Jan Jesenius
Jan Jesenius | |
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Crown of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) | |
| Known for | physician politician philosopher |
| Scientific career | |
| Doctoral advisor | Hieronymus Fabricius |
| Doctoral students | Daniel Sennert |
Jan Jesenius, also written as Jessenius (
philosopher
.
Life
Early years
He was from an old noble family, the
German[1] roots. His father, Boldizsár Jeszenszky de Nagyjeszen, left Turóc County (today the Turiec region in Slovakia) because of the Ottomans' military campaign against Upper Hungary and settled down in Silesia in 1555. He married Marta Schülerin, who came from a wealthy German bourgeois family.[5]
Jesenius was born in
University of Leipzig, and from 1588 at the University of Padua
.
Professional achievements
His most important philosophical work was Zoroaster (1593), a work of universal philosophy which attempted to recover the lost wisdom of the ancients.
From 1593 Jesenius was the physician of the Prince of
University of Wittenberg. After 1600 he settled down in Prague as professor and anatomical consultant for Rudolf II, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor
.
In 1600 he attracted considerable public interest by performing a public autopsy in Prague. (His notes on the autopsy were published in 2005 by Karolinum, a publishing house of Charles University of Prague.)[6]
In 1617 he was elected
Charles University of Prague
.
Political career
He was also a diplomat and orator, and after the dethroning of
Frederick of the Palatinate
.
In 1618, Jesenius was arrested in
Emperor Mathias
will die in the month of March"), and he wrote another prophecy next to it: Iesseni, Mentiris, Mala Morte Morieris ("Jesenius, you lie, you will die a horrible death").
Both predictions came true: Emperor Mathias died in March 1619, and Jesenius was arrested after the defeat of
Old Town Square
in 1621.
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Balázs Trencsényi, Márton Zászkaliczky: Whose Love of Which Country?, Brill, 2010 [1]
- ^ Royal College of Physicians of London
- ^ Studia historica Slovac. Historical Institute SAV
- ISBN 9780817999520. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
- ^ Ruttkay László: Az orvos Jessenius mint történetíró Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ History of Anatomy in the Czech Lands (1600–1746) (in Czech) – on web pages of the Institute of Anatomy, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague
References
- Ľudo Zúbek: Doktor Jesenius, Szlovákiai Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó-Móra Ferenc Könyvkiadó, Bratislava(Pozsony)-Budapest, 1958. (in Hungarian)
- Ľudo Zúbek: Doktor Jesenius, Móra Ferenc Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1966. (in Hungarian)
- Ruttkay László: Jeszenszky (Jessenius) János és kora 1566–1621, Semmelweis Orvostörténeti Múzeum és Könyvtár, Budapest, 1971. (in Hungarian)
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