Koenig, Emanuel

1. Dates

Born: Basel, 1 Nov 1658

Died: Basel, 30 Jul 1731

Dateinfo: Dates Certain

Lifespan: 73

2. Father

Occupation: Pub

His father was a bookseller.

No information on financial status.

3. Nationality

Birth: Basel, Switzerland

Career: Basel, Switzerland

Death: Basel, Switzerland

4. Education

Schooling: Basel, M.A., M.D.

Until 1674, he attended the Gymnasium at Basel.

1677, received his M.A. from the University of Basel. I assume there was a B.A.

1682, received his M.D. from the University of Basel.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Calvinist (assumed)

6. Scientific Disciplines

Primary: Medicine, Natural History

7. Means of Support

Primary: Academia

He travelled for a number of years in France and Italy.

1695-1703, professor of Greek, University of Basel.

1703-1711, professor of natural philosophy, University of Basel.

1711-, professor of theoretical medicine, University of Basel.

8. Patronage

Types: Unknown, Scientist

Those academic positions were not obtained without patronage.

Through the efforts of his friend Georg Wolfgang Wedel, professor of medicine at Jena, he was admitted into the Accademia Natureae Curiosorum.

9. Technological Involvement

Type: Medicine

10. Scientific Societies

Membership: Academia Leopoldina

1682, he became a member of the Accademia Naturae Curiosorum (after 1687, the Accademia Caesarae Leopoldina), taking the name "Avicenna."

Sources

1. Christian Gottlob Joecher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon (Leipzig, 1750-1751; repr., Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1960), 2, 2136. Johann Christoph Adelung, Forsetzungen und Ergaenzungen zu Christian Gottlieb Joechers allgemeinem Gelehrten-Lexicon (Leipzig, 1784-1897; repr. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1960), 3, 641-3.
2. Hoefer, Nouvelle biographie generale (Paris, 1857-1866), 28, 7-8.
3. [Ref. CT143.H6 v.28]
4. Partington, 2, 318, 616, 713-14.
5. Thorndike, esp. 7, 43-7.

Compiled by:

Richard S. Westfall

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Indiana University

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