Konrad Viktor Schneider

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Konrad Viktor Schneider (also Conrad Victor Schneider ; born September 18, 1614 in Bitterfeld , † August 10, 1680 in Wittenberg ) was a German medic.

Life

Konrad Viktor Schneider was the son of the Bitterfeld governor Michael Schneider and his wife Maria, daughter of the Bitterfeld mayor Konrad Reuter. He received school education from an early age. Together with his brothers, including Michael Schneider , he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on September 17, 1621 . Here he first studied at the philosophical faculty , supported by an electoral scholarship , and on September 25, 1632 acquired the academic degree of a master's degree . He left Wittenberg, received his doctorate in medicine and in 1636 became professor of medicine at the University of Jena .

In 1638 he moved back to Wittenberg in the same function and took over the professorship of anatomy and botany on June 23, 1640 . In his capacity as a teaching staff at the Wittenberg University, he was in charge of the Dean's Office of the Medical Faculty and held the Rector's Office of the Academy in the winter semesters 1641, 1645, 1649, 1655, 1661, 1667, 1673 and 1679 . In February 1646 he married Anna Barbara Strauch, the daughter of Aegidius Strauch I.

Inspired by Jena professor Werner Rolfinck , Schneider published his main work Von den Schleimflüsse or Katarrhen , which appeared in 1660 and 1664. In it, he refuted the previous doctrine that mucus in the nose , according to the humoral patholigschen ideas of phlegm , is formed by the brain . Rather, he discovered the mucous membranes in the nose, which are still known today after their discoverer, the Membrana Schneideria or Schneider membrane . His other writings, which arose after careful observation, also gained importance in further research, especially in the field of anatomy , physiology and general pathology . So he refuted, among other things, the doctrine of the localization of the mental powers and published works on stroke flow and convulsions. Schneider, who was a student of his predecessor Daniel Sennert , had achieved a reputation as one of the most important doctors of the 17th century, not only in Wittenberg.

Monument to Konrad Viktor Schneider in the Wittenberg Castle Church

Schneider died after 40 years at the Wittenberg Academy and was buried on September 9th in the Wittenberg Castle Church. There a bronze grave slab with a Latin inscription commemorates him.

family

Schneider married Anna Barbara Strauch on April 7, 1646 (* August 20, 1627 in Dresden, † April 24, 1673 in Wittenberg), the daughter of Aegidius Strauch I and Euphrosyna Cranach. The marriage resulted in six children, three sons and three daughters. From the children we know:

  1. Michael Conrad Schneider († before father)
  2. So. Konrad Viktor Schneider († before father)
  3. So. Aegidius Conrad Schneider († before father)
  4. To. Euphrosyne Schneider (* May 18, 1649 in Wittenberg; † March 16, 1673 in Wittenberg) ∞ March 30, 1668 with Prof. math. University. Wittenberg Michael Walther the Younger
  5. To. Anna Barbara Schneider ∞ with the Brandenburg Pomeranian court and judicial councilor, heirs to Freienwalde, Mölln and Sillgsdorf Friedrich Wilhelm von Wedel
  6. To. Marie Elisabeth Schneider (born August 13, 1655 in Wittenberg; † June 9, 1673 ibid.)

Selection of works

  • Dissertationes academicas de patribus principalioribus;
  • Liberum de osse cribriformi & sensu ac organo odoratus, & morbis ad utrumque spectantibus, Wittenberg 1655
  • Disp. Osteologicas
  • Libores de catarrhis, Wittenberg 1660
  • Librum de catarrhis specialissimum 1664
  • De morbis capitis s. cephalicis soporofis, Wittenberg 1669
  • De nova gravissimorum trium morborum curatione, nimirum de apoplexia, lipopsychia & paralysi, Frankfurt 1681
  • De spasmorum natura, subjecto & causis, Wittenberg 1677
  • Orationes de aequitate & justitia natuarae, de bellis naturalibus ...

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personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Konrad Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Conrad Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1614
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitterfeld
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1680
Place of death Wittenberg