Paul Luther (doctor)

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Paul Luther, woodcut

Paul Luther (born January 28, 1533 in Wittenberg , † March 8, 1593 in Leipzig ) was a German medic and personal physician to the Duke of Saxony.

Life

Paul Luther, the fifth child of Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora , first studied the Greek and Latin languages ​​with Philipp Melanchthon and Veit Winsheim . On Melanchthon's advice, he then switched to studying medicine at the Wittenberg University . On July 29, 1557 he received Oratio de pulmone et discrime arteriae tracheae et oesophagi; [Luther: De aporismo sexto patris II.] The medical doctorate. After his inaugural speech De Arte medica et cura tuenda valetudinis , he taught from December 8, 1558 as a professor of medicine at the newly founded University of Jena .

He then became personal physician to Johann Friedrich II of Weimar until his death and stayed there until the city of Gotha was surrendered on April 13, 1567. He was then called to the Brandenburg court to see Elector Joachim II , until his death on April 3 , 1567 January 1571. He then became the personal physician of Elector August von Sachsen and his successor Christian I in Dresden , but withdrew from the court because of the unrest of the crypto-calvinists and disagreements at the time, privatized himself in Leipzig and was appointed as elector's personal physician again in 1592 . Paul Luther died on March 8, 1593 in Leipzig .

In addition to his chemical drug research, Luther devoted himself to archaeological studies and spagyric (divorce for the transformation of ores ), the end goal of which at that time was the production of gold. B. "Unguentum ex nitro", "Magistrum perlarum", "Magistrum collorum" and " Aurum potabile ", which found their way into the Saxon pharmacies.

family

Paul Luther had been married to Anna († May 15, 1586 in Dresden), the daughter of the Councilor Veit von Warbeck, in Torgau since February 5, 1553. There were six children from this marriage:

  • Paul Luther (* around 1553; † February 23, 1558 in Wittenberg)
  • Margarete Luther (* 1555) married in 1570 to Möllenvoigt in Magdeburg Simon Gottsteig († 1597)
  • Johann Ernst Luther (* August 24, 1560; † November 30, 1637) Canon and senior of the electoral Saxon monastery in Zeitz married in 1610 to Martha Blumenstengel
  • Johann Friedrich Luther (* 1562 in Gotha; † January 26, 1599 in Arnsfeld)
  • Anna Luther (* 1564) married. November 15, 1584 with Nicolaus Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein in Oberschaar
  • Johann Joachim Luther (born April 3, 1569 in Berlin; † March 21, 1600 in Jena)

Works

  • Oratio de arte medica et cura tuendae valetudinis . 1558
  • Medical absences

literature

  • Matthäus Dresser : De vita et morte DPL medici Oratio Adami Vitae Medicorum . Lantzenberger , Leipzig 1593
  • Richard Erfurth : Our homeland . Wattrodt publishing house, Wittenberg 1935.
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Paul Luther . In: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher: General scholars lexicon . Volume 2, 1750, reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1965.
  • Wolfgang Klose u. a .: The Wittenberg Scholar's Studbook. The family book of Abraham and David Ulrich . 2 volumes, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1999, ISBN 3-932776-76-3
  • Heinrich Kühne and Heinz Motel: Famous personalities and their connection to Wittenberg . Druckhaus Göttinger Tageblatt, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-924781-17-6 .
  • Friedrich August Ukert : Dr. Martin Luther's life . Perthes, Gotha 1817, p. 895
  • “Acta Lutherorum” in the Leipzig library
  • Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . Volume 3, R 2002
  • Jakob Franck :  Luther, Paul . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 692-694.
  • 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. 2007 Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, ISBN 9783374024377
  • Christoph Werner: Paulus Luther. His life written down by himself ; True novel. Bertuch, Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-86397-051-2 .
  • Jürgen Fege: Dr. med. Paul Luther, son of Martin Luther In: Ärzteblatt Sachsen 1/2019 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Koch, Die Wittenberg Medical Faculty (1502-1652) , lists him as an assessor.
  2. ↑ Koch, The Wittenberg Medical Faculty (1502-1652) , gives her last name with Waldner.
personal data
SURNAME Luther, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic, son of Martin Luther
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1533
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1593
Place of death Leipzig