Glaser, Johann Heinrich

1. Dates

Born: Basel, 6 Oct 1629

Died: Basel, 5 Feb 1679

Dateinfo: Dates Certain

Lifespan: 50

2. Father

Occupation: Artisan

His father had acquired a sound reputation as a painter and engraver in Basel.

No information on financial status.

3. Nationality

Birth: Basel, Switzerland

Career: Basel, Switzerland

Death: Basel, Switzerland

4. Education

Schooling: Basel, M.D.; Geneva

He began his studies in Basel. He seems in 1645 to have been committed to philosophy. I take the fact that he wrote a dissertaion in philosophy in 1648 as evidence for a B.A.

1648, he went to Geneva to study medicine. He wrote a dissertaion in 1650.

1661, he presented Disputatio de rheumatismo as his doctoral dissertation in Basel.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Calvinist (assumed)

6. Scientific Disciplines

Primary: Anatomy, Medicine

7. Means of Support

Primary: Medicine, Academia

Secondary: Government

He practiced medicine for a time in Heidelberg.

Afterward, he moved to Paris.

1661, he returned to Basel.

1662, he established a medical practice that soon brought him international fame.

1665, he became full professor of Greek.

1667, he was named professor of anatomy and botany at the Faculté de Médecine at Basel.

He was named doctor-in-chief at a large municipal hospital in Basel.

8. Patronage

Types: Unknown, But Academic Appointment Indicates It

9. Technological Involvement

Type: Med

He was a successful physician.

10. Scientific Societies

Memberships: None

Sources

1. A. Hirsch, Neue deutsche Biographie (Berlin, 1952- ), 9, 216.
2. Not consulted: H. Buess, Recherches, découveries et inventions de médecins suisses, E. Kaech, trans. (Basel 1946).
3. A. Burckhardt, Geschichte des medizinischen Fakultät zu Basel (Basel, 1917).
4. F. Husner, Verzeichnis der Basler medizinischen Universitätsschriften von 1575 - 1829 (Basel, 1942).
5. Franciscus Pariz, Sancta merx viri nobilissimi J. Henrici Glaseri (Basel, 1675).

Compiled by:

Richard S. Westfall

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Indiana University

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