Simon Pauli (the younger)

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Simon Pauli

Simon Pauli (the younger) , also Danish Simon Paulli (born December 6, 1603 in Rostock , † April 13, 1680 in Copenhagen ), was a German doctor in the service of the Danish kings Christian IV and Friedrich III.

Life

Simon Pauli was the grandson of the Rostock superintendent Simon Pauli (the elder) and son of the Rostock professor of medicine and temporary rector (1596) of Heinrich Pauli University (1565-1610), who went to Nykøbing in 1604 as the personal physician of the queen widow Sophie .

Simon Pauli studied medicine in Rostock, Leiden and Paris . After a trip to England he completed his studies in Wittenberg and received his doctorate in medicine here in 1630. He practiced in Rostock and Lübeck and taught from 1634 to 1639 as a professor at the Rostock University. In 1639 he was appointed professor of anatomy , surgery and botany at the University of Copenhagen . Here he set up a Theatrum Anatomicum for the first time in 1645 . His students included Joel Langelott and Niels Stensen .

On behalf of King Christian IV, he published a herbal book entitled Flora Danica - a forerunner of the Flora Danica table work, which was 100 years younger . After Friedrich III took over the throne. wanted to entrust Thomas Bartholin with the professorship. To compensate for this, he appointed Paulli personal physician and provided him with a sinecure with a prelature in Aarhus .

Pauli was one of the first to write about the medicinal effects of tobacco and tea. In doing so, however, he defended the thesis, which was soon disproved, that the tea bush was identical to the European nail bush .

Of Pauli's sons, Jacob Henrik (1637–1702; 1698 ennobled by Rosenschild (t) -Paulyn ), anatomist and diplomat in the Danish service, Daniel (1640–1684) bookseller and publisher in Copenhagen, Simon printer and publisher in Strasbourg , and a Another son, Olliger (Holger) Pauli (1644–1714), became an extremely pietistic publicist after initially successful economic activity with the Danish East India Company .

Honor taxon

Carl von Linné named a genus of the soap tree family Paullinia in honor of Pauli .

Works

  • Pauli's Flora Danica (1648)

  • Front page

  • Caltha palustris in Flora Danica 1648

  • Flora Danica 1648: Text page on the Caltha palustris

  • Quadripartitum, De Simplicium medicamentorum Facultatibus. Rostock 1639 ( digitized version )
    • Extended new edition. Paulli, Strasbourg 1667–1668
  • Flora Danica det er: Dansk Urtebog: Udi huilcken, efter hans Kongl: Mayst ... Christiani IV ... written documents til Facultatem Medicam, udi det Kongelig Universiteet Kiøbenhafn, icke alleeniste Urternis Historiske Beskrifvelse, Krafters oc Virkninger. Fig, med zijninger : Men endocsaa Lægedomme til alle Siugdomme gafulige, korteligen oc clear antegnis: Saa at den er baade en Urtebog oc Lægebog / med største Flijd oc Umage elaborerit af Simone Paulli , 1648
  • De Abusu Tabaci Americanorum Veteri, Et Herbæ Thee Asiaticorum in Europa Novo . Strasbourg: Paulli 1665
    • A treatise on tobacco, tea, coffee, and chocolate: In which, I. The advantages and disadvantages attending the use of these commodities, are not only impartially considered, upon the principles of medicine and chymistry, but also ascertained by observation and experience: II. Full and distinct directions laid down for knowing in what cases, and for what particular constitutions, these substances are either beneficial or hurtful: III. The Chinese or Asiatic tea, shewn to be the same with the European Chamelaeagnus, or Myrtus brabantica. 1746 ( digitized version )
  • Anatomical and medicinal covering over a royal riding horse so anatomical art was broken down, the 11th Christian month 1671: to which added the same clouding frame as one [negst divine grace, mediated by anatomy] the people of the stature and those who remain paralyzed far better than our ancestors can curry. 1672 ( digitized version )

literature

Web links

Commons : Simon Pauli the Younger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal , SS 1617, No. 33
  2. ↑ Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods, part 2,3: Estonia, Bd.:3 , Görlitz, 1930, p.19
  3. ^ Daniel Paulli in the Danish Wikipedia
  4. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 94
  5. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 170
personal data
SURNAME Pauli, Simon the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simon Paulli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Danish doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1603
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1680
Place of death Copenhagen