Jan Jesenius
January Jessenius, also Jessenius de Magna Jessen, Ioannes Jesenius, John Jessen, Ján Jesenský Jan Jesenský Jan Jesensky a Jesen (* December 27, 1566 in Breslau, † June 21, 1621 in Prague) was a physician, politician and philosopher of Slovak origin.
Life
Jan was the son of Balthasar Jesenský, a Slovak nobles from the Turz ( place, " Welke Jaseno ", now part of Turčianské Jaseno ) in Royal Hungary, who had fled from the Turks from Buda to Wroclaw.
January visited the Breslauer Elizabeth Grammar School and studied since 1583, first in Wittenberg, then in Leipzig and finally in 1588 in Padua.
1593 was Jessenius short time worked as a doctor in his native city of Breslau, he was appointed physician to the Saxon Elector Christian II, and the following year he was appointed professor of anatomy at the University of Wittenberg. 1600 Jessenius went to Prague, where he performed the first public autopsy in the Czech lands and caused quite a stir. He was a scholar and medical advisor at the court of Emperor Rudolf II and later physician to the ailing monarch. In 1601 he held the funeral oration for the prematurely deceased under not entirely clear circumstances court mathematician of the Emperor, Tycho Brahe. From its excellent position out Jessenius tied wide contacts with important representatives of the Czech master object, such as Karl Elder. Žerotín. In 1617 he was elected Rector of the Charles University in Prague. He advocated that since the Hussite revolution only a shadowy existence in time would end Academy expanded again to a full university. 1619 Jessenius turned because of the renewal of the Charles University with a memorandum to the meeting in Prague General Parliament of the Czech lands. In the same year he also appeared in the the newly elected King of Bohemia Friedrich von der Pfalz services.
January Jessenius was not only an important medical professionals, but acted on the part of the Protestant Estates of the Kingdom of Bohemia as a politician. After the Second Defenestration of Prague in 1618 he was sent by the Estates Directorate on a diplomatic mission to the Hungarian Diet. Ferdinand II had him after arrest in Bratislava as rebels and bring to a prison in Vienna. In December he was but in exchange for two Habsburg supporters who were imprisoned in Prague, released. According to one legend Jessenius left in his Viennese cell IMMMM the inscription on the wall. Ferdinand interpreted this as Emperor Matthias Mense Martio Morietur ( German: Kaiser Matthias will die in the month of March ), which is what happened in the following year. The Habsburgs added a second interpretation added: Iesseni Ment Iris Mala Morte Morieris ( German: Jessenius, you lie and will die horribly ). This prophecy was fulfilled Ferdinand himself by beheaded Jessenius after the defeat of the Bohemian Estates uprising at the Prague Old Market Square.
Writings of Jan Jessenius
- Anatomiae, Pragae anno 1600 abs se solenniter administratae historia. Wite [n ] bergae 1601. Czech translation: Jan Jessenius z Jasené: Průběh pitvy Jim slavnostně provedené v Praze LP MDC, k Niz byl přičleněn treatise o Kostech. Praha 2004
- Slovak translation: Treatise o kostiach. Martin 1981
- De vita et morte Tychonis Brahei oratio funebris. Pragae 1601.
- Institutiones Chirurgicae quibus universa manu medendi ratio ostenditur. Wite [n ] bergae 1601 ( with contributions by: Melchior Ioestelius, Adam Theodor Siberu, Daniel Sennert, Ambrose Gertnerus and Jacob Typotius ). . German version: Instruction for wound Artznei in which all are reported to heal & any style & fashion by the surgical handles. Nuremberg 1674th
- German Version: passing the Legation, Auff the last held Royal Reichstag, in Hungary, on behalf of the Protestant estates concerning the Kingdom of Böheim / From Doct. Jessen performed the first place ... trucked in Latin language to Prague, but now being interpreted in high ... Teutsch. 1619