In the history of medicine, Augustus Quirinus Rivinus is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Augustus Quirinus Rivinus as German physician and botanist (1652-1723).
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus was born at Leipzig in 1652. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Leipzig University and University of Helmstedt.
The circulation of the blood and the microscope arrived within a generation of each other, and medicine acquired a mechanism.
His posts were held at Leipzig University.
The recorded fields of work are botany and medicine.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus died in 1723, aged 71. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Leipzig University
- Fields: botany and medicine
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