Martin Gotthelf Löscher

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Martin Gotthelf Löscher (* around 1680/85 in Zwickau ; † November 3, 1735 in Wittenberg ) was a German physicist and doctor.

Life

The son of Caspar Löscher and his wife Eleophene Salome (born: Sittig) came to Wittenberg in 1687. There he was entered as a minor on August 16, 1690 in the register of the University of Wittenberg . After going through school in Wittenberg, he began studying medicine at the Wittenberg University. He also frequented the lectures of Christian Röhrensee , Johannes Andreas Planer († 1714), Michael Strauch and Johann Balthasar Wernher at the philosophical faculty. In addition, Johann Gottfried von Berger , Christian Vater , Paul Gottfried Sperling and Adam Brendel taught at the medical faculty at that time . These men must have given him a sense of the disputes between iastrochemists and iastrophysicists of his day in the medical sciences.

In 1706 he frequented the University of Leipzig in order to broaden his view of the medical sciences . In physics he heard Johann Cyprian (1642–1723), mathematics with Christoph Pfautz (1645–1711) and in the medical sciences Johannes Bohn (1640–1718) and August Quirinus Rivinus (1652–1723) were his teachers. On December 12, 1708, Löscher also enrolled in the matriculation of Rostock University. Returned to Wittenberg, he graduated in December 1709 with a licentiate in medicine and a doctorate in medicine. Löscher aspired to a medical chair in Wittenberg. Despite intensive efforts, he was denied this. After a study trip through Holland, he applied for the philosophical chair in physics.

After he was accepted as an adjunct in the philosophical faculty on December 21, 1713 , he became a full professor of physics in the same year and acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in the philosophical sciences on April 30, 1714 . Even if the physical lecture appeared to him only as a transition station, he promoted it sustainably because of his knowledge. Among other things, he used the collection of instruments left by Johann Baptist Röschel . It was important to his audience that he understood the modern physics of the time, brought them closer to the scientific teachings of that time, explained the current subject-specific controversies and evaluated the latest inventions. His natural history cabinet , which he set up as a museum , provided support. Anton Wilhelm Amo was one of his best-known students .

With Löscher, a new quality of the then modern physics arrived at the Wittenberg University. In the course of the development of the physical sciences, other people contributed their potential. Löscher, who had always aspired to a medical professorship at the Wittenberg University, was elected rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semester of 1720 , found access to the medical faculty as an assessor on December 15, 1723 , and was given an extraordinary medical professorship became a provincial physician in Saxony-Weimar . However, his death put an end to a special development in this field.

family

Two daughters are known from his marriage to Regina Charlotte (* February 5, 1690 in Wittenberg; † December 31, 1728 / (January 1, 1729) ibid), the widow of Michael Reissmann, the daughter of Johann Ludolph Quenstedt .

  1. Christina Salome (born October 1, 1722 in Wittenberg)
  2. Chleophe Charitas (born March 12, 1726 in Wittenberg)
See also church records in Wittenberg.

Works

  • Physika experimentalis compendiosa in usum iuuentutis Academicae adornata et nouissimis experimentis et rationibus illustrata. Wittenberg 1717
  • Diss. De nouo succi neruei moru. 1710
  • Diss. De anima bominis materiali insensibili. 1712
  • Diss. Observationes chirurgicae medico practicae. 1723
  • Diss. De sympatheticis morbum curationibus, medico rationali indignis et illicitis. 1723
  • Diss. Specimen Anthropologiae experimentalale. 1722
  • Diss. Observationes de homine selectas. 1722
  • Diss. De intellectu impuro. 1722
  • Diss. De sensationibus brutorum imperfectis. 1726
  • Diss. De Halone solis apparente d. VIII June a MDCCXXXIII. 1725
  • Diss. De Medicorum meritis in Aug. Conf. 1730 Diss. De Antlia pneumatica. 1714
  • Diss. De nouo Phosphoro aerbereo. 1716
  • Diss. Observationes physicae selectiores. 1717
  • Diss. De anima, creatis rebus aliis falso et uere adscripta, homini eminenter competente. 1719
  • Diss. De sententiis vet. Philosophorum de mundo. 1719
  • De sententiis vet. Philosophorum de mundo. 1719
  • Diss. De cometiis vet. Philosophorum de mundo . 1719
  • Diss. De Cometis ueterum pariter ac recentior. erudtorum. 1719
  • Diss. De corporis humani palingenesia. 1722
  • Diss. De Cogitationes de anima hum. sobriae. 1724

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Martin Gotthelf Löscher's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

literature

personal data
SURNAME Löscher, Martin Gotthelf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Extinguisher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and physician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1680
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1735
Place of death Wittenberg