Simon Pauli (the younger)
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
Caltha palustris in Flora Danica 1648
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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
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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
- Karl Ernst Hermann Krause: Pauli, Simon (physician) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 274.
- Wolfgang Michel: An East Indian missive - Andreas Cleyer's letter to Sebastian Scheffer from December 20, 1683. In: Dokufutsu Bungaku Kenkyu, No.41 (Fukoka, August 1991), pp. 15-98. - probably from Pauli's estate, with references to his tea book.
Web links
- Publications by and about Simon Pauli in VD 17 .
- Literature about Simon Pauli (the younger) in the state bibliography MV
- Entry on Simon Pauli in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal , SS 1617, No. 33
- ↑ Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods, part 2,3: Estonia, Bd.:3 , Görlitz, 1930, p.19
- ^ Daniel Paulli in the Danish Wikipedia
- ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 94
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 170
personal data | |
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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 |