Johannes Andreas Schmitz (1621, Soest, Nordrhein-Westfalen – 2 October 1652,

Harderwijk Harderwijk (; Dutch Low Saxon: ) is a municipality and city of the Netherlands. It is served by the Harderwijk railway station. Its population centres are Harderwijk and Hierden. Harderwijk is on the western boundary of the Veluwe. The south ...

) was a German physician and the third rector of the

University of Harderwijk The University of Harderwijk (1648–1811), also named the ''Guelders Academy'' (), was located in the city of Harderwijk, in the Republic of the United Provinces (now: the Netherlands). It was founded by the province of Guelders (Gelre). Hist ...

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Schmitz studied medicine in

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(1639),

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(1643), and

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. He served as personal physician to

Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg Frederick William (; 16 February 1620 – 29 April 1688) was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia, from 1640 until his death in 1688. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he is popularly known as "th ...

, and as

city physician City physician (German language, German: ; , , from Latin ) was a historical title in the Late Middle Ages for a physician appointed by the city council. The city physician was responsible for the health of the population, particularly the poor, ...

in Harderwijk (''Reip. Harderv. Medicus ordinarius''). He became Professor of Medicine (1648) and rector (1650) of the University of Harderwijk. He married Gertrud Kumpsthoff and had a son Johann Dietrich Schmitz (1648/1649-1692), who became mayor of

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, and a daughter Sophia (c. 1644-1671).

Works

Schmitz is known for his posthumous work ''Medicinae practicae compendium''
Harderwijk 1653
Copenhagen 1659
Paris 1666Utrecht 1682Leiden 1688
. Georgius Hornius' preface to this work mentions the deceased author's never-realized plan to publish a botanical work, ''Plantarum Velavicarum Historia''.

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Abraham Jacob van der Aa Abraham Jacob van der Aa (7 December 1792 – 21 March 1857) was a Dutch writer best known for his dictionaries, one of notable people and the other of notable places in the Netherlands. He was born in Amsterdam in 1792. His father was a lawy ...

, ''Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden'', vol. 17 (Haarlem 1874), p
369
* A. P. Fokker, "Verslag van den Hoofsbestuurder-Bibliothecaris aan de commissie tot hen nazien der Bibliotheek," ''Weekblad van het Nederlandsch tijdschrift voor geneeskunde'', no. 23 (June 9, 1900), in ''Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde'' 44 (1900), pp
1068
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