Zacharias Brendel the Younger

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Zacharias Brendel the Younger

Zacharias Brendel the Younger , also: Brendelius , (born January 1, 1592 in Jena ; † June 13, 1638 ibid) was a German physician and chemist .

Life

Brendel was a son of the physician Zacharias Brendel the Elder and his first wife Elisabeth Wex. In the summer semester of 1603 he was registered at the University of Jena , where he should first have completed a basic course in philosophy. After a study trip to Italy, he switched to the medical faculty of the Jena University on March 6, 1612 and received his doctorate in Jena on November 5, 1617 as a doctor of medicine. He then worked as a doctor in Glauchau , Pößneck , Schönburg and Weimar . After the death of his father on January 15, 1627 he received the third medical professorship in botany at the Salana. In this capacity he also participated in the organizational tasks of the Jena University. He was dean of the medical faculty several times and in the winter semester of 1630 and 1636 rector of the alma mater .

Brendel was mainly active in the field of pharmaceutical chemistry and iatrochemistry. So he founded a chemical college in Jena in 1636, in which he sought to establish what was then called "phytomedicine" at the Jena University. In his main work, the textbook Chymiam in artis formam redactam , he dealt, among other things, with the manufacture of potable gold and tried to establish chemistry as an auxiliary science of medicine. This work was published after his death with a preface by Werner Rolfinck . This was particularly well received in the Dutch university landscape, where it was subject to further requirements.

Works (selection)

  • Tractatus de Inductorum purgantium viribus dosi. Jena
  • De ventriculi imbecillitate etc.
  • Disputatio Inauguralis De Cardialgia. Jena 1630 (Resp. Michael Stössel, online )
  • Chymiam in artis formam redactam. Jena 1630, 1641 ( online ), Amsterdam 1659, 1668, Leiden 1671
  • Disputatio Isagogica De Medicina Arte Nobilissima. Jena 1635 (Resp. Stephan Schrikel (1613–1635), online )
  • Dissertatio Medica Inauguralis De Ventriculi Imbecillitate. Jena 1638 ( online )

literature

  • Johann Caspar Zeumer, Christof Weissenborn: Vitae Professorum Theologiae, Jurisprudentiae, Medicinae et Philosophiae qui in illustri Academia Jenensi, ab ipsius fundatione ad nostra usque tempora vixerunt et adhuc vivunt una cum scriptis a quolibet editis quatuor classibus. Johann Felici Bieleck, Jena, 1711, part III, p. 25 (medical professionals, online )
  • Brendel (Zacharias). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 4, Leipzig 1733, column 1248.
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : * General scholarly lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, after their birth, life, remarkable stories , Dying and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , Leipzig, 1750, Vol. 1, Sp. 1362
  • August Hirsch : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna & Leipzig, 1884, p. 567
  • Roland Itterheim: Two times Zacharias Brendel. Jena physicians in the name of iatrochemistry. In: Ärzteblatt Thuringia. 2010, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 245–247, ( Online PDF 797 kB; German)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Mentz, Reinhold Jauernig: The register of the University of Jena. From 1548 to 1652. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1944, Vol. 1, p. 33