Peter de Spina II.

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Peter de Spina

Peter de Spina II , also called Petrus de Spina (born March 26, 1563 in Aachen , † October 7, 1622 in Heidelberg ) was a doctor and professor of medicine at the University of Heidelberg and personal physician to several princely persons.

origin

Peter de Spina comes from an old Huguenot family from Armentières in what was then the Spanish Netherlands , who initially called themselves de l'Espine and who fled from the Spanish Catholic troops of Duke Alba via Aachen and later to Heidelberg in the mid-16th century . His parents were Peter de Spina I from Armentières, later Aachen city ​​physician and personal doctor of King Christian III. of Denmark and Norway and Agnes de Bourgeois.

Live and act

Peter de Spina II studied from 1578 first in Basel , from 1580 in Jena , then in Paris and from June 15, 1585 in Padua . In 1587 he wrote his dissertation Do breathing and digestion come about through voluntary or involuntary movements? in Basel for Dr. med. PhD . After practicing as a doctor in Aachen from 1588 to 1599, where he was also a member of the reformed church council and councilor, de Spina had to leave the city because of the religious unrest there and came to Heidelberg in 1599 as personal physician to Elector Friedrich IV of the Palatinate . In 1617 he became dean of the medical faculty in Heidelberg , and two years later rector . In Heidelberg he had to experience the siege and capture of the city by the general Tilly in 1622, whereupon he died of grief. He found his final resting place in St. Peter's Church in Heidelberg. Peter de Spina II was considered one of the most renowned doctors of his time. His residence in Heidelberg passed to his son after his death in 1622. The vita , which his biographer Balthasar Venator wrote in 1625 on behalf of the widow and sons, is an important source of the history of Heidelberg during the Thirty Years War .

It is thanks to him and his son of the same name that the university archive in Heilbronn was saved . From Heilbronn it reached Frankenthal via Frankfurt am Main until the son personally returned it to the elector in 1651. The celebratory speech that the son gave about it on July 19, 1651 in Heidelberg was printed in Frankfurt that same year.

Prominent patients of Peter de Spina II were among others the Elector Friedrich IV and the later "Winter King" Friedrich V as well as his Heidelberg colleague, the famous theologian David Pareus , whom he assisted in his last illness.

family

Peter de Spina was married to Guttha (Agatha) von Pallandt , daughter of Baron Conrad von Pallandt from Weisweiler , with whom he had several children. The son Peter de Spina III. became a respected physician as well as the grandson Peter de Spina IV (1630–1689) and again later his son Peter de Spina V (1661–1741), who was raised to the baron status under the name of Groossenhaagen . Another grandson of Peter II was the legal scholar and also temporarily rector of the University of Heidelberg Johannes de Spina .

literature

  • Balthasar Venator: Vita Petri de Spina , Strasbourg 1625. In: Venator, Balthasar: Gesammelte Schriften, ed. by Georg Burkard and Johannes Schöndorf, Heidelberg 2001, Bibliotheca Neolatina; 9.1, ISBN 3-934877-02-8 , pp. 92-128.
  • Balthasar Venator: Vita Petri de Spina , increased new edition by Georg Christian Joannis , Zweibrücken 1732. ( digitized version )
  • Friedrich Jännicke:  de Spina . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 197 f.
  • Wilhelm Doerr : Semper Apertus. Six hundred years of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 1386 to 1986 , Springer Verlag 2013, Volume 1, pp. 61/62 digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Haus Neukirch in Heidelberg's old town ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de
  2. ↑ Peter de Spina: Oratio Votiva Et Gratulatoria Ad Serenissimum Principem ... Carolum Ludovicum Electorem Palatinum ...: Cum Renascentis Academiae Heidelbergensis Archivum bono omine exhiberetur , Frankfurt am Main 1651.
personal data
SURNAME Spina, Peter de II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spina, Peter de II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mediciners
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1563
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1622
Place of death Heidelberg