Paul de Sorbait

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Paul de Sorbait (born January 25, 1624 in Montbliart , Belgium , † April 29, 1691 in Vienna , St. Stephan ) was a doctor and rector of the University of Vienna .

Live and act

Paul de Sorbait was initially a traveling musician in 1639. He studied philosophy in Paderborn and medicine in Padua. In 1652 the repetition took place at the Medical Faculty in Vienna. Paul de Sorbait was professor of medicine at the University of Vienna from 1654 , and rector in 1668 . He was the personal physician of the Empress Dowager Eleonore . Sorbait recognized the danger of fire and incense to fight the plague as the wind could suddenly turn. It is therefore important to burn away from civilization and sometimes it is even better to bury the contaminated things when the wind direction is inconsistent. He received support from another plague doctor, Friedrich Ferdinand Illmer . However, his efforts to fight the plague through hygienic measures could not prevent the outbreak of the Great Plague in Vienna of 1679. A particular concern of Paul de Sorbait were botany and anatomy and he founded the first medical library at the university. From 1659 to 1666, numerous Sorbait disputations were printed. He thus demonstrated an unusually active professorial administration. In 1669 one of his students defended the newly discovered blood circulation . In the “Ephemerides” of the Leopoldina he was represented with a large number of observations. From 1679 Paul de Sorbait was inquisitor general in plague matters.

After the death of Paul de Sorbait, the physician Franz Stockhamer published an “Examen obstetricum” from his manuscripts in 1700.

Publications

  • 1657: Paul de Sorbait contributed to the processing of the Augsburg Pharmacopoeia by Johann Zwelfer .
  • 1680 Commentaries on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates .

Honors

On May 23, 1672 he was accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

In 1894, Sorbaitgasse in Vienna's Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (15th district) was named after him.

His tomb in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna contains the following inscription:

Paulus von Sorbeid born in Belgium, died here, musician , rhetorician , philosopher , soldier, doctor, professor, city doctor, university rector - a beggar, a nothing.
I was a musician in order to keep the right rhythm, a speaker in order to direct myself to a good conclusion, a soldier in order to belittle myself by encouraging others, a university rector to defend privileges , a courtier in order to learn, others and not myself to help.
However, bitter death, deaf to the musician's wise and persuasive skills of the rhetorician and the threats of the soldier and the lectures of the professor and the prescriptions of the doctor and the defense speeches of the rector and the humiliations of the courtier, took me away. Now I am a beggar and nothing.
I beg you, pray for me.
He died in 1691 on April 29th at the age of 67.

literature

  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 190 .
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 148 ( archive.org ).

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annotation

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ralf Bröer: Court medicine. Structures of medical care in an early modern royal court using the example of the Viennese imperial court (1650–1750) , habilitation thesis for the history of medicine (chair holder Wolfgang U. Eckart ), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2006, p. 70, p. 77, p. 536 +537.
  2. ↑ Georg Sticker : Treatises from epidemic history and epidemic theory , Volume I: The plague , second part: The plague as epidemic and as plague , Alfred Töpelmann Gießen 1908, page 480.
  3. ^ Member entry of Paul von Sorbait at the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina , accessed on November 12, 2015.
  4. ^ Aloys Bergenstamm : Inscriptions in crypts, columns, foundation stones and houses in Vienna . In: Gerhard Fischer (ed.), Because the shape of this world passes , history of the churches .. of the city of Vienna, recorded by the antiquity friend Aloys Bergenstamm (1754–1821), daedalus Verlag 1996. ISBN 3-900911-07-X , P. 215
personal data
SURNAME Sorbaite, Paul de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sorbaite, Paul; Sorbait, Paul Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physician, rector of the University of Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1624
PLACE OF BIRTH Montbliart , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1691
Place of death Vienna