Georg Hieronymus Welsch (Latinized as Georgius Hieronymus Velschius; 28 October 1624 – 11 November 1677) was a German physician and writer who examined texts in astronomy and medicine from the Ottoman Empire.
Welsch was born in
Augsburg
Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...
where his father was an apothecary. He studied medicine at Tübingen, Strasburg and Padua before visiting Basel in 1645. He attempted to travel further but his parents forbade him. He attempted to return to Padua to obtain his physician degree but he was struck by epilepsy and was unable to speak thereafter. The then settled alone in Augsburg, surrounded by his books and read and wrote extensively. He knew Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic which he had studied in his home town. During his travels to Basel and Zurich where he studied the work of
Conrad Gesner under
Johann Heinrich Hottinger
Johann Heinrich Hottinger (10 March 1620 – 5 June 1667) was a Swiss philologist and theologian.
Life and works
Hottinger studied at Geneva, Groningen and Leiden. After visiting France and England he was appointed professor of church history ...
. He then travelled to Italy visiting numerous libraries including that of the Vatican. He collected books and pamphlets including a Turkish calendar. He wrote extensively on medicine in his manuscripts and published a few works including the methods of
Ibn Sina
Ibn Sina ( fa, ابن سینا; 980 – June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna (), was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, philosophers, and writers of the Islamic G ...
. He described the surgical removal of guinea worms in his 1674 ''Exercitatio de vena Medinense, ad mentem Ebnsinae F. de dracunculis veterum''. Another work was ''Desiderata Medicinae'' (1676) in which he listed out things he wished to know. A biography was written by his nephew Lucas Schroeck. He was made a member of the Leopoldina Academy in 1676.
References
External links
Disputatio de respiratione prima(1643)
Georgii Hieronymi Velschii Sylloge curationum et observationum medicinalium(1667)
Dissertatio medico-philosophica de aegagropilis(1668)
Memoria Welschiana, sive Historia vitae viri celeberrimi, Du. Georgii Hieronymi Welschii, Augustani(biography by Lucas Schroeck, 1678)
Somnium vindiciani, sive desiderata medicinae(1676)
Commentarius in Ruzname Naurus, sive, Tabulae aequinoctiales novi Persarum & Turcarum anni(1676)
Exercitatio de vena medinensi ad mentem Ebnsinae, sive de dracunculis veterum(1674)
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1624 births
1677 deaths
Physicians