Daniel Sennert (* 25 November 1572 in Breslau; "† 21 July 1637 in Wittenberg) was a German physician.

Sennert used itself for the introduction of chemistry to the medicine (Iatrochemie) and enjoyed as a physician high Ansehen.Er belonged to the Einern of the different material teachings in early 17. Century and used itself for the spreading of atomistic. Joachim Jungius and Robert Boyle developed the ideas further published by it.

Life

The son of a shoemaker already lost his father with 13 years. Its nut/mother spent the entire savings on the education. It made a study at the philosophical faculty of the University of Wittenberg for it possible. On 5 April 1598 Sennert acquired the Magister. Instead of as planned the school service to occur, it turned medical studies and visited themselves 3 years long the universities to Leipzig, Jena and Frankfurt at the or.

In order to be able to be introduced to the practice, it went to the physician Johann George Magnus to Berlin and followed. On its advice it attained a doctorate not in Basel but in Wittenberg and on 8 September 1601 the doctor of the medicine was appointed. On 15 September 1602 he was appointed the successor of January Jessenius, which wanted to change to Prague, as a professor for medicine. 1628 he became also a body physician of the cure prince Johann George I. of Saxonia.

After the death of its first wife, with whom he had five sons and two daughters, he married 1626 and 1633 still twice. From his children only one daughter and two sons, under it Andreas Sennert, outlived it which should teach later than professor for eastern languages at the University of Wittenberg.

Time of its life remained to Sennert teaching, welfare-ends and literarily working. After six plague epidemic diseases he deceased at this illness. As teacher, physician and a writer Sennert acquired itself high reputation. Even if its writings more recapitulatory kind were and registered it the throw of the plagiarism, then they appeared also tried after its death in new Auflagen.Sennert to interconnect different scientific teachings which brought in much criticism for it. Its turn to atomistic and the theories of D. Basso led 1635/35 to an accusation because of heresy. Since finally "its "ideas were not, "the appraisals "of theological faculties failed favorably for it, a fate like it other contemporaries such as Giordano Bruno, Galileo Galilei and other one met, remained saved for it.

Achievements

• Sennert described the infection Scharlach as the first.
• Beside Pierre Gassendi it is as the bedeudenste advocate of atomistic in 17. To regard century. In its scientific-philosophical works Sennert merged different controversy ideas and attributed materials to bodies. Whereby elements of simple bodies and connections of compound bodies to consist are. Under simple bodies the smallest physically not divisible bodies are to be understood here. Division it rejects an infinite division (mathematical), if it writes that"Â… nature stop-makes with the dissolution and production of the bodies with certain smallest particles. Under elements understood Sennert still no neuzeutliche definition, but fell back to the four-element teachings (fire, water, air and earth) of the Aristoteles.

Works

• Epitome scientae naturalis, 1618
• De Chymicorum cum Aristtotelicis et Galenicis consensu et dissensu, 1619
• Hypomnenta Physica, 1636

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