Simon Lefmans

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Simon Lefmans (born in the 17th century in Essen ; died 1735 or later) was a German doctor .

Life

Simon Lefmans came from a Jewish family and was born in the city of Essen. From 1674 he studied medicine in Duisburg at the university there .

Then Lefmans worked for six years as a personal physician to the abbess Bernhardine Sophia von Essen .

On February 19, 1685 Simon Lefmans put in the Netherlands at the University of Utrecht under the presidency of teaching there theologian Melchior Leydecker the Hippocratic oath and received his title of Doctor of Medicine.

Lefmans initially practiced in Heidelberg , but went to Hamburg before 1693 , where he worked as a general practitioner for more than four decades.

In 1733 - in the same year Simon Lefmans reissued his inaugural dissertation with a foreword and additions - articles on Simon Lefman's work were published in the journals Hamburg Reports and Niedersächsische Nachrichten , which also dealt with the question of whether Christians were to be treated by Jewish doctors.

Fonts

  • Disp. medica inaug. de variolis. Praeside Melchiore Leydeckero. Ultrajecti . 1685

literature

Archival material

Archives by and about Simon Lefmans were documented, for example

    • "[Mannheim] ... Judensache 1185 (employment of a Jewish doctor regarding)"

See also

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g Hans Schröder (original), FA Cropp, CAW Klose: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present. prepared on behalf of the Association for Hamburg History. Volume 4: Clinker - Lyser. Commissioned by W. Mauke 'Sons, Hamburg: 1866, p. 397; Preview over google books
  2. ^ Michael Alberti, Christian Thomasius: Judicium Facultatis Medicae Hallensis. In: dies .: Systema jurisprudentiae medicae ... quo casus forenses a ictis et medicis decidendi, explicantur omniumque ... in partem dogmaticam et practicam paritum, ... Jurisprudentiae medicae ... Part 2: Systema jurisprudentiae medicae. Halae, 1736, pp. 759f .; Digitized via Google books
  3. a b Berthold Rosenthal: Two Jewish Doctors [Dr. Hayum Jacob and Dr. Simon Lefmans]. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism. 1933, pp. 447-456; Digitized via the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main