Johann Heinrich Meibom
Johann Heinrich Meibom (27 August 1590 in Helmstedt, May 16, 1655, in Lübeck) was a German physician and professor of medicine at the University of Helmstedt, he first practiced for many years as a city physician in Lübeck and wrote numerous medical, historical and philological works.
Life
Johann Heinrich Meibom father was the German historian and poet Heinrich Meibom the Elder from the old Lower Saxon.
Meibom studied in Helmstedt, Wittenberg and Leipzig medicine. In 1619, he graduated from Basel with a Doctor of Medicine Ph.D. In 1620 he became a professor at the University of Helmstedt. He left Helmstedt in 1625 because of the Thirty Years War and was a doctor in Lübeck. 1629 he was a professor and became the primary public health doctor as well as the personal physician of the Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, John X., where he remained until his death in 1655 as Medicus practiced. His successor as City Council Medicus was originally a colleague from Mecklenburg, Paul Neucrantz.
Meibom wrote numerous works, including a medical assessment of Flagellation, under the title "A Treatise on the Use of Flogging in Medicine and Venery". He later added a supplement, exclusively in English, about Flagellation. This style became the "Bestsellers" and was translated into several languages and reissued in the 19 Century.
His son Heinrich Meibom was also important in medicine.
In Lübeck St.-Annen-Museum for Art and Cultural History is a portrait of Johann Heinrich Meibom.
Works (selected)
John Kune, Johann Heinrich Meibom: Disputationum Physicarum Secunda, De Natura Et Caussis. Cuius Theses . Listed in the bibliography of the printer Jacobus Lucius Elder and his heirs, with the additions: Joanne M. Kunen President Goslariense; respondents Joanne Henrico Meibomio, In Illustri Iulia Postrid. kal. Quinctil. Examinabuntur. Helmaestadi [i], ex typographeio Jacobi LvcI. CIIX. ACMD (Helmstedt 1608), held by the Herzog August Library (VD17 23:257091 = Z) in Wolfenbüttel . (Latin)
Johann Heinrich Meibom: Tractus de usu in re medica flagrorum & Veneria . 1639th (Latin, as an English translation under the title "A Treatise on the Use of Flogging in Medicine and Venery first appeared in London in 1761, reprinted in 1898 in Verl Isidore Liseux in Paris - see also digitized )
Literature
Viktor von Meibom: Meibom, Johann Heinrich . In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 188
Weblinks
Publications by and about Johann Heinrich Meibom in VD 17 Scores by Johann Heinrich Meibom the catalog of the German National Library
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