Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau
Lorenz Scholz Rosenau, also Lawrence Scholtz (* September 20, 1552 in Breslau, † April 22, 1599 ) was a German botanist and physician.
Life
He was a son of the Breslauer pharmacist. After a classical education at the Elizabeth School in Wroclaw Scholz attended from 1572 to 1576, the University of Wittenberg. There and in Padua and Bologna, towns where there were already botanical gardens, he studied 1572-78 medicine and other natural sciences.
1579 he undertook with several compatriots, the Wroclaw Niklas von Rhediger, Johann Matthaeus Wacker Wacken Rock and Martin Schilling, an educational trip ( Grand Tour ) by Italy. In Milan, he and Schilling separated from the group and traveled to southern France, where he received his doctorate at the University of Valence to the doctor of medicine and philosophy.
In 1580 he was back in Breslau, starting in 1585 on a permanent basis. Previously, he practiced in Schwiebus and Frey city.
After returning to Silesia married Scholz Breslauer pastor's daughter Sara Aurifaber. From 1580 he practiced in Schwiebus and Frey city in Silesia as a doctor. He worked to a certain degree with the study of plague and wrote a Pestordnung, which was printed in 1581 in Breslau. From 1585 he practiced on a permanent basis in Wroclaw. In the same year he was the imperial count palatine Crato awarded a coat of arms. In recognition of his successful measures against the plague, he was raised in 1596 as " Scholz Rosenau " in the Bohemian nobility. Died 1599 Scholz of Rosenau from tuberculosis.
He became famous by the translation and publication of writings famous Greek, Arabic and contemporary doctors. For example, his work represents Aphorismorum medicinalium cum theoreticorum date practicorum cesarean sections VIII ( the Medical Aphorisms ) from 1589 is a compendium of the whole medicine of his time dar.
As a botanist was particularly interested in the American and Asian newly introduced exotic plants that he cultivated from 1587 in large numbers in his garden and Breslauer was put together in an illustrated from the Wrocław painter Georg Frey Berger catalog. He wrote two plants inventories received in 1587 and 1594 printed in Wroclaw. Scholz's garden covered an area of about three acres, and was divided by the main routes into four squares; in the center was a building that served as the Kunstkammer and dining room. Here he organized cheerful flower festivals, to which he invited selected personalities. The potato was in his garden.
Works
- Aphorismorum medicinalium. Scharffenberg, Wroclaw 1589th
- Catalogus arborum, fruticum et plantarum. Wroclaw 1594th
- In Laurentii Scholzii Medici Wratisl. Hortum Epigrammata Amicorum. Baumann, Breslau 1594-98.
- Consiliorum medicinalium, conscriptorum à praestantiss. atque exercitatiss. nostrorum temporum medicis. Wechelus, Marnius & Aubrius, Frankfurt, Hannover 1598-1626 pm
- Epistolarum Philosophicarum Medicinalium, Ac Chymicarum à Summis nostrae Aetatis Philosophis ac Medicis Exaratarum, volume. Wechelus, Marnius & Aubrius, Frankfurt 1598-1610 pm