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Johann Sperling (12 July 1603–12 August 1658) was a German physician, zoologist and physicist, deacon and Rektor of the University of Wittenberg. He was among the first to practise zoology as a natural science, writing a first handbook about animals, Zoologia physica.




Career


Born in Zeuchfeld the son of the minister Paul Sperling and his wife Dorothea, he was educated from age 12 at Landesschule Schulpforta, graduating six years later. From 2 June 1621 he studied at the faculty of philosophy of the University of Wittenberg, reaching the degree of magister on 27 September 1625. From 2 October 1628, he had the right to lecture at universities.
He then studied theology, but turned to medical and physical studies, encouraged by Friedrich Balduin and Erasmus Schmidt. He studied with Daniel Sennert, and took part in the dispute with Johann Freitag with the treatise physico-medicum de morbis totius substantiae & cognatis materiis pro Sennerto contra Freitagium.
Sperling was appointed professor of physics on 2 February 1634. He served as a deacon of the faculty of philosophy four times, and was twice Rektor of the university. When he died, he was buried in the Schlosskirche on 15 August 1658.
Sperling's major work was the zoological book Zoologia physica which was published in 1661 after his death by Georg Kaspar Kirchmaier. Sperling was among the first to use the term zoology and treat it as a natural science. His book deals first with general aspects common to animals, then with the different classes and species. He has been called an "early modern zoologist".




Selected works



Among Sperling's scientific publications are:

De morbis totius substantie, Wittenberg 1633
De orIgine formarum, Wittenberg 1634
Institutiones physicae, Wittenberg 1639 and more
De formatione hominis in utero matris, 1641
Meditationes in Jul. Cael. Scaligeri exercitationes de subtilitate, Wittenberg 1656
De principiis nobiscum natis, Wittenberg 1657
Carpologia physica, Wittenberg 1661
Synopsis anthropologiae physicae, Wittenberg 1659
Zoologia physica, Wittenberg 1661
Synopsis physica, Wittenberg 1661
Exercitationes physicae, Wittenberg 1663




Literature


Heinz Kathe: Die Wittenberger Philosophische Fakultät 1501–1817. Böhlau, Köln 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4
Walter Friedensburg: Geschichte der Universität Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
Fritz Roth: Restlose Auswertungen von Leichenpredigten und Personalschriften für genealogische und kulturhistorische Zwecke. vol. 10, p. 134, R 9189
Hans Theodor Koch: Die Wittenberger Medizinische Fakultät (1502–1652) – Ein biobibliographischer Überblick. In: Stefan Oehmig: Medizin und Sozialwesen in Mitteldeutschland zur Reformationszeit. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02437-7
"Entry". Zedlers Universallexikon. Vol. 38. p. 771.




References






Bibliography


Wilhelm Heß (1893), "Sperling, Joh.", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 35, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 136
Borgards, Roland, ed. (2016). Tiere: Kulturwissenschaftliches Handbuch (in German). Springer. ISBN 9783476053725.
Zoology in Early Modern Culture: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education. Brill. 2014. ISBN 9789004279179.
"Sperling, Johann, 1603–1658 (Zeit, Lebensdaten), Zeuchfeld/Laucha (Ort, Geburtsort)" (in German). gso.gbv.de. 2016.




External links



Publications by or about Johann Sperling at VD 17

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