Polycarp Gottlieb Schacher

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Polycarp Gottlieb Schacher (born January 6, 1674 in Leipzig ; † March 4, 1737 there ) was a German medic.

Life

The son of Christoph Hartmann Schacher (1633–1690) had initially enjoyed lessons from private teachers and then attended the Leipzig Nikolaischule . He then moved to the University of Leipzig , where he became a Baccalaurus of the medical faculty on June 7, 1694 and acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on January 31, 1695 . On 29 April 1696 he habilitated at the Leipzig University and received his doctorate in the same year Doctor of Medicine. He then went on a scholarly trip that took him through Germany, Holland , England and France . When he returned to Leipzig in 1701, he became an associate professor of medicine and opened a practice. Soon, however, he rose to the medical professorship.

In 1706 he was full professor of physiology, in 1719 professor of anatomy and surgery, in 1723 professor of pathology and in 1724 professor of therapy. Schacher had also taken on organizational tasks at the Leipzig University, was since 1724 permanent dean of the medical faculty, university senior, decemvir of the university and in the winter semester 1719/20 rector of the alma mater . He was an extraordinarily learned man, who was a great friend of anatomical studies, the importance of which he particularly emphasized for medicine. However, he did not leave behind a large independent work, only numerous smaller dissertations and academic programs that relate to all areas of theoretical and practical medicine. These nowadays have only historical interest.

From his marriage to Christiana Sibylla geb. Kober († 1763) had two sons, the lawyer Quirin Gottfried Schacher (1713–1774) and the physician Polycarp Friedrich Schacher (1715–1762). His daughter Johanna Christiana Schacher (1725–1754) married the Mayor of Leipzig, Dr. jur. Jacob Heinrich Born (1717–1775).

Works (selection)

  • De hominis loquela. 1696
  • Diss. De Sensazione in genre, et motu volontario. Leipzig 1697
  • Diss de Lacte et Semine. Leipzig 1697
  • Diss. De Corpore Humano. Leipzig 1697
  • Diss. De Sensibus internis. Leipzig 1697
  • De cataracta. 1701
  • De anatomia praestantissimo totius medicinae fundamento. 1705
  • De anatomica praecipuaeum patrium administrone. 1710
  • De thermarum Carolinarum usu in renum et vesicae calculo. 1711
  • De anatomia et physiologia in genre. 1715
  • De partibus corporis humani internis. 1715
  • De taenia. 1717
  • About the bleeding of the pregnant women. Leipzig 1717
  • De sanitate. 1718
  • De eruditorum morbis. 1719
  • De consideratione animae rationalis medica. 1720
  • About unequal twin births. 1721
  • Epistolae Medicae. Leipzig 1721–32
  • De febre acuta exanthematica aegram quinquiesserie non interrupta invadente. 1723
  • Panegyrin medicam indicat. 1723
  • About the situation where the mother is dead but the child is still alive in the womb. 1731
  • De melancholia hysterica. Leipzig 1732
  • Indictio ejus Concionis Funebris. Leipzig 1737
  • Diss. Med. de aeris efficacitate in corpore humano = From the influence of the air in the human body. 1738
  • Of women who made themselves famous in the science of medicine. 1738 (with Johann Heinrich Schmid)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Schacher, Polycarp Gottlieb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schacher, Polycarp Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1674
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1737
Place of death Leipzig