Samuel Grass (medic, 1653)

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Samuel Grass Sr. (* July 11, 1653 in Breslau ; † June 29, 1730 ibid) was a city ​​physician in Breslau and a member of the academy of scholars " Leopoldina ".

Life

Samuel Grass the Elder was a respondent at the University of Jena under Georg Wolfgang Wedel in 1677 . He then turned to the University of Padua (January 1678). He was a doctor of philosophy and medicine. He was physicus in Jena and later first physicus in Breslau. He was married to Rosina Grass, who came from a family of printers in Breslau. One of his sons was Samuel Grass the younger. He was also a doctor and a member of the “Leopoldina” academy of scholars. Another son was the lawyer Benjamin Grass. The daughter was Rosina Grass, married Sommer.

On January 31, 1694, Samuel Grass (senior) with the nickname MESPHE II. Or MESUE II. Was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 204 ) in the Leopoldina .

Publications

  • Disputatio Medica Inauguralis De Paralysi , President Georg Wolfgang Wedel. Digitized
  • with Georg Wolfgang Wedel, 1645–1721: De Apoplexia / Ex Epitome Praxeos Clinicæ Georgii Vvolffgangi Vvedelii, Hereditarii in Schwartza ... Eodem Præside, Pvblicæ Philiatrorvm Disqvisitioni Svbiecta a Samvele Grassio , AD, Avgvsti Anno CI7. IæCC VII, Iæen CC
  • with Maximilian Preuß : Kurtze and Nöthige Instruction / How to protect oneself from the Pestilentcial Gifft with the current Contagion / and other bad coincidences / Even / someone infected with it / can curir duly , Heinich, Cüstrin, 1709

literature

  • Johann Christian Kundmann, doctor in Breslau: Silesii in Nummis or Famous Silesians in Müntzen, Breslau and Leipzig 1738, pp. 180 + 181. Digitized
  • Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 480 digitized
  • 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. 200 (archive.org)
  • 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. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 152 ( archive.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann August Barth: History of the city book printing company that has been in Breslau for three hundred years , Second section: History of the first Breslau printing house, 1804, p. 54. Digitized

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personal data
SURNAME Grass, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graß, Samuel the Elder; Mesphe II .; Mesue II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION First physicist in Breslau and member of the Leopoldina
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1653
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1730
Place of death Wroclaw