Thomas Jordan (medical doctor)

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Thomas Jordan

Thomas Jordan, from 1562 Jordanus and from 1570 Joranus z Klauznburgku / von Klausenburg (also Jordán Tamás or Tomáš Jordán ; * July 7, 1540 in Klausenburg ; † February 12, 1586 in Brno ) was a doctor and naturalist of Transylvanian origin.

origin

Jordan's father, Hans Jordan, said he moved to Cluj in 1520 - from the Upper German-speaking area - with his first wife Anna (née Selge). It is only known that he was elected centumvir of the Cluj City Council in 1535 . In 1552 he was considered the owner of silver mines in Offenburg (Western Carpathians). Obviously he was wealthy because he owned an estate in Appesdorf (Kolozsmonostor, Cluj-Mănăştur) and a house in the Old Castle in Cluj-Napoca. Thomas Jordan came from his second marriage to Magdalena (marriage in 1539).

Life

Jordan attended the Lutheran grammar school in Cluj and enrolled on November 23, 1555 at the University of Wittenberg . There he studied philosophy. Probably in 1559 or 1560 he moved to the University of Paris , possibly under the influence of his former fellow student Hubert Languet . He later stated himself to have studied philosophy and medicine there. On October 1, 1561 , he enrolled at the University of Montpellier , where he became the favorite student of the famous physician and naturalist Guilelmus Rondelet. Here he lived with his professor Laurentius Joubert. In 1562 he was at the Calvinist University of Valence - along with Leonhard Rauwolff - to Dr. med. PhD . He then enrolled at the University of Basel , but after a short time went to Northern Italy. On the way he visited the Zurich city physician and important natural scientist Conrad Gessner . On October 23, 1562, he enrolled at the University of Padua , where he counted Paolo Grassi among his teachers. After a station at the University of Pisa , he went to the University of Bologna in February 1564 , where he mainly heard mathematical and philosophical lectures from Girolamo Cardano . In 1565 he stopped by Bartolomeo Eustachi in Rome before continuing to Vienna. There, on January 23, 1566, the medical faculty of the University of Vienna confirmed his doctorate.

Jordan was appointed field doctor in the context of the Second Austrian Turkish War under Emperor Maximilian II . During this time typhus broke out in the camps of the imperial troops , which Jordan diagnosed. This is not the only reason why it should have enjoyed a good reputation with the authorities. After the campaign, Jordan finally settled in Brno in 1569 after stints in Karlsbad and Prague . There he was named Protomedicus by the Moravian estates , i.e. land physicus of the Margraviate of Moravia , and as a knight with the predicate of Klausenburg / z Klauznburgku was raised to the nobility as early as 1570 . In 1577 and 1578 he was able to successfully fight a syphilis epidemic in Brno .

Jordan was buried in the Minorite Church in Brno after his death. After the church was re-Catholicized, Protestant grave slabs were removed, including probably those of Jordan.

Works (selection)

  • De aquis medicatis Moraviae Commentariolus. Johann Wechel, Frankfurt am Main 1575.
  • Thomas Jordani medici Pestis phaenomena seu de iis, quae circa febrem pestilentem apparent Exercitatio. Accedit Bezoar lapidie Descriptio. Wechel, Frankfurt am Main 1576.
  • Brunno Gallicus seu Luis novae in Mora-via exortae Descriptio. Wechel, Frankfurt am Main 1577.
  • Jordana z Klausenburgkie Knij o wodách hogitedlnych nep teplicech Morawskych. Brno 1581.

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personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jordan von Klausenburg, Thomas; Jordán, Tamás; Jordanus, Thomas; Jordán, Thomáš
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Transylvanian medic
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1540
PLACE OF BIRTH Cluj-Napoca
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1586
Place of death Brno