Johannes Wesling

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Johannes Wesling , also Johann Vesling (* 1598 in Minden ; † August 30, 1649 in Padua ), was a physician and professor of anatomy and botany .

Life

He taught at the University of Padua in northern Italy and is considered the founder of comparative anatomy and embryology.

Johannes Wesling enrolled on November 5, 1620 the University of Leiden in order Medicine study. In 1623 he moved to the Imperial University of Groningen before moving to Padua on June 24, 1625, where he received his doctorate in 1629 with a dissertation on fever .

He then worked as a doctor and surgeon in Venice . His successful anatomical lectures and demonstrations aroused competition in Padua. In August 1628 Vesling was appointed personal physician to the ambassador of Venice in Cairo, Alvise Cornaro. In Egypt he traveled a lot and especially studied the Egyptian flora. He also conducted studies on chicken embryology. In 1632, after his return from Egypt, Johannes Wesling was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery at the University of Padua . He designed this very successfully, among other things, through the public dissection of corpses, in which he discovered several new functions of the human body. In 1638 he was released from his lectures and took over the chair for botany and pharmacy . His observations published in 1638, including about his studies in Egypt, surpassed those of Prospero Alpini in the illustrations. In 1648, Johann Vesling undertook a botanical excursion to Crete, from which he returned in poor health. He fell ill with the plague in 1649 , from which he eventually died.

The Johannes Wesling Clinic , inaugurated in the East Westphalian city ​​of Minden in March 2008, was named after him.

Works

  • Johannes Wesling: De plantis aegyptiis observationibus , Padua 1638.
  • Johannes Wesling: Syntagma Anatomicum . Padua 1647.
  • Thomas Bartholin (Ed.): De pullitione Aegyptiorum , published posthumously 1664.

literature

  • Marianne Nordsiek: A Mindener in Padua. On the biography of the anatomist Johannes Wesling (1598–1649). In: Messages from the Minden History Society. Vol. 71 (1999), pp. 7-64.
  • Daniel Schäfer : Vesling, Johann. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1441.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang U. Eckart : Johann Vesling , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York p. 118. Ärztelexikon 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wesling, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vesling, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, professor of anatomy and pharmacy
DATE OF BIRTH 1598
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1649
Place of death Padua