Severin Göbel the Elder

Severin Göbel the Elder (also: Gebel ; * June 25, 1530 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † January 5, 1612 there ) was a German physician.

Life

Göbel's grandfather Heinrich Göbel had immigrated from the Rhine to East Prussia with Johann von Tiefen in 1489 and had served here among the last three masters of the order. His father Johann (Hans) Göbel can be proven in 1511 in the service of Margrave Albrecht of Prussia. He had previously been active as head of warfare under Emperor Maximilian I as the commander of the imperial freestyle razor and is accompanied by Johann von Osten's to East Prussia. It was used by Albrecht of Prussia in the wars against Poland. Later he was active in the army of Ferdinand of Hungary and Bohemia , where he is said to have fallen in 1536 in the fight against the Turks in Neuheusel in Hungary. He had married in Königsberg, from which marriage Severin, commemorated here, and a brother Friedrich as well as the two mint masters Hans and Kaspar are known.

Severin was entered in the register of the university in 1544, the year the University of Königsberg was founded. He continued his studies on June 27, 1553 as a scholarship holder of Duke Albrecht of Prussia at the University of Wittenberg . In Wittenberg he received his doctorate together with Paul Luther on July 29, 1557 under Jakob Milich with the Oratio de pulmone et discrimine as a doctor of medicine. In 1558 he became the personal physician of Landgrave Philip of Hesse . He made a trip to Italy in 1558/59 and appeared at the University of Marburg in 1561 . In the last year he went back to Königsberg as personal physician to Duke Albrecht of Prussia.

After he died, he worked as a Saxon Coburg court doctor and returned to the court in Königsberg in 1569. Here in 1570 he was allowed to work for a while as a physicist for the city of Danzig . In 1577 he became the personal physician of Duke Albrecht Friedrich of Prussia , and in 1583 took over the second full professorship in medicine and the professorship in physics at the University of Königsberg, which he resigned in 1593. After he had devised a plan for a health well in Kosielecz near Marienburg in 1599, he died. As a number of letters between im and Martin Chemnitz testify, he was a supporter of the Gnesiolutherans .

family

Göbel was married twice.

His first marriage was in 1561 with Ursula († 1582), daughter of the Königsberg mayor of the old town Bernahard Büttner.

After her death he married NN., Widow of the court administrator of the old town Dr. Kaspar Steinbrecher. Of his children, five boys and one daughter had died before his death; the surviving children are known to:

• Severin Göbel the Younger , Professor of Medicine in Koenigsberg
• Friedrich Göbel customs inspector of the three cities of Königsberg m. 1608 with Elisabeth, daughter of Martin von Lauterbach from Silesia

Works

• Pia commonefactione de passione, resurrectione et beneficiis Christi (Frankfurt 1558),
• De succino libri duo (Frankfurt 1558, Zurich 1560 and more often),
• On the abuse of Arzney ... (Danzig 1560),
• Necessary report and ... Arrzney in srerbens leufften (1564),
• History and proper report on the origin, origin and various uses of amber (Königsberg 1566)
• Report on the origin of the Agadt or Amber (Königsberg 1567, 1616),
• From the Indian Börnstein report. Item from the ambergris (Königsberg 1586).
• Antidorarii castrensis particula pima ... (Hall 1595),
• Historia seu brevis descriptio animalis Alcis, quod vulgo vocant Granbesria, deque illius partium facultatibus (Venice 1595)
• Kurtze remembrance of the prevention and abolition of the Pestilential epidemics ... (Königsberg 1602, 1624)

literature

• Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, Part 2, pp. 308, 394,
• J. Gallandi: Königsberg councilors. In .: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly new series. Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr. 1882, p. 199
• Hermann Freytag: The Prussians at the University of Wittenberg and the non-Prussian students of Wittenberg in Prussia from 1502–1602. Verlag Duncker and Humblot, Leipzig, 1903, p. 50
• Hans Theodor Koch: The Wittenberg Medical Faculty (1502–1652). A biobibliographical overview. In: Stefan Oehmig: Medicine and social affairs in Central Germany during the Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02437-7 , p. 310 f.
• Er - Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . 1st section, vol. 72, p. 41