Reinhold Mittendorp

Reinhold Mittendorp , also Reinhold von Mittendorf (born February 5, 1596 in Riga ; † August 3, 1657 ibid) was a German-Baltic doctor and city physician of Riga.

Life

After attending school in Riga, Mittendorp came to the University of Rostock in April 1617 as a council scholar of the city of Riga . On November 18, 1618 he was respondent to a disputation on the human intellect chaired by Johann Sleker .

At Michaelmas 1626 the city council of Riga appointed him city doctor and times city physician. In 1637 he became the first city physician. His successor as second physicus was Johann von Höveln .

He died in 1657 of the plague that broke out as a result of the Russian siege of Riga (1656) in the Second Northern War . His successor was Nicolaus Witte .

In addition to medical disputations, he wrote numerous occasional writings and poems in Latin and German.

Works

De intellectu humano. Rostock 1618 ( digitized , SLUB Dresden )
De scorbuto.
De colico.
Congratulations ad Christinam, Sueciae reginam. Riga 1652
Epitaph in praematuram mrten Gustavi Adolphi II. Riga 1654

literature

Johann Friedrich von Recke, Karl Eduard Napiersky: General writers and scholars lexicon of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland. Volume 4, Mitau: Steffenhagen 1829, p. 233
Isidorus Brennsohn: The Doctors of Livonia from the earliest times to the present: a biographical encyclopedia together with a historical introduction to Livonia's medical system. Riga 1905, p. 294

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal

personal data
SURNAME	Mittendorp, Reinhold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mittendorf, Reinhold von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Baltic physician and city physician from Riga
DATE OF BIRTH	February 5, 1596
PLACE OF BIRTH	Riga
DATE OF DEATH	August 3, 1657
Place of death	Riga

[1] Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal