Leonhard Hurter

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Leonhard Hurter (born June 9, 1678 in Andelfingen ; † January 10, 1733 in Schaffhausen ) was a Swiss physician.

life and work

Hurter studied medicine in Tübingen. He received his doctorate there in 1709. In 1711 he became a field doctor for the Royal Saxon Army. He then worked as a doctor in Rheinau , St. Blasien and in the garrison on Hohentwiel. He served the Lords of Meersburg as court doctor and personal physician . Later he was the personal physician of the Dukes of Württemberg and from 1716 city ​​physician of Schaffhausen.

On April 6, 1711, Leonhard Hurter was accepted into the Leopoldina as a member ( matriculation no. 287 ) with the academic surname "Diophantus I." As a member of this scientific society he published in the " Academiae Caesareo-Leopoldinae Naturae Curiosorum ephemerides [...]" "Observations on an abdominal tumor" ("de hydrope tympanite")

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Individual evidence

  1. All information according to: Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Leonhard Hunter. 2006. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland.
  2. ^ Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 488 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 205 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Centuria I and II, 1712.