Paul Gottfried Sperling

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Paul Gottfried Sperling (born February 18, 1652 in Wittenberg ; † February 23, 1709 there ) was a German physician.

Life

He was born the son of Johann Sperling and his wife Elisabeth Müller. He received his first lessons from private tutors, and Caspar Leyser had a significant influence on him. With the support of Elector Johann Georg II of Saxony , he was accepted into the alumni of the electoral state school in Pforta on September 17, 1668. Here Johann Kühn (1603–1680) and Johann Georg Lorenz were his teachers, under whom he acquired the tools for a university course until September 2, 1672. On September 20, 1672 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg, where he worked out his first basic medical studies with Konrad Viktor Schneider , Michael Sennert and Jeremias Lossius (1643–1684).

But soon he switched to the University of Jena , where he found further teachers in August Heinrich Fasch , Rudolph Wilhelm Krause the Younger and Georg Wolfgang Wedel . They made him familiar with botany, pharmacy as well as theoretical and practical medicine. After holding several disputations, he was licentiate in medicine in 1680 and received his doctorate in Jena on February 9, 1681 . Sperling returned to his hometown, where he worked as a general practitioner and private lecturer. He had done such a convincing job that on September 13, 1695 he was given the third professorship in anatomy and botany at the Wittenberg University.

In addition to explanations about surgery, he dealt with remedies, for which he also used minerals and metals. He also made herbaria and anatomical specimens, for which Johann Heinrich von Heucher helped him in the last years of his life . Karl Wilhelm von Anhalt-Zerbst had made him his personal physician as a skillful and learned doctor. Sperling had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Wittenberg University. He had been dean of the medical faculty and in the winter semesters 1697 rector and 1703 equal prorector of the alma mater . After his death he was buried on March 3rd in the Wittenberg town church, where an epitaph was also erected for him.

Sperling was married to Anna Sophia Kaempfin in 1698. Two daughters Johanna Sohia (born July 25, 1699 in Wittenberg) and Christina Beata (born July 17, 1701 in Wittenberg) come from the marriage.

Selection of works

A number of medical dissertations are associated with Sperling's name. They come mainly from his university activities, where he had served as president of various respondents.

  • De Pervigilio, Consentiente. Jena 1680
  • Lectori Benevolo, inprimis Medicinae Ac Rei Herbariae Studiosis. Wittenberg 1695
  • Ad anatomists Publicam Cadaveris Foeminei officiose. Wittenberg 1697
  • De aretissimo animae et corporis vinculo. Wittenberg 1698
  • Lectori Benevolo SPD Eumque Ad Anatomen Publicam, Cadaveris Masculini, officiose invitat. Wittenberg 1703

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CFH Bittcher: gatekeeper album: directory of all teachers and students of the royal family. Prussia. Pforta State School. From 1543-1843. Publishing house Fr. Chr. Wilh. Vogel, Leipzig, 1843, p. 182, ( online )
  2. ^ Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 2; Halle (Saale), 1952
  3. ↑ A & Ō! Immensa Est Bonitas Deo Supremi, ... Ergo Salve Laeta Dies Chori Salani, Qua Per Benignissimam Divini Numinis Gratiam Autoritate Sacrae Caesareae Maiestatis ... Voluntate ... Rector ... Georgius Wolfgangus Wedelius, Medicinae Doctor, Theoretices Professor Publicus, .. Brabeuta Ex Decreto Nostrae Facultatis Ad Hunc Actum Rite Constitutus ... Paulo Gothofredo Sperlingio, Wittebergensi Saxoni, Practico ... More Maiorum Et Ritu Solemni Ipsis Nonis Februarari [i] Doctoris Gradum Eiusque Insignia ... conferet. Jena 1681 ( online )
  4. ^ Church books Wittenberg
personal data
SURNAME Sperling, Paul Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1652
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1709
Place of death Wittenberg