Miscellanea Curiosa

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Frontispiece of the Miscellanea Curiosa (Decuria II, Annus VII). Below left and right the areas of interest (Animalia, Mineralia, Vegetabilia, Anatomica, Chymia, Botanica). In the top center the motto of the academy: “Nunquam otiosus” (Never idle).
Title page of the Miscellanea Curiosa (1692)

The Miscellanea curiosa were founded by the German Academia Naturae Curiosorum in 1670. After the Journal des sçavans (1665) and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1665), this was one of the earliest specialist journals and the world's first journal with a focus on medicine and natural sciences.

history

The Academia Naturae Curiosorum , founded by four doctors in Schweinfurt in 1652 - renamed the Academia Imperialis Leopoldina Naturae Curiosorum ( Leopoldina for short ) in 1687 after receiving imperial privileges - published its own journal under one of the from 1670 on the initiative of the Breslau city ​​physicist Philipp Jakob Sachs von Löwenheim the following long titles according to contemporary usage:

Miscellanea curiosa medico-physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum sive Ephemeridum medico-physicarum Germanicarum curiosarum

Initially, the editorship lay with the President of the Academy. In 1683 a Director Ephemeris was appointed from among the adjuncts . The first in this office was Johann Georg Volckamer (1616–1693). When he rose to president two years later, Lukas Schröck (1646–1730), who also became president in 1693, followed. In the 18th century, Andreas Elias Büchner (1701–1769) and Christoph Jacob Trew (1695–1769) played an important role as editors. Joachim-Hermann Scharf held this position from 1967 to 2014 .

While medicine initially took up a lot of space, the focus shifted to botany under Christian Gottfried Nees von Esenbeck (1818–1858) . Under the presidents Wilhelm Behn (1870–1878) and Carl Hermann Knoblauch (1878–1895) there was again a more even consideration of the scientific disciplines. At the turn of the 20th century, the edition was 500 copies.

title

The title changed several times:

  • Miscellanea curiosa sive ephemeridum medico-physicarum Germanicarum Academiae Caesareo-Leopoldinae Naturae Curiosorum (Decuria I: 1670–1679; Decuria II: 1682–1691; Decuria III: 1694–1706)
  • Academiae Caesareo-Leopoldinae Naturae Curiosorum ephemerides, sive, Observationum Medico-Physicarum à Celeberrimis Viris tum Medicis, tum Aliis Eruditis in Germania & extra eam communicatarum (1712–1722)
  • Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum exhibentia Ephemerides, sive, Observationes Historias et Experimenta Celeberrimis Germaniae et Exterarum Regionum Viris Habita & Communicata, Singulari Studio Collecta (1727–1754)
  • Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum (1757–1839 / 42)
  • Nova acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum (1843–1928)
  • Nova Acta Leopoldina: Treatises of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
  • Today: Papers of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina

literature

  • Leo Stern : On the history and scientific achievement of the German academy of natural scientists Leopoldina . Berlin: Rütten & Loening, 1952.
  • Johann Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence . Jena: Frommann, 1860.
  • Benno Parthier : The Leopoldina. Existence and change of the oldest German academy . Halle: Druck-Zuck, 1994.

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