Matthew Maty

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Portrait of Matthew Maty ( Barthélemy Dupan , around 1750, oil on canvas, 77.2 × 63.8 cm, testamentary donation to the British Museum in 1776)

Matthew Maty , also Matthieu Matty or Mathijs Mathy , (born May 17, 1718 in Montfoort , † August 2, 1776 in London ) was a Dutch physician, biographer and librarian.

Life

Matthew was the son of the pastor Paul Maty (* 1681 in Beaufort, † 1773 in London) and his wife Jeanne Crottier des Maretz, who was from Lyon and married on September 8, 1715. Later, his father worked as a pastor in The Hague, where he got into church disputes over the doctrine of subordination and the Christian trinity. Therefore he was suspended from his church office in 1730. Paul Matty started studying medicine again and moved to London with his son in 1740.

Matthew himself had enrolled at Leiden University on March 31, 1732 . Here he completed a degree in philosophical and medical sciences, where he was a student of Herman Boerhaave in the last subject . In Leiden he advanced on February 11, 1740 with the defense of the treatise de Usu to the master's degree in philosophical sciences and on the same day he received his doctorate in medicine on the subject of de Consuetudinis Efficacia in Corpus Humanum . As mentioned, Maty then went to London with his father, where he initially ran his own practice.

He soon found pleasure in writing. He wrote an ode about the Jacobite revolt in Scotland in 1745, as well as two biographical works about his former teacher Boerhaave and about the English doctor Richard Mead (1673-1754). In the meantime, Maty had begun in 1750 to edit the scholarly journal Journal britannique . He continued this work up to the twelfth episode, which appeared in 1755. The journal was widely recognized in its time. Maty also benefited from it. In 1755 he was appointed second librarian at the British Museum in London. In 1758 he became a member of the Royal Society in London, from March 4, 1762 he was permanent secretary of the scientific institution and was appointed licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians on June 25, 1765 . Since 1755 he was a foreign member of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences . Eventually in 1772 he became the chief librarian of the British Museum. Maty campaigned for the smallpox vaccination in his day, for which he also carried out self-experiments. On August 11, 1776, his body was buried in the French Huguenot cemetery in Soho, London.

Maty was married twice. His first marriage was on December 13, 1743 in the French Church in London with Elizabeth Boisragon († 1750), the daughter of Louis Chevalleau Seigneur de Boisragon and his wife Marie Henrietta de Rambouillet. The marriage resulted in a son and two daughters. Paul Henry Maty (* December 18, 1744 in London; † January 16, 1787 ibid.), Daughter Anne Gilette Maty (* 1748), and the London doctor John Obadiah Justamond (* 1723; † 27 March 1786 in London) a marriage, and the daughter Louise Maty (* 1746; † 1809), who married on March 21, 1776 in London with Rogers Jortin (1732–1795), the son of the London archdeacon John Jortin. After the death of his first wife, Maty entered into another marriage in 1752 with Mary Dolon Deners (Marie Dolon de Ners). The daughters Jeanne Maty (* July 4, 1753) and Marthe Maty (* March 7, 1758) are known from this marriage.

Fonts

  • Dissertatio medica inauguralis de consuetudinis efficacia in corpus humanum. Lugdunum Batavorum 1740 ( online ), medical dissertation
  • Dissertatio philosophica inauguralis de usu.Lugdunum Batavorum 1740 ( online ), philosophical dissertation, also in French: Utrecht 1741
  • Ode sur la rebellion de MDCCXLV. en Ecosse. Amsterdam 1746
  • Essai sur le caractere du grand medecin ou Ėloge critique de Mr. Hermann Boerhaave. Cologne 1747 ( online ), German: attempt on the character of the great doctor, or critical description of Mr. D. Herrmann Boerhaven, together with a list of the Boerhavian writings. Leipzig and Freiberg 1748 ( online )
  • Authentic Memoirs of the life of Richard Mead. London 1755 ( online )
  • Proeve over den Leeftyd sent dead inenting the children's pokjes. In: Negotiations uitgegeeven door de Hollandse Maatschappye of Wetenschappen te Haarlem. Volume 6, Part 1, 1761, pp. 327-350, 1st part: ( online ); Volume 6, Part 2, 1762, pp. 468–499, Part 2: ( Online )
  • Proeve ter bepaling van den ouderdom der Persoonen the jaarlyks te London an de kinderziekte sterven. In: Negotiations uitgegeeven door de Hollandse Maatschappye of Wetenschappen te Haarlem. Volume 6, Part 2, 1762, pp. 500–515 ( online )
  • Translation of a Discourse on inoculation, read before the Academy of Sciences at Paris, by M. de la Condamine. London 1765
  • New observations on inoculation, by Dr. Garth, uit het Fr. London 1768
  • Lettre de Mr. Maty a Mr. Chais etc .. The Hague 1768, Dutch: Rotterdam 1768
  • Letter on the success of inoculation at geneva. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 1768
  • Life of Lord Chesterfield, voleindigd door zijn kleininzoon Justamon en geplaatst voor de mengelwerken van Stanhope. London 1777
  • A Memoir, containing the History of the Return of the famous Comet of 1682 , with Observations of the same, made at Paris, at the Marine Observatory, in January, February, March, April, May, and the Beginning of June 1759. In : Med. Obs. and Inq. (T. III.) 1765 ( online )
  • On the matter of inoculating the small pox on the court of Barbary and at Bengal. In: Med. Obs. and Inq. (T. III.)
  • Palsy occasioned by a fall, attended with uncommon symptoms. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
  • Essay on the advantages of very early inoculation. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
  • An Account of an Essay on the Orgin of a natural Paper, found near the City of Cortona in Tuscany. In: Letter from John Stange. 1769

literature

  • August Hirsch , Ernst Gurlt: Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig, Vol. 4, p. 168
  • Johann Christoph Adelung , Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Continuations and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöchers general scholar = Lexico, which writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Georg Jöntzen, Bremen, 1813, vol. 4, col. 1011
  • Abraham Jacob van der Aa : MATTY of MATHY (MATTHIEU) . In: Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1869, vol. 12, part 1, p. 412
  • Account of Dr. Matthew Maty. In: The Europe Magazine. 1800, p. 83 ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WN du Rieu: Album Studiosorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae MDLXXV - MDCCCLXXV. Martin Nijhoff, The Hague, 1925, col. 937
  2. ^ Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen : Album Promotorum Academiae Lugdono Batavae. The Hague, 1913-1924, p. 249
  3. ^ Journal britannique . Europeana. Accessed December 31, 2014.
  4. ^ Members of the previous academies. Matthew Maty. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 5, 2015 .
  5. ^ David CA Agnew: Protestant Exiles from France, Chiefly in the Reign of Louis XIV. Or the Huguenot Refugees and their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland. 1886, vol. 2, p. 126 and P. 377 f.
  6. ^ Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London. 1907, Vol. 8, p. 390 and Bulletin of the British Museum. 1987, p. 9.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Not June 2, as can sometimes be read (transmission error ), see here also A Seremon on the Death of Methew Maty, MD August 11, 1776 . London 1776
personal data
SURNAME Maty, Matthew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matty, Matthieu; Mathy, Mathijs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch physician, biographer and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Montfoort
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1776
Place of death London