Georg Balthasar Metzger (23 September 1623 – 9 October 1687) was a German physician and scientist notable as one of the four founding members of the

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Biography

He was born in Schweinfurt. In 1646 Metzger obtained the

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degree from the

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under Gottfried Möbius with a thesis entitled: ''Suppressionem mensium''. In 1650, he obtained his

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from the

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under Johann Jakob von Brunn with a thesis entitled:
Disputatio medica inauguralis de catarrho suffocativo
'' In 1661 Metzger was appointed to the

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(1614–74) to improve its teaching of

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and surgery. From 1681 to 1688 he also directed the university's ''Hortus medicus'', which has subsequently evolved into the

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. In 1688 its direction passed to Metzer's student, Rudolf Jacob Camerer. Metzger was Lutheran. He married Margarete Küffner''.'' He died in Tübingen in 1687.

Selected works

* '' Dissertatio medica inauguralis de acidulis'' (1663) * '' Disputatio medica inauguralis de syncope'' (1665) * '' Urocriterium brevibus thesibus exhibitum'' (1677) * '' Dissertationem medicam inauguralem de medicamentis sternutatoriis (1678) * '' Disputatio inauguralis medica de diabete'' (1679) * '' Anatomen dentium human'' (1685)

References

External links

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History of Schweinfurt

Georg Balthasar Metzger at WorldCat
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