Matthew Bacmeister

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Matthäus Bacmeister (born September 28, 1580 in Rostock , † January 7, 1626 in Lüneburg ) was a German physician and personal physician .

Life

The son of Lucas Bacmeister the Elder and Johanna Bording (1544–1584), daughter of the Danish personal physician Jacob Bording , like his brother Johann Bacmeister the Elder , decided at an early stage to study medicine and mathematics, which he followed in the Bacmeister tradition -Family graduated from the University of Rostock . Meanwhile, from 1599 to 1606, he went on study trips to the most renowned universities in Germany, to Copenhagen and, through the mediation of Chancellor Christian Friesen, to England. After his return, he obtained his doctorate and doctorate in 1606.

Bacmeister then practiced first as a resident doctor in Kiel from 1607 to 1612 , then in Rostock, where he gave lectures on medicine and mathematics, until he was finally appointed both city physicus and physicus of the monastery of Michaeliskirche in Lüneburg in 1616 has been. In 1621, Duke August von Sachsen-Lauenburg appointed him his personal physician and, like King Friedrich III a year later, planned to do so . from Denmark to appoint him exclusively to their own court. Matthäus Backmeister preferred to continue working as a city physician and especially as a plague doctor .

The time of Matthäus Bacmeister was marked by a plague epidemic in Germany. Therefore, both actively and in his writings, he campaigned for the research and control of this disease, from which he himself died in the end in 1626.

family

Matthäus Bacmeister married in Rostock on July 21, 1609 Sophie Kellermann (1590–1657), daughter of the Rostock mayor Dr. jur. Johann Kellermann († 1598) and Dorothea, b. Jungeling. With her he became the father of four children, with his son Johann Bacmeister the Younger (1624–1686) doing the same job as his father and also becoming a respected physician and personal physician.

Works

  • consilia et tractata contra pesta , Rostock.
  • Practicæ, Sev Methodi Curandorum Morborum Particularium: Lib. V. VI. VII. VII. IX. & X. De Morbis Et Affectibus Hepatitis, Lienis, Renvm, Vesicæ ... / emissus ... , Lüneburg 1622.
  • Report on how to behave at the present time and how to use the remedies ordered by the pharmacies against this rapidly falling plague , Lüneburg, 1639.

literature

  • The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present , total. and ed. by A. Blanck 1874, continued. from Axel Wilhelmi to 1901. By genealog. Message. and continued up to the present by Gustav Willgeroth . - p. 233 - Schwerin: Verl. D. Regional office d. Meckl. Doctors' Association., 1929.
  • Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of all times and peoples : [before 1880] / Unter Mitw.… Ed. by August Hirsch. Through and supplemented by W. Haberling, F. Hübotter, p. 274.
  • Engel, Wolfgang: Mathematics and Mathematicians at the University of Rostock 1419-2004 (Rostock Mathematical Colloquium, Issue 60), Rostock 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation of Matthäus Bacmeister in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Alfred W. Hein: Genealogy and city history, Lüneburg bourgeois families from the 15th to the 18th century . Hanover 1990, p. 121

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personal data
SURNAME Bacmeister, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and personal physician
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1580
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1626
Place of death Luneburg