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Reiner Solenander in a book by Heinrich Pantaleon

Reiner Solenander (* 1524 in Büderich ; † January 5, 1601 in Düsseldorf ), originally Reiner Gathmann , was a spa doctor in Lucca and personal physician to Wilhelm the Rich in Düsseldorf.

Life

As the son of a respected bourgeois family from Büderich, Reiner Gathmann attended the Wesel Latin School . The school's principal at the time was Johannes Peringius, who was also from Büderich . Already at this time he was by Duke Johann III. sponsored by Kleve. A scholarship from the Duke, who, as Melchior Adam writes, was from ingenio felici (lucky talent), also enabled him to study for several years in Leuven , Bologna , Pisa , Rome and Naples . He Latinized his name in "Reiner (us) Solenander", and with his first publication, Apologia qua Iulio Alexandrino respondetur pro Argenterio , he intervened in the controversy triggered by Paracelsus and Vesalius about the importance and binding nature of Galen's teaching . Giovanni Argenterio had attacked Galenus, Julius Alexandrinus protected Galenus against these attacks. Solenander took the side of the attacker, i.e. the liberation from Galenus' overwhelming supremacy in previous medicine. However, he later returned to the more recognized galenic principles. He examined and compared the thermal springs of Ischia, known from antiquity, and became a spa doctor in Lucca . With De caloris fontium medicatorum causa, eorumque temperatione libri duo , he became an early balneologist . Immediately after this publication, Duke Wilhelm the Rich called him to Düsseldorf in 1559, where he worked as the ducal personal physician alongside Johann Weyer, who was eight years his senior . When Johannes Oporinus wrote a letter about Paracelsus to the two personal physicians in 1565, he turned to Solenander as the medicum illustrum ducis Juliacensis excellentissimum. In 1566 the duke suffered a stroke. Solenander alleviated the subsequent infirmity through dietary measures, but soon also had to deal with the weakness of mind and melancholy of the Hereditary Prince Johann Wilhelm , which he was unable to remedy. On the other hand, he successfully treated an eye disease of the cartographer Gerhard Mercator in Duisburg with eyebright .

In 1573, Solenander and Weyer took part in the bridal trip of Princess Marie Eleonore von Jülich-Kleve-Berg to her wedding with Duke Albrecht Friedrich of Prussia to Königsberg . In 1578 Johann Weyer retired from court service, his son Galenus Weyer followed him. From this, Solenander and Lambert Wolf came a medical report about the desolate state of health of Johann Wilhelm in 1589. In 1592 Wilhelm the Rich died, in 1595 Solenander withdrew to Büderich, especially since his successor Johann Wilhelm could not be helped medically with the means at the time. Solenander collected and published his medical experience in the work Consiliorum Medicinalium sectiones quinque , in which a total of 133 different exemplary cases of kidney stones, deafness and melancholy are described according to the knowledge and therapeutic ability of the time. According to Melchior Adam, Solenander called for an improvement in the training of young medical professionals, who all too often content themselves with collecting a few prescriptions in Italy, then return home and believe they can call themselves doctors. In a paracelsic way, Solenander demanded that a doctor must precisely recognize the disease and have diligently studied the nature and healing powers of the remedies to be used. Solenander was buried in the Willibrordi Cathedral in Wesel .

Today streets in several cities and towns are named after Solenander, z. B. in the Düsseldorf district of Bilk .

Works

  • Reineri Solenandri medici Apologia qua Iulio Alexandrino respondetur pro Argenterio. Apud Laurentium Torrentinum, Florentiae (Florence) 1556 ( Google Books ).
  • De caloris fontium medicatorum causa, eorumque temperatione libri duo, et Philosophis et Medicis perutiles . Lugduni (Lyon), Apud Joannem Franciscum de Gabiano, 1558 ( Google Books ).
  • Reineri Solenandri Budericensis medici Consiliorum Medicinalium, Sectio prima . Johannes Franciscus de Gambiano, Lyon 1560 ( Google-Books )
  • Consiliorum medicinalium Reineri Solenandri, Budericensis, doctoris, medici Ducis Cliuensium, & c. Sectiones quinque. / Quarum prima ante annos trigintaocto, à Joanne Francisco de Gabiano Lugduni edita ,; & cum consiliis celeberrimi medici Ioannis Montani in 16 excusa .; Reliquae quatuor ab auctore jam recens additae. Hanouiae (Hanau), Typis Wechelianis, apud Claudium Marnium & heredes Ioan. Aubrii., 1609 ( Google Books ).

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  1. ↑ Cf. Sigmund Feyerabend : Magnificent, full description of the princely journey home by both . Sigmund Feyerabend, Frankfurt am Main 1576, p. 43 ( Google Books ).
personal data
SURNAME Solenander, Reiner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gathmann, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spa doctor in Lucca, personal doctor of Wilhelm the Rich
DATE OF BIRTH 1524
PLACE OF BIRTH Büderich (Wesel)
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1601
Place of death Dusseldorf