The anatomical-surgical and engraving instruments of the Danzig physician Christoph Gottwald
The anatomical-surgical and engraving instruments of the Danzig physician Christoph Gottwald
Author(s): Katarzyna Pękacka-FalkowskaSubject(s): History, Local History / Microhistory, Modern Age
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
Keywords: Christoph(orus) Gottwald (1636–1700); Musaeum Gottwaldianum; natural history collections – Royal Prussia; natural history – the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; history of medicine – Danzig (Gdańsk) –
Summary/Abstract: Christoph Gottwald (1636–1700) was one of the most important Danzig doctors and collectors to live in the 17th century. Gottwald was a graduate of Leiden Universityand a student of Frans de la Boë, known as Sylvius, becoming a doctor of medicine and philosophy as well as being an engraver. His legacy has been preserved among othersin seven works of chalcography, which together with an array of surgical-anatomical instruments present also pigments, microscopes as well as a vivisection table that constituteda part of his scientific workshop. This constitutes a unique piece of evidence depicting the research of a naturalist living in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the second halfof the 17th century. The paper was originally published as Instrumenty chirurgiczno-anatomiczne i rytownicze gdańskiego lekarza Christopha Gottwalda (1636–1700), “Klio” 2018, vol. 46,issue 3, pp. 157–183, DOI: 10.12775/KLIO.2018.037.
Journal: Klio. Czasopismo poświęcone dziejom Polski i powszechnym
- Issue Year: 55/2020
- Issue No: Supplement
- Page Range: 279-306
- Page Count: 28
- Language: English
