Georg Balthasar Metzger

Georg Balthasar Metzger ( born September 23, 1623 in Schweinfurt, † October 9, 1687 in Tübingen) was a German physician and scientist and co-founder of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum in Schweinfurt.

Life and work

Metzger began in 1643 to study medicine at the University of Altdorf, which he continued from 1644 to 1648 in Jena with Daniel Stahl, Werner Rolfinck and Gottfried Möbius. From Jena, he went to Erfurt, Helmstedt and Leipzig, where he was a pupil of Johann Michaelis. In Padua, where he remained until 1650, he dealt primarily with surgery and anatomy. On his return to Germany, he received his doctorate in October 1650 in Basel as a doctor of medicine.

In Jena, he received his doctorate in 1646 with Gottfried Möbius. The title of his dissertation for MA was Suppressionem menses. 1650, he was named his doctorate with a dissertation under the title disputatio medica inauguralis de catarrho suffocativo at the University of Basel by Johann Jakob von Brunn to Dr. Med.

On January 1, 1653 Metzger founded together with Johann Laurentius Bausch, Johann Michael Fehr, Georg Balthasar and Wohlfarth ( 1607 to 1674 ) in Schweinfurt, the Academia Naturae Curiosorum. In the same year he became professor of medicine and physics at the University of Giessen.

From there he was sent in 1661 to the University of Tübingen, where he focused on anatomy and botany. Duke Eberhard III had called him to Tübingen so that the anatomical and surgical teaching was again performed and improved tidy. In Tübingen Metzger was from 1681 to 1688 director of the botanical garden Hortus medicus. His pupil Rudolf Jacob Camerer was succeeded as garden director in Tübingen.

Family

He was married Katharina Margarete Küffner. Her daughter Anna Magdalena († 1682) married the lawyer Ferdinand Christoph Harpprecht.