Justus Friedrich Dillenius

Justus Friedrich Dillenius (born August 3, 1644 in Darmstadt ; † August 18, 1720 in Gießen ) was a German doctor, professor of medicine in Gießen and a member of the academy of scholars " Leopoldina ".

Justus Friedrich Dillenius was born as the son of Marie Catherina. Emmerich and Justus Dillenius, an older chamber clerk in Darmstadt, were born. The mother came from Idstein . Between the years 1666 and 1669 Justus Friedrich Dillenius was court and personal medicus of Count Johann the Elder of Nassau-Idstein, afterwards he was a general practitioner in Idstein and later in Darmstadt. From 1685 he was the personal physician of Count Albrecht and Maximilian Carl von Löwenstein-Wertheim. He was Physicus of the city and the Wertheim area . In 1688 he became a professor of medicine in Giessen. He had four sons and four daughters. His father-in-law was Otto Daniel Finck, preacher in Pfungstadt .

On July 1, 1685, Justus Friedrich Dillenius with the nickname ACHATES was accepted as a member ( matriculation number 140 ) in the Leopoldina .

Works

• with Ernestus Ludovicus, Hassiae Landgravius : Nobilissimo Atque Inclyto Medicorum, In Illustri Propter Lanum Universitate Ludoviciana, Collegio Gratiose Suffragante, Inaugurales Hasce Positiones Miscellaneo-Medicas, Pro Summum In S. Medicina Gradum… Doctoralia… Publico Academiae Procerum Examini Ad III. Diem February [i] Horis Locoque Solitis Exponet Justus Fridericus Dillenius, Ad Cattimelibocum Darmstatinus Et In Civitate Patria ht Medicinae Practicus. 1681.
• with Joannes Baptista van Helmont , Michael Bernhardus Valentinus, Johannes Melchior Verdris, Franciscus Mercurius Helmont, Hieronymus Christian Paulli: Opera omnia. Paulli, Copenhagen 1707.

literature

• Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri. De Collegis, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, p. 474 ( digitized version ).
• Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 196 ( archive.org ).
• Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887. With a look back at the earlier times of its existence . In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 150 ( archive.org ).

Web links

• Member entry of Justus Friedrich Dillenius at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on May 10, 2018.
• Works by and about Justus Friedrich Dillenius  in the German Digital Library
• Jost Benedum: The Medical Faculty of the Ludoviciana in the 18th Century (PDF), accessed on May 12, 2018.