1662 Danzig - August 8, 1686 Helmstedt) was his son from his second marriage.

Schmiedt was buried in Gdansk in the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary .

Fonts

• with Johann Ernst Scheffler: Dispensatorium Gedanense continens omnia Materialia et Medicamenta Galenica, quem Chymica que in officinis Gedanensibus prostant, Auctoritete Magnif; et Ampliss. Senatus munitum, opera vero et studio Joh. Ernesti Scheffleri D. et Joh. Schmidt D. Physicorum huius loci ordinariorum adornetum, Anno a parte Virginis MDCLXV.
• De oblivione lectionis ex apoplexia salva scriptione . In: Miscellanae Curiosa Medico-Physica Acadamiae Naturae Curiosorum, 4, 1676, pp. 195–197 ( digitized version )

Letters

• Letter to Johann Georg Volkamer, Danzig March 16, 1669 Digitized
• Letter from Johann Georg Volkamer, Nuremberg, July 16, 1671 Digitized
• Letter to Johann Georg Volkamer, Danzig March 21, 1678 Digitized

literature

• Arthur Lester Benton & RJ Joynt: Three pioneers in the study of aphasia (Johann Schmidt, Peter Rommel, Johann Augustin Philipp Gesner). In: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 18, 1963, pp. 381-384
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Volume 4, S – Z, Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1751, pp. 289–290 digitized
• Peter Mortzfeld : Catalog of the graphic portraits in the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel 1500-1850 . Series A: The portrait collection of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel , vol. 43, supplement 6, L – Z, descriptions, KG Saur, Munich 2007 p. 218 ( digitized version )

Web links

• CERL Thesaurus : Schmiedt, Johannes
• Gedanopedia: FABRITIUS (Schmiedt) JOHANN
• Digital portrait index: Johannes Schmiedt
• Schmiedt, Johann in the German biography