Michael Leyser

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Michael Leyser , also: Lyser called, (born April 14, 1626 in Leipzig , † December 20, 1660 in Nykøbing Falster ) was a German physician and anatomist .

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Michael Leyser, son of Polycarp Leyser II and Sabine Volckmar (1598–1634), daughter of Leipzig bookseller and mayor Nikolaus Volckmar (1573–1602), was one of the few members of the Leyser family who did not aspire to a theological degree. He began studying philosophy both at the University of Wittenberg and later at the University of Leipzig , where he graduated with a master's degree in philosophy. He then decided to study medicine and switched to Thomas Bartholin at the University of Copenhagen where he made the full range of anatomical knowledge and skills his own. Under the guidance of Bartholin, Leyser skeletons prepared , which should have been exceptionally white and clean. Bartholin gave him the post of assessor and prorector and Leyser was henceforth one of the most capable anatomists of his time.

At the instigation of his teachers he published in 1653 under the title “ Culter anatomicus. Hoc est: Methodus brecis, facilis ac perspicua artificose et compendiose humana incidendi cadavera “the medical regulations and rules that the teachers of anatomy had recognized as proven. In doing so, he made the knowledge of selecting widely known. He did not limit himself to acquiring and assembling what was presented to him, but tried to complete this knowledge by means of other sources. In the well-known dispute between Bartholin and Olaus Rudbeck (1630–1702), which flared up over the priority of the discovery of the lymphatic vessels , according to Rudbeck Michel Leyser is supposed to have been the actual discoverer and Bartholin merely appropriated them.

After the publication of his book, Leyser seems to have left the university career in Copenhagen very soon. He probably moved to the University of Padua in Italy after 1656 , where he obtained his doctorate in medicine. He then moved back to Denmark, where he initially worked as a general practitioner on Lolland and Mona and then in Nykøbing on the island of Falster . Here he died shortly after his marriage at the age of only 34 on December 20, 1660 of "Febris maligna" a "cold fever" which usually occurs with typhus or plague .

Works (selection)

  • Calculo renum et vesice . Copenhagen 1651.
  • Culter anatomicus sive methodus humana corpora fecanda . Copenhagen 1653. Another five editions until 1731, also translated into English ( The art of dissecting the human body… . London 1740.)
  • De auditu . Copenhagen 1653.
  • De sphacelo cerebri . Leipzig 1656.
  • Observationes medicae virorum clarissimorum . Frankfurt. 1679, published posthumously.
  • Cultro anatomico . Frankfurt 1679, published posthumously.

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SURNAME Leyser, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lyser, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1626
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1660
Place of death Nykøbing Falster