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
Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in
Schweinfurt
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.
Biography
He was born in Schweinfurt.
In 1646 Metzger obtained the
Magister Artium
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degree from the
University of Jena
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The university was established in 1558 and is cou ...
under
Gottfried Möbius with a thesis entitled: ''Suppressionem mensium''. In 1650, he obtained his
medical doctorate
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from the
University of Basel
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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
University of Tübingen
The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (; ), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
The University of Tübingen is one of eleven German Excellenc ...
by
Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (1614–74) to improve its teaching of
anatomy
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and surgery. From 1681 to 1688 he also directed the university's ''Hortus medicus'', which has subsequently evolved into the
Botanischer Garten der Universität Tübingen.
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
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External links
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History of SchweinfurtGeorg Balthasar Metzger at WorldCat
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1623 births
1687 deaths
People from Schweinfurt
University of Jena alumni
University of Basel alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tübingen
17th-century German physicians
17th-century German writers
17th-century German male writers