Bohn, Johannes

1. Dates

Born: Leipzig, Germany 20 July 1640

Died: Leipzig, Germany 19 Dec 1718

Dateinfo: Dates Certain

Lifespan: 78

2. Father

Occupation: Merchant

Wealthy.

3. Nationality

Birth: German

Career: German

Death: German

4. Education

Schooling: Jena, Leipzig, M.D.

I assume B.A. or equivalent.

Studied medicine at Jena and Leipzig.

ca. 1665, received doctorate from medical school of Leipzig.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Lutheran

6. Scientific Disciplines

Primary: Physiology (Some Iatrochemical Theories)

Subordinate: Medicine

7. Means of Support

Primary: Academia, Government, Medicine

Son of a wealthy merchant family.

1668, named professor of anatomy and surgery at Leipzig.

1690, became municipal physician.

1691, appointed professor of practical medicine.

1699-death: honorary dean perpetual of medical faculty.

I assume a medical practice in keeping with universal custom.

8. Patronage

Type: Unknown

No professorship without it.

9. Technological Involvement

Types: None

Founder of forensic medicine, esp forensic autopsy.

No medical practice mentioned, but it must have existed.

10. Scientific Societies

Memberships: None

Informal: friend of Malpighi; dedicated a book to him.

Formal: published in Acta Eruditorum.

Sources

1. Rothshuh (DSB) says there is no biography of Bohn.
2. Limited additional information is in: A. von Haller, Bibliotheca Anatomica, 1, (1774), 497-9 U. Hirsch, in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, 3, (Leipzig, 1876), 81-99 -- nothing new.
3. Max Salomon, Biographische Lexikon des Hervorragended Aerzte Aller Zeiten und Laender, 2nd ed.,1, I (Berlin-Vienna, 1929), 606-7.

Not Available and Not Consulted

1. A. von Haller, Bibliotheca Medicinae Practicae, 4 vols., 3, (Basel, 1778), 87-88. M. Neuburger, "Deutsche Experimental-physiologen des 17.
2. Jahrhunderts," Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, 23 (1897), 483 - 486.
3. J. C. Rosenmueller, De viris quibusdam in Academia Lipsiensi anatomes peritia in clavuerunt, 3 (1816), 7-9.

Compiled by:

Richard S. Westfall

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Indiana University

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