Johannes Vischer

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Johannes Vischer portrayed by Anton Ramsler in 1590, held in the Tübingen Professorengalerie

Johannes Vischer (born December 19, 1524 in Wemding , † April 21, 1587 in Tübingen ) was a physician and professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

Life

Johannes Vischer, the son of Georg Vischer and his wife Sybilla born. Fuchs was born, after completing his medical doctorate in Bologna on July 8, 1553, he became a city physician in Rothenburg ob der Tauber , and later (from 1568) professor of medicine in Tübingen .

In 1553 Vischer married his first wife Sibille Hentz. From this marriage a daughter Sibille (born March 6, 1555) was born. In his second marriage, shortly before his death in 1587, Vischer was still married to Margaretha Königsbach.

Johannes Vischer, like his cousin and colleague Leonhart Fuchs u. a. with the use of plants and herbs in medicine and contributed pictures to the Fuchs' herbal manual ("New Kreüterbuch").

In the holdings of the Rothenburg ob der Tauber City Library, 60 writings are cataloged in 20 volumes, which were cataloged in 1537 by the first librarian of the rebuilt St. Michaels or St. Jakobs Library, M. Johannes Hornburg, from the inventory of the city physicist Johannes Vischer were acquired.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RA Müller: Vischer, Johannes . In: Laetitia Boehm, Winfired Müller, Wolfgang J. Smolka, Helmut Zedelmaier (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Part I: Ingolstadt-Landshut 1472-1826 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1998, p. 456 .