Gottfried Steegh

Gottfried Steegh , also: Godefridus Steeghius , Godfried Versteegh , Gottfriedt von der Staige (* 1550 in Amersfoort , Netherlands ; † 1609 in Prague , Bohemia ) was a Dutch physician, prince-bishop's personal physician in Würzburg and imperial personal physician in Prague.

Life

Steegh studied at the Universities of Leuven , Montpellier and Pisa .

Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn brought him from Nijmegen to his court in Würzburg . When the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg was re-established (1582), Steegh became a professor there. The prince-bishop made him his first personal physician in 1591 .

From 1597 at the latest until his death he was the personal physician of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague .

Publications

Descriptio fontis medicati Kissingensis , Georg Fleischmann Verlag, Würzburg 1595.
- German translation: Sabine Greb: Description of the Kissinger Heilquelle, 1595 , Hg .: Staatliche Kurverwaltung Bad Kissingen et al., Würzburg and Bad Kissingen 1985.
Godefridi Steegh Amorforti, reverendissimi atque illustrissimi pricipis ac domini, D. Julio Episcopo Herbipolensi Franciae Orient. Ducis Medici Tractatus de Peste, inquo vera praeseruandi & curandi ratio recensetur . Georg Fleischmann Publishing House, Würzburg, 1597
Ars medica Godefridi Steeghij Amorfortij Inuictissimi atque Augustissimi Rudolphi II. Romanorum Imperatoris medici cubicularij. Tota conscripta methodo diuisiua a Galeno diuersis locis proposita, commendata & exemplis illustrata, a recentioribus quibusdam clarissimis inchoata, sed a nemine hactenus absoluta. Cum indice rerum & verborum locupletissimo. Rationem operis explicat praefatio ad lectorem, seriem atque ordinem subsequens librorum atque capitum index , Verlag Marnius & Aubrius, Frankfurt am Main 1606

Individual evidence

↑ Documenta Rudolphina : According to this, he seems to have been still alive in September 1609; The year of birth 1571 given here is illogical, however, other sources give instead (based on the curriculum vitae, also more logical in arithmetic terms) the year 1550.
↑ Frank Fürbeth : Bibliography of the German or in the German area published baths of the 15th and 16th centuries. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 13, 1995, pp. 217-252; here: p. 246.

literature

Jean François Foppens, Valerius Andreas, Valère André, Aubert Le Mire, Pierre François Sweerts: Bibliotheca belgica, sive Virorum in Belgio vita, scriptisque illustrium , 1739, page 374
Hedwig Pfister: The Kissinger bathing description of Dr. Gottfried Steegh , in: Bad Kissingen four hundred years ago , Mainfränkische Hefte, 1954
Fritz Peter Knapp, Herbert Zeman : The Austrian literature. Your profile from the beginnings in the Middle Ages .... , Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1986, ISBN 3201012823 , page 889

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personal data
SURNAME	Steegh, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Steeghius, Godefridus; Versteegh, Godfried; Staige, Gottfriedt from the
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch medic
DATE OF BIRTH	1550
PLACE OF BIRTH	Amersfoort , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH	after September 1609
Place of death	Prague , Bohemia

[1] Documenta Rudolphina : According to this, he seems to have been still alive in September 1609; The year of birth 1571 given here is illogical, however, other sources give instead (based on the curriculum vitae, also more logical in arithmetic terms) the year 1550.

[2] Frank Fürbeth : Bibliography of the German or in the German area published baths of the 15th and 16th centuries. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 13, 1995, pp. 217-252; here: p. 246.