Heinrich Petraeus (Henricus Petraeus) (15891620) was a German physician and writer. He was Professor of Medicine at the

University of Marburg The Philipps University of Marburg (german: Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Protestant university in the wor ...

. He was son-in-law of the chemist

Johannes Hartmann Johannes Hartmann ( Amberg, 14 January 1568 – Kassel, 7 December 1631) was a German chemist. In 1609, he became the first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Marburg. His teaching dealt mainly with pharmaceutical A medica ...

(15681631). He is known for his ''Nosologia Harmonica Dogmatica et Hermetica''. This was an attempt to find concord between rival medical theories of the time: those of the progressive chemical physicians (exemplified by

Vesalius Andreas Vesalius (Latinized from Andries van Wezel) () was a 16th-century anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, ''De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem'' (''On the fabric of the human body'' '' ...

) and those of the tradition-based Galenists.

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