Philipp Jakob Sachs from Löwenheim

Philipp Jakob Sachs von Löwenheim (also Lewenhaimb or Lewenheimb ) (born August 26, 1627 in Breslau ; † January 7, 1672 ibid) was a Breslau city physician .

Life

He studied in Holland, Strasbourg, Paris and Montpellier and received his doctorate in Padua in 1651. He then practiced as a doctor in Breslau. On December 30, 1658 he was accepted as a member ( registration number 17 ) with the surname Phosphorus I. in the learned society Leopoldina . In 1670 in Breslau he co-founded the oldest medical and scientific journal in the world: Miscellanea Curiosa Medico-physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum sive Ephemeridum medico-physicarum germanicarum curiosarum . He became known for a popular hygienic book about grapes. On May 11, 1671 he was appointed city physician by the magistrate, who was already holding Johann Agricola (1590–1668) alongside him .

Works (selection)

Oceanus macro-microcosmicus ( frontispiece )

Ampelographie sive Vitis Viniferae , Leipzig 1661
Oceanus macro-microcosmicus , Breslau 1664
Gammarologia , Frankfurt and Leipzig 1665

literature

Sachs from Löwenheimb. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 33, Leipzig 1742, column 268 f.
Hermann Markgraf: Sachs von Löwenheim, Philipp Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 142 f.
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. 189 .
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. 147 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Publications by and about Philipp Jakob Sachs von Löwenheim in VD 17 .

Member entry of Philipp Jakob Sachs von Lewenhaimb (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 23, 2017.

Individual evidence

↑ Ampelographia sive Vitis Viniferae Ejusqve Partium Consideratio Physico-Philologico-Historico-Medico-Chymica, in qua Tam de Vite in genere, qvàm in specie de ejus Pampinis, Flore, Lachryma, Sarmentis, Fructu, Vini multivario usu, de Spiritu Vini , Vini Face & Tartaro,… bibliography on the history and culture of wine

personal data
SURNAME	Sachs von Löwenheim, Philipp Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sachs from Lewenhaimb, Philipp Jakob; Sachs from Lewenheimb, Philipp Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Breslauer Stadtphysicus and co-founder of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum (Leopoldina)
DATE OF BIRTH	August 26, 1627
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	January 7, 1672
Place of death	Wroclaw

[1] Ampelographia sive Vitis Viniferae Ejusqve Partium Consideratio Physico-Philologico-Historico-Medico-Chymica, in qua Tam de Vite in genere, qvàm in specie de ejus Pampinis, Flore, Lachryma, Sarmentis, Fructu, Vini multivario usu, de Spiritu Vini , Vini Face & Tartaro,… bibliography on the history and culture of wine