Jakob Zwinger

See also: Zwinger

Jakob Zwinger , doctor and Swiss philologist, wire of Theodor Zwinger, was born with Basle the August 15th 1569.

It was held on the font of baptism by the famous one and unhappy Ramus, that persecution had forced to seek an asylum in Suisse. At sixteen years, it had finished its academic studies in the most brilliant way, and it had already the elements of medicine. Its father having sent it to Padoue, it there followed the courses of the Zabarella, the Piccolomini, the Aquaperidenti, the Mazzaria, etc, and deserved the affection of his Masters, as much by his pleasant qualities that by the speed of his progress. Hercules Saxonia, one of its professors in medicine, had conceived for him as well friendship as, without the difference in religion, it would have adopted it to leave him all his fortune. Its finished courses, Jakob visited the Italy and the Germany, stopping in all the cities where he hoped to find new means of instruction, and, after a eight years absence, returned to Basle in 1593. It there accepted, in 1594, the doctorate in the medical college, and was named substitute for the professor of language Greek. This pulpit having become vacant, it took possession, and showed of it the worthy interpreter of the beauties of Homère, whose two poems were a long time the subject of its lessons. It made also private lessons of medicine, and practiced art successfully to cure, giving, with the example of his father, his care with the poor with greatest satisfying. It fulfills, during several years, the functions of doctor of the old people's home without any wages. Reached of a contagious disease that it had contracted with the service of the patients, it died some hours after its wife, the September 11th 1610, at the 41 years age, leaving three girls and three wire, whose elder one, Theodor Zwinger, was made a name like theologist. Guillaume Arrago, doctor of Toulouse, withdrawn for some time in Basle due to religion, had died the May 12th of the same year, instituting Jakob Zwinger its heir universal.

In addition to theses and editions of various works of his father, inter alia Theatrum vitœ humanœ , one owes him:

  1. Grœcarum dialecticarum hypotyposis , at the end of the Lexicon of Scapula, in the editions of 1600 and the following ones;
  2. Vita Luciani , Basle, in-8;
  3. Principiorum chymicorum examination AD Hippocratis, Galeni, cœterorumque Grœcorum and Arabum consensum , ibid, 1606, in-8. Though in favor of the chemical drugs, which indeed deserve in more than one connection the preference on those of Galien, it is not shown there less very opposite with the theory of Paracelse and of its disciples. Jakob Zwinger, known as Sprengel , was a
man of a very purified taste and a great mind ( History of medicine , translation of Jourdan, T. 3, p. 354).
  1. Some Observations in the Collection of Guili, Fabrice Hildan, and in the Cista medica of Jean Hornung. One will find the titles of his other works in the Athenœ rauricœ , p 365.

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