Paul Schröter (medic, 1614)

Paul Schröter , also Paulus Schröter (born January 14, 1614 in Leipzig , † October 1, 1679 in Torgau ) was a German doctor , city ​​physician , city ​​judge and mayor in Torgau.

Live and act

Schröter's father died prematurely of the plague when he was not even two years old. His mother then fled from the plague that was spreading in Leipzig to his parents' house in Bitterfeld , where he was raised and cared for by his grandparents . He received his education initially from private teachers and in the public school in Bitterfeld.

In 1625, at the age of 11, Schröter was sent to the St. Niklas School in Leipzig by his grandfather . On August 14, 1627 he switched to the electoral state school in Schulpforta . After the death of his grandfather and his mother, Schröter's grandmother Dorothea Stumpfeld took him and his brother Wolfgang out of the school in Schulpforta on July 2, 1630 as the only remaining guardian on the advice of her friends and sent them both to the university in Wittenberg in August 1630 . In 1637, Schröter also experienced the sacking and devastation of the city by the Swedish army during the Thirty Years' War in the university town . His family's possessions were also affected, so that he had to continue his studies in poor conditions under difficult conditions.

In February 1645, Schröter received his medical licentiate at the University of Wittenberg with his dissertation De Melancholia Hypochondriaca , and shortly afterwards he was appointed city ​​physician by the Torgau council . Schröter accepted this office and moved to Torgau on September 4, 1645. In 1656 he received the citizenship of this city and bought his house. In the same year Schröter also became a member of the Torgau city ​​council , where he was appointed judge of the city. In 1660 he was elected mayor for the first time by the Torgau council , but refused this office with reference to his work as a physician . In his capacity as a city doctor, he also treated the poor and the inept free of charge.

However, when the previous mayor of Torgau, Johann Vogelhaupt, died in 1671 and Schröter was elected mayor for the second time by the Torgau council, he finally accepted the office and held both offices, mayor and city physician, until the end of his life.

As early as 1671, Schröter suffered from hip and limb pain , and later also gout attacks . At Easter 1678 he fell seriously ill, was bedridden for five weeks and could not leave his house for 17 weeks. But he recovered and was even able to go about his official business again. At Pentecost 1679 Schröter fell seriously ill again and was again bedridden for a long time. He finally died on October 1st, 1679 after a long suffering.

Schröter was a co-owner of the Schröterschen Freihaus in front of the Luckauer Tor in Lübben , together with his brother Wolfgang Schröter, district court - protonotary and lawyer relative in Lübben. The loan took place on January 14, 1650.

family

Paul Schröter came from the Thuringian-Saxon family of scholars Schröter , whose lineage is known up to the Weimar Mayor Peter Schröter, who was mentioned in Weimar between 1523 and 1563. His son Prof. Dr. phil. et med. John Schroeter (1513-1593), imperial personal physician of Emperor Ferdinand I and physician to the Elector Johann Friedrich I. (Sachsen) and his son, the Duke Johann Friedrich II. Was in on December 6, 1557 peerage collected and was the great-grandfather by Paul Christian Schröter.

Paul Schröter was the son of the doctor (Dr. med.) As well as assessor of the medical faculty of the University of Jena and medic at the Saxon State School in Grimma , Mauritius (Moritz) Schröter (born September 7, 1578 in Eisleben ; † December 24, 1615 in Leipzig ), a son of the lawyer , doctor of both rights , chancellor of the Counts of Mansfeld , as well as later royal Magdeburg court advisor to Halle , Wolffgang Schröter (1552–1584) and his wife Catharina born. Steinmetz (1560–1635), daughter of the scholar Moritz Steinmetz . Schröter's mother was Dorothea geb. Stumpfeld (born February 5, 1593 in Bitterfeld ; † April 30, 1628 there), the daughter of the Bitterfeld magistrate Paul Stumpfeld (1561–1627) and his wife Dorothea nee. Teucher (* around 1570). Schröter also had a sister and a brother:

• Wolfgang Schröter (* 1615), electoral court protonotary and clerk in Lübben, studied like his brother from 1628 to 1630 in Schulpforta.

Schröter was married twice. He married Hedwig born on June 20, 1648 in Herzberg . Teuffel († February 23, 1652 in Torgau), daughter of the electoral escort and mayor of Herzberg, Andreas Teuffel (1591–1652). The couple had a son (* February 8, 1652 in Torgau; † February 16, 1652 there). After the birth, his wife died in childbed .

In his second marriage, Schröter married on July 3, 1655 in Torgau Elisabeth born. Meißner, daughter of the Torgau archdeacon Christian Meißner († 1657). The couple had two sons:

• Christian Schröter (born February 23, 1657 in Torgau; † March 19, 1657 ibid) and
• Johann Paul Schröter (born February 6, 1663 in Torgau; † November 9, 1729 in Wittenberg), studied philosophy and law , was a member of the Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Appellate Council , an assessor in the law faculty at the university and a municipal lawyer in Wittenberg.

Fonts (selection)

• De Melancholia Hypochondriaca (Dissertatio Inaugurales Medica), dissertation , Wittenberg 1645, digitized

literature

• Paul Hofmann: The highest and best knowledge and wisdom of a Christian ... , funeral sermon to Paul Schröter, Torgau 1680, digital copy of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg / ULB Saxony-Anhalt
• Genealogical data from: Till von Egidy: The ancestors of the families von Egidy and von Koppenfels , list of ancestors for the brothers Holm, Hans and Max von Egidy. In: Lars-Arne Dannenberg and Matthias Donath (editors): Studies on culture and history. Volume 2, Publishing Center for Culture // History, Niederjahna 2016

Web links

• Publications by and about Paul Schröter in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carl Friedrich Heinrich Bittcher: Gatekeeper Album. Directory of all teachers and students of the Royal. Prussia. State School Pforta from 1543 to 1843. Leipzig 1843, p. 139 , no. 2756
2. ↑ Götz Dieter von Houwald : The Niederlausitzer manors and their owners. Volume 3: District of Lübben. Degener-Verlag 1978, p. 47f.
3. ↑ On the genealogy of the family: Wittenbergisches Wochenblatt to take up natural history and the economic trade for the year 1775. Volume 8, p. 263f.