Werner Rolfinck

Werner Rolfinck (15 November 1599 – 6 May 1673) was a German physician, scientist and botanist. He was a medical student in Leiden, Oxford, Paris, and Padua.

Werner Rolfinck
Born	(1599-11-15)15 November 1599 Hamburg
Died	6 May 1673(1673-05-06) (aged 73) Jena
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Wittenberg University of Padua
Known for	Study of chemical reactions and the biochemistry of metals
Scientific career
Fields	Medicine, botany, chemistry, philosophy
Institutions	University of Jena
Doctoral advisor	Daniel Sennert Adriaan van den Spiegel[1]
Doctoral students	Georg Wolfgang Wedel[1]

Biography

Rolfinck earned his master's degree at the University of Wittenberg under Daniel Sennert, and his MD in 1625 at the University of Padua under the guidance of Adriaan van den Spiegel.

In 1629, he became a professor at the University of Jena,[2] where he rearranged and expanded the university's botanical garden (the Botanischer Garten Jena). His experimental research involved chemical reactions and the biochemistry of metals acquiring him the title of "director of chemical exercises".[3] He rejected the view that other metals could be transformed into gold.

Works

• Guerneri Rolfincii, Phil. Ac Med. Doctoris Et Professoris Publici Chimia In Artis Formam Redacta : Sex Libris comprehensa .... Genevae, 1671 Digital edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf.

References

1. "Academic Genealogy of the NDSU Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology" (PDF). North Dakota State University, USA. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
2. "So mancher hatte Angst, "gerolfinckt" zu werden". University of Jena, Germany. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
3. Bruce T. MORAN; Bruce T Moran (30 June 2009). Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution. Harvard University Press. pp. 106–. ISBN 978-0-674-04122-6. Retrieved 14 June 2013.

External links

• Werner Rolfinck at the Mathematics Genealogy Project