Peter Rommel (doctor)

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Peter Rommel also Petrus Rommelius (* May 6, 1643 in Kleinsüßen ; † October 21, 1708 in Ulm ) was a German physician and from 1666 city ​​physician in Ulm.

Life

His father was a Zoller and later a Zinser and Ueberreuter hospitalized in Ulm .

Rommel, who originally wanted to study theology, began his medical studies in Strasbourg and in 1662 went to Padua to the local high school , where he received his doctorate in 1663. In 1665 he made a trip to Ferrara , Bologna and Rome , where he visited the Vatican Library and the Hospital of the Holy Spirit. We continued via Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Livorno, through the Genoese region and the Appenine mountains to Parma, Mantua, Verona and Vicenza. He then became procurator and librarian of the German nation , the association of Germans at the Padua High School. He turned down a call to physics in Venice. After returning home, he became a city physician in Ulm in 1666.

His son, Theodor Renatus Rommel (* September 25, 1669; † June 12, 1697) studied from 1689 in Jena with Georg Wolfgang Wedel and in 1694 became a city physician in Ulm.

Around 1680 Peter Rommel was in contact with the merchant and art collector Christoph Weickmann (1617–1681).

With Johannes Schmiedt (1623–1690) and Johann Augustin Philipp Gesner (1738–1801), Rommel is one of the pioneers in the study of language disorders. In 1683, he probably first described Broca's aphasia in a councilor's wife after a stroke, in which language was reduced to the words yes and and as well as religious formulas, while language understanding was retained.

Publications

  • De Foetibus leporinis extra uterum repertis , Ulm 1680
  • The cruel murderer , denied by God and creeping in the dark, but carefully discovered assassin , Frankfurt 1680
  • Articles in: Pharmacopoeia Medico-Chymica, Sive Thesaurus Pharmacologicus

literature

  • Arthur Lester Benton & Robert J. Joynt: Three pioneers in the study of aphasia (Johann Schmidt, Peter Rommel, Johann Augustin Philipp Gesner) . In: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 18, 1963, pp. 381-384
  • Albrecht Weyermann : Messages from Scholars, Artists and Other Strange People from Ulm , Volume 1, p. 447.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CERL Thesaurus. Retrieved January 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ https://books.google.de/books?id=mtM5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA429 , http://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-3293219/
  3. ↑ Abraham Gans: About one in the early 18th century by Dr. Peter Rommel classically described case of transcortical motor aphasia, in: Journal for the entire Neurology and Psychiatry, 1914, 480–482 doi: 10.1007 / BF02866292
personal data
SURNAME Rommel, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rommelius, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION City physician in Ulm
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1643
PLACE OF BIRTH Little sweets
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1708
Place of death Ulm