Lucas shaft

Lucas shaft

Lucas Schacht also: Schachtius , (born January 18, 1634 in Amsterdam , † March 10, 1689 in Leiden ) was a Dutch physician.

Life

Lucas was the son of Joachim Schacht and Katharina Bossius. He had visited the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam . Here he mainly completed studies in physics and logic, under Arnoldus Senguerdius . This is expressed above all in his treatises held there. On June 10, 1651 he defended the subject of Disputatium physicarum decima quinta de anima in genere , on July 12, 1651 the subject of Disputationum physicarum vicesima et ultima, de anima rationali and on January 20, 1652 the treatise Disputatio logica De comparativis. After that, at the age of twenty, he began studying philosophy, for which he enrolled in the matriculation of the University of Leiden on September 12, 1652 . Here he had initially aspired to a theological career and in 1653 was accepted as a candidate for the theological ministry.

He attended the philosophical lectures of Adrianus Heereboord (around 1614–1661), but especially those on rhetoric and ethics. Soon, however, his priority of interests shifted to the medical sciences, as demonstrated by re-enrollment on July 4, 1659 as a medical student. He defended his philosophical knowledge at that time on February 6, 1660 in the treatise Disputatio philosoph., Continens Positiones ex universa philosophia desumtae (Leiden, 1660) and thus acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy. A year later he completed his medical studies with the defense of the treatise Dissertatio, mulieris artuum contortione ac rigiditate laborantis historiam et curam describens (Leiden 1661) and on July 8, 1661, after defending the subject, he was de Peculiari casu mulieris artuum contortione ac rigiditate laborantis , doctorate in medicine.

He then worked as a doctor in Leiden, and the curators of the Leiden University allowed him to give lectures on August 8, 1663 as a lecturer in medicine. On January 29, 1670, the curators of the university appointed him full professor of medicine, for which he gave his inaugural address de medicinae ortu atque progressu on April 22, 1670 . In that activity he acquired an excellent reputation as an excellent clinician and physician with extensive knowledge of theoretical medicine. His more important students included Herman Boerhaave , Anton Nuck and Bernhard Friedrich Albinus . Of his writings there is an Oratio funebris in obitum Franc. De la Boë Sylvius and a treatise on the observations of the scorbutic epidemic that broke out in Leiden in 1678/79 C. L. Morley, De morbo epidem. tum hujus quam superioris anni (1678 et 1679) narratio et Lucae Schacht, de eodem morbo epistolica narratio (London 1680) known. In addition, he participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1684/85 .

Schacht was married twice. His first marriage was in 1659 with Anna d'Ailly. His second marriage was on September 24, 1675 with Anna van Poot († June 25, 1686). She brought her son Herman Oosterdijk (1672–1744) into the marriage, for whom Schacht became like a father and who therefore took the surname Schacht.

literature

• Schachtius, Lucas. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 34, Leipzig 1742, column 694.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig, 1751, Vol. 4, Sp. 205
• CE Daniëls: Schacht, Lucas. In: August Hirsch , Ernst Julius Gurlt : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, 1887, Vol. 5, p. 200
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1874, vol. 17, part 1, p. 194, ( online , Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dirk van Miert: Humanism in an Age of Science: The Amsterdam Athenaeum in the Golden Age, 1632-1704. Brill, Leiden, 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-17685-0 , pp. 239 and 387
2. ^ G. du Rieu: Album studiosorum Academiae Lugduno-Batavae 1575-1875. Martin Nijhoff, The Hague, 1875, p. 423
3. ^ G. du Rieu: Album studiosorum Academiae Lugduno-Batavae 1575-1875. Martin Nijhoff, The Hague, 1875, p. 473
4. ↑ Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen : Album Promotorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae 1675-1812. The Hague, 1913-1924, p. 294
5. ^ CA Siegenbeek van Heukelom-Lamme: Album Scholasticum Academiae Lugduno-batave. Brill Archive, Leiden, 1941
6. ↑ Jan de Jong: Wooncultuur in de Nederlanden, 1500-1800. P. 168 and António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches: Hieronymus David Gaubius (1705-1780): zijn correspondentie met Antonio Nunes Ribeiro Sanches en other tijdgenoten. Van Gorcum, 1978 p. 9.