Johannes Sturm (doctor)

Johannes Sturm (* 1570 in Lüneburg ; † November 14, 1625 in Greifswald ) was a German physician and logician .

Life

Johannes Sturm studied philosophy and medicine at the Universities of Rostock (1589) and Helmstedt . In Helmstedt he received his master's degree in 1594 . In 1599 he became professor of logic at the University of Greifswald . At the same time he turned more to medicine and, after completing his doctorate in medicine in 1604, worked as a recognized general practitioner. In 1608 he was called to Wolgast by Duke Philipp Julius of Pomerania as an archiater . He was the Duke's personal physician from 1608 to 1617 and accompanied him on his travels to Denmark , Courland and Poland . After the death of Christian Calenus in 1617 he took over his chair for medicine in Greifswald and his apartment in the former Dominican monastery.

Johannes Sturm undertook the first anatomical section in 1624. He has written a number of medical treatises. Because of a serious illness of the duke he was called back to Wolgast in 1624. Philipp Julius, who did not obey Sturm's orders, died in February of the following year. Johannes Sturm died in November of the same year.

family

Johannes Sturm married Agnetha Battus, daughter of Levinus Battus , in 1604 .

Individual evidence

↑ See the entry by Johannes Sturm in the Rostock matriculation portal
↑ ^a ^b Hans Georg Thümmel (Ed.), Christoph Helwig: History of the Medical Faculty Greifswald . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-515-07908-2 , p. 95 ( digitized version )

literature

Theodor Pyl : Sturm, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 38 f.

Web links

Publications by and about Johannes Sturm in VD 17 .
Literature about Johannes Sturm (medic) in the state bibliography MV
Johannes Sturm in the Rostock matriculation portal

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich Gerschow	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1618/19	Johann Trygophorus

personal data
SURNAME	Sturm, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sturm, Johann; Sturmius, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physician and logician
DATE OF BIRTH	1570
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH	November 14, 1625
Place of death	Greifswald

[1] See the entry by Johannes Sturm in the Rostock matriculation portal

[Helwig-2] Hans Georg Thümmel (Ed.), Christoph Helwig: History of the Medical Faculty Greifswald . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-515-07908-2 , p. 95 ( digitized version )