Paul Neucrantz

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Paul Neucrantz , also Niecrantz (born October 27, 1605 in Rostock , † May 24, 1671 in Lübeck ) was a doctor and city ​​physician of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Neucrantz belongs to an important Mecklenburg family of doctors. He was the second son of Duke Sigismund August zu Mecklenburg's personal physician , Michael Neucrantz (the elder) , who practiced in Rostock . Paul studied together with his brother, Michael Neucrantz (the younger) , from 1620 at the University of Rostock and graduated in 1628 with a master's degree. His Grand Tour also took him to Padua in 1631 , where he became a Dr. med. received his doctorate. After his return, he first settled in Rostock in 1632, but then in Lübeck in 1634 as a general practitioner. As a neutral imperial city, Lübeck was able to keep itself free from the turmoil of the Thirty Years War, but was overcrowded with refugees, so that the risk of epidemics was high. As the successor to Johann Heinrich Meibom , he was City Physician in Lübeck from 1655 until his death in 1671.

Paul Neucrantz left behind noteworthy medical writings, such as the “Idea medici perfecti” at the beginning of the city physics department. Further publications about the purple snail and the healing powers of the herring . The sons of Paul Neucrantz were known physicians: Johann Anton Neucrantz († 1733) was initially also a doctor in Lübeck and from 1698 in Schwerin personal physician of Mecklenburg Duke Frederick William (I.) ; Heinrich Neucrantz (1638–1700) became known as a professor at the University of Helmstedt through his ophthalmological research.

Fonts

  • De Purpura Liber Singularis: In Quo Febrium Malignarum Natura & curatio proponitur, Ad Amplissimum Magistratum Lubecensem. Lübeck: Schernwebelius 1648 (VD17 23: 284262V). 2nd edition: Frankfurt and Lübeck: Becker (VD17 23: 240408G)
  • De harengo exercitatio medica , Lübeck 1654 (VD17 12: 141292M, digitized from Google Books)
  • Idea Perfecti Medici: Oratione funebri proposita, Cum ... Dn. Joanni Henrico Meibomio, In Auditorio Lubecensi publice parentaret. Ad Ampl: mum Magistratum Lubecensem. Lübeck: Jaeger 1655 (VD17 23: 264843R)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Paul Neucrantz's enrollment in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ August Blanck , Axel Wilhelmi : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin 1901, p. 29 (No. 140)

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personal data
SURNAME Neucrantz, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niecrantz, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and city physician of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1605
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1671
Place of death Lübeck