Christian Franz Paullini
Christian Franz Paullini (25 February 1643 – 10 June 1712) was a German physician, theologian, and writer.
Biography[edit]
Paullini was born in Eisenach to a family of merchants and scholars. His parents wanted him to become a priest and his initial education was designed with this in mind, but Paullini was attracted to the medicinal arts and studied both theology and medicine.[1]
He attended middle school and secondary school in Thuringia and graduated from Coburg.
Paullini studied theology and medicine in Gdańsk, Königsberg, Rostock, Lübeck, Kiel and Copenhagen, was Magister Artium in Wittenberg and received his MD in Leiden. Meanwhile, he accomplished study stays and courses in Cambridge, Oxford, Sweden, Norway and Iceland.Pauliini was the personal physician of the Prince-Bishop of Munster Christoph Bernhard von Galen and later of the Duke of Brunswick in Wolfenbüttel.
Paullini returned to Eisenach in 1685 and 1689 where he assumed the position of "Ducal Stadtphysicus" i.e. city doctor.
He was regarded as a polymath and corresponded with Leibniz[2] and knew the German Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. Paullini was a member of numerous learned societies such as the Fruitbearing Society, Pegnesischer Blumenorden and German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
In his long life of approximately 70 years, Paullini wrote 68 books, of which several editions were printed.
Paullini died in 1712 in his home town.