Paul Hess

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Paul Heß , also: Hess , Hesse , Latinized Paulus Hessus (born June 11, 1536 in Breslau ; † March 11, 1603 in Oels ) was a German physician.

Life

Paul Heß, son of the theologian Johann Heß and his second wife Hedwig, was sent to the University of Wittenberg on May 10, 1553 . There he was accepted into Philipp Melanchthon's house and engaged in medical studies. In the meantime he is said to have also stayed at the University of Rostock . On the advice of Melanchthon, he undertook an educational trip to Italy from 1556–1558. He stayed for several years at the University of Padua , where he was a senior of the German nation in 1556 and from July 5 to November 30, 1558 as a nation consiliar . Returning to Saxony, he also completed a degree at the University of Leipzig in 1560 .

He continued his studies in Italy in 1561, where he was vice consiliar in Padua. On January 23, 1563 he got into a bloody confrontation with the Polish nation. In order to pacify both nations, the lawyer Bonifaz Rugerinus was involved, who drafted a peace treaty. The terms of peace were publicly accepted and signed by both opponents on February 9, 1563 in the Basilica of St. Anthony . On June 23, 1563, Hess moved to the University of Bologna , where he received his doctorate in medicine on July 23, 1563 . At the end of the year he returned to Wroclaw and made further trips from there.

These took him to Dutch and French universities, as well as the northern German cities of Königsberg (Prussia) , Danzig , Stettin , Rostock and Lübeck . On May 5, 1566, at the Reichstag in Augsburg, he was appointed third professor at the medical faculty of the University of Wittenberg, which he took up on June 16 of the same year with a lecture on Galenus . Whitsun 1571, however, he left Wittenberg again to return to his homeland. In 1587, Duke Karl II of Oels appointed him his personal physician . He held this office until Karl's death in 1617.

Paul Heß was married to Mariahabenhöfer († 1576) for the first time. After her death he married Dorothea Quicker in 1592. The whereabouts of his works is not known. There is evidence of his publication Defensio XX Problematum Guilandini , which appeared in Padua in 1562 .

literature

  • Helmar Junghans: Directory of the rectors, vice-rectors, deans, professors and castle church preachers of Leucorea from the summer semester 1536 to the winter semester 1574/75. In: Irene Dingel , Günther Wartenberg : Georg Major (1502-1574) - A theologian of the Wittenberg Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2005, ISBN 3-374-02332-0 .
  • Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917.
  • Hans Theodor Koch: The Wittenberg Medical Faculty (1502-1652) - A biobibliographical overview. In: Stefan Oehmig: Medicine and social affairs in Central Germany during the Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02437-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Paul Heß's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

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personal data
SURNAME Hess, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hess, Paul; Hesse, Paul; Hessus, Paulus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1536
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1603
Place of death Oils