Lorenz Gieseler

Lorenz Gieseler (also Lorenz Giesler or Latinized Laurentius Gieslerus ; * in Osterode ; † late February 1684 in Braunschweig ) was a German doctor , author of medical writings and city ​​physicus in Braunschweig from 1657 until his death.

Life

Lorenz Gieseler was born in Osterode am Harz as the son of the local pastor Johannes Gieseler and his wife Beate, nee. Sinram, born. Year or date of birth are unknown. He first visited the schools of his hometown and continued his education at the high schools in Greifswald and Rostock continued to finally in September 1635 in Rostock enroll . As “preceptors” he named Peter Lauremberg (1585–1639) as professor of poetry , Joachim Stockmann (1592–1653) as professor of physics and metaphysics and Simon Pauli (1603–1680) as professor of medicine at the university there .

The next place of residence was Hamburg , possibly as a teacher at the local grammar school on the mediation of Peter Lauremberg, who held a professorship for mathematics and physics there from 1614 to 1624. On February 18, 1640 he enrolled at the University of Helmstedt as a student - very likely in medicine. 1644 disputed he Hermann Conring about scurvy and worked in the years ahead as medicus practicus in Osterode.

In 1647 his work on the Osteroder Braunbier appeared in print in Goslar . In 1652 Gieseler worked as a doctor in Osterwieck and from 1655 in Braunschweig. There he acquired citizenship in April 1654, apparently while he was still working in Osterwieck, and married Catharina Brandes on May 23 of the same year. In 1656 received his doctorate Gieseler in Helmstedt Doctor of Medicine and was appointed the following year the town physician in Braunschweig. The “ plague-like epidemic ” that ruled the city from February 1657 to January 1658 quickly gave him a lot of work. On January 1st, 1663 Gieseler's daughter Dorothea Elisabeth was born in Braunschweig.

In the years that followed, up to his death, he held the post of city doctor in Braunschweig. On November 8, 1678, Gieseler's life's work received an extraordinary appreciation when it was accepted into the Leopoldina , the oldest natural research society in Germany. It was listed under number 80 in the register and was nicknamed "Hippocrates I." He wrote a number of medical writings that contributed to his memory for posterity as well as the eponymic recipe rule " Electuarium sassafras D <octoris> Giselerii".

He died at the end of February 1684 in the city where he had worked for many years and was buried on March 2nd in the Church of St. Martini .

Works

• Disputatio medica inauguralis De Scorbuto. Helmstedt 1644.
• Discursus Philosophico-Medicus from the Osterödischen brown beer. Goslar 1647.
• Kurtze a necessary reminder and instruction How every epidemic felt at the present time should behave. Braunschweig 1657.
• Observationes Medicae de Peste Brunsvicensi Anni MdCLVII. Brunswick 1663.
• Dissertatio Philosophico-medica De Pinguedine. Brunswick 1665.
• De punctura patellae lethali. as Observatio LXXIII in 'Miscellanea curiosa Medico-physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum', Leipzig and Frankfurt 1673. (Ger .: 73. Perception of a fatal wound to the kneecap. in: Der Römisch-Kaiserliche Akademie der Naturforscher auserlesene medical-surgical-anatomical- chemical and botanical treatises. Volume 3, Nuremberg 1756).
• De nausea Foeminis retrorsum vectis familiari. as Oberservatio LXXIV in 'Miscellanea curiosa Medico-physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum', Leipzig and Frankfurt 1673. (German: 74. Perception of disgust or Ubelseyn, which often happens to women when they drive backwards. in: Der Römisch-Kaiserlichen Academy of Natural Scientists selected medical, surgical, anatomical, chemical and botanical treatises. Volume 3, Nuremberg 1756).
• De capitis dolore diuturno periodico. as Observatio LXXV in 'Miscellanea curiosa Medico-physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum', Leipzig and Frankfurt, 1673. (German: 75. Perception of protracted and at certain times recurring headaches. in: The Roman-Imperial Academy of Natural Scientists auserlesene medical-surgical -anatomisch-chemisch- und botanische Abhandlungen. Volume 3, Nuremberg 1756).
• Kurtze comment, what epidemics in the city and in the country itzo sneak around and their curation. Brunswick 1676.
• Kurtze, however, necessary instruction how everyone is concerned about this very careful, dangerous and far-reaching plague epidemic, preserve and cure sol. Braunschweig 1680. ( digitized version )

literature

• Marina Arnold: Giesler, Lorenz. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, p. 263.
• Axel Wellner: The Osterode born doctor Lorenz Gieseler, city doctor in Braunschweig. In: Heimatblätter for the south-western edge of the Harz. Volume 60, 2004, pp. 25-35.
• 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. 193 .
• 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. 149 ( archive.org ).

Web links

• Publications by and about Lorenz Gieseler in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the entry of Laurentius Giselerus' matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ This possibly came from a family of doctors in Braunschweig: in 1587 and 1609 a Dr. Hinricus Brandes mentioned as a princely Magdeburg court doctor ( Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical purposes . Volume 1, Boppard 1959, pp. 286 and 445). This is most likely a relative of hers.
3. ↑ On September 2, 1685, she married the Princely Saxon Councilor and Leibmedicus in Weimar Johann Ludwig Neuenhahn (* February 21, 1657 in Jena; † November 20, 1712 in Weimar) and died on December 15, 1704 in Weimar.